E121: Arbitrum Creator: Ethereum’s Future is Brighter than Ever

When Shift Happens Podcast

Steven Goldfeder, creator of Arbitrum and CEO of Off Chain Labs, reveals the unexpected journey from academia to building one of crypto's most successful Layer 2 solutions.

Arbitrum has become Ethereum's leading scaling solution with billions in TVL.

In this episode:

• How early "failures" shaped Steven's career trajectory.

• Why Ethereum needs Arbitrum and other layer 2 scaling solutions

• How Arbitrum established itself as a leader

.• The critical UX challenges the Arbitrum ecosystem must overcome

• Why interoperability is 90% a UX problem and how Arbitrum will help solve it by 2025& more!

PARTNERS

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🌱 Bitwise Asset Management is the crypto specialist asset manager with more than $10 billion client assets and more than 30 crypto solutions across ETFs, index funds, alpha strategies, staking, and more.https://bitwiseinvestments.com/

💧Sui is a first-of-its-kind Layer 1 blockchain and smart contract platform designed to make digital asset ownership fast, private, secure, and accessible.https://sui.io/

🔘 Mantle Network enhances dApp development with Ethereum's security, low fees, and quick transactions through innovative layer-2 technology. Users can stake ETH for mETH, contributing to a transparent, community-driven ecosystem governed by $MNT token holders, fostering innovation and collaboration.https://www.mantle.xyz

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DISCLAIMER

The info contained herein is for informational purposes only. Nothing herein shall be construed to be financial, legal, or tax advice.

The content of this video is solely the opinions of the speakers who are not a licensed financial advisor or registered investment advisor. Trading cryptocurrencies poses considerable risk of loss.

The speakers do not guarantee any particular outcome.

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0:00 Introduction

1:59 Partnerships

2:48 Staying Locked-In

4:08 From Researcher To CEO

5:30 How Steven Started In Crypto

7:20 The Birth of Arbitrum

10:56 Avoiding Founder Conflicts

12:19 Cost to Kill Bitcoin

12:54 Self Custody with Trezor

13:47 Who is Steven Goldfeder?

15:15 First Google Internship Story

16:10 Failures That Built Me

20:38 PhD in Cryptography

22:28 What Are MPCs?

27:26 How MPC Secures Crypto

32:07 Why Write a Book

34:53 Discovering Bitcoin

36:57 Ethereum Explained for Kids

39:33 What Ethereum Success Looks Like

43:17 CryptoKitties & ETH Communities

44:41 Going All in on Arbitrum

48:39 Challenging The Status Quo Of Tech

53:49 What is a Layer 2?

21:00:48 Solana’s Biggest Problems

1:05:11 “Ethereum Doesn’t Work” Debate

1:09:06 Fragmentation Across Chains

1:11:59 Wallet UX Phantom vs Metamask

1:17:37 Arbitrum vs Other L2s

1:23:06 Becoming The Layer 2 Leader

1:26:11 Getting Robinhood on Arbitrum

1:28:03 Best Players in L2 Space

1:29:45 Defining Arbitrum’s Success

1:31:43 Non-Consensus Beliefs

1:32:53 Concluding Remarks