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A new R&D lab called Ethlabs has split from the Ethereum Foundation, backed by Bitmine and Joe Lubin. Its first stated goal is solving a ’15 minute finality problem’ that none of the hosts can quite explain the point of.

Kain Warwick, Taylor Monahan, and Luca Netz ask whether a breakaway staffed largely by ex-EF people can really escape the EF’s habits, or just rebuild a smaller version of them.

Then the conversation turns to fomo’s $75M raise from non-crypto VCs, and why a trading app that never calls itself a wallet may have cracked the onboarding flow the rest of crypto keeps getting wrong.

The hosts also trace a CryptoPunks judge ordering a self-represented plaintiff to handwrite filings to stop the AI slop, the anti-MEV activist who trapped sandwich bot jaredfromsubway.eth with 66 fake contracts, and the WSJ’s claim that Polymarket paid creators to stage fake winning bets.

Hosts:

    • Kain Warwick, Host of Uneasy Money and Founder of Infinex and Synthetix
    • Taylor Monahan, Co-host of Uneasy Money and Security Expert
    • Luca Netz, Co-host of Uneasy Money and CEO of Pudgy Penguins / Igloo Inc