Bell Curve

By Blockworks

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Episodes: 167

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Bell Curve breaks down the most important themes in crypto for people who, like us, are confined to the middle of the bell curve. Each season explores a different thesis that we'll test and refine through debate with crypto's best. If you're a crypto native, degen or investooor, this podcast is for you.

Episode Date
Crypto's Multichain Masterplan | S7 E8
Apr 24, 2024
Solana: State Of The Network | Mert Mumtaz, Dan Smith | Lightspeed
Apr 23, 2024
Bitcoin's Renaissance: Inside Runes, Ordinals, and Transaction Revenue | Roundup
Apr 19, 2024
Inside the Crypto Options and Derivatives Boom | Nick Trileski
Apr 16, 2024
The Battle of Restaking Platforms & Alt L1s | Roundup
Apr 12, 2024
Solana's MEV Inflection Point: Users vs Protocol | Deep Dive | Eugene & Lucas
Apr 09, 2024
The Evolution of Crypto Venture Funds | Roundup
Apr 05, 2024
Network Effects and Value Accrual in Crypto | S7 E7 | Kyle Samani
Apr 02, 2024
Are Crypto Market Cycles Changing for Good? | Roundup
Mar 29, 2024
Credible Commitments: How Pre-Confirmations Unlock L2 Interoperability | S7 E6 | Jonas & Murat
Mar 26, 2024
Restaking and Shared Security: Lessons from Cosmos, Polkadot, and Beyond | Roundup
Mar 22, 2024
Dencun: The Catalyst for Ethereum's L2 Vision | Roundup
Mar 15, 2024
Debating the MakerDAO Endgame | Vance Spencer, Mark Phillips, and Hasu
Mar 12, 2024
Chainlink: From Price Feeds to Universal Cryptoeconomic Standards | Sergey Nazarov, Co-founder
Mar 08, 2024
The ZK-Proof Endgame for Full Interoperability | S7 E5 | Uma Roy
Mar 06, 2024
Understanding the Rise of AI and Crypto as TradFi Plays Catch-up | Roundup
Mar 01, 2024
Debating the Multichain End State: Service Providers vs Immutable Protocols | S7 E4 | Bryan Pellegrino
Feb 27, 2024
Unpacking FDV, Token Distributions, and Hidden Value in Bull Markets | Roundup
Feb 23, 2024
Why One Chain Can't Rule Them All: Polygon's Aggregation Layer Deep Dive Brendan Farmer
Feb 20, 2024
Leverage, Restaking, and Ethereum ETF Demand | Roundup
Feb 16, 2024
The Chain Abstraction Thesis | Season 7 Episode 3 | Sam & Illia
Feb 13, 2024
Designing Sustainable Game Economies and Scaling Blockchain Games | Roundup ft. Robbie Ferguson
Feb 10, 2024
How Intents Unbundle Assets from Protocols | Season 7 Episode 2 | Ft. Christopher Goes
Feb 06, 2024
Inside the Evolution of Liquid Staking & Modular Money | Jon Charbonneau & Aidan Salzmann
Feb 05, 2024
The Return of ETH as Digital Money and Betting on Prediction Markets | Roundup
Feb 02, 2024
The Multichain Endgame: Modularity, Network Effects, and The Intent Paradigm | Season 7 Episode 1 Ft. Hart Lambur
Jan 30, 2024
Ethereum's Roadmap Dichotomy: Prioritizing the Protocol vs. the Asset | Roundup
Jan 26, 2024
The Solution to Oracle Extractable Value
Jan 23, 2024
TradFi Embracing Crypto, Private Equity Froth, and Macro Headwinds | Roundup
Jan 19, 2024
Solana's Local Fee Markets Aren't Real | Eugene Chen
Jan 16, 2024
Quantifying Maker Protocol: Revenue Analysis, Risk Frameworks and Stability Levers | Roundup
Jan 12, 2024
Converging Cosmos & Ethereum: A Restaking & Shared Security Deep Dive | Sreeram & Zaki
Jan 09, 2024
Unpacking Ethereum's Demand Drivers, Commodity Attributes, and Evolving Roadmap | Roundup
Jan 06, 2024
Alluvial: The Enterprise-Grade Liquid Staking Standard | Mara Schmiedt
Jan 02, 2024
Jupiter: The Aggregator Fueling Solana’s GDP | Meow
Dec 29, 2023
Fee Markets: How Blockchains Price Scarce Resources | Pranav Garimidi & Sam Hart
Dec 27, 2023
Our 2024 Crypto Predictions | Roundup
Dec 22, 2023
DEXs: Minimizing MEV, Fee Market Developments, and Superior DEX Designs | Season 6 Episode 8
Dec 19, 2023
Data Availability Bake-off and Solana Fee Market | Roundup
Dec 15, 2023
Into the Next Cycle: Jito Airdrop, BTC NFTs, and The Return of VCs | Roundup
Dec 08, 2023
How Appchains Align DEX Incentives | Season 6 Episode 7
Dec 05, 2023
Why the Cosmos Hub is Forking and BLAST L2 Will Probably Work | Roundup
Dec 01, 2023
Crypto’s Next Cycle: Solana’s Comeback vs Ethereum’s Head Start | Qiao Wang
Nov 30, 2023
Liquid Restaking is Coming Sooner Than You Think
Nov 22, 2023
Crosschain DEXs: The Next Frontier | Season 6 Episode 6
Nov 21, 2023
The Chainlink End Game: CCIP, Link Restaking, and Competition | Roundup
Nov 17, 2023
A Deep Dive into Batch Auctions | Season 6 Episode 5
Nov 14, 2023
Institutionalizing Crypto & The Return of the Bull Market | Roundup
Nov 10, 2023
Token Season Review: The Hidden Costs of Airdrops | Roundup
Nov 03, 2023
Solana vs Ethereum: Two Paths, One Endgame | Jon Charbonneau
Nov 01, 2023
Recapitalizing the Degens and Identifying Cycle Catalysts | Roundup
Oct 27, 2023
The Rise of Crypto's Superapp | Fiskantes, Matti (Zee Prime Capital)
Oct 24, 2023
Blackrock CEO: Crypto a 'Flight to Quality' | Round Up
Oct 20, 2023
The Essential Guide to General and App-Specific Order Flow Auctions | Season 6 Episode 4
Oct 19, 2023
Permissionless Frontends: The Rise of Crypto's Aggregators | Kain Warwick (Infinex)
Oct 17, 2023
Ethereum Enshrinement 101 | Round Up
Oct 13, 2023
AMMs vs DEXs: DeFi's First Debate Revisited | Season 6 Episode 3
Oct 10, 2023
The SBF/FTX Trial Begins, The Future of Ethereum, Another XRP Win & More | Round Up
Oct 06, 2023
The LP Profitability Problem: LVR, Dynamic Fees and Auctions | Season 6 Episode 2
Oct 03, 2023
Binance Meltdown Review, Coinbase Regulation Win, RaaS Developments & More | Round Up
Sep 29, 2023
DEXs: Uniswap Origin, Intents, Scaling, and LVR | Season 6 Premiere
Sep 26, 2023
MakerDAO Rally Reaction | Round Up
Sep 22, 2023
The Value of Modular Blockchains | Nick White (Celestia), Neel Somani (Eclipse)
Sep 19, 2023
How Monad is Superscaling the EVM | Keone Hon, Kevin G
Sep 12, 2023
DeFi Summer Incoming? | Round Up
Sep 09, 2023
The Ultimate Guide to LSTs | Season 5 Finale
Sep 05, 2023
Grayscale Victory: Another Spot of Bother for the SEC? | Round Up
Sep 01, 2023
What Ethereum Can Learn From Easy Solana Staking | Lucas & Xavier
Aug 29, 2023
Friend.Tech or Foe: Are Progressive Web Apps the Future? | Round Up
Aug 25, 2023
Ending the Modular vs Monolithic Debate | Kyle Samani
Aug 18, 2023
