Join Zach Rynes (ChainLinkGod) and The_Crypto_Oracle as they explore crypto from a first principles perspective and talk with founders, industry leaders, and domain experts from across the Web3 ecosystem. Learn how blockchains, oracles, and smart contracts reduce coordination friction and align economic incentives, helping create a more trust-minimized society. Opinions of the cohosts and guests are their own.
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Crypto in 2024: Memecoin Lottery Tickets vs Everything Else
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Crypto today is split between Bitcoin, the speculative memecoin casino, and everything else aiming to generate real value for society. In this podcast, Zach Rynes (ChainLinkGod) and The_Crypto_Oracle discuss the rise of rise of memecoin gambling and provide insights into how the onchain finance ecosystem is likely to evolve. Follow Zach Rynes | CLG…
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2024 Crypto Market Trends With Daniel Shapiro
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2024 saw the introduction of spot Bitcoin ETFs and the explosion of memecoins, creating a unique crypto market cycle of the likes we haven't seen before. In this podcast, Zach Rynes (ChainLinkGod) talks with Daniel Shapiro, founder of Abstraction Capital, about some of the recent market trends driven by Bitcoin ETF liquidity and some the ongoing te…
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Crypto in 2023: The Institutions Are Coming
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The recent collaboration between Swift, Chainlink, and 12+ of the largest financial institutions in the world on using CCIP for cross-chain interoperability has captured the attention of both the crypto and TradFi worlds. In this podcast, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle discuss recent developments within the Chainlink and crypto ecosystems, as w…
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Sergey Nazarov On Chainlink's Evolution
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Chainlink is the industry-standard Web3 services platform connecting the people, businesses, and data of today with the Web3 world of tomorrow. In this episode, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle talk with Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov and discuss a wide range of topics from Sergey’s background building Chainlink years ago to ongoing initiati…
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Bringing Trillions Onchain With Ondo's Nathan Allman
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There are trillions of dollars worth of real world assets (RWAs) in the existing financial ecosystem ready to be tokenized and brought on-chain. In this episode, ChainLinkGod talks to Nathan Allman, founder and CEO of Ondo Finance—a project focused on tokenizing bonds and US treasuries on Ethereum blockchain, enabling stablecoin holders to put thei…
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When Celsius, Terra, Three Arrows Capital, BlockFi, Voyager, etc collapsed in early 2022, most people assumed that was the contagion event of the year. Now with the collapse of FTX and a missing $10B of customer assets, crypto is getting its second serving of pain and despair. In this podcast, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle discuss the current …
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Chainlink Economics 2.0: A New Era of Value Capture
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Economics 2.0 is a new era of sustainable growth, cryptoeconomic security, and deeper value capture in the Chainlink Network. In this podcast, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle explore Economics 2.0 and how the LINK token is evolving to become a productive asset. From the BUILD program enabling pre-revenue projects to pay for oracle services to th…
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Nick Almond on the Benefits and Trade-offs of DAOs
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Have DAOs solved governance once and for all or are there major roadblocks still to overcome? In this podcast, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle talk with Factory DAO co-founder Nick Almond about the nuances around Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. We discuss the core benefits of DAOs over traditional governance structures and define their p…
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The Modular Blockchain Thesis with Celestia's Mustafa Al-Bassam
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Blockchain scalability is the primary bottleneck preventing the crypto ecosystem from reaching global level and serving the 99% of society. In this podcast, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle talk to Mustafa Al-Bassam, Co-founder and CEO of Celestia Labs. We discuss the modular blockchain thesis, why Celestia is focused on data availability and con…
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Teej Ragsdale on MakerDAO Tokenizing $100M in RWAs
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Bringing Real-World Assets (RWAs) onto the blockchain is the next major step required for DeFi to scale to a global level. In this episode, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle talk to Teej Ragsdale, General Partner at Lupine Capital and Real World Finance Core Unit member at MakerDAO — the largest DeFi protocol by TVL and issuer of the decentralized…
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The Unwinding of Crypto Ponzinomics
