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"Ethereum is About Six Months Away from Proof-of-Stake:" Preston Van Loon

"Ethereum is About Six Months Away from Proof-of-Stake:" Preston Van Loon

FromThe Defiant - DeFi Podcast


"Ethereum is About Six Months Away from Proof-of-Stake:" Preston Van Loon

FromThe Defiant - DeFi Podcast

ratings:
Length:
67 minutes
Released:
May 14, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In today’s episode, we interview Preston Van Loon. Preston co-founded Prysmatic Labs, one of the main teams building Ethereum 2.0, and has been leading that team for the past three years. On top of that, he recently founded a DeFi project which bundles the entire crypto market cap in one token to allow anyone to easily buy something like a crypto index. Preston talks about the latest in ETH2  —he says Etheruem’s big migration into its proof-of-stake chain is about six months away, give or take two months. He says Ethereum may be at a disadvantage relative to other Layer 1s, which are launching with more scalable technologies. But he also believes it will be hard for other chains to build the community Ethereum has, faster than Ethereum will upgrade.
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Released:
May 14, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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