Alpha Leak | The Bull Case for Modular Blockchains
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🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, David is joined by Co-Founder of Fuel Labs and Celestia, John Adler. Fuel is the fastest modular execution layer and Celestia is the first modular blockchain network.
John and David explore how modular blockchains are shaping the future of the space, what Fuel is, why it’s different than other L2s on Ethereum, why John believes Fuel is the leading L2, and so much more.
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Topics Covered
0:00 Intro
3:56 John’s Background
5:30 Creating Optimistic Rollups
6:56 Fuel’s Design Choice
9:50 Defining a Rollup & Modular Execution Layers
18:00 More Modular L2s
18:53 Fuel Flexibility
20:36 Data Compression
21:24 Fuel VM
26:55 The Fastest
35:27 Reducing Waste & Speed
38:42 Fuel Origin & Roadmap
48:59 Fuel’s Growing Ecosystem
52:36 Where Are L2s Going?
1:00:50 Call to Action For Listeners
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Resources:
John Adler
https://twitter.com/jadler0
Fuel Labs
https://twitter.com/fuellabs_
Celestia Labs
https://twitter.com/CelestiaOrg
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you so much for joining us on this episode of AlphaLeak, where we are talking about |
| 0:06.4 | Fuel Network with John Adler. |
| 0:09.6 | Fuel Network is a layer 2 on Ethereum, but it's a different kind of layer 2, and that's |
| 0:13.1 | really what I wanted to explore here today. |
| 0:15.6 | What about Fuel is so different? |
| 0:17.8 | Why is it built in the way that it is, and why does John Adler believe that he is skating |
| 0:22.3 | to where the puck is going where every other layer 2 is to focus a little bit too much |
| 0:26.8 | on the short term? |
| 0:28.7 | In this episode, you'll learn about why Fuel is built in the way that it's built, how |
| 0:32.6 | it's different from the Ethereum Virtual Machine and why the Fuel VM, the Fuel Virtual Machine, |
| 0:37.9 | is new and improved in shiny and super fast and super executable and is going to be, according |
| 0:43.9 | to John, the logical conclusion of a layer 2. |
| 0:46.4 | You'll also learn a little bit about the inner workings of Fuel beyond the Fuel VM, |
| 0:50.6 | the other parts of the Fuel Network that make it tick, and overall just get John's philosophy |
| 0:55.0 | onto the layer 2 space. |
| 0:57.2 | Fuel is a sponsor of the Banclist podcast, but that is not why we are making this episode. |
| 1:01.4 | We are making this episode so we can dive all the way down into the details that make |
| 1:05.0 | fuel tick so we can learn more about it. |
| 1:06.9 | So without further ado, we'll get into this conversation with John Adler of Fuel right |
| 1:10.6 | after we talk to some of these fantastic sponsors that help you go Banclist. |
| 1:13.8 | The reality today is that five corporations control the entire world of social media. |
| 1:18.8 | They own our names, they restrict our content, they monitor our every move, and their time |
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