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After a “weird” year in the markets, hosts Ram Ahluwalia and Christopher Perkins are joined by Ava Labs’ President John Wu for a candid debate about where crypto really is in the cycle—and what needs to happen next.
The panel wrestles with a question many investors are quietly asking: has the market washed out enough to set up the next move, or is something still missing? They explore why momentum has faded, what signs would suggest it’s coming back, and why 2026 keeps coming up in long-term conversations—even as near-term enthusiasm remains divided.
Plus, why TGEs are “dying” and, with the rise of super apps, does Coinbase has an edge on Web2 players like Robinhood?
Hosts:
Ram Ahluwalia, CFA, CEO and Founder of Lumida
Christopher Perkins, Managing Partner and President of CoinFund
Guest:
John Wu, President of Ava Labs
Links:
Unchained:
Circle Acquires Interop Labs Team, Excludes Axelar Foundation and Token
Aave’s Rushed Governance Vote Draws Backlash
UNI Token Rallies as Voting Begins on UNIfication Proposal
Bitcoin’s Demand Boom is Fading: CryptoQuant
Alex Thorn predicts BTC will reach $250K by end of 2027
Memento’s research on TGEs
Jeff Dorman on X: “I don’t know a single liquid fund that has bought a new token on TGE in over 2 years.”
CoinDesk: Coinbase rolls out stock trading, prediction markets and more in bid to become the 'Everything Exchange'
The Block:
Coinbase to acquire prediction markets startup The Clearing Company
AAVE token holder proposes 'poison pill' for DAO to absorb Aave Labs amid contentious revenue debate
Timestamps:
🎬 0:00 Intro
📉 1:55 What made this a truly “weird year” for markets
🗓️ 7:09 Why 2026 may be a breakout year and why not all tokens may survive
🌊 8:41 Whether a big washout is ahead and what actually brings momentum back
🔁 13:40 How the four-year cycle, midterms, and new cohorts keep reshaping crypto demand
🏦 20:30 The fight over institutional settlement layers and Canton’s rise
🧩 24:34 Why tokens exist at all and where real value capture is getting lost
⚖️ 30:19 How investors should think about the constant tug-of-war between equity and tokens
📊 41:07 Why Chris feels constructive on markets while Ram sees something missing
💵 43:52 Why stablecoins are quietly becoming the “new net interest income”
📱 44:51 How super apps are changing the game and why Coinbase may have an edge over Robinhood
🧟 53:16 Why token generation events are fading
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In this episode of The Defiant podcast we speak with Morgan Krupetsky, VP of OnChain Finance at Ava Labs, to break down one of the most significant shifts happening in crypto today: the rapid institutionalization of blockchain and Avalanche’s strategy to lead it.
Morgan walks us through Avalanche’s “real-world adoption first” ethos, explaining how its unique architecture enables enterprises, fintechs, banks, governments, and consumer apps to build purpose-designed blockchains while tapping into a shared liquidity hub.
In the second episode of Ecosystems: Avalanche, we track the protocol’s trajectory, which included a peak valuation of $13 billion, followed by a period of consolidation and strategic redevelopment.
The Defiant founder Camila Russo and Ava Labs' Chief Strategy Officer Luigi D’Onorio DeMeo are joined by founders from BENQI, Euler Labs, and LFJ, who are building on the Avalanche protocol. The conversation covers technical upgrades such as Octane and Etna, aimed at reducing fees, and Interchain Messaging, designed to enhance interoperability between blockchains. It also addresses the strategy to onboard institutional clients, including T. Rowe Price and Wellington, through customized Layer 1 solutions.
Can Avalanche cultivate an ecosystem that thrives without relying on constant incentives, particularly regarding liquidity and user retention? Join us to find out.
Avalanche says it can finally square the circle: sub‑second finality, a large decentralized validator set, and thousands of sovereign L1s connected through native messaging for shared liquidity.
In the genesis episode of our new ECOSYSTEMS podcast, Camila Russo and guest cohost Luigi D’Onorio DeMeo of Ava Labs unpack the Avalanche story—from Team Rocket’s probabilistic consensus and the stadium sampling intuition, to today’s “city of chains” (C‑Chain liquidity hub, P/X chains, and customizable L1s). We discuss:
How random sampling achieves speed and safety/liveness guarantees
Customization without fragmentation via inter-chain messaging (ICM)
L1 vs L2 trade-offs: shared security vs shared risk, costs, and interoperability
Enterprise paths (FIFA, Toyota, fintechs), privacy options, and Ava Cloud’s “L1 in minutes”
Decentralization in practice: validator counts, Nakamoto coefficient, and hardware accessibility
What real adoption looks like for payments, DeFi, and emerging markets
If Avalanche is right, it has the chance to make finance programmable at scale. If not, we add to the L1 graveyard.
