The gwart show

Through conversations with crypto’s brightest lights, Gwart embarks on a one-man crusade to find the real value of cryptocurrency. Once weekly episodes with guests. Hosted by @gwartygwart.

Meet the Host

Gwart

Pseudonymous, Gwart is a crypto-Twitter troll and thinkboi seeking answers to non-existent problems in blockchains. Follow along for the most colorful conversations in crypto.

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Episodes

1 Year After Leaving Ethereum For Solana

Max Resnick discusses his transition from Ethereum to Solana, the intricacies of MCP for solving MEV, and the rise of prop AMMs like Humidify. He dives into on-chain market structure, censorship resistance, and competing with Hyperliquid.

Jan 10, 2026

Getting To The Bottom Of Quantum w/ Rearden

Bitcoin developer Brandon Black (ReardenCode) analyzes the reality of the quantum computing threat to Bitcoin.

Dec 28, 2025

How Lighter ate away Hyperliquid’s moat

Vladimir Novakovski joins us to discuss Lighter’s rapid rise as a top DEX. We cover the zero-fee model, ZK technology for verification, and the surge in on-chain Forex volume. Vlad also shares roadmap alpha on options, fixed income, and upcoming tokenomics.

Dec 21, 2025

The Hidden Cost of Zero-Fee DEX’s

Ruslan from Extended Perp Exchange discusses building a unified margin perp exchange, the verifiability of DEXs, the zero-fee debate, attracting users and liquidity, cross-asset collateral, their roadmap, and the future of the perp DEX market.

Dec 14, 2025

Zcash Resurgence, Privacy, and Quantum w/ Zcash cofounder Ian Miers

Ian Miers, Zcash co-founder & cryptographer, discusses zero-knowledge proofs, crypto privacy, identity solutions, quantum computing threats, and why blockchain transparency is fundamentally broken for payments.

Nov 29, 2025

Launching Monad

Monad's Keone and Kevin discuss November 24 launch, why they spent years building infrastructure, the Momentum grants program focused on user acquisition metrics over TVL, and navigating crypto Twitter's short attention spans.

Nov 23, 2025

The Perpification of Everything

Kaledora Linn, Co-Founder of Ostium, discusses bringing traditional finance assets onchain through perpetuals instead of tokenization. Learn why perps are more capital-efficient and better suited for traders who want exposure to stocks, commodities, and FX from their crypto wallets.

Nov 12, 2025

Restaking’s Killer App w/ DeFi Dave

DeFi Dave explains Cap, a stablecoin protocol using restaking to protect users while operators access capital. Market makers get undercollateralized loans backed by restaked ETH/BTC. If operators fail, risk takers get slashed—not users. Plus: lore building & why restaking finally found PMF.

Nov 02, 2025

Circle’s Bet On The Future Of Money

Gordon Liao from Circle discusses USDC's $50B market cap, stablecoin adoption, regulatory challenges, IPO plans, and how blockchain-based payments are transforming global finance through faster, cheaper cross-border transactions.

Oct 26, 2025