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The crypto industry is feeling the pain as token valuations are down 80-90% from all-time-highs. Is the Federal Reserve raising interest rates solely to blame or are we witnessing what happens to token economics that only work when number goes up in an environment where number goes down, bad. In this podcast, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle talk…
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All Things Truflation With Stefan Rust
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In this episode, ChainLinkGod talks with Stefan Rust, the founder of Truflation, to discuss how his project is producing unbiased inflation rate datasets, how this information is brought on-chain via Chainlink, and the many use cases that are enabled as a result. The conversation ends with a deeper discussion about the current and future evolution …
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Current State of the Crypto Ecosystem and Beyond
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Has the cryptocurrency ecosystem achieved the goal of creating a more fair, transparent, and trust-minimized society or is it just a digital casino that exists to print new money in the form of tokens? In this podcast, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle discuss the current state of the cryptocurrency ecosystem, how we foresee the ecosystem evolving…
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Off-Chain Computation: How Oracles Go beyond Data Delivery
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In this episode, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle explore the concept of trust-minimized off-chain computation in decentralized oracle networks and how it extends the capabilities of blockchains. Additionally, we dive into the spectrum of computation ranging from traditional centralized servers to blockchain computation, and how oracle computatio…
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In this episode, ChainLinkGod explores Chainlink Price Feeds, the most widely adopted price oracle solution across the blockchain ecosystem, which actively help secure tens of billions of dollars in value across hundreds of smart contract applications. Chainlink Price Feeds: https://chain.link/data-feeds Follow ChainLinkGod: https://twitter.com/Cha…
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How Pmcgoohan Discovered the MEV Problem
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In this episode, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle talk with Pmcgoohan, the analyst who first discovered the Miner Extractable Value (MEV) problem in Ethereum pre-genesis in 2014. We define what MEV is, the various types of activity that do and don't fall under MEV, why MEV Auctions do not solve MEV, as well as how front-running, back-running, and…
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Cryptoeconomic Security: Chainlink Edition (LINK)
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In this episode, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle explore how the widely used Chainlink oracle network generates cryptoeconomic security through direct rewards and penalties. This includes implicit incentives with financial exposure to a native token, explicit super-linear staking with slashing, on-chain reputation with an immutable performance h…
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Cryptoeconomic Security: Blockchain Edition (BTC vs ETH)
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In this podcast, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle explore the concept of cryptoeconomic security in decentralized computation networks, how it is applied to the Bitcoin Proof of Work (PoW) and Ethereum 2.0 Proof of Stake (PoS) networks, and the various technical nuances that make these networks operate at a global scale. Follow ChainLinkGod: http…
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Chainlink Oracle Services: A Comprehensive Overview
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In this podcast, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle explore the wide range of oracle services provided by Chainlink, the industry-leading decentralized oracle network. This includes Price Feeds (real-time financial market data), Proof of Reserves (on-chain audits of tokens backed by off-chain collateral), Any API (bringing all the world's data-chai…
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The Purpose of Blockchains, Oracles, and Smart Contracts
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In this podcast, ChainLinkGod and The_Crypto_Oracle explore a wide range of topics including defining trust in society, the purpose of contractual agreements, how blockchains provide a decentralized trust network, the need for decentralized oracle networks, why oracles need to be separate from blockchains, the core value proposition of the Chainlin…
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Exploring the Chainlink 2.0 Whitepaper With ChainLinkGod
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In this podcast, ChainLinkGod explores the core innovations presented in the Chainlink 2.0 Whitepaper. This includes the underlying components that make up Decentralized Oracle Networks (DONs), Fair Sequencing Services (FSS) to solve the Miner Extractable Value (MEV) problem, the Transaction Execution Framework (TEF) for syncing with a main chain u…
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