Will Villanueva's guest appearances

Will Villanueva

Into the Ether

Bankless

Mariano Conti

Ryan Selkis

Kevin Owocki

John McAfee

Cyrus Younessi

Ameen Soleimani

Virgil Griffith

Austin Griffith

Justin Drake

Joseph Lubin

Hudson Jameson

Rune Christensen

Kain Warwick

Danny Ryan

Kevin O'Leary

OwlTail

Element Finance is an open-source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets. Yield markets you say? Like the incoming Trillion-dollar ETH Staking yield market?  Come learn about how Element is putting a financial layer on top of Ethereum staking, and the other cool new inventions that the Element team has for the DAO space.  ------  CONSENSYS | M·A·C: NFT Collection for a Good Cause https://bankless.cc/MAC  ------  SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER:          https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/    ️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST:                 http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS:  ️ ARBITRUM | SCALED ETHEREUM https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum   ACROSS | BRIDGE TO LAYER 2 https://bankless.cc/Across   ALTO IRA | TAX-FREE CRYPTO https://bankless.cc/AltoIRA   AAVE V3 | LEND &amp; BORROW CRYPTO https://bankless.cc/aave  ️ MAKER DAO | THE DAI STABLECOIN  https://bankless.cc/MakerDAO    BRAVE | THE BROWSER NATIVE WALLET https://bankless.cc/Brave  ------ Guests:  Will Villanueva  - CEO of Element, previous worked at Consensys doing research on Ethereum  Sharding Jonny Rhea  - CTO of Element, previously worked at Consensys working on an Ethereum client.  ----- Topics Covered: 0:00 Intro 8:30 What is Element? 13:37 The ELFI Airdrop 19:05 The zk Claim Process 25:48 Non-Transferable 29:20 NFTs &amp; DAO Governance 35:57 Council Governance 41:14 Voting Vaults 49:58 Maximally Expressive Governance 53:55 ETH Staking Yield 1:01:06 Protocol Security 1:07:50 Bullish PoS Merge 1:15:10 What's Next for Element? 1:18:22 Closing &amp; Disclaimers ------ Resources: DAO Launch Announcement:   https://mirror.xyz/0x3fcAf7DDf64E6e109B1e2A5CC17875D4a5993F39/bctuLRkf7oBL4mMJ9lPf0y0blFjBDslTUfUL0CEk1gc  Guide to Element:   https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/a-guide-to-fixed-income-on-element?s=w  Yield Token Compounding:  https://ytc.component.fi/ytc?base_token=0xA0b86991c6218b36c1d19D4a2e9Eb0cE3606eB48  Previous Bankless show with Element https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF5O1rPbsm4  ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/bankless-disclosures 

Element Finance is an open-source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets. Yield markets you say? Like the incoming Trillion-dollar ETH Staking yield market?  Come learn about how Element is putting a financial layer on top of Ethereum staking, and the other cool new inventions that the Element team has for the DAO space.  ------  CONSENSYS | M·A·C: NFT Collection for a Good Cause <a href="https://bankless.cc/MAC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bankless.cc/MAC</a> ------  SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER:          <a href="https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ </a>  ️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST:                 <a href="http://podcast.banklesshq.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://podcast.banklesshq.com/</a> ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS:  ️ ARBITRUM | SCALED ETHEREUM <a href="https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum</a>  ACROSS | BRIDGE TO LAYER 2 <a href="https://bankless.cc/Across" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bankless.cc/Across</a>  ALTO IRA | TAX-FREE CRYPTO <a href="https://bankless.cc/AltoIRA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bankless.cc/AltoIRA</a>  AAVE V3 | LEND &amp; BORROW CRYPTO <a href="https://bankless.cc/aave" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bankless.cc/aave</a> ️ MAKER DAO | THE DAI STABLECOIN  <a href="https://bankless.cc/MakerDAO" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bankless.cc/MakerDAO </a>  BRAVE | THE BROWSER NATIVE WALLET <a href="https://bankless.cc/Brave" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bankless.cc/Brave</a> ------ Guests:  Will Villanueva  - CEO of Element, previous worked at Consensys doing research on Ethereum  Sharding Jonny Rhea  - CTO of Element, previously worked at Consensys working on an Ethereum client.  ----- Topics Covered: 0:00 Intro 8:30 What is Element? 13:37 The ELFI Airdrop 19:05 The zk Claim Process 25:48 Non-Transferable 29:20 NFTs &amp; DAO Governance 35:57 Council Governance 41:14 Voting Vaults 49:58 Maximally Expressive Governance 53:55 ETH Staking Yield 1:01:06 Protocol Security 1:07:50 Bullish PoS Merge 1:15:10 What's Next for Element? 1:18:22 Closing &amp; Disclaimers ------ Resources: DAO Launch Announcement:  <a href="https://mirror.xyz/0x3fcAf7DDf64E6e109B1e2A5CC17875D4a5993F39/bctuLRkf7oBL4mMJ9lPf0y0blFjBDslTUfUL0CEk1gc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://mirror.xyz/0x3fcAf7DDf64E6e109B1e2A5CC17875D4a5993F39/bctuLRkf7oBL4mMJ9lPf0y0blFjBDslTUfUL0CEk1gc</a> Guide to Element:  <a href="https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/a-guide-to-fixed-income-on-element?s=w" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/a-guide-to-fixed-income-on-element?s=w</a> Yield Token Compounding: <a href="https://ytc.component.fi/ytc?base_token=0xA0b86991c6218b36c1d19D4a2e9Eb0cE3606eB48" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://ytc.component.fi/ytc?base_token=0xA0b86991c6218b36c1d19D4a2e9Eb0cE3606eB48</a> Previous Bankless show with Element <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF5O1rPbsm4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF5O1rPbsm4</a> ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: <a href="https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/bankless-disclosures" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/bankless-disclosures</a>

