Bankless: 12 Crypto Builders to Watch in 2024
Written by: David Hoffman, Co-Founder, Bankless
Compiled by: xiaozou, Golden Finance
1. Sreeram Kanan, founder of EigenLayer
Founder of EigenLayer, the father of modern restaking, and a beloved philosopher of large-scale coordination.
Sreeram Kannan lives in the future, literally, a future that I want to live in too. His vision of EigenLayer enabling humans to flexibly coordinate at scale is a breath of fresh air in an industry that often seems to have lost its way.
His clarity of thought, connecting technical details with abstract principles of scaling trust and coordination, earned him and EigenLayer a huge amount of attention as the next focus on Ethereum scalability - until EigenLayer introduced the concept of restaking, we didn't Be aware of its existence!
As the most important part of Ethereum’s roadmap gets closer and closer to 2024, restaking has become a core part of the Ethereum narrative.
With the EigenLayer mainnet release coming soon, the new AVS architecture going online, and the development of the re-staking market, you will hear from EthereumCommunityand a growing wave of excitement in the broader crypto industry. But a big question remains: Can trust-as-a-service penetrate non-crypto technology companies’ non-crypto use cases?
2. Nick White, founder of Celestia
Founder of Celestia, data provider, modular maximalist, monolithic minimalist.
Nick White is pushing the modular frontier in crypto. How modular can the crypto space be? The core of modularity has characteristics that are highly resonant with encryption technology: antifragility, redundancy, replicability, expressivity, etc. The Celestia project has become a Schelling point for investment in modular concepts.
Modular proponents believe that Celestia represents an explosion of innovation in the modular ecosystem. Is low-cost DA (data availability) really what modular theory is missing? What kind of asset is a TIA? Celestia DA enables Ethereum to have more rollups, and rollups are critical to Ethereum's long-term development... but is this a Trojan horse mechanism to bootstrap Celestia's own rollup-based ecosystem? Is TIA money?
3. Neel Somani, founder of Eclipse
Founder of Eclipse, producer of the platypus project, active participant in various ecosystems, and a walker among flyers.
Neel Somani is advancing the development of new fields he has discovered from first principles. After building a Rollup-as-a-Service provider and moving to Eclipse, his story about how he ultimately defined Eclipse is a wealth of knowledge to draw from.
The place of extremes is usually not the most ideal place to stand, and Neel has found a middle ground between many of the leading projects in 2024 - Ethereum,L2, Solana and Celestia.
As the SVM ecosystem grows, Eclipse's success becomes more easily imagined. Does the SVM argument on Ethereum hold water? As Solana maximalists and modular maximalists drift apart, can Eclipse form an oasis in between?
As Eclipse is about to go online on the mainnet, we will see a high degree ofSafetyMonolith on Ethereum L1 L2 What value will it provide to the world.
No matter what happens, Neel will teach us a lot along the way.
4. Keone Hon, founder of Monad
Founder of Monad, father of Molandack, EVM parallelist, database parallelist, I/O parallelist.
Keone has become a well-known leader of the Monad project, a project dedicated to bringing parallelism to the EVM ecosystem. “Solana’s speed and low cost, combined with Ethereum’s network effects,” has formed a narrative.
Some experts point out that just parallelizing a virtual machine is not a breakthrough. What actually needs to be parallelized is database access. It turns out that Keone and the Monad team have done just that, which is why MonadDB is a key part of the Monad innovation landscape.
Monad's 2024 release has been highly anticipated - just look at the high level of activity among all Nads (Monad supporters) in the #TheRoom channel on the Monad discord. People have begun to pay attention to this project, trying to find the treasure between the two worlds of Ethereum and Solana.
5. Andrew Huang, founder of Conduit
Conduit founder, chain gardener, transaction volume cultivator, cost reducer, framework copy-paster, person at the bottom of the basin.
Andrew Huang is taking the lead in reducing the cost of deploying rollup new chains. refers to all costs. Thanks to Andrew and Conduit, resource overhead costs, technical complexity, and most other obstacles have been eliminated. If you think there will be as many rollups on Ethereum as there are blogs on the internet, then you're rooting for Andrew.
Conduit is a Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS: rollup as a service) provider - think Cloud for Rollups (rollup cloud). The economies of scale in RaaS are huge. Reducing the resource cost of rollups means more applications can evolve into application chains, and all Conduit-compatible chains automatically get first-class rollups Safetysex. As Ethereum's rollup-centric roadmap becomes more mature, Andrew, Conduit and other RaaS projects will be the first to enter the fertile garden of rollups brought about by this roadmap.
Finally, I hope Andrew can push the imaginary boundaries of rollup. Now, we usually think of rollup as faster and cheaperBlockchain. I think this is an oversimplified, unimaginative vision of the future of rollup. Reducing rollup costs will not only make rollups faster and cheaper, but will also open up a whole new design space for rollups.
I would watch from the sidelines as Andrew transformed the two-dimensional world of rollup into a three-dimensional world.
6. Jill Gunter, Espresso Strategy Officer
Espresso strategist, L2 transaction pathfinder, composability deliverer, chain abstractor, historical anecdote connoisseur.
In my mind, Jill Gunter has always been a low-key force in the encryption field. She joined Espresso Systems in 2021 as CSO.
Espresso sits on the highly porous border between Ethereum and modular chain theory. Espresso is a sorting module for L2 chains, making it a shared sequencer for multiple chains integrated with it. