Uniswap's Unichain wants to unite all of Ethereum

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Today’s the Election Day for the US Presidential race. So to distract all of you from doom scrolling as we await the results, we’re sharing a very fun — and interesting — episode below. Hope you all enjoy!

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For this week’s Tuesday episode, I interviewed Hayden Adams, CEO of Uniswap Labs, and Hart Lambur, co-founder and CEO of Across.

Uniswap is probably best known for its DEX, which does billions and billions of dollars in monthly volume. But last month, Uniswap Labs announced it was launching Unichain, a new L2 chain built on the OP Stack.

Interoperability platform Across is going to work with Uniswap to help it deploy cross-chain swaps and be a bridging partner. In simple terms, it’s going to help people move crypto from one chain to another, in an easier way.

We had fun diving into the nuances of Ethereum, issues that still persist today when it comes to scaling the blockchain and what L2s, like Uniswap’s Unichain, are doing about it.

Hayden and Hart also do a great job of explaining in simpler terms how fragmentation and cross-chain operations across the Ethereum ecosystem need to be fixed.

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Money and people moves

Top 3 highlights focused on crypto startups that secured funding and industry players who are starting something new.

1. Mattie Fairchild joined Polygon as head of its Founders Community

2. Two Ethereum researchers, Dankrad Feist and Justin Drake, have resigned from advising Eigenlayer following complaints

3. Standard Chartered’s Crypto Custodian Zodia in Talks to Raise $50 Million Round (Bloomberg)

Talking points for the road

Lots of political-related headlines this week ahead of the US Presidential Election. So here’s some crypto-focused articles that caught my eye…and should catch yours, too.

1. Six experts on where Bitcoin’s price will land after the election (DL News)

2. Bitcoin Likely to Rally After the U.S. Election, Irrespective of Who Wins, History Shows: Van Straten (CoinDesk)

3. How to monitor what ‘smart money’ is doing in crypto on US Election Day (The Block)

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