Videos
Onchain Oracles: Silver ATHs, What's Going On!?
Silver at $112/oz, gold at all-time highs. The team discusses what's driving the precious metals rally - central bank de-dollarization, China's strategic stockpiling, industrial demand from EVs and solar, and why tokenized metals offer better liquidity than traditional dealers. Plus a demo of STRATO Easy Savings.
Onchain Oracles: The Impact of AI on Cutting-Edge Research with Steve Hsu
Steve Hsu, theoretical physicist and AI startup founder, discusses his groundbreaking paper where GPT-5 proposed novel theoretical physics equations - the first published physics paper where the main idea came from an AI. Steve explains the generator-verifier pipeline architecture that dramatically improves AI output quality, and why most people have never seen the true capabilities of frontier models.
Onchain Oracles: End of Year Wrap Up and Easy Savings
Year-end crypto recap + STRATO Spotlight demo of Easy Savings (bridge in stables and auto-deposit to earn yield). The team reviews 2025’s biggest stories/surprises/disappointments, shares STRATO’s roadmap, announces a SILVST giveaway, and closes with 2026 predictions.
Onchain Oracles: The Future of NFTs with SuperRare's John Crain
Interview with John Crain, founder of SuperRare, on the future of NFTs and onchain provenance—covering curation vs. decentralization, token/DAO governance lessons, AI’s impact on art and authenticity, and why Bitcoin Ordinals/onchain data matter.
Recap of Devconnect ARG
Recap of the Ethereum Foundation’s Devconnect World Fair in Buenos Aires: conference format + logistics, city impressions, quantum/elliptic-curve security chatter, the renewed push for Ethereum privacy (including ‘privacy pools’ debates), agentic AI hype vs reality, and what the team thinks is actually coming next for ZK scaling and UX.
Privacy On-Chain and the Rise of ZCash?
ZCash is 1251% up in the last 3 months. Firo up 377%, Dash up 223%, Monero up 50%. It seems that privacy is the new meta-narrative. What on earth is happening? What changed?
Launch of Mercata V2: Vaulted Assets OnChain and App Walkthrough
The STRATO Mercata team celebrates the launch of V2 with a comprehensive walkthrough of the new platform. The team discusses how V2 makes DeFi accessible through a point-and-click interface while maintaining the benefits of decentralized finance.
Is Better Web3 UX the Key to Mainstream Adoption?
We are joined by a special guest - Brian Smocovich, Founder of PistachioFi and ex-colleague at BlockApps to discuss improving UX in the Web3 space
Are Corporate Chains Back?
The Tempo blockchain was announced in September 2025. It is an L1 payments chain backed by a consortium led by Stripe, and is leaching talent from the Ethereum ecosystem, with Dankrad Feist as the most recent example. Are permissioned corporate chains back?
Institutions Want Tokens - How is Ethereum Keeping Up?
We were joined by Redwan Meslem, the Executive Director of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, and talked about the history of the EEA and about the present institutional landscape.
State of Blockchain - More Boring or More Crazy
Bob and Kieren both attended TOKEN2049 in Singapore, a huge event. What was the vibe? Was it more boring (DATs) or more crazy (ICOs etc)?
Mercata V2 Contest: Winners Announced!
A week after the kickoff, the second Mercata V2 competition came to a close, and we announced the winners in this Spaces
Mercata V2 Contest Kickoff: Bridge, Trade, Triumph
In mid-September 2025 we announced and kicked off the second Mercata V2 competition, this time with a dual focus on trading and reporting vulnerabilities.