Bring back Tone Weiss: what is Blast, a threat to CZ, neurowomen 👾🧍♀️
“Bring Back Tone Weiss” is a news podcast with the editors and friends of ForkLog about the main industry events of the week.
Topics of the issue: the hype around the Blast project, pressure on cryptomixers in the USA, the scandal over fake profiles at the DevTernity conference, the threat of imprisonment for Changpeng Zhao.
Participants: Lena Jess, Vasily Smirnov.
Special guest: Regional Director of the CommEX crypto exchange in Russia and the CIS Anton Toroptsev.
Hype around Blast
Recently, the Blast project, an Ethereum-based L2 solution that promises native returns in Ethereum and stablecoins, has attracted a lot of attention from investors and users. The founder of the project is the creator of the NFT marketplace Blur under the pseudonym Pacman.
Blast promises returns of 4% for Ethereum and 5% for stablecoins. Although its mainnet is planned to launch only in February 2024, the TVL of the protocol has exceeded $660 million.
