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September 12, 2024 64 mins

Today Jason is joined by MegaETH's Co-Founder, Shuyao Kong to discuss:

* The L1 Endgame

* Compatibility tradeoffs

* Increased throughput tradeoffs: TPS

* Centralized risks

* Competing with Solana

* Ethereum’s L2 ethos

* MegaETH's Developer-acquisition strategy

* Blockchain community/culture creation

* L1’s opportunity to outcompete Solana

* And much more!

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(03:58) L1 Endgame

(09:00) L1 investing metrics

(13:10) Compatibility tradeoffs

(15:48) Increased throughput tradeoffs: TPS

(21:45) Centralized risks

(25:01) Full nodes

(31:08) Competing with Solana

(34:39) Ethereum’s L2 ethos

(39:29) Sui MOVE language

(41:52) MegaETH: Developer-acquisition strategy

(47:47) AWS with blockchain scaffolding

(50:26) Blockchain community/culture creation

(58:34) L1’s opportunity to outcompete Solana

(1:03:11) Outro

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Partner message:

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Find out more at https://aptosfoundation.org/

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Jason Choi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi

Shuyao Kong's Twitter: https://x.com/hotpot_dao

Sanat Kapur's Twitter: https://x.com/kapursanat

MegaETH's Twitter: https://x.com/megaeth_labs

MegaETH's website: https://megaeth.systems/

Blockcrunch Twitter: https://twitter.com/theBlockcrunch

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