Dan Romero is a co-founder of Farcaster and Jesse Pollak is the leader behind Base. We talk frames, the power of distribution networks, contextualizing onchain activity, and why everything might one day be a Farcaster client. - - Follow Dan: https://twitter.com/dwr Follow Jesse: https://twitter.com/jessepollak Follow C

Jesse is a co-founder and GP at Variant. We talk why building onchain is more like building hardware than software, decoupling governance and ownership, outsourcing decisions to the market using modular system design, and why consensual hierarchy may be a better way to run decentralized organizations. - - This episode

Jill is a co-founder of Espresso Systems. On this episode, we do an accessible deep dive into what happens after you submit a transaction. Jill explains the memepool, MEV, sequencers, different types of L2s, and more. - - This episode is sponsored by Forefront ‒ a community and media network for the explorers, builders

Chase Chapman and David Phelps join us to discuss what crypto governance gets wrong. This is the most fun conversation we've had on Lightspeed yet! We cover how to make people care about governance, what's holding crypto back, the importance of onchain identity, where Balaji's network state falls short, why you can't L

Kevin is a co-founder of Gitcoin. We talk about his book Stuff Crypto OGs Know, how to think about values trade-offs, whether crypto will ever move beyond financial use cases, accepting the reality of credibly neutral protocols, and Kevin's take on the controversy behind Gitcoin's latest funding round. -- This episode

Kain Warwick is the founder of Synthetix. Kain talks pivoting within crypto, building conviction, using bull markets to test assumptions, why we need better UX in crypto, and why centralization isn't always a bad thing. - - Follow Kain: https://twitter.com/kaiynne Follow Chase: https://twitter.com/chaserchapman Follow