Through conversations with crypto’s brightest lights, Gwart embarks on a one-man crusade to find the real value of cryptocurrency. Once weekly episodes with guests.
Pseudonymous, Gwart is a crypto-Twitter troll and thinkboi seeking answers to non-existent problems in blockchains. Follow along for the most colorful conversations in crypto.
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Through conversations with crypto’s brightest lights, Gwart embarks on a one-man crusade to find the real value of cryptocurrency. Once weekly episodes with guests.
Pseudonymous, Gwart is a crypto-Twitter troll and thinkboi seeking answers to non-existent problems in blockchains. Follow along for the most colorful conversations in crypto.
Mallesh, formerly Special Mechanisms Group and Rice University joins us to talk about his move to Tempo, Stripe's new payments-first blockchain.We dive into why they built another L1, multi-stablecoin architecture, MEV challenges in payments, with credible neutrality
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Notes:
• Tempo is designed for fast finality payments
• Stablecoin agnostic w/ AMM
• Reserved block space for payment txns
• Cross-border wire transfers are still broken for traditional systems
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:25 Who is Mallesh?
01:50 Special Mechanisms Group
03:49 Consensys
05:34 Tempo
08:14 Advantages of Tempo
10:36 Specific Tempo designs
13:58 Fungible stablecoins
14:44 Tether & economies of scale
18:14 Validator set
22:45 Payments Only blockspace
25:51 Mallesh's title
26:58 Products
28:36 Tempo AMM
30:33 Remittance use case
35:16 International transfers & corespondent banks
41:26 Are banks cooked?
43:30 Why a new Layer 1?
48:08 Credible neutrality
50:36 Crypto Twitter is now the kiddie pool
54:45 The future of proof of Stake is... trust
1:04:03 MEV memory hole
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The Gwart Show | Blockspace Media
Through conversations with crypto’s brightest lights, Gwart embarks on a one-man crusade to find the real value of cryptocurrency. Once weekly episodes with guests.
Pseudonymous, Gwart is a crypto-Twitter troll and thinkboi seeking answers to non-existent problems in blockchains. Follow along for the most colorful conversations in crypto.
