Quadrillions: Privacy or Perish | Eli Ben-Sasson, Shaul Kfir, & Eric Saraniecki
In this episode, we discuss why privacy is critical for TradFi adoption, crypto’s privacy solutions today, and how privacy unlocks institutional adoption of crypto, ultimately bringing quadrillions onchain.
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Quadrillions brings together the voices defining the next era of finance. From institutional rails to stablecoins and privacy, the series dives into how traditional markets, crypto innovation, and regulatory frameworks are converging to bring the full force of capital markets onchain.
Join hosts Jason Yanowitz, Yuval Rooz, and Eric Saraniecki for deep dives with special guests Shaul Kfir, Don Wilson, Mike Belshe, Justin Peterson, Acting Chair Caroline Pham, Eli Ben-Sasson, and more.
Produced by Blockworks and Canton Network. For more information, check out https://quadrillionspod.com/
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Introduction
(3:26) Defining Privacy In Crypto
(7:11) Why Doesn't Privacy Exist Onchain Yet?
(11:18) The Demand For Privacy
(14:12) Is Privacy a Feature or a Product?
(19:50) Can Privacy Be Bolted On?
(23:06) zkRollups Are Not Zero Knowledge
(31:12) Balancing Privacy With Regulatory Compliance
(34:04) Starkware's Userbase
(38:21) Privacy at the Application Layer
(41:08) Privacy vs Anonymity
(43:56) Crypto's Next Big Moment
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Disclaimer: “Quadrillions” is a mini-series produced by Blockworks, and is sponsored by Canton Network. Nothing on this show is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. It’s for informational purposes only, and the views expressed by anyone on the show are solely their opinions, not financial advice or necessarily the views of Blockworks.
Our hosts, guests, and the Blockworks team may hold positions in companies, funds, or projects discussed, including those related to Canton Network.
StarkWare Bets on Becoming Bitcoin's Execution Layer, Not on Attracting Corporate Chains
In this episode of The Defiant Podcast, we sit down with Eli Ben-Sasson, co-founder and CEO of StarkWare, to explore how StarkNet is revolutionizing blockchain scalability with ZK proofs. From Bitcoin staking to the creation of an "integrity web," Eli shares groundbreaking insights into the future of decentralized finance, Bitcoin's execution layer, and the role of StarkNet in shaping the blockchain ecosystem. Tune in to discover how StarkNet is leading the charge in decentralization, scalability, and innovation.
Chapters
00:00 – Introduction to Eli Ben-Sasson & StarkWare
00:24 – StarkNet’s mission: Scaling blockchain with ZK proofs
01:30 – StarkWare’s achievements: $8B valuation & global impact
03:22 – BTC Phi: Bitcoin staking & $100M incentive program
07:05 – How Bitcoin staking works on StarkNet
17:11 – StarkNet as Bitcoin’s execution layer: The vision
27:21 – Verifying Bitcoin headers in milliseconds: A breakthrough
41:02 – StarkNet’s role in the "integrity web"
49:51 – Why corporate chains won’t work in crypto
51:53 – Closing thoughts: Decentralization, scale, and the future
Bitcoin’s Next Chapter: StarkWare’s Vision for Staking, Scaling, and the Integrity Web
In this episode of The Defiant Podcast, we sit down with Eli Ben-Sasson, co-founder and CEO of StarkWare, to explore how StarkNet is revolutionizing blockchain scalability with ZK proofs. From Bitcoin staking to the creation of an "integrity web," Eli shares groundbreaking insights into the future of decentralized finance, Bitcoin's execution layer, and the role of StarkNet in shaping the blockchain ecosystem. Tune in to discover how StarkNet is leading the charge in decentralization, scalability, and innovation.Chapters00:00 – Introduction to Eli Ben-Sasson & StarkWare00:24 – StarkNet’s mission: Scaling blockchain with ZK proofs...
Is the Short Team Lockup for STRK ‘Misaligned’? No, Says Starkware CEO - Ep. 609
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Starknet made news this week for announcing what will be the largest initial airdrop by number of eligible addresses ever. But it faced heavy criticism online for many of the details of the airdrop, from the fact that Ethereum solo takers received almost 22% of the distribution to eligibility requirements that users held at least 0.005 ETH in their wallets as of Nov. 15, 2023 to the fact that the token generation event took place almost two years before the unlock date.
Starkware CEO Eli Ben-Sasson joined Unchained to respond to the multiple critiques of the airdrop and discuss why he and the Starknet Foundation decided on the details that they did.
Show highlights:
What the airdrop criteria was and why they decided to make it that way
Why they allocated so much $STRK to Ethereum solo stakers
Eli’s response to the criticism about how little Starknet network participants got in the airdrop
Why the STRK Token Generation Event (TGE) was done in 2022, only to be airdropped two years later
Why Eli believes that even if the unlock of tokens is in two months, it does not indicate misalignment of incentives
Whether Eli will sell his tokens when they become unvested
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Links
Recent coverage of Unchained on airdrops: Jupiter Founder Meow to Critics of JUP Airdrop: ‘Give Me a Break’
Unchained:
Starknet’s Airdrop Plan Sparks Some Praise but Also Outrage
Starknet’s First Token Distribution Will Be Available to Nearly 1.3 Million Addresses
The Defiant: Starknet Faces Backlash Over Airdrop and Team Unlocks
Loomdart’s tweet on the TGE
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Starknet Token Launch Is Here! ($STRK)
The Stark token is here! After waiting for almost 6 years we're thrilled to share that one of the earliest and most promising layer 2's has just released official details on their token, STRK.
They are provisioning it to users of Starknet, to stakers in the Ethereum ecosystem, open source developers and so many more. A total of 1.3 Million wallets are eligible to receive the $STRK token, are you one of them?
Joining us today is Starkware founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson, and Starknet CEO Diego Oliva who are here to walk us through all you need to know about the big launch.
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StarkWare Sessions #1 | The StarkNet Fathers Uri Kolodny & Eli Ben-Sasson
Sometimes, the frontier is at a crypto conference. We’re returning from our adventures in Tel Aviv with nine exclusive interviews with some of the key players in the StarkNet space.
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In this episode, we’re talking to Uri Kolodny and Eli Ben-Sasson, the co-founders of StarkWare and the fathers of the StarkNet ecosystem. We take a high-level overview of the emerging network state, and what we can expect from this community looking forward.
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0:00 Intro 5:00 A Network State 8:00 Starknet Governance 12:30 Technical Minds 15:30 Integrations 18:20 Use Cases 20:30 Looking Forward 23:20 Day in the Life 27:40 Friendship
----- Resources:
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StarkNet https://starkware.co/starknet/
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Starkware, L3s and the ZK Rollup Future | Eli Ben-Sasson, Uri Kolodny
In this episode of Empire, Jason and Santi are joined by Eli Ben-Sasson and Uri Kolodny to discuss Starkware and the ZK-rollup future. This episode is an absolute masterclass on scaling Ethereum using zero-knowledge proofs and a fractal architecture.
We discuss the limits of L1 scaling, ZK vs Optimistic rollups, native L2 programming languages, Layer 3 applications and much more!
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:32) The Limits of L1 Scaling
(05:30) Optimistic vs ZK Rollups
(14:40) Why ZK Rollups Lag Optimistic Rollups in TVL
(19:10) Advantages of the Cairo Programming Language
(26:57) L1 Apps Building for an L2 World
(30:01) Circle Ad
(31:43) dYdX’s Move From Starkware to Cosmos
(37:15) MEV, Bitcoin and Cairo 1.0 Adoption
(46:23) Layer 3 Scaling
(57:38) What Comes Next
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Resources
Vitalik's post on fractal scaling
https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/09/17/layer_3.html
Starkware
https://starkware.co/
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Starkware Founders: Ethereum Could Surpass Visa's Transaction Speeds Within Months
This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Uri Kolodny and Eli Ben-Sasson, the co-founders of Starkware, one of the leading Layer 2 scaling solutions for Ethereum.
Post Merge, Ethereum continues to rely on scaling solutions like Starkware and will continue to do so, according to the network’s long-term roadmap.
Visa processes 1700 transactions per second, and that number is often quoted as the Holy Grail for a blockchain to become a viable settlement layer for finance. They explain how that can be achieved with the help of Starkware.
In the early stages of building Starkware, Uri and Eli had decided not to launch a token. After two years of running Starkware and StarkNet being in alpha, is a STARK token on the horizon?
Currently, Starkware is solely used for scaling Ethereum. We talk about Uri and Eli’s plans to expand Starkware’s services to other Layer 1s.
Finally, we discuss the future of scaling solutions, decentralized applications, DeFi, NFTs, and more.
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EthCC #3 | "StarkWare isn't Leaving Ethereum" - Eli Ben-Sasson and Uri Kolodny
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With fantastic guests from all corners of the ecosystem, this 8-part series is an exploration of crypto culture and the current state of Ethereum.
In episode 3, we cover the recent announcement of the StarkWare token launch, the exploding zkEVM ecosystem, and the future of StarkWare.
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StarkWare: https://twitter.com/StarkWareLtd
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StarkWare founders talk through $100 million Series D fundraise, mass adoption
Fresh off the heels of a $50M Series C round last November, StarkWare Industries closed a $100M Series D round on Wednesday, giving the Israeli-based startup a valuation of $8 billion. The fundraise was led by Greenoaks Capital and Coatue, and included Tiger Global amongst others.
StarkWare aims to bring efficient, affordable blockchain transactions to the masses through its ZK-rollup technology, which addresses blockchain congestion by compressing multiple transactions into ‘STARK proofs’ that are then passed on to the underlying blockchain.
In this episode of The Scoop, StarkWare co-founders Eli Ben-Sasson and Uri Kolodny sit down with host Frank Chaparro to discuss what their firm has been building, and how their technology will allow blockchains to scale.
According to Kolodny, the trustless computational integrity enabled by StarkWare technology will be very useful to society:
“It delivers something that is dearly missing and dearly needed in modern societies and the way they’re doing their computation. That is something very simple: it is integrity — the ability to know that something was done the right way, even when you weren’t watching.”
Despite bearish sentiment across markets, StarkWare’s recent fundraise shows VCs are excited about the opportunities unlocked through StarkWare’s scaling technology, and are willing to continue providing the developer with capital.
StarkWare’s two products, StarkEx and StarkNet, both serve as Ethereum scaling solutions, with the former being "scaling as a service," while the latter is permissionless. StarkNet completed its launch earlier this year, allowing any developer to integrate the platform into their application.
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Episode 46 of Season 4 of The Scoop was recorded remotely with The Block’s Frank Chaparro and StarkWare Co-Founders Uri Kolodny and Eli Ben-Sasson.
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Super Scaling with StarkWare | Uri Kolodny & Eli Ben-Sasson
Ethereum is scaling. With a recent $50 million raise at a valuation of $2 billion, StarkWare is pioneering zkRollups across the Ethereum ecosystem. As it powers dYdX, arguably the most liquid market in the world, StarkWare is continuing to move into new territory, with StarkNet imminently deploying on Ethereum Mainnet.
The goal of StarkWare is simple: 'bring massive scalability to Ethereum while preserving L1 security, permissionless interactions, and decentralization.'
The ecosystem is growing at an astounding rate, so tune in as core members Uri Kolodny and Eli Ben-Sasson walk us through how StarkWare is bringing Super Scaling to Ethereum.
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Uri on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ukolodny?s=20
Eli on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EliBenSasson?s=20
StarkWare on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StarkWareLtd?s=20
StarkWare Discord: https://discord.gg/uJ9HZTUk2Y
StarkNet Alpha: https://medium.com/starkware/starknet-alpha-is-coming-to-mainnet-b825829eaf32
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Can dYdX Become a Decentralized BitMEX? How It Is Scaling With StarkWare - Ep.218
Antonio Juliano, founder of the decentralized exchange dYdX, and Eli Ben-Sasson, cofounder of StarkWare, discuss the recent launch of dYdX on Ethereum layer 2 using StarkWare’s scaling technology. In this episode, they cover:
what cross-margin perpetual trading is and why dYdX chose StarkWare to be its scaling partner (1:13)
ZK rollups and how they contrast with optimistic rollups (8:49)
how many transactions per second StarkWare can handle through its layer 2 solution (16:57)
lessons learned and critical takeaways from their six months spent working together (20:15)
the similarities between Ethereum and StarkNet (26:07)
why Antonio believes that scalability is more important than composability (27:30)
the benefits of decentralized exchanges and how dYdX fits into the dex marketplace (31:54)
why dYdX chose Chainlink as its oracle provider, and how it got oracle prices onto layer 2, which previously had none (38:11)
why Cairo, StarkWare’s Turing-complete programming language and platform, can be the “one verifier to rule them all” (42:10)
what it was like for StarkWare to compete in the Great Reddit Scaling Bake-Off (45:41)
whether or not DeFi could handle a GameStop/Robinhood situation (48:56)
fair launch tokens versus VC tokens (54:12)
the likelihood of dYdX and StarkWare each creating a token (58:19)
upcoming developments and projects for both companies (1:02:14)
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Episode Links:
Antonio Juliano
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntonioMJuliano
Eli Ben-Sasson
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EliBenSasson
dYdX
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dydxprotocol
Website: https://dydx.exchange/
Exchange: https://alpha.dydx.exchange/trade/BTC-USD
Reading Material
Recent funding: https://www.coindesk.com/big-guns-back-10m-investment-in-defis-dydx
2020 in review: https://dydx.exchange/2020.pdf
Decrypt profile: https://decrypt.co/resources/dydx-ethereum-margin-trading-platform-explained-learn
Medium post: https://medium.com/dydxderivatives/introducing-dydx-2d0f0f326fd
StarkWare
Twitter: https://twitter.com/StarkWareLtd
Website: https://starkware.co/
Reading Material:
ZK roll-up explainer: https://medium.com/starkware/on-the-road-to-starknet-a-permissionless-stark-powered-l2-zk-rollup-83be53640880
Understanding Cairo: https://medium.com/starkware/hello-cairo-3cb43b13b209
Funding: https://www.coindesk.com/paradigm-leads-30-million-funding-for-crypto-privacy-startup-starkware
dYdX and StarkWare Relationship
Original Twitter announcement (2020):
https://twitter.com/dydxprotocol/status/1295791012552597507?s=20
The Block’s original coverage:
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/75209/dex-dydx-starkware-layer-2
Layer 2 is live announcement:
https://twitter.com/dydxprotocol/status/1364591430447091719
Blog post on why dYdX is moving to Layer 2 (2021):
https://dydx.exchange/blog/alpha
CoinDesk’s coverage:
https://www.coindesk.com/defi-tech-cefi-speed-dydx-touts-new-starkware-integration
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