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The 2024 edition of crypto’s most popular year-end report, now available in podcast format. Written by Messari CEO and Co-founder Ryan Selkis, this recording explores key trends, people, companies, and projects to watch across the crypto landscape, with predictions for 2024. Learn more and view the report at https://messari.io/crypto-theses-for-2024
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A Guide to Stablecoin Yield in Summer 2024 with Kinji Steimetz | The Story
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Stablecoins have proven to be one of crypto's strongest early killer apps. But as Kinji Steimitz explains, this utility has led to a massive number of new ways to earn yield on stablecoins - making it difficult to know what all the options are to do so, let alone compare them against each other. Join Kinji for his guide to finding stablecoin yield …
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The Importance of Cryptoeconomic Security: A Debate with Kunal Goel & Peter Horton | The Story
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Historically, blockchain validators have been rewarded for their work with native tokens of the blockchain in question. But the ongoing revolution in smart contracts has created opportunities for blockchain validators to generate revenue outside of the protocol - which as Kunal Goel and Peter Horton explain has prompted a large-scale discssion on h…
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AO and Arweave's Unique Approach to Modularity with Seth Bloomberg | The Story
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When the crypto world turns its hype machine on one particular topic, like modularity, it can be rare to come across a truly unique approach. But as Seth Bloomberg explains, AO and Arweave have done just that, laying out an architecture that may inform the modular crypto infrastructure economy for many cycles to come. (00:00) - Hire with Hirechain …
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What Polymarket's Growth Reveals about the Future of Prediction Markets with Kunal Goel | The Story
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Prediction markets always see an increase in activity in an election year - and this year is no different. But as Kunal Goel explains, for crypto-based prediction markets like Polymarket this increase in growth is an opportunity to explore what other uses besides betting these markets can serve. (00:00) - Hire with Hirechain (00:40) - Intro (02:49)…
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Ryan Selkis and Marvin Ammori of Uniswap Labs Debate Politics and Crypto
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In this Special Episode, Ryan Selkis and Marvin Ammori of Uniswap Labs debate the best approach to advance crypto in today's political climate. This debate happened at Consensus 2024, and was moderated by Zack Seward of Coindesk. Credit: Coindesk Follow Messari on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MessariCrypto Follow Unqualified Opinions on Spotify: ht…
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What OpenAI's Spring Updates Reveal About the Future of Crypto x AI with Seth Bloomberg | The Story
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OpenAI's spring product updates may have underwhelmed those who were hoping for a GPT-5. But as Seth Bloomberg explains, the updates show OpenAI's commitment to the rapidly growing Consumer AI sector - and give a potential preview into how open-source projects in the crypto x AI space may respond. (00:00) - Hire with Hirechain (00:40) - Intro (02:5…
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The Hidden Insights in Crypto's Latest Fundraising Data with Patryk Krasnicki | The Story
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Industry fundraising data isn't a guarantee of future innovation - but as Patryk Krasnicki explains, an examination of the data can give some indication of what founders and investors think is most critical to build in the volatile crypto industry. (00:00) - Hire with Hirechain (00:40) - Intro (03:26) - Mainnet is Coming! (04:26) - The Hidden Insig…
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The Story | A Better Business Model for Social Media with Toe Bautista
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Many "innovations" in social media turn out to be short-term fads. But as Toe Bautista explains, builders in the "SocialFi" industry are coming forward with products that change how apps are built and creators make money - changes to the underlying economics of the industry which historically, tend to be much more reliable indicators of long-term a…
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The Story | The Boring Assets Making RWA's Exciting
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Real World Assets, or putting the core pieces of the world's existing financial system like cash, treasuries, and real estate on-chain, have long been touted as a use case that would make these assets significantly more useful. But so far, stablecoins and cash substitutes have been the only RWA with any mass adoption. But as Kinji Steimetz explains…
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The Story | Ethereum's Inflection Point with Seth Bloomberg
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Four years ago, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin laid out his vision for the network's scalability driven by rollups, and that vision has largely come to fruition. But as Seth Bloomberg explains, those rollups are now running into scalability problems of their own - and the Ethereum ecosystem once again finds itself at an inflection point. (00:0…
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The Story | A Lending Renaissance with Kinji Steimetz
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Decentralized lending protocols like Aave and Compound drove explosive growth in DeFi. But as Kinji Steimetz explains, new entrants are ready to take the next step. (00:00) - Hire with Hirechain (00:40) - Intro (03:01) - Messari Mainnet is Coming! (04:01) - The Next Wave of DeFi Hosted by Ryan Selkis (https://twitter.com/twobitidiot) Written and Pr…
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Chapter 11: Bonus - Whatever I Want 11.1 Why You Must Write 11.2 No Idols 11.3 Must Read 11.4 Tips & Productivity Tricks 11.5 Life Advice (End: Disclaimers)By Messari
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Chapter 10: Top 10 Trends in Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure Wallet-Centric Future: MPC Upgrades Wallet-Centric Future: Smart Contract Accounts Wallet-Centric Future: Embedded “Wallets-as-a-Service” vs. SuperApps The Ledger Recover Debacle DePIN Storage Wars Decentralized Databases Decentralized Wireless Networks DePIN’s AI Machines Select DAO Dysfunct…
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Chapter 9: Top 10 Trends in Consumer Crypto
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Chapter 9: Top 10 Trends in Consumer Crypto 9.1 Decentralized Social 9.2 Identity & pfp’s 9.3 NFT Marketplaces 9.4 pfp Project Updates 9.5 Bitcoin & Inscriptions 9.6 The The Institutions are Here 9.7 Co-Creation & UGX 9.8 Bet-To-Play Gaming & Information Markets 9.9 Network States 9.10 Token Curated Info Markets…
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Chapter 8: Top 10 Trends in DeFi 8.1 DEX Platform Updates 8.2 Trading Aggregators & Front-Ends 8.3. Payments! 8.4. On-Chain Perps 8.5 DeFi Lending 8.6 LSTs 8.7 Bridges & Messengers 8.8 Oracles 8.9 RWA Diversification 8.10 Stacks & BRC-20sBy Messari
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Chapter 7: Top 10 Trends in Layer-1 Networks
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Chapter 5: Top 10 Crypto Policy Trends for 2024
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Chapter 4: Top 10 Crypto Monies of 2024 4.1 Bitcoin is the Godzilla of Finance 4.2 Bitcoin Security Model & Assumptions 4.3 Bitcoin Mining More Important Than Ever 4.4 Private Transactions: Protocols, Coins, or Pools? 4.5 The New TINA Trade: Stablecoins 4.6 USDT 4.7 USDC 4.8 Paxos, Binance & PayPal Dollars 4.9 Crypto-Collateralized Stablecoins 4.10…
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Chapter 3: Top 10 Products of 2024 3.1 USDT on Tron 3.2 Base from Coinbase 3.3 Celestia 3.4 Firedancer 3.5 Farcaster 3.6 GBTC 3.7 Lido 3.8 CCIP 3.9 Blur 3.10 Project GuardianBy Messari
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Chapter 2: Top 10 People to Watch in 2024 2.1 Larry Fink (BlackRock) & Cathie Wood (ARK Invest) 2.2 Jeremy Allaire & Dante Disparte (Circle) 2.3 Kristin Smith (The Blockchain Association) & Michael Carcaise (Fair Shake PAC) 2.4 Senator Elizabeth Warren (and her Minions) 2.5 Elon Musk (and his Stans) 2.6 Michael Sonnenshein & Craig Salm (Grayscale) …
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Chapter I: Top 10 Investment Trends for 2024
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Chapter 1: Top 10 Investment Trends for 2024 1.0 Investment Trends 1.1 BTC & Digital Gold 1.2 ETH & The World Computer(s) 1.3 The (Liquid) Field 1.4 The Resurgence of Private Crypto Markets? 1.5 IPOs and M&A 1.6 Policy Meta 2 1.7 Can Devs Do Something?! 21 1.8 AI & Crypto: Money for the Machines 22 1.9 Three New De’s: DePIN, DeSoc, DeSci 23 1.10 Me…
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India's Burgeoning Crypto Scene with WazirX CEO Nischal Shetty
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Nischal clears up misconceptions about India's regulatory landscape and shares what he's seeing that has him excited about the future of crypto in India. --- Special thanks to our sponsors: Lukka - Crypto taxes made simple. Use the promo code "MESSARITAX" and get $5 off the normal price of $19.95 Crypto.com - The best place to Buy, Earn, Pay with C…
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Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier on the Business of Being Your Own Bank
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Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier joins The Unqualified Opinions podcast to discuss self custody, and the user experience of being your own bank. --- Special thanks to our sponsors: Lukka - Crypto taxes made simple. Use the promo code "MESSARITAX" and get $5 off the normal price of $19.95 Crypto.com - The best place to Buy, Earn, Pay with Crypto. Choice b…
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Charles Hoskinson on Cardano & Network Effects
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With the next major phase of Cardano's mainnet (Shelley) fast approaching, IOHK CEO Charles Hoskinson provides a full project update as well his thoughts on the competitive outlook of the smart contracting landscape. --- Special thanks to our sponsors: Lukka - Crypto taxes made simple. Use the promo code "MESSARITAX" and get $5 off the normal price…
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Skale Labs CEO Jack O'Holleran on Launch & Decentralization
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Skale is a middle-ware protocol that aims to allow dApps to run on a high-speed consensus layer above platforms like Ethereum and EOS. With Skale approaching its mainnet launch this summer, Ryan and Skale co-founder/CEO Jack O’Holleran discuss the project’s progress as well as how they’re approaching launch. --- Special thanks to our sponsors: Lukk…
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Insuring DeFi with Nexus Mutual Founder Hugh Karp
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Nexus Mutual is an insurance protocol for DeFi that covers financial loss resulting from hacks and unintended code usage. Nexus paid out its first claim following one of the bZx hacks early this year. In this conversation, founder Hugh Karp details how he thinks about platform risk, particularly in the context of Ethereum’s migration to ETH 2.0, an…
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Tokensoft CEO Mason Borda on Security Token Hurdles & Pathways to Growth
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Security tokens have at times, been heralded as the next major phase of crypto adoption. Despite the surrounding hype, security tokens don’t have any actual trading volume to speak of. In this conversation, Tokensoft CEO Mason Borda discusses the hurdles that still remain for adoption and outlines the bullish case for security tokens over the next …
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Halving 2020: The Bitcoin Reformation with Tuur Demeester
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Tuur Demeester is one of Bitcoin’s longest standing research analysts who’s been through all three halvings. In this conversation, he recalls how his study of financial history and subsequent worry about our financial system’s inflationary risks led him to a 2010 post from Satoshi laying out bitcoin’s value proposition as digital gold. He describes…
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Halving 2020: Bitcoin Then & Now with Charlie Shrem
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It doesn’t get much more OG than Charlie Shrem. Charlie’s been involved in bitcoin from the days where the community consisted of a couple hundred people on forum.bitcoin.org, created by Satoshi himself. In this conversion, we discuss both bitcoin and Charlie’s evolution throughout the years, from the first halving where many feared the protocol wo…
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