Mike Solana is the chief marketing officer at Founders Fund and editor-in-chief of Pirate Wires. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the potential forced sale or ban of TikTok as the U.S. congress voted to pass a bill requiring it. Join us for an in-depth discussion of the arguements for and against banning the app, and how big money is influencing some of the key players. We also talk about Elon Musk, the state of X, Temu and Shein, the power of social media algorithms, and Devin, the first AI software engineer.
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The latest price moves and insights with Helene Braun and guest Brian Dixon, CEO of Off the Chain Capital.
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Traders have a lot to point to in markets for the bull case: risk demand, bitcoin all-time highs, hopes for an ether ETF. On "Markets Daily," CoinDesk Markets Reporter Helene Braun speaks with Brian Dixon, CEO of Off the Chain Capital, about the Dencun upgrade, Ethereum price corrections, Grayscale's Mini GBTC and Coinbase crashes.
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This episode was hosted by Helene Braun. “Markets Daily” is executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced and edited by Eleanor Pahl, alongside Senior Booking Producer Melissa Montañez. All original music by Doc Blust and Colin Mealey.
Jonathan Schanzer joins the podcast to note how, just in the last week, things have been heating up between Israel and Hezbollah on the northern border of the Jewish state. We also discuss the peculiarities of the Biden administration's approach to Israel finishing the job in Gaza—and whether there might be a weird Egyptian component at work. Give a listen.
Congolese nationals who are now refugees in Rwanda have been protesting. Some of them fled the eastern DRC more than twenty years ago because of the ongoing conflict there. Why are they protesting and what are their demands?
Also, why did one adult and eight children die after eating turtle meat in Zanzibar?
And if you're interested in a career as an Afrobeats dancer, Izzy Odigie shares the secrets of the trade!
Today’s episode is a talk with Vinson Cunningham about his new novel GREAT EXPECTATIONS which came out yesterday and is in bookstores everywhere.
It’s everything you would expect from Vinson: beautiful sentences, long meditations on hoops, the church, and love, and a engrossing storyline that follows a young man who goes to work on the campaign of a certain senator from Illinois during his first presidential run.
Clock ticking for a possible TikTok ban. CBS News estimates Trump and Biden have clinched their nominations. The Uvalde police chief resigns. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
Chicago officials have confirmed five measles cases. Plus, the Chicago Bears say they want to stay in the city. Reset learns more about these and other stories from WBEZ city government and politics reporters Tessa Weinberg and Mariah Woelfel.
For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
Sreeram Kannan, founder of EigenLayer, and Olaf Carlson-Wee, founder and CIO of Polychain Capital, an investor in EigenLayer, say that the developer ecosystem around EigenLayer is sprouting up very fast, which reminds Carlson-Wee of the developer excitement in Ethereum’s early days.
They discuss the potential of EigenLayer, which uses a restaking mechanism to allow ETH stakers to reallocate their staked ETH and Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) to bolster security for other protocols. They cover how it could turbocharge Ethereum's rollup scaling roadmap and enable Ethereum to become a stack of decentralized software-as-a-service providers. Additionally, they discuss the potential risks associated with restaking as well as how EigenLayer could work with AI.
Show highlights:
Sreeram's explanation of what EigenLayer is and what is allows on Ethereum
Why Polychain invested in EigenLayer's seed round
Why Sreerarm believes that there are not just going to be three modules in blockchains, but thousands
The types of applications that can be built with actively validated services, according to Sreeram
Why they both believe that EigenLayer will improve smart contracts
Whether EigenLayer will help solve the liquidity fragmentation issue in Layer 2s
What Ethereum inclusion guarantees are and why they are important
The potential risks of EigenLayer and why Olaf doesn’t agree that EigenLayer results in rehypothecation
How attribution claims work in EigenLayer, allowing for "elastic scaling of security"
EigenLayer’s points program and the likelihood of a token
Why Sreeram believes that an EigenLayer governance token wouldn't have the same issues as Lido's LDO
Whether EigenLayer should be a core part of the Ethereum protocol itself
How AI and EigenLayer intersect and how to have permissionless innovation in the AI space
Unchained Podcast is Produced by Laura Shin Media, LLC. Distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Michele Musso and Executive Producer is Jared Schwartz.
A House vote today takes aim at TikTok — and its Chinese parent company. Conspiracy theories about noncitizens voting are back this election year, and they're taking even deeper hold with many Republicans. And with Israel blocking most aid shipments to Gaza by land, aid groups are turning to the sea to feed starving people.
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Today's episode of Up First was edited by Kelsey Snell, Ben Swasey, Mark Katkov, Lisa Thomson and Ben Adler. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Ben Abrams and Lindsay Totty. We get engineering support from Stacey Abbott, and our technical director is Zac Coleman.
It’s last call for '90s songs and Rob’s memories as the show draws to a close. So there couldn’t be a more fitting moment for Semisonic’s “Closing Time” to be chosen as the episode’s focus. Listen as Rob grapples with his feelings of discomfort with the word goodbye, and stay for a final sendoff to the greatest '60 Songs' guest of all time, Yasi Salek.