What does the future of blockchain look like, and where do multi-chain systems fit in? On this episode, we're joined by Emin Gün Sirer, CEO and Founder of Ava Labs and one of the most prominent figures in blockchain innovation. Emin unpacks how Avalanche is reshaping the decentralized world with its groundbreaking consensus protocol, multi-chain scaling, and commitment to maintaining blockchain’s core values.
We also discuss:
Avalanche vs. Bitcoin and Ethereum
Gaming and DeFi innovations on Avalanche
Fighting centralization and the challenges of scale
The role of stablecoins and central banks in Avalanche’s ecosystem
Chapters:
00:00 Defiant intro
00:07 If the future of blockchain is centralized, I don’t want to be here
00:54 intro to Emin Gün Sirer, Founder and CEO of Ava Labs
04:29 Building the fastest consensus protocol on the market
04:43 How is Avalanche different from Bitcoin?
08:10 Avalanche vs. other multi chain systems
12:16 L2 scaling vs. multi chain scaling
16:55 Evaluating Ethereum’s promises
19:45 Interoperability on Avalanche
20:25 What’s the narrative behind Avalanche?
23:47 Avalanche’s long term strategy 💫
26:25 Gaming example: OTG
29:16 How flexible are Avalanche chains?
31:13 How do you maintain the tenets of blockchain across chains?
33:05 What's the liquidity breakdown between these L1 chains?
34:54 Avalanche’s TVL vs users and adoption
38:00 Fighting centralization on Avalanche
43:15 AVAX value and uses
45:58 Increased activity on Avalanche
48:00 It’s been a Bitcoin story: where do alt projects fit in?
53:33 Stablecoins and exciting catalysts for DeFi
53:15 Assets want to be digital
55:35 How do stable coins fit into Avalanche?
56:19 Prediction: central banks getting into stablecoins
57:11 Challenges with central banks getting into stablecoins
59:13 The next major milestones for Avalanche
01:06:52 Closing Remarks
John Wu is the President of Ava Labs.
The Scoop's host, Frank Chaparro, was joined by Wu to discuss Avalanche’s growing institutional appeal, the rise of blockchain gaming, and how his background in traditional finance shaped his approach to building in crypto.
OUTLINE
00:00 - Introduction
00:51 - Sponsor break
02:11 - John Wu’s tradfi background
06:36 - Taking crypto seriously
09:27 - Ava Labs’ focus
11:11 - The gaming landscape
18:38 - Ava Labs x financial markets
24:30 - Challenges in building in Tradfi
26:11 - How enterprises select blockchains
29:03 - Project Guardian
31:52 - Looking ahead
GUEST LINKS
John Wu on X: https://x.com/John1wu
Ava Labs on X: https://x.com/AvaLabs
Ava Labs: https://www.avalabs.org/
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In today's episode of Empire, Kevin Sekniqi, Co-Founder of Avalanche, and Patrick O'Grady, VP of Engineering at Avalanche, join the show to discuss the past, present, and future of Avalanche. They start by explaining the core thesis behind Avalanche - that the future will consist of thousands of highly optimized, specialized blockchains rather than one chain to rule them all. Kevin and Patrick provide an overview of Avalanche's architecture, clarifying common misconceptions around P-Chain, C-Chain, and subnets. They then do a deep dive into the rationale and economics behind subnets, contrasting them to solutions like rollups and how Warp and Hyper SDK fit in the overall strategy. For all of this and much more stay tuned!
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Timestamps:
(00:59) Why does Avalanche exist?
(09:38) Creating Optimized Chains
(16:30) Economics of Subnets
(25:56) Endgame Vision of Subnets
(34:05) DAS 2024
(35:10) Toku Ad
(36:40) Next Gen L1s
(40:20) Warp: Cross Subnet Messages
(48:02) HyperSDK: Launch your own Blockchain
(51:37) Dev Adoption & dApp Layer Innovation
(01:03:06) Future of Value Accrual to AVAX
(01:12:57) Decentralization & Performance for Blockchains
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Disclaimer: Nothing said on Empire is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Santiago, Jason, and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.
In this episode of Empire, Emin Gün Sirer and John Wu explain why Avalanche is the most scalable, decentralized L1. We start with why developers choose Avalanche, then quickly transition into the L2 debate. Emin explains why Subnets are superior and how the L2 vision and L2 reality are miles apart. We also talk about Avalanche's consensus engine, business development, the multichain future and more!
