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The Merge (Part 1) - with Danny Ryan, Tim Beiko, and Hasu
1时10分35秒
2022-05-12
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Listen to conversations between two veterans of the crypto industry: Su Zhu, CEO and CIO of Three Arrows Capital, and Hasu, Strategy lead at Flashbots. Exploring the big ideas in crypto from first principles.


In this episode, Hasu sits down with two Ethereum Foundation researchers, Danny Ryan and Tim Beiko, to explore Ethereum's upcoming transition to PoS. Topics discussed include:


  • Why do blockchains need consensus?
  • How does PoW consensus work today, and how will it change after PoS?
  • What happens between the last block of PoW and the first block of PoS?
  • The role of client modularity and diversity
  • How to test for such an important upgrade

00:00 Intro and guests 03:02 Proof of Stake since 2017  08:18 PoS - Idea to production  12:24 Why do Blockchains need consensus? PoW & PoS Basics  22:21 Why switch to PoS?  37:03 The Merge - How does it happen?  45:14 The Merge - Unbundling of the Consensus & Execution layer  1:01:45 How do you test for such an important upgrade?  1:09:55 End


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The Merge (Part 2) - with Stephane Gosselin, Danny Ryan, Tim Beiko, and Hasu

Listen to conversations between two veterans of the crypto industry: Su Zhu, CEO and CIO of Three Arrows Capital, and Hasu, Strategy lead at Flashbots. Exploring the big ideas in crypto from first principles.


In this episode, Hasu continues the conversation with Danny Ryan and Tim Beiko, two researchers from the Ethereum Foundation. The three are joined by Stephane Gosselin, co-founder of Flashbots, who makes his podcast debut and stands in as Hasu's co-host. 


Together, they discuss:


  • MEV before and after the Merge
  • mev-boost and proposer-builder-separation (PBS)
  • The rise of liquid staking pools
  • Whether Lido should cap its own growth
  • How the Ethereum Foundation sees its role in interacting with very "protocol-adjacent" projects like Flashbots + Lido

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