75 - The ETHCC Experience | Interviews with Ethereum Community Leaders
Bankless
Bankless
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 139 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Did you miss out on ETHCC? Here's the antidote to your FOMO.
David interviews 9 thought leaders and builders about the conference, Paris, and the broader Ethereum Community.
------
🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/
🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/
🎖 CLAIM YOUR BADGE: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/-guide-2-using-the-bankless-badge
------
BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS:
⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM
https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum
🍵 MATCHA | DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE AGGREGATOR
https://bankless.cc/Matcha
🔐 LEDGER | SECURE YOUR ASSETS
https://bankless.cc/Ledger
🦄 UNISWAP | DECENTRALIZED FUNDING
https://bankless.cc/UniGrants
------
📣 SMARTCON | Register for Smart Contract Summit 2021!
https://bankless.cc/SmartCon
------
Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
2:00 What is ETHCC?
6:20 The Guests & The Vibe
10:23 The Community & Building
13:55 BTC Miami & ETH CC
20:15 Ethereum Documentary
23:34 Paris, Parties, and Culture
29:00 Vitalik Buterin
32:40 The Magnitude of ETH
39:05 What Vitalik’s Thinking About
42:26 Ethereum’s Social Layer
45:07 Stani Kulechov
48:38 What’s New This Conference?
51:45 Aave Ark (FKA Aave Pro)
54:24 rAAVE
57:12 The Magnitude of Aave
1:00:50 Kain Warwick
1:03:08 What’s Different This Time?
1:06:00 Around the Community
1:10:13 Jerome de Techey
1:15:00 Conferences and Community
1:20:00 What’s Great About ETHCC?
1:24:05 Aya Miyaguchi
1:27:18 The Ethereum Community
1:31:24 The Infinite Garden
1:36:00 Cooper Turley
1:40:09 The ETHCC Vibe
1:42:20 Simona Pop
1:47:40 Status
1:57:22 Joseph Delong
2:00:17 SushiSwap Roadmap
2:04:22 Jordi Baylina
2:08:00 The Hermez Network
2:11:58 Layer 2 vs Sidechain
------
Resources:
Vitalik on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin?s=20
Stani on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/StaniKulechov?s=20
Kain on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/kaiynne?s=20
Jerome on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/jdetychey?s=20
Aya on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/AyaMiyagotchi?s=20
Cooper on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Cooopahtroopa?s=20
Simona on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Sim_Pop?s=20
Joseph on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/josephdelong?s=20
Jordi on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/jbaylina?s=20
-----
Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.
Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here:
https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/bankless-disclosures
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier internet money and internet finance. |
| 0:12.5 | This is how to get started, how to get better, and how to front-run the opportunity. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Ryan Sean Adams, I'm here with David Hoffman, and we're here to help you become |
| 0:21.6 | more bankless. |
| 0:23.3 | David, standard opener to every bankless episode, but this is not a standard bankless |
| 0:29.2 | episode. |
| 0:30.2 | You are in France right now, as we're recording this intro, and you just attended ETHCC, |
| 0:35.9 | dude, we all have FOMO, I wanted to be there, I saw some of the clips coming out of this |
| 0:40.7 | event, a ton of excitement, and you have promised the antidote to our FOMO. |
| 0:47.0 | So what are we going to dive into during this podcast? |
| 0:49.7 | Yeah, so the format for this podcast is going to be extremely different. |
| 0:54.3 | Ryan, you actually won't be in the podcast because you're not at ETHCC, you know, should |
| 0:58.1 | have been there. |
| 0:59.1 | Yeah, sad. |
| 1:00.1 | But this is for those that we're not at CC, this is the podcast for you. |
| 1:04.2 | So these are about roughly 12 to 15 minute clips of just quick interviews with some of |
| 1:09.0 | the big names that we all know and love, many previous bankless podcast guests. |
| 1:14.1 | And so I asked a lot of the familiar names, just what their ETHCC experiences like, and |
| 1:19.4 | also kind of what the state of crypto is for them. |
| 1:22.7 | And so I talked to Vitalik, Stani, Kane, and I am I a Gucci and so many different people |
| 1:29.3 | from around the ecosystem and kind of asked them what it's what it's been like for you, |
| 1:35.1 | the guests, the ETHCC attendee, what the experiences like, what talks are they looking |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bankless, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Bankless and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