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(01:01) Avalanche’s Core Thesis
(04:17) Why Build on Avalanche?
(14:19) The Problem with L2s
(19:08) Avalanche's Tradeoffs
(23:41) The Consensus Engine
(30:00) Learnings From Other Networks
(33:29) Solana vs Avalanche
(40:59) Avalanche’s Security Guarantees
(45:00) Business Development Strategy
(55:09) Warp: Communication Between Subnets
(1:00:01) On-Chain Governance
(1:01:41) Avalanche’s Community
(1:08:29) A Multichain Future?
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Resources
Avalanche
https://www.avax.network/
Ava Labs
https://www.avalabs.org/
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Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. In this episode, Emin Gün Sirer, the emperor of Avalanche, also joined the conversation
Show topics: Gün’s take on the Ava Labs conspiracy story and whether there was any truth in the videos
The impact of the Merge on ETH issuance and energy usage
What’s going on with the ETHPoW fork, and how the team has been messing up
The TL;DR of the technical side of Ethereum scaling, explained by Tarun
How, in the beginning, proof of stake was designed to resemble proof of work
What Ethereum miners are going to do after the Merge
Whether increasing hash rates spike prices of PoW coins
How the Basic Attention Token is like the Stanford prison experiment
Whether the fights between Gün and other founders were positive or negative
How an exchange delisted every privacy coin
Whether Coinbase's support of the lawsuit against the US Treasury over Tornado Cash was a PR move
How this moment in history resembles the 90s and the rise of the internet
Whether there are blockchain-haters and what the crypto industry can do better
How there can’t be a single chain to meet every need
How FTX and Coinbase have different approaches to regulation
How would everyone celebrate a successful Merge and whether there’s a chance of it failing
Hosts
Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital
Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures
Robert Leshner, founder of Compound
Guest
Emin Gün Sirer, Founder and CEO of Ava Labs
Episode Links
Ava Labs Accusations: Emin Gün Sirer’s statement
CoinDesk article
Crypto Leaks article
Tornado Cash
Treasury Press release
Coinbase supports lawsuit against US Treasury
Huobi delisting privacy coins
Previous coverage of the Tornado Cash Sanctions on Unchained:
Is TRM Labs Blocking Addresses From DeFi Protocols? Ari Redbord Says No
Tornado Cash Sanctioned. Did the Government Overstep Its Bounds?
The Chopping Block: Did OFAC Overstep by Sanctioning Tornado Cash?
Given the Sanctions on Tornado Cash, Is Ethereum Censorship Resistant?
Preston Van Loon on Ethereum's Merge and His Lawsuit Against Treasury
ETH Proof of Work and Miners: ChainID missing; the request from Coinbase
CoinDesk article
The ETHPoW team said the fork will be deployed within 24 hours of the Merge
ETHPoW team’s promise to abolish EIP-1559
ETHPoW first blocks
The Merge: Ethereum Foundation Merge announcement.
Ethereum carbon emission reductions.
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No matter the blockchain, individual blocks are limited in the amount of information they can hold; so when blockspace becomes limited, transaction fees increase.
As Ava Labs COO Kevin Sekniqi puts it: “Chains are only cheap as long as the blockspace has not been filled up completely — once blockspace gets filled up completely, it becomes expensive.”
In this episode of the Scoop, Sekniqi explains how Avalanche — the proof-of-stake blockchain Ava Labs launched back in September 2020 — utilizes ‘subnets’ to tackle the problem of blockchain scalability, and how subnets compare to other scaling solutions.
As Sekniqi explains, existing validators of the Avalanche blockchain are able to deploy new subnets, and choose the rules of how they operate:
“The simplest way to describe subnets… is a subset of the Avalanche validators coming together and agreeing to do something.”
For example, the validators of a new subnet could choose to optimize the specifications of the new chain for a specific application, or validators could choose to require users to undergo KYC before interacting with the new subnet.
Whereas an Avalanche subnet could theoretically be run with just a single validator, popular scaling solutions on Ethereum rely on the entire validator set of the base chain to process transactions.
Sekniqi argues that this approach is likely unnecessary, and creates “extreme overhead that you don’t really want.”
Instead, Sekniqi believes the number of validators securing a chain should scale organically alongside its value:
“If there's a lot of activity and it truly is a very valuable chain, more and more people will start validating that chain because there are incentives… and so [security] scales up as the value is built upon it.”
Episode 63 of Season 4 of The Scoop was recorded live at The Block headquarters in New York with The Block's Frank Chaparro and Kevin Seqniki, COO of Ava Labs.
