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Web3 Galaxy Brain 🌌🧠

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Conversations with Web3 builders about what they're working on right now. Topics include: Ethereum, EVM, Solidity, blockchain programming and indexing, L2 scaling solutions, zero knowledge, multi-party computation, cryptography, NFTs, crowdfunding, blockchain art, onchain performance art, and building networks and community. Subscribe with your favorite podcast app https://web3galaxybrain.com
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Galaxy Brains

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Welcome to Galaxy Brains, hosted by Alex Thorn, Head of Research at Galaxy. Our weekly podcast provides insights and analysis on trends and events across the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Each week Alex will be joined by members of the research team to discuss the latest developments on all things crypto and blockchain technology.
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Journey into the unknown with Galaxy Brains — the most immersive, hilarious TV and movie podcast on this planet (or any other). Mystery Science Theater 3000's Jonah Ray and his pal, comedian and writer Dave Schilling, explore the outer reaches of the zeitgeist, analyzing the movies and TV shows that you can't stop obsessing over. Each week, we lab-test the hottest take possible — from Dom Toretto being an actual angel sent from Heaven, to the entirety of Seinfeld taking place inside Jerry's ...
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My guest today is Jason Zhao, co-founder of Story Protocol. Story Protocol has raised $140 million venture dollars to build an onchain protocol for intellectual property licensing. In this episode, Jason explains what's wrong with IP licensing today, and how putting licenses onchain will enable more people to create derivative works without tedious…
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An epic solo episode where Alex Thorn (Galaxy Research) provides extensive commentary on the state of crypto investing, technology, and markets. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, September 4, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and the information contain…
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Alex Thorn (Galaxy) talks with crypto and social media lawyer Preston Byrne (Byrne & Storm) about the Telegram CEO charges, free speech in America, and much more. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about markets. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, Aug 28, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at w…
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Alex Thorn talks with Luca Prosperi (M^0) about stablecoin designs, markets, and futures. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about markets. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, Aug 14, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and the information …
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Alex Thorn talks with Ritchie Torres (D-NY) about bitcoin, crypto, and blockchain and how Democrats can lead on this issue. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about markets. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, Aug 14, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! …
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Alex Thorn talks to Willem Schroé, founder and CEO of Botanix Labs, about their new type of Bitcoin L2. Alex also talks to Beimnet Abebe about markets. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, Aug 8, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and the information contai…
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In our final special edition episode of Galaxy Brains, recorded at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville, Alex Thorn welcomes back Casey Rodamor, a prominent Bitcoin developer known for his work on inscriptions and ordinals. They delve into Casey’s contributions to Bitcoin’s technology landscape and his latest venture—a cutting-edge file-sharing project. The c…
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In our fifth special edition episode of Galaxy Brains, recorded at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville, Alex Thorn meets with Christian Catalini, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Lightspark. Alex and Christian discuss the evolution and future of Bitcoin and the Lightning Network. Christian shares his journey from his early days at MIT and Facebook to…
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In our fourth special edition episode of Galaxy Brains, recorded at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville, Alex Thorn talks with Craig Warmke, co-author of “Resistance Money” and a philosophy professor deeply engaged with Bitcoin’s ethical dimensions. The conversation dives into the philosophical underpinnings that support Bitcoin as a form of “resistance mone…
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In our third special episode of Galaxy Brains, recoded at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville, Alex Thorn speaks with Dylan LeClair, Institutional Lead at Bitcoin Magazine, and Director of Bitcoin Strategy at Metaplanet. They explore the MicroStrategy playbook and discuss the evolving political and economic landscape surrounding Bitcoin. The conversation del…
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In our second special episode of Galaxy Brains, recorded at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville, Alex Thorn sits down with Steven Lubka, Head of Swan Private. Steven shares insights into the current dynamics of Bitcoin investment among high-net-worth individuals and institutions. With Swan, Steven discusses the increasingly sophisticated understanding and in…
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In this special episode of Galaxy Brains, recorded at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville, Alex Thorn chats with Harry Sudock, Chief Strategy Officer at GRIID (griid.com). Highlighting the historical and cultural significance of hosting the Bitcoin conference in Nashville, Harry discusses the impact of Bitcoin’s growing public presence and its acceptance int…
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My guest today is Stephane Gosselin. Stephane co-founded the MEV pirate dev collective Flashbots, which he left in late 2022. His new project, OneBalance, is a framework that substantially reimagines how blockchain accounts are created and managed. In this episode, Stephane and I dive into the lifecycle of an Ethereum transaction today, and the gro…
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Alex Thorn talks with David Bailey, founder and CEO of BTC Inc (Bitcoin Magazine) about the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about markets. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn…
