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Epicenter brings you in-depth conversations about the technical, economic and social implications of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. Every week, we interview business leaders, engineers academics and entrepreneurs, and bring you a diverse spectrum of opinions and points of view. Epicenter is hosted by Sebastien Couture, Brian Fabian Crain, Friederike Ernst, Meher Roy and Felix Lutsch. Since 2014, our episodes have been downloaded over 8 million times.

Episodes

'Is Tether's USDT Safe?' - Paolo Ardoino

We were joined by Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, to discuss how crypto evolved over the past 10 years, and what role Tether played in shaping both crypto, as well as emerging markets and developing economies.

Apr 25

1 hr 27 min

Safe: Securing $100 Billion of Crypto Assets - Lukas Schor

We were joined by Lukas Schor, co-founder of Safe, to discuss Gnosis’ role in building early Ethereum infrastructure and tooling, and how Safe branched out to help secure >$100Bn worth of assets.

Apr 18

1 hr 6 min

Saga: 'Ethereum and Solana CAN NOT Scale. Our Chainlets Fix This!' - Rebecca Liao

We were joined by Rebecca Liao, co-founder & CEO of Saga, to discuss blockchain scalability, its effects on dApp development and how Saga chainlets could provide 'infinite' horizontal scaling.

Apr 11

52 min

Movement Labs: 'Facebook's MOVE Will Bring Billions of Users to Crypto' - Rushi Manche

We were joined by Rushi Manche, co-founder of Movement Labs, to discuss the rise of modern VMs and how Move-VM aims to offset Ethereum’s shortcomings through parallelisation.

Apr 6

58 min

Wintermute: 'Avoid These Trading Mistakes!' Secrets of a Market Maker - Yoann Turpin

We were joined by Yoann Turpin, co-founder of Wintermute, to discuss the ever-changing trading landscape, the skills needed to succeed, and how a top-level market making firm operates.

Mar 30

1 hr 21 min

Gearbox Protocol: 'DeFi Is Boring, Let's Reinvent Credit' - Ivan & Mikael Lazarev

We were joined by Mikael Lazarev and Ivan from Gearbox Protocol, to discuss how they aim to create a universal and composable on-chain credit layer, through credit account abstraction.

Mar 23

1 hr 19 min

Humayun Sheikh: Fetch AI – Decentralising AI Economies

We were joined by Humayun Sheikh, co-founder & CEO of Fetch.ai, to discuss AI economic models and how LLMs can be integrated by agentic systems as a foundation for autonomous AI apps.

Mar 16

57 min

Jasper De Goojier: SEDA – Intent-Based Modular Data Layer

We were joined by Jasper De Goojier, co-founder of SEDA Protocol, to discuss the oracle landscape and how SEDA aims to decentralise it and make data access permissionless.

Mar 9

54 min

Anish Mohammed: Panther Protocol – Zero-Knowledge Compliant Privacy in DeFi

We were joined by Anish Mohammed, co-founder & CTO of Panther Protocol, to discuss the importance of compliant privacy for on-chain transactions, powered by zero knowledge technology.

Mar 2

1 hr 9 min

Gil Binder & Yair Cleper: Lava Network – Decentralising RPC and Node Providers

We were joined by Gil and Yair to discuss Lava Network’s decentralised marketplace for RPC and node providers in the modular, multi-chain landscape.

Feb 23

54 min