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Olta Andoni, deputy general counsel at Ava Labs, and Ari Redbord, head of legal and government affairs at TRM Labs, discuss the Terra stablecoin meltdown, implications for impending international regulations, and the history of stablecoin regulation internationally. Topics covered include:
What the most important legal issues are for the Terra meltdown
How the Terra implosion will trigger more regulation of the space
How regulators seemed to think stablecoins should be regulated even before Terra
How their approach differs between dollar-backed stablecoins vs. algorithmic vs. crypto collateral-backed coins
How European regulators want stablecoin issuers to be treated like banks
What the Lummis-Gillibrand bill would mean for US stablecoin regulation
Whether Terra’s demise will mean that regulators won’t tolerate experimentation with algorithmic stablecoins
Why regulators will be skittish about stablecoins in response to Terra’s meltdown
Why Olta and Ari were impressed by the NY Department of Financial Services guidance on stablecoins
What the establishment of SEC jurisdiction over Terraform Labs based on the Mirror investigation from last fall means for any enforcement action by the SEC over Terra
Whether Do Kwon and/or Terraform could face criminal charges in multiple jurisdictions
Why international regulatory consistency is important in the crypto space
Whether civil and class-action lawsuits against Terraform could be expected
How Terra 2.0 could open TFL up to further action from regulators and law enforcement
Why more education is needed to overcome anxiety about DeFi regulations
How hack nondisclosures could be subject to government investigation
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Episode Links
Olta
Avalanche
https://www.avax.network/
Ava Labs
https://www.avalabs.org/
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/oltaandoni/
Twitter
https://twitter.com/AndoniOlta
Ari
TRM Labs Website:
https://www.trmlabs.com/
TRM Labs Twitter
https://twitter.com/trmlabs?s=20&t=m24Ir0OerqPgEejlhL-bdQ
TRM Talks
https://www.trmlabs.com/category/trm-talks
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ari-redbord-4054381b4/
Twitter
https://twitter.com/ARedbord?s=20&t=m24Ir0OerqPgEejlhL-bdQ
Lummis-Gillibrand Bill
Bill Introduction:
https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/news/press/release/-lummis-gillibrand-introduce-landmark-legislation-to-create-regulatory-framework-for-digital-assets
Legal Memo from DLx Law: https://dlxlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/DLX_FSV-summary_RFIA_060722.pdf
Lummis-Gillibrand Section by Section Overview (summary by bill authors): https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Lummis-Gillibrand%20Section-by-Section%20%5bFinal%5d.pdf
Responsible Financial Innovation Act (full text): https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Lummis-Gillibrand%20Responsible%20Financial%20Innovation%20Act%20%5bFinal%5d.pdf
Blog post intro (by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand): https://gillibrandny.medium.com/the-responsible-financial-innovation-act-218a764abd6c
FINMA
FINMA:
https://www.finma.ch/en/
FINMA on Stablecoins:
https://www.finma.ch/en/news/2019/09/20190911-mm-stable-coins/
FINMA Publishes Stablecoin Guidance:
https://www.sif.admin.ch/sif/en/home/finanzmarktpolitik/digitalisation-financial-sector/stablecoins.html
NY DFS
Guidance on Stablecoin Issuance:
https://www.dfs.ny.gov/industry_guidance/industry_letters/il20220608_issuance_stablecoins
Press Release:
https://www.dfs.ny.gov/reports_and_publications/press_releases/pr202206081
CNBC Coverage:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/08/new-yorks-financial-watchdog-issues-stablecoin-guidance-calls-for-reserve-requirements.html
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When Emin Gun Sirer first came on The Defiant in May 2020, Avalanche was not even on mainnet yet. Since then, it has risen to become one of the leading smart contract networks, while the AVAX token has risen over 7x in the last 12 months. We talk about how the project got here and how it wants to create a path for faster and more scalable decentralized network, amid heavy competition from other Layer 1 blockchains.
Emin makes the case for Avalache’s novel consensus mechanism, paired with subnets with their own virtual machines, and he also has scathing criticism for Ethereum and other Layer 2 scaling solutions. To him, once a platform starts building Layer 2s, it means they’ve run out of ideas on how to make a good Layer 1. We also discuss the big picture goal for Avalanche; Bitcoin centers around digital gold, Ethereum strives to create the world computer, and Avalanche wants to digitize all assets. If it's on a balance sheet, Emin says, it can be on a blockchain, and we discuss what it will take for it to get there.
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Olta Andoni, fintech and IP Attorney at Zlatkin Wong and adjunct professor at Chicago Kent College of Law, Tonya Evans, visiting Full Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law School and host of the podcast Tech Intersect, and Stuart Levi, co-head of the Intellectual Property and Technology practice at Skadden Arps and coordinator of the firm's Blockchain and Digital Asset practice, break down the legal issues surrounding NFTs. In this episode, they discuss:
how the law looks at non-fungible tokens (1:25)
why owning an NFT is different from owning the rights to the underlying asset making up the NFT (3:12)
problems that blockchain solves for creators (5:09)
how corporations (aka content intermediaries) are handling NFTs (6:53)
what rights the purchase of an NFT gives a buyer (11:51)
derivative artwork, the fair use copyright law, moral rights, and how U.S. law views NFTs (15:53)
how to determine the jurisdiction of an NFT (25:00)
what type of legal recourse is available to artists whose art has been stolen and redistributed as an NFT (32:37)
the differences in the terms of services between NFT marketplaces (36:26)
why the first sale doctrine may not apply to digital assets (43:16)
what a buyer is getting when purchasing a blockchain license (46:12)
how NFT creators should protect their work (51:43)
whether a fractionalized NFT is a security (55:25)
how NFTs will change the business of content creation (58:44)
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Episode Links
People
Tonya Evans
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IPProfEvans
Penn State Dickinson Law: https://dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/tonya-m-evans
Relevant content:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-intersect-59-ping-prof-2-non-fungible-tokens-nfts/id1493143898?i=1000512485580
https://clarivate.com/darts-ip/blog/copyright-blockchain/
https://clarivate.com/darts-ip/blog/intro-to-ip-and-blockchain/
Olta Andoni
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndoniOlta?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Zlatkin Wong: https://zlatkinwong.com/en/
Relevant content:
https://www.coindesk.com/stop-tokenizing-art-you-dont-own
Stuart Levi
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartlevi/
Skadden: https://www.skadden.com/
Relevant content:
https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/fin-tech/799182/emerging-discovery-issues-in-blockchain-litigation
Legal Links
Fair Use Doctrine:
https://pitt.libguides.com/copyright/fairuse#:~:text=The%20doctrine%20of%20Fair%20Use,teaching%2C%20scholarship%2C%20and%20research.
First Sale Doctrine:
https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-1854-copyright-infringement-first-sale-doctrine#:~:text=The%20first%20sale%20doctrine%2C%20codified,interests%20of%20the%20copyright%20owner
Moral Rights:
https://www.copyright.gov/policy/moralrights/
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf
Visual Artists Rights Act
http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/martin/art_law/esworthy.htm
Miscellaneous Links
Banksy
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/banksy-nft-injective-destroy-art-digital-token/
Fractionalized NFTs
https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/sec-crypto-mom-hester-peirce-selling-nft-fragments-illegal-2021-3-1030250153
Dapper Labs License
https://medium.com/dapperlabs/nft-license-2-0-why-a-nft-can-do-what-mickey-mouse-never-could-27673d5f29aa
TechnoLlama Blog
https://www.technollama.co.uk/can-copyright-teach-us-anything-about-nfts
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Emin Gun Sirer is a Cornell University computer science professor who has been deeply involved in the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities from the very early days. We talk about how he got started in the field, building a cryptocurrency long before Bitcoin. Gun, as friends call him, then turned his attention to Ethereum, notably catching the bug in The DAO, but failing to alert the community about it.
After years scrutinizing existing blockchains, he’s back at making one himself with AVA, whose testnet launched two weeks ago. He explains the inner workings of this network, the first built over the Avalanche protocol, and how it can process several thousands of transactions per second at latencies of under one second.
He also talks about his plans to release a subnetwork called Athereum shortly after the AVA mainnet launches in July. Athereum will be almost identical to Ethereum; it will replicate its smart contracts and assets, and ETH holders will hold the equivalent amount of ATH. Sirer says the intention is for Athereum to serve as a safety net in case something goes wrong with ETH 2.0. If this sounds like Ethereum’s old friend wants to bring on some serious competition to the second-biggest chain, that’s because he is. Still, he’s quick to highlight he wants Ethereum to succeed and that he’s not after Ethereum dollars, but rather after money flows that are outside of Ethereum.
Cornell University computer science professor Emin Gun Sirer, an influential figure in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space, describes his ideas for improving security in the space, his skepticism about how to scale these networks, and how the last time financial institutions invested in their systems appears to be for Y2K. He also tells us how growing up in an environment where he saw a lot of scams helps him find problems in code, explains why Bitcoin is the “universal bug bounty,” and reveals how two high school students saved burgeoning cryptocurrency network Ethereum “like in the movies — just before the clock was going to expire.”
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