THE PROTOCOL: Token Allocations, Airdrops, and Data Availability
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🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
An examination of Starknet's latest moves, layer 3 networks are ready to go ‘live’ and how a student's research paper turned into $345M.
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In this installment of "The Protocol," hosts Brad Keoun, the founding editor of The Protocol Newsletter, and tech journalists Sam Kessler and Margaux Nijkerk, explore the following stories:
- Starknet (STRK) Tokens
- Arbitrum "Orbit" Is Now Live
PROTOCOL VILLAGE SEGMENT
- The Celestia Launch and AirDrop
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Starknet Foundation Showers STRK Tokens on Contributors, Though They're Not Trading Yet
Arbitrum Foundation Says 'Orbit' for Layer-3 Networks Now Ready for Mainnet
How a Ph.D. Student's Research Paper Turned Celestia Into $345M Blockchain Project Overnight
Celestia Airdrops TIA Token as Network Goes Live, Claims Start of 'Modular Era'
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Protocol is sponsored by the Algarand Foundation. |
| 0:08.0 | Dive deep into the blockchain realm with the protocol podcast. |
| 0:11.9 | With CoinDesk founding editor of the protocol newsletter, Brad Count and tech journalists, |
| 0:17.0 | Sam Kessler and Margo Nykirk, they unravel the intricate technologies powering cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, |
| 0:24.2 | one block at a time. |
| 0:26.7 | Just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello and welcome to the protocol podcast. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm Brad Cowan here with my co-host Margo Nykirk. |
| 0:41.9 | Our co-host Sam Kessler for the protocol podcast is still down covering the |
| 0:48.0 | Sam Bakeman-Free trial. |
| 0:50.1 | I was just reading his story from last night. |
| 0:52.6 | It sounds like they are wrapping up the trial, which is consuming all of the oxygen in |
| 0:59.4 | crypto media. |
| 1:00.7 | But it is an amazing story. |
| 1:02.6 | And we're super psyched that Sam is down covering that. |
| 1:06.1 | On the other hand, he'll be back here. |
| 1:09.3 | Probably, I was just talking, Mar margot probably like a week or so |
| 1:13.0 | yeah probably next week hopefully yeah wow okay huge story um just a quick plug for the protocol |
| 1:21.6 | newsletter margot and i and sam work pretty hard on this every week. And it's really good. |
| 1:27.6 | We encourage you to subscribe. Go to coindex.com. A lot of the stories that we're discussing |
| 1:32.4 | today were in the issue of the protocol newsletter that just came out. You can read more about |
| 1:37.5 | it there if you subscribe. And it's also on coin desk.com, a web version of the newsletter. |
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