Memecoins, Scaling Grifts and Other Shenanigans With Colluding Node

Welcome back to The Gwart Show! This week, Colluding Node from the Celestia joins Gwart to unravel the mystery of memecoins, stablecoins, governance tokens, Ethereum scaling via grifters and how Celestia works under the hood. Gwart and C-Node talk about like 20+ blockchains in this podcast so it probably has something for everyone. Follow our guest on Twitter: @colludingnode Follow our host: @gwartygwart 👋The Gwart Show is proudly presented by Ellipsis Labs! Ellipsis Labs is building foundational products in DeFi. Their first product @PhoenixTrade is the leading orderbook DEX on Solana. The team is growing—visit ellipsislabs.xyz for engineering opportunities. Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here. Timestamps: 00:00:00 Start 01:29:09 What are blockchains good for? 02:29:16 Evolving understanding of blockchains 05:34:17 Bullish ETH? 08:37:21 The future of DeFi 10:50:08 DeFi privacy 14:20:12 Are meme coins the final boss of stupid? 15:54:19 Permissionless 18:39:19 Are lobbyists focusing on the right things? 21:44:16 Are lobbyists serving plebs or companies? 24:03:17 Companies don't care about P2P tnxs 25:52:17 Centralized stablecoins 28:30:16 Stablecoins > Crypto? 30:06:02 Money separated from state 31:52:28 Maker DAI 34:12:29 Governance tokens 37:24:02 No governance not MORE governance 40:00:10 ETH scaling w/ grifters 41:45:11 Solution to confusing scaling? 43:54:01 Solana reservations 47:14:14 Solana nodes 48:50:25 Celestia light clients 50:51:19 Light clients & trust assumptions 52:27:21 Celestia's vision? 54:25:07 Sovereign roll ups on Celestia 56:34:11 Appchains? 57:28:08 Defi interoperability Questions or want to sponsor? [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices