In this week’s podcast, Dylan Kawalec, Head of Developer Relations at Goat Network, discusses the Goat Founders Club, which is a new initiative aimed at empowering developers and entrepreneurs to build on the Bitcoin Layer 2 ecosystem.

Adeniyi Abiodun is the co-founder of Mysten Labs and a major contributor to the Sui blockchain.

John Avlon is a congressional candidate for New York, advocating for bipartisan support of emerging technologies like cryptocurrency.

Maud Bannwart, the Chief Operating Officer of Alephium, highlights the company's unique approach to blockchain scalability, using sharding on a UTXO model to improve user experience and efficiency.

Jack Booth is the co-founder of TON Society, a grassroots initiative driving community engagement in the Ton blockchain ecosystem, closely integrated with the Telegram messaging app.

Paul Frambot, co-founder and CEO of Morpho Labs, explains how Morpho is a decentralized and permissionless lending protocol that allows users to create customized lending and borrowing pools.

Joe Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and Consensys, explores the evolution of blockchain technology and the expanding role of the Ethereum ecosystem in this episode.

Kendall Cole, co-founder of Proximity Labs, joins The Defiant to discuss Near Protocol's focus on enhancing user and developer experiences through innovations like chain abstraction and chain signatures.

Alex Cutler, Co-Founder of Aerodrome, shares the story behind Aerodrome, a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on Base, an Ethereum Layer 2 ecosystem.