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Alex Thorn talks to River founder and CEO Alex Leishman about building a bitcoin-only brokerage, building your own custody and wallet, operating on the Lightning Network at scale, and trends and topics in Bitcoin development. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about markets. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, June 27, 2024. ++…
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Alex Thorn talks with GK8 co-founder and CEO Lior Lamesh about institutional custody, cybersecurity, and tokenization. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, June 18, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and the information contained herein, has been provided t…
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My guest today is Kosuke Hata aka July, founder of Faust. Faust is a nascent hardware startup working at the intersection of distributed sensing, blockchains, and self driving. The team is composed of engineers from automotive and machine learning engineering projects at Google, Apple, and Tesla. On this episode, July shares background about the se…
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Alex Thorn talks with Jason Urban, head of trading at Galaxy, about market developments, the maturation of the crypto industry, and what Galaxy would be like if commodities were still exchanged in the Chicago trading pits. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about markets. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. ++ Fo…
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Alex Thorn talks with Chris Rhine (Galaxy Asset Management) about his liquid crypto funds, the possible impact of Ethereum ETFs, what it’s like advising the FTX estate, and much more. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about markets. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and …
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Alex Thorn talks with Mike Dudas (6th Man Ventures) about his investments in Solana memecoin tech, his views on Washington politics, and what really happened at The Block after FTX. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about markets. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and re…
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My guest today is Cassandra Heart, founder of Quilibrium and part-time contributor at Merkle Manufactory, creators of Farcaster. On today's episode, Cassie and I dive into Quilibrium, a decentralized platform as a service protocol that aims to enable developers to store data and run uncensorable apps. We discuss Cassie's extensive background buildi…
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Alex Thorn talks with notorious, hilarious, and insightful Crypto Twitter personality Gwart about bitcoin, the usefulness of blockchains, and whether tokens really have value. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about CPI, the FOMC meeting, and markets. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, …
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Alex Thorn talks with Nic Carter (Castle Island Ventures) about stablecoins, how artificial intelligence is bigger and more disruptive than everyone believes, Consensus 2024 in Austin, and Nic’s budding karate career. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about markets. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, June 4, 2024. ++ Follow u…
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My guests today is Jong-Kai Yang, founder of HackMD. HackMD is a multiplayer plain text editor on the web. People use HackMD to collaborate on text notes, share read-only documentation, and collect feedback from commenters. HackMD plays especially nicely with markdown and other common markup languages, making the documents one produces in HackMD hi…
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Alex Thorn talks about the shift in crypto politics, persistent inflation, and Ethereum ETPs. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and the information contained herein, has been provided to you by Galaxy Digital Ho…
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Alex Thorn talks with Eric Balchunas (Bloomberg Intelligence) about the SEC moving forward on Ethereum spot ETF applications after months of radio silence, as well as how the political climate appears to be shifting in crypto’s favor. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about markets. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, May 22, …
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My guest today is Luke Miles, creator of rug.fun, meme.market, mint.fun, and context.app. On this episode, Luke and I run through the history of applications he's created on Ethereum and the EVM. We discuss the recent sale of mint.fun to zora, and go in depth on his two latest memecoin related projects, meme.market and rug.fun. It was a pleasure ca…
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Alex Thorn talks with Galaxy founder and CEO Mike Novogratz about Galaxy earnings, crypto market cycles, macro data, and politics. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and the information contained herein, has been…
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Alex Thorn talks with Austin Campbell (Columbia Business School) about stablecoins and regulation in the US. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about markets. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, May 9, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, an…
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Alex Thorn talks with Murch from Chaincode Labs, a self-described "mempool weatherman" who is well-known for his research into Bitcoin transaction fees, the "mempool," and bitcoin development. Much was also just added as a BIP editor, a maintainer of the repository of Bitcoin improvement proposals. They discuss the future fee environment in light o…
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My guests today are 0xTranqui aka Max and Salief Lewis, two of the four co-founders of Lifeworld, the startup that's creating River. River is a blockchain media protocol. In its launch configuration, users can sign in with Privy, register accounts on a smart contract on Optimism, and post references to IPFS-hosted media as calldata to a smart contr…
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Alex Thorn talks with Brian Wright, co-head of Bitcoin Mining at Galaxy, about the halving, transaction fees, Runes & Ordinals, and more. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about markets. Alex raps with Captain Youth (@elcaptainyouth) about Bitcoin. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @g…
