cross-chain

What is THORChain? Join David as we explore the liquidity protocol that allows swapping between BTC, ETH, and more without intermediaries.

Chad Barraford is a core developer at THORChain, and Erik Voorhees is a Bankless staple who has found a deep resonance with THORChain's mission.

Is THORChain helping build the Bankless future? Come find out.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
3:30 What is Thorchain
7:10 Erik and Shapeshift
10:20 How it Works
13:40 Is this a Bridge?
17:00 Staking and Security
20:00 Rune
28:45 Bitcoin and Ethereum
32:20 Latency
36:00 The Bull Case for Thorchain
38:40 Specialization
40:40 The Roadmap and Community
44:00 Get Involved

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RESOURCES

Erik Voorhees:
https://x.com/ErikVoorhees?s=20 

Chad Barraford
https://x.com/CBarraford?s=20 

THORChain Website
https://thorchain.org/ 

THORChain Twitter
https://twitter.com/thorchain 

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In today’s episode, we’re exploring the frontier of the multi-chain Ethereum roadmap. Synthetix has been leading this charge as it pertains to the application layer of Ethereum. 

David is joined by Synthetix’s Founder, Kain Warwick in person in David’s Brooklyn studio.

“Synthetix, A New Hope,” is a recent blog post Kain wrote and is a main focus for today’s episode. 

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
7:08 Synthetix Networks 
8:50 Growth Complexity 
9:50 Phases of Complexity of Apps 
14:00 Elaborating the Problem Layers 
15:25 Paramartizing Risk
19:00 Defining the Problem(s)
21:00 Likelihood of Solution(s)
24:05 3 Paths of Fragmented Liquitidy 
31:40 Chainlink’s CCIP 
32:50 Optimism 
36:00 MakerDAO
36:55 dYdX Model 
44:25 Free Market Model 
47:00 Other Solution Tools 
55:15 Cross-Chain Shared Execution 
57:50 Kain & Synthetix Main Focuses
59:00 Timeline 
59:50 Other Components of Synthetix 
1:02:25 Kain’s Thoughts on Regulation 
1:08:13 Final Messages 
1:09:15 Closing & Disclaimers 

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RESOURCES

Kain Warwick
https://twitter.com/kaiynne  

Synthetix, A New Hope
https://mirror.xyz/kain.eth/tAXGVKMTYM8K2gUOQq9JDQ1wyV_5Msdlrn_AtmiCGEI 

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Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:
https://www.bankless.com/disclosures