Frax’s Alternative Approach to Scaling LSTs | Sam Kazemian
Aug 15, 2023
The Future of Stablecoins | Roundup
Aug 11, 2023
What Ethereum Can Learn from Cosmos' Liquid Staking Module | Aidan & Felix
Aug 08, 2023
Curve’s $70M Hack, Base Launch Exceeds $230M+ 24hr Trading Volume, Meme Coin BALD Hits $100M Market Cap in 48hrs, And More | Roundup
Aug 04, 2023
The Business Model of LSTs: Banks, Bribes, and LSTaaS | Adrian & Vance
Aug 01, 2023
Worldcoin: The Power & Pitfalls of Proof-of-Personhood | Roundup
Jul 28, 2023
The Intersection of Restaking and Liquid Staking | Sreeram Kannan
Jul 25, 2023
Chainlink CCIP Bomb, UniswapX, & Synthetix upgrades explained | Roundup
Jul 21, 2023
Solana Defi 2.0: The Comeback | Jarry Xiao, Lucas Bruder, MacBrennan Peet
Jul 20, 2023
The Staking Router + DVT: A Seismic Change for LSTs | Izzy (Lido) & Oisín (Obol)
Jul 18, 2023
The Reboot | Uncommon Core 2.0 with Hasu and Jon Charbonneau
Jul 17, 2023
Is This An Inflection Point for Crypto? | Roundup
Jul 14, 2023
Is Liquid Staking Winner Take All? | Hasu
Jul 11, 2023
What's the Future for Airdrops? | Roundup
Jul 07, 2023
The End Game for Liquid Staking | S5 Premiere
Jul 05, 2023
Are You Bullish or Bearish Onchain RWAs? | Roundup
Jun 30, 2023
How BTC's Rally Could Kickstart Crypto's Flywheel | Roundup
Jun 23, 2023
Uniswap's Platform Play, Tether FUD & The PE Time Bomb | Roundup
Jun 16, 2023
SEC vs Crypto, Uniswap v4 Predictions & Lido Vampire Attacks | Roundup
Jun 10, 2023
Uniswap Fee Switch, Lido FUD & Endgame Craziness | Roundup
Jun 02, 2023
BONUS EP: Stephane Gosselin on MEV, OFAs, and Frontier Research
May 31, 2023
Ethereum’s “Too Big To Fail” Time Bomb | Roundup
May 26, 2023
Season 4 Finale: An MEV Masterclass
May 23, 2023
Should Protocols Share Revenue With Token Holders? | Roundup
May 19, 2023
MEV 2.0 - Order Flow Auctions & Privacy | Quintus Kilbourn, Barnabé Monnot
May 16, 2023
How to Value Crypto Tokens: Fees, Flows or Fugazi | Roundup
May 12, 2023
Meme Mania: Why You Should Pay Attention | 1000x
May 11, 2023
MEV In The Cosmos | Henry de Valence, Barry Plunkett
May 09, 2023
The Fellas Debate the Financialization of JPEGs | Roundup
May 06, 2023
Solana’s MEV Problem | Eugene Chen, Lucas Bruder
May 02, 2023
The Wallet Wars: Apps vs Infrastructure | Roundup
Apr 28, 2023
Interview with a Searcher 2.0 | Dean Eigenman, Anish Agnihotri
Apr 25, 2023
Why GameFi’s Best Apps Will Outperform DeFi | Roundup
Apr 21, 2023
MEV in a Modular World | Jon Charbonneau, Robert Miller
Apr 18, 2023
Uniswap’s Mobile Wallet: Breakthrough or Flop? | Roundup
Apr 14, 2023
Inside the Economics of MEV | Matt Cutler
Apr 11, 2023
ETH L2s Have The Same Flaws As Alt L1s | Roundup
Apr 07, 2023
The Cosmos SDK of Rollups | Preston Evans, Sovereign Labs
Apr 05, 2023
Shining A Light On MEV | Tarun Chitra, Justin Drake
Apr 04, 2023
CBDCs: A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing | Roundup
Mar 31, 2023
S4 Premiere: A Journey Into The Dark Forest | Hasu
Mar 28, 2023
Balaji's BTC Bet, Macro Chaos and Coinbase vs SEC | Roundup
Mar 24, 2023
Crypto's Moment: They Swung, They Missed | Roundup
Mar 17, 2023
S3 Finale: Does The AppChain Thesis Hold up?
Mar 14, 2023
A Bank Run Saga: Silvergate and SVB | Roundup
Mar 10, 2023
How Bitcoin Will Secure The AppChain Future | Rollkit, Babylon, Stride
Mar 08, 2023
Silvergate Crashes, Cosmos Hub Ghosted & Jump Exploits | Roundup
Mar 03, 2023
Optimism’s Superchain vs Cosmos
Feb 28, 2023
Coinbase's End Game: Keep it BASEd | Roundup
Feb 24, 2023
 The Rollapp Stacks | Sovereign Labs, Slush
Feb 21, 2023
OpenSea’s BLURred Vision, Tech’s New Paradigm & MEV Talk | Roundup
Feb 17, 2023
MEV: The Economic Driver of Blockchains
Feb 14, 2023
Operation Choke Point: Is Kraken the first domino? | Roundup
Feb 11, 2023
Competing Security Models for Appchains | Nick White, Dev Ojha
Feb 07, 2023
An Inside Look at Crypto Venture Firms | Roundup
Feb 03, 2023
Fat Apps: Aggregation Theory in Crypto Networks | Zaki Manian, Sam Hart
Jan 31, 2023
Unraveling Crypto’s Credit Crisis | Roundup
Jan 27, 2023
The Case for Sovereign Blockchains | Sunny Aggarwal, Dmitriy Berenzon
Jan 24, 2023
Peak ETH: Ethereum's Monetary Policy Explained | Roundup
Jan 21, 2023
The Rise of AppChains | Season 3 Pilot
Jan 17, 2023
Winklevoss Twins "Zucked" by Genesis | Roundup
Jan 06, 2023
2023 Predictions: zkEVM disappoints, L2s vs Multichain, Wallet Wars
Dec 30, 2022
S2 Finale: The Next Evolution for DAOs
Dec 27, 2022
Visa Builds On Starkware, Yuga Labs Strategy, GBTC Disaster | Roundup
Dec 23, 2022
The Secret Behind ENS DAO's Success | Nick Johnson
Dec 20, 2022
How to Value L1s, SBF Arrested & Tokenomics Debate | Roundup
Dec 16, 2022
The Crypto Trader's Mindset | 1000x
Dec 15, 2022
Token Value Capture: Moats, Growth and Protocol Fees | Chris Burniske, Fernando Martinelli
Dec 13, 2022
Your Favorite L1 Was Overpriced | Roundup
Dec 09, 2022
The Cutting Edge: Experiments in DAO Governance | Julz Rosenberg, Charles St. Louis
Dec 06, 2022
SBF's ruse, NFT market predictions & Coinbase takes on Apple | Roundup
Dec 02, 2022
DAO Treasury Management | Tarun Chitra
Nov 29, 2022
Genesis Balance Sheet Exposes DCG Empire | Roundup
Nov 25, 2022
How to Grow DAOs Organically | Mika Honkasalo, Shreyas Hariharan
Nov 22, 2022
The Truth Behind Alameda and FTX | Roundup
Nov 18, 2022
What DAOs Can Learn from Corporate Governance | Larry Sukernik, Derek Hsue
Nov 15, 2022
Why Binance Acquired FTX | Breaking News
Nov 09, 2022
Business-Governance Fit Deep Dive | Hasu, Chris Ahn
Nov 08, 2022
Twitter & Coinbase Are Back, SOL At Your Own Risk | Roundup
Nov 04, 2022
The DAO Thesis, Finding Business-Governance Fit | Season 2 Pilot
Nov 01, 2022
Apple Zucked Snapchat, BTC Miners Bankrupt & Reddit NFTs | Roundup
Oct 28, 2022
Is DeFi Ready For Fixed Rate Lending? | Season 1 Finale
Oct 18, 2022
Founder Fundraising Advice and Mango Markets | Roundup
Oct 14, 2022
DeFi in the Next Bull Cycle | Stani Kulechov, Robert Leshner
Oct 11, 2022
Private Order Flow Is The New MEV | Weekly Roundup
Oct 07, 2022
Who Are the Borrowers? | Ben Forman
Oct 04, 2022
ATOM 2.0, Reversible Transactions & Polygon's BD Game | Blockworks Research
Sep 30, 2022
On-Chain Derivatives & Liquidity | Tristan Frizza, Uddhav Marwaha
Sep 27, 2022
FOMC Down Only, Gaming Mega Thesis, Stablecoin Bill | Roundup
Sep 23, 2022
Uncollateralized Lending: DeFi’s Next Big Evolution | Sid Powell, Teddy Woodward
Sep 20, 2022
ESG ETH, Cosmos Hype & Starbucks NFTs | Roundup
Sep 16, 2022
The Fixed Rate Lending Unlock | Simon Jones, Allan Niemerg
Sep 13, 2022
Merge Chaos, Coinbase’s Proposal & On-Chain IP | Roundup
Sep 09, 2022
The Makings of a DeFi Credit Boom | Tushar Jain
Sep 06, 2022
L1 Death Race, L2 Summer & Maker’s End Game | Roundup
Sep 02, 2022
CeFi Is Dead, Long Live DeFi | Vance Spencer & Michael Anderson
Aug 30, 2022
The DeFi Credit Boom | Season One Pilot
Aug 30, 2022