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My guest today is Pete Horne, founder of 4th Energy. Pete is a veteran programmer who thinks deeply about the EVM and computation. With 4th.energy, Pete is exploring how the EVM can be used to serve applications directly from the blockchain. In this vision, application data is verifiably stored on one or multiple of the EVMs connected to L1 Ethereu…
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Alex Thorn talks with Sam Callahan, Senior Analyst at Swan, about bitcoin price cycles, the bitcoin halving, macro conditions, and stablecoin regulations. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe from Galaxy Trading about markets. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.…
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Alex Thorn talks with Tyler Williams, head of public policy at Galaxy, about the state of affairs in Washington regarding national politics, bitcoin and crypto policy, and the upcoming election. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about markets. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyre…
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My guest today is Alex Masmej, founder of Drakula, Showtime, and $ALEX token. Alex's new app, Drakula, is a so-called SocialFi mixture of TikTok, friend.tech, Farcaster, and $DEGEN. On this episode, Alex and I discuss consumer crypto product iteration methodology, team composition, how to sustain setbacks including departing co-founders, the bear m…
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Alex Thorn talks with Rijndael (@rot13maxi), CTO of Taproot Wizards, about the future of bitcoin, its upgrade process and proposals, and the Taproot Wizards roadmap. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about markets. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research …
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Alex Thorn talks with Will Nuelle (Galaxy Ventures) about blockspace, new types of blockchain technology, and the state of crypto VC. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about markets. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, March 14, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to …
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My guest today is Partha Ramanujam, co-founder of Etherspot. Etherspot is a 4337 Account Abstraction service provider. On this episode, Partha and I discuss the Pillar personal data locker, and how it led them to account abstraction and founding Etherspot. We get into the details of their AA Bundler, React library, and embedded wallet services. We …
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My guest today is Cameron Robertson, founder of Arx. Arx is an NFC chip with a ECDSA private key. On this episode, Cameron and I dive into the devices and protocols at the intersection of NFC and blockchain. We discuss tamper resistance, signing APIs, and the interaction patterns available in today's mobile device ecosystem. It was great learning m…
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Alex Thorn talks with Quinn Thompson, former head of markets at Maple Finance and now founder of Lekker Capital. Alex and Quinn discuss cycles in crypto, near term price predictions, and what the future of markets will look like. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, March 14, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at…
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My guest today is Haseeb Awan, founder of Efani. Efani is a telephone service provider for people and companies that are concerned about SIM swapping. On this episode, Haseeb and I dive into his history founding the original Bitcoin ATM network as a computer science student in Canada, going to YC, and becoming an American citizen. We dive into the …
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Alex talks with Castle Island founder and general partner Matt Walsh about crypto VC, growing up at Fidelity, and regulation: Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about markets. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn mo…
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My guest today is Andrew Huang, founder of Conduit. Conduit is a rollup as a service provider, which lets anyone deploy their own rollup in only a few clicks. Conduit operates Zora, Aevo, Mode, Frame, Public Goods Network, and several other rollups, and each of these ships with a suite of helpful infrastructure like robust RPCs, block explorers. On…
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Alex talks with Orkun Kilic (Chainway) about Citrea, the first zk-rollup L2 on Bitcoin and the future of composability on the world’s most valuable blockchain. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about markets. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at ww…
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My guest today is Jango, co-founder of Juicebox Protocol, Revnets, Defifa, and Bananpus. Launched in 2021, Juicebox is a programmable fundraising protocol that has processed more than $180 million of contributions to over 1000 projects, from culture DAOs to open source projects. Most recently, Juicebox Protocol facilitated over 300 ETH in donations…
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Alex talks with current SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce about regulation, innovation, and capitalism. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe about markets. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, February 28, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and the information c…
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My guest today is Vidy Thatte, co-founder of Trace. Trace is a website that lets you build SwiftUI components with LLM text prompts, screenshots, and drawings on a canvas. In short, Trace lets you build iPhone apps with AI. On this episode, Vidy and I take a walk down memory lane, chronicling his illustrious history of app development projects and …
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My guest today is Nick Dodson, co-founder and CEO of Fuel. Fuel is a moduler execution layer that's designed to facilitate performant L2 rollups. On this episode, Nick and I discuss the history of rollup design, the scaling challenges facing the EVM, and how his years of experience writing Solidity, EVM Assembly, and participating in the EIP proces…
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Alex talks with John Palmer, President of Cboe Digital, about the intersection of traditional finance and crypto. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe about markets. This episode was recorded on Monday, February 21, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and the inf…
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