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Content agenda for Permissionless is LIVE

Day 1
- AVS / Restaking
- Bitcoin Renaissance
- Solana
- Investooor

Day 2
- Crypto x AI
- Institutional
- Modular Expansion
- Agg Day

Day 3
- L2s / Rollups
- Infrastructure
- DeFi
- Consumer

Hit the site to see speaker and session details.
LETS GOOOOO

October 11th @ Permissionless
Picked up some goodies
Permissionless themes are locked in.

- US Election and Policy
- Consumer
- Restaking and L2s
- Modularity
- AI x Crypto
- Bitcoin Renaissance

If you fit one of these buckets, holler.
mfers stay winning
Today we ask "why are you building onchain"

Tomorrow we will ask "why aren't you building onchain"

Crypto unlocks global users, incentives at scale, and global payments.

Soon it'll seem crazy not to leverage this system.
Update: added founders from solana, aptos, helium, pudgy penguins, securitize, hyperlane, gnosis, babylon, fuel, zeta, taproot wizards, ellipsis, anoma, etherfi, espresso, uma, gauntlet, espresso, helius, infinex, and more.

Easily the best founder lineup we've ever had.

Oct 9-11 - lock it in
Ether ICO launched 10 years ago today.

Happy birthday ETH, and thank you to everyone who has ever worked on this beautiful network.

Amazing how much has happened in just one decade.
Selkis coming on the pod tomorrow, should be a fun one

Drop questions below

@twobitidiot

[nothing is off limits]
If you play poker and like crypto and live in nyc, I got something for you

DM me
I’m 95% sure we’re going to build an entire consumer track at permissionless.

If @blockworks can help move the conversation from infra to apps even slightly, that’s a win.

Assuming we build this, who should we invite?

[founders and investors but bias towards founders]
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news

But we're increasing prices tonight at midnight

Buy today and save $300

blockworks.com/permissionless
Probably the best founder lineup we've ever had for a conference.

4 months out and have confirms from founders of eigenlayer, monad, optimism, sui, opensea, arbitrum, zksync, celestia, layerzero, jito, stacks, aave, osmosis, frax, akash, synthetix, compound, and soo many more.

Who are we missing?

[founders only]
We got these gorgeous pickleball courts for permissionless.

I think a protocol v protocol tourny is a must.

- optimism v arbitrum
- paradigm v a16z
- solana v avalanche
- polygon v zksync
- wormhole v layerzero
- chainlink v pyth
- render v akash
- aave v morpho
- lens v farcaster
- who else?

Would be epic.
Thanks to everyone who gave us feedback on the UI/UX of our opinion pieces.

1) The "Op-Ed" section is now the "Opinion" section

2) There is now a red "Opinion" label

Small updates but should help as we publish more controversial pieces.
Empire meetup tonight, things are escalating
The Coinbase x Base x USDC flywheel is accelerating.

More than $20 billion USDC transferred on Base in April alone, up from $3.5 billion in February.

Source: @blockworksres
Let's gooo

Novogratz has entered the chat. Lineup getting better by the day.
Empire listeners

@santiagoroel and I are hosting a meetup at the @blockworks NYC office this Thursday 6-8pm.

Come hang.

https://www.universe.com/events/empire-meetup-may-9-tickets-7LQ512
This pod with @kylesamani and @santiagoroel is now live on Empire.

We covered why MEV is the only metric that matters, how to value crypto assets, and how to think about the cost of airdrops. Great chat.
Tried sending a wire.

Bank #1 is down.

Bank #2 flagged the wire as an AML concern, I'm currently on an hour long call convincing them that I should be allowed to send the wire.

Insanity, crypto truly does solve this.
Stripe supports crypto again!

John Collison: “Crypto is finding real utility. With txn speeds increasing and costs coming down, we’re seeing crypto finally making sense as a means of exchange.”

Big step forward for crypto x payments.
https://blockworks.co/news/stripe-to-bring-back-crypto-payments
Recording pod today about

1) How to value an L1/L2
2) Should we treat issuance as an expense

With @kylesamani and @santiagoroel

Drops tomorrow on Empire.
It should be illegal to put out this much godtier free content in one day