On part 1 of this Mayflower Update mini series, Rex talks with two of Beanstalk's developers Brean and Chaikitty about the Sunrise Improvements.
On this special episode, Rex and Ceazor talk more broadly about the crypto space, news and current events.
Rex is joined by Allay head of Community at Hats Finance, a decentralized smart bug bounty marketplace to discuss incentive realignment and Beanstalk's past governance exploit in April 2022.
Rex chats with Kirari, one of Paradox’s founders, about how they got into this space and how all of Paradox’s unique features come together.
There are few people who understand the history of finance and how it relates to moder DeFi better than Manny Rincon-Cruz. Manny is a financial historian by trade and a key part of The Buttonwood Foundation, a collection of tools and primitives that are helping developers build components of the decentralized finance stack. Manny joined us in the studio the other day to discuss his background and how Buttonwood will help drive future defi projects.
Ceazor, of the YouTube channel Ceazor’s Snack Sandwich has over 300 videos posted about a huge range of topics within crypto and DeFi and is known for his clever and entertaining infographics. Ceazor is kind enough to join us in the studio today to talk about his work.
To start season off season two, Rex is joined by special guest Perchy: an artist whose work has become closely associated with the Bankless DAO, has recently sold NFTs of his work called Goblin Town, the newest item in his Locations series.
Rex is joined by Beanstalk contributor asnt to talk about DAO voting, the Farmer’s Almanac, and Beanstalk’s new approach to hiring and managing contributors.
Rex is joined by Beanstalk contributor Malteasy to chat about the Pod Marketplace v2.
Rex, Mod and Publius are joined by Toghrul Maharramov, a senior researcher at Scroll, a zkEVM-based rollup.
Rex talks with two of Beanstalk's rockstar front end devs about their approach to UI design.
Rex and Mod chat with Shahmeer Chaudhry, cofounder of Fluidity Money.
Rex and Mod chat with Ben about xToken Terminal: a one-stop shop for liquidity provisioning and capital management solutions and its growing suite of new apps.
Rex makes a special announcement.
Rex, Mod and Publius talk with Steven Walbroehl from Halborn about audits in Web3, ethical hacking and cybersecurity.
Rex and Mod talk with Nick Fett CTO of Tellor, a decentralized oracle protocol.
Rex, Publius and Mod, chat with Brice from Liquity about their newest project: a self-bootstrapping liquidity mechanism called Chicken Bonds
Rex and Publius talk to Nick Mudge about modularity and EIP-2535: Diamonds, Multi-Facet Proxy standard
Rex and Dumpling talk to Jonathan Wu from Aztec Network where they discuss: user privacy, NFTs, Zero-knowledge (ZK) proof, and more
Topics:
0:00 Intro
2:55 Aztec intro
5:10 Zero knowledge proofs and their place in Aztec
12:05 Aztec progress
16:30 The Merge affect on Aztec
21:43 Connecting to Aztec
28:44 How does Aztec make money?
34:08 Challenges faced by Aztec
37:43 Potential Aztec partnerships
39:36 Privacy puzzle
46:55 Passwordless future
49:05 How can Beanstalk be supportive of Aztec?
Rex talks with TBIQ, community member and Beanstalk's resident Dune expert. Topics include: working with Beanstalk's data, data analytics and machine learning.
Topics:
0:00 Intro
1:33 TBIQ intro
7:12 Integrating community feedback
12:10 Subgraph discussion
20:47 Interesting data in Beanstalk
27:42 Yield curve in the Pod marketplace
30:10 Machine learning in crypto
42:00 Useful data
46:05 Data work after Beanstalk Replant
49:55 Outro