Indexed Podcast

Today we’re joined by Bitwise Co-Founder & CTO, Hong Kim to discuss how Bitwise has built the world's largest crypto index fund and the future of crypto ETF's and institutional onboarding into crypto.

In this episode we discuss: 

• Bitwise metrics & early days 
• ETF’s brand/transparency importance 
• Crypto native branding ETFs
• Bitwise’s customer profile  
• Bitwise report
• What is a financial advisor?
• ETF performance: BTC vs ETH
• Wirehouse/financial advisors relationships
• Wealth transfers among demos
• BTC outperformance
• Bitcoin ETF BTC absorption risks
• ETH ETF staking/restaking

And much more—enjoy!

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Chapters:
(00:00) Introduction

(01:25) Bitwise metrics & early days 

(09:20) ETF’s brand/transparency importance 

(16:31) Crypto native branding ETFs

(20:39) Bitwise’s customer profile  

(24:39) Bitwise report

(29:43) What is a financial advisor?

(32:08) ETF performance: BTC vs ETH

(44:01) Wirehouse/financial advisors relationships

(47:26) Wealth transfers among demos

(48:43) BTC outperformance

(50:36) Bitcoin ETF BTC absorption risks

(59:52) ETH ETF staking/restaking

(1:03:53) Outro

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The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month - brought to you by wizards @hildobby_ @0xBoxer @sui414.

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DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Today we’re joined by Ethereum Researcher, Thomas Thiery AKA soispoke, to discuss censorship resistance.

In this episode we discuss: 

* What does ‘censorship resistance’ mean?

*  Why is ‘censorship resistance’ important?

* SMG’s transaction censorship report 

* Blob censorship concerns

* Inclusion lists

* EIP ETA

* What’s after Inclusion Lists?

* Development conflicts with censorship resistance 

* Ethereum Foundation next focuses 

* The future of Ethereum 

And much more—enjoy!

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Chapters:

(00:00) Introduction

(06:55) What does ‘censorship resistance’ mean?

(14:45) Why is ‘censorship resistance’ important?

(21:44) SMG’s transaction censorship report 

(31:40) Blob censorship concerns

(33:54) Chart crime

(41:06) Inclusion lists

(1:04:46) Defining inclusion 

(1:09:41) EIP ETA

(1:11:29) What’s after Inclusion Lists?

(1:12:38) Development conflicts with censorship resistance 

(1:15:34) Ethereum Foundation next focuses 

(1:18:43) The future of Ethereum 

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The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month - brought to you by wizards @hildobby @0xBoxer @sui414.

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DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Today we’re joined by Joseph Noorchashm, Founding Partner of Sorella Labs and Ludwig Thouvenin, Co-Founder of Sorella Labs. Today we're discussing MEV searcher profits!

In this episode the five of us discuss: 

• Why build MEV 
• Angstrom 
• Frequent Batch Auction 
• Brontes deep dive 
• Angstrom Dashboard demo 
• Bid adjustments
• Builder profits 
• Concentrated AMM’s 
• Potential limitations 
• Programmatic determinations 
• Exchange open price endpoints 
• Atomic arbs 
• Profit margin across MEV
• Observed data set trends  
• Angstrom UI 
• Wen launch? 
• DEX focus
• CEX/DEX volume hot takes 

And much more—enjoy!
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Chapters:
(00:00) Introduction 

(02:40) Why build MEV 

(04:21) Angstrom 

(09:52) Frequent Batch Auction 

(12:03) Brontes deep dive 

(16:53) Angstrom dashboard demo 

(28:53) bid adjustment  

(32:28) Builder profits 

(34:56) Brontes examples 

(43:39) Concentrated AMM’s 

(44:36) 1INCH example 

(53:07) Limitations 

(57:43) Programmatic determinations 

(1:01:34) Exchange open price endpoints 

(1:08:18) Atomic arbs 

(1:12:34) Profit margin across MEV

(1:19:24) Key findings/spicy takes

(1:27:07) Observed data set trends  

(1:35:40) Angstrom UI 

(1:38:53) Wen launch? 

(1:40:30) DEX focus

(1:42:25) CEX/DEX volume hot takes 

(1:45:18) Chart crime 

(1:52:13) Outro 

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The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month - brought to you by wizards @hildobby @0xBoxer @sui414.

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DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Today we’re joined by dataalways, Researcher @ Flashbots.

In this episode the four of us discuss: 
- Block building latency games 
- Block slots
- Winning bid arrivals 
- Relays 
- Ethereum’s 12 second deviation 
- L2’s centralized sequencers  
- MEV revenue incentives  

And much more—enjoy!
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Chapters:
(00:00) Introduction 
(04:30) Block building latency games 
(12:56) Block slots
(24:46) Winning bid arrivals 
(30:58) Rocket Pool 
(32:21) Relays 
(40:08) Winning bid arrival times 
(48:51) Missed head votes over proposers 
(54:00) Ethereum’s 12 second deviation 
(57:10) L2’s centralized sequencers  
(1:01:31) MEV revenue incentives  
(1:11:51) Gas fee/activity 
(1:15:45) Chart crime 
(1:20:20) Outro 
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The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month - brought to you by wizards @hildobby @0xBoxer @sui414.

Subscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!

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DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.