SotN#11 - BUILDING w/ Raul Jordan (Eth2 Testnet Broke? L2 will Save Us! Pro-o-o-tocol Sink!)
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🗓️ 26 August 2020
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
STATE OF THE NATION #11 - Tuesday, August 18, 2020
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The State of the Bankless Nation is....BUILDING!
The bankless boys discuss why.
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TOPICS:
1) ETH2 TESTNET BROKE?
2) LAYER2 WILL SAVE US
3) PRO-O-O-O-O-TOCOL SINK
We show:
- Bankless Medalla Testnet Guide
- Official docs for prysmatic labs client
- Ethereum economic density article - Nic Carter
- Loopring DeFi Dad video on Bankless YouTube
- OMG network taking Tether settlement
- dYdX scaling with layer2 starkware
- Near bridging to Ethereum
- Binance staking DAI using Compound/DSR
- Huobi launching Global DeFi Summit
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- Subscribe to Bankless to get Medalla testnet guide then get involved
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. Welcome to State of the Nation. This is episode for 11th. Our |
| 0:18.8 | 11th episode of State of the Nation. David, how are you doing today? |
| 0:22.8 | I'm doing just fantastic. |
| 0:24.7 | I stepped away for a whole four days, |
| 0:27.5 | and it cost me in my ability to understand |
| 0:31.2 | what the hell's going on. |
| 0:32.1 | But, you know, four days is like probably four weeks at least, |
| 0:35.0 | like in the real world? |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah, yeah, it's an insane amount of time. |
| 0:39.0 | But I've spent most of yesterday trying to get back on track. |
| 0:42.0 | And I think I'm there. |
| 0:43.3 | I didn't think I'm there. |
| 0:44.3 | Awesome, man. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, I'm excited. |
| 0:45.8 | We've got some great topics. |
| 0:46.9 | We've got a very special guest, Raoul Jordan. |
| 0:49.9 | He is from the Prismatic Labs team, |
| 0:51.8 | and we are going to introduce him in just a minute. |
| 0:54.7 | But if you're not familiar with the state of the nation, |
| 0:56.5 | what we do every single episode |
| 0:58.3 | is we broadcast this live on Tuesdays now. |
| 1:01.2 | So Tuesday is at 10 a.m. Eastern time. We're pushing this live. You can |
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