The Element Airdrop & DAO Launch | Will Villanueva & Jonny Rhea

Preston Van Loon

Both Preston Van Loon of Cryptex and Will Willanueva of Element Finance have helped build the Ethereum Protocol, but are now both working on DeFi apps. In this State of the Nation, we dive into what it's like for Ethereum Devs building DeFi. State of the Nations are Livestreamed on Tuesdays at 11am PST. ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/   🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/   🎖 CLAIM YOUR BADGE:  https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/-guide-2-using-the-bankless-badge   ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 💰 GEMINI | FIAT &amp; CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://bankless.cc/go-gemini  🦊 METAMASK | DEFI PASSPORT https://bankless.cc/metamask  🦄 UNISWAP | DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE http://bankless.cc/uniswap  🔀 KWENTA | SYNTHETIC ASSET EXCHANGE https://bankless.cc/kwenta   ------ State of the Nation #42: Ethereum Devs Building DeFi Guests: Preston Van Loon &amp; Will Villanueva Tremendous work has been (and is still being) done to develop Ethereum 2, and just as much innovation is happening in Ethereum's app layer, DeFi. In this week's State of the Nation, we bring on guys who have done both: Preston Van Loon and Will Villanueva. Preston Van Loon is a former Google software engineer who switched to crypto full-time after Vitalik put 1000 ETH into Prysmatic Labs, which Preston founded. Prysmatic labs is now the most popular ETH 2 client. Preston is also the co-founder of a brand new DeFi app ‘Cryptex’, which is a collateralized synthetic asset that tracks the total market cap of all crypto-assets. Will Villanueva is a former team member of the Quilt team at Consensys and contributed to a mountain of R&amp;D on Ethereum sharding. Will is now the CEO of Element, which offers high yield fixed income for DeFi assets. Element works by breaking a single token into two different ones; a yield-bearing token, and a principle token. We brought both Will and Preston because their unique work histories of first helping build the Ethereum Protocol and now building DeFi apps. We discuss how their experiences have shaped their current projects, the trajectory of Ethereum and its app layer, and the timing of it all. "The Hardest Problems Draw the Smartest People." - Preston Van Loon ------ Resources: Cryptex: https://cryptex.finance/  Element Finance: https://element.fi/  Preston on Twitter: https://twitter.com/preston_vanloon?s=20  Will on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wjvill?s=20  ------ This Week on Bankless: ⚒️ How to Use dYdX (4/13:  https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/how-to-trade-on-the-dydx-rollup   📈 Market Monday (4/12): https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/coinbase-week-market-monday   🎙️Podcast w/ Hester Peirce (4/12): https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-the-sec-and-defi-hester-peirce   🧢 Weekly Action Recap (4/10):  https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/the-coinbase-tsunami-weekly-recap   🗞️ Weekly Rollup (4/9): https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-rollup-coinbase-ipo-fei-protocol  🏴 dYdX &amp; StarkWare (4/6):  https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/sotn-41-scaling-defi-with-dydx-and   ⚒️ How to Crypto Tax (4/6):  https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/how-to-do-crypto-taxes-for-the-lazy  ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/bankless-disclosures 

