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Messari's Unqualified OpinionsSolana Year in Review | Ryan Watkins, Wilson Withiam, Kinji Steimetz | Messari Annual Theses 2025Read Messari's Annual Crypto Theses for FREE!: https://messari.io/report/the-crypto-theses-2025
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00:00 Intro & How Investors Think About L1 Valuations
09:16 Solana's Year in Review
17:55 Memecoins
24:17 Competitors to Solana
34:14 Solana Predictions for 2025
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LightspeedSolana Thesis: The Fastest Horse Rises From the Ashes | Ryan Watkins, Wilson WithiamRyan Watkins and Wilson Withiam join us to discuss their Solana thesis and how crypto has just entered its next phase of adoption. Ryan is the founder of Syncracy Capital (a crypto hedge fund), and Wilson is their Head of Research. In this episode, we discuss the Bitcoin spot ETF, the Ethereum and LDO thesis, the MakerDAO opportunity, the Solana thesis, investing in SOL vs Solana applications, the DA Layer wars and more!- -Timestamps(00:00) Introduction(01:16) The Bitcoin ETF Approval(05:04) The Ethereum...2024-01-161h 10
Citizen Web3Messari, decentralization and research with Wilson Withiam
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Wilson Withiam, senior research analyst at Messari, one of the largest research firms in the crypto space.
Messari bring transparency to the crypto space by providing an insightful and in depth analytics tools. Their aim is to help investors, regulators, and the public to make sense of this revolutionary new asset class. Messari are building data tools that will drive informed decision-making and investment.
We spoke to Wilson about Messari and:
Favorite analytical resources for crypto
The importance of crypto communities
The philosophy of finance
Decentralization and...2021-06-1452 min
BanklessSotN#25 - Road to Ethereum 2.0 w/ Ryan Watkin & Wilson Withiam of MessariGet the report: https://messari.io/road-to-eth2 ----- 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ✊ STARTING GUIDE BANKLESS: https://bit.ly/37Q17uI❤️ JOIN PRIVATE DISCORD: https://bit.ly/2UVI10O🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ 👕 BUY BANKLESS TEE: https://merch.banklesshq.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 🚀 ZERION - INVEST IN DEFI FROM ONE PLACE (download it now!)https://bankless.cc/zerion 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDShttps://bankless.cc/monolith 2020-12-021h 51
BanklessSotN#25 - Road to Ethereum 2.0 w/ Ryan Watkin & Wilson Withiam of MessariGet the report: https://messari.io/road-to-eth2 ----- 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ✊ STARTING GUIDE BANKLESS: https://bit.ly/37Q17uI❤️ JOIN PRIVATE DISCORD: https://bit.ly/2UVI10O🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ 👕 BUY BANKLESS TEE: https://merch.banklesshq.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 🚀 ZERION - INVEST IN DEFI FROM ONE PLACE (download it now!)https://bankless.cc/zerion 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDShttps://bankless.cc/monolith 2020-12-021h 51
UnchainedEthereum 2.0: What You Need to KnowRyan Watkins and Wilson Withiam, senior research analysts at Messari, explain the nuts and bolts of Ethereum 2.0, including how it will transform ETH as an asset and why they believe it will be Ethereum’s most ambitious upgrade yet. Topics include: the different phases of Ethereum 2.0 and the functions they serve the problems Ethereum hopes to solve with this upgrade the technical requirements needed to ensure the launch can happen the new proof of stake consensus and why Ethereum is leaving proof of work behind the requirements necessary to maintain a validator node on the Ethereum 2.0 network why us...2020-12-011h 13UnchainedEthereum 2.0: What You Need to KnowRyan Watkins and Wilson Withiam, senior research analysts at Messari, explain the nuts and bolts of Ethereum 2.0, including how it will transform ETH as an asset and why they believe it will be Ethereum’s most ambitious upgrade yet. Topics include: the different phases of Ethereum 2.0 and the functions they serve the problems Ethereum hopes to solve with this upgrade the technical requirements needed to ensure the launch can happen the new proof of stake consensus and why Ethereum is leaving proof of work behind the requirements necessary to maintain a validator node on the Ethereum 2.0 network why us...2020-12-011h 13