Both Preston Van Loon of Cryptex and Will Willanueva of Element Finance have helped build the Ethereum Protocol, but are now both working on DeFi apps. In this State of the Nation, we dive into what it's like for Ethereum Devs building DeFi. State of the Nations are Livestreamed on Tuesdays at 11am PST. ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: <a href="https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/</a>  🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: <a href="http://podcast.banklesshq.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://podcast.banklesshq.com/</a>  🎖 CLAIM YOUR BADGE: <a href="https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/-guide-2-using-the-bankless-badge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/-guide-2-using-the-bankless-badge</a>  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 💰 GEMINI | FIAT &amp; CRYPTO EXCHANGE <a href="https://bankless.cc/go-gemini" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bankless.cc/go-gemini</a> 🦊 METAMASK | DEFI PASSPORT <a href="https://bankless.cc/metamask" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bankless.cc/metamask</a> 🦄 UNISWAP | DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE <a href="http://bankless.cc/uniswap" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bankless.cc/uniswap</a> 🔀 KWENTA | SYNTHETIC ASSET EXCHANGE <a href="https://bankless.cc/kwenta" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bankless.cc/kwenta</a>  ------ State of the Nation #42: Ethereum Devs Building DeFi Guests: Preston Van Loon &amp; Will Villanueva Tremendous work has been (and is still being) done to develop Ethereum 2, and just as much innovation is happening in Ethereum's app layer, DeFi. In this week's State of the Nation, we bring on guys who have done both: Preston Van Loon and Will Villanueva. Preston Van Loon is a former Google software engineer who switched to crypto full-time after Vitalik put 1000 ETH into Prysmatic Labs, which Preston founded. Prysmatic labs is now the most popular ETH 2 client. Preston is also the co-founder of a brand new DeFi app ‘Cryptex’, which is a collateralized synthetic asset that tracks the total market cap of all crypto-assets. Will Villanueva is a former team member of the Quilt team at Consensys and contributed to a mountain of R&amp;D on Ethereum sharding. Will is now the CEO of Element, which offers high yield fixed income for DeFi assets. Element works by breaking a single token into two different ones; a yield-bearing token, and a principle token. We brought both Will and Preston because their unique work histories of first helping build the Ethereum Protocol and now building DeFi apps. We discuss how their experiences have shaped their current projects, the trajectory of Ethereum and its app layer, and the timing of it all. "The Hardest Problems Draw the Smartest People." - Preston Van Loon ------ Resources: Cryptex: <a href="https://cryptex.finance/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://cryptex.finance/</a> Element Finance: <a href="https://element.fi/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://element.fi/</a> Preston on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/preston_vanloon?s=20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/preston_vanloon?s=20</a> Will on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/wjvill?s=20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/wjvill?s=20</a> ------ This Week on Bankless: ⚒️ How to Use dYdX (4/13: <a href="https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/how-to-trade-on-the-dydx-rollup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/how-to-trade-on-the-dydx-rollup</a>  📈 Market Monday (4/12): <a href="https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/coinbase-week-market-monday" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/coinbase-week-market-monday</a>  🎙️Podcast w/ Hester Peirce (4/12): <a href="https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-the-sec-and-defi-hester-peirce" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-the-sec-and-defi-hester-peirce</a>  🧢 Weekly Action Recap (4/10): <a href="https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/the-coinbase-tsunami-weekly-recap" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/the-coinbase-tsunami-weekly-recap</a>  🗞️ Weekly Rollup (4/9): <a href="https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-rollup-coinbase-ipo-fei-protocol" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-rollup-coinbase-ipo-fei-protocol</a> 🏴 dYdX &amp; StarkWare (4/6): <a href="https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/sotn-41-scaling-defi-with-dydx-and" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/sotn-41-scaling-defi-with-dydx-and</a>  ⚒️ How to Crypto Tax (4/6): <a href="https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/how-to-do-crypto-taxes-for-the-lazy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/how-to-do-crypto-taxes-for-the-lazy</a> ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: <a href="https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/bankless-disclosures" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/bankless-disclosures</a>

SotN #42: Ethereum Devs Building DeFi | Preston Van Loon and Will Villanueva

Will Villanueva, currently working on research and development for Ethereum 2.0 Phase 2 at ConsenSys, as part of the Quilt team, joins the podcast. Will explains what the Quilt team has been up to and discusses the progress in research and development around Ethereum 2.0. He does a great job at breaking down complex and important concepts such as cross-shard communication, execution environments, stateless clients and much more. For anyone curious about the progress of Ethereum 2.0, this is a must listen.  Will’s latest blog post can be found  here.  Support our show by donating funds to ethhub.eth!  Buy EthHub Merch  Get on the email list at ethhub.substack.com

Will Villanueva, currently working on research and development for Ethereum 2.0 Phase 2 at ConsenSys, as part of the Quilt team, joins the podcast. Will explains what the Quilt team has been up to and discusses the progress in research and development around Ethereum 2.0. He does a great job at breaking down complex and important concepts such as cross-shard communication, execution environments, stateless clients and much more. For anyone curious about the progress of Ethereum 2.0, this is a must listen. Will’s latest blog post can be found <a href="https://medium.com/@william.j.villanueva/ethereum-2-0-phase-2-progress-7673b57eabff" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> here</a>. Support our show by donating funds to ethhub.eth! <a href="https://shop.ethhub.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy EthHub Merch</a> Get on the email list at <a href="https://ethhub.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ethhub.substack.com</a>

Will Villanueva: Ethereum 2.0 Phase 2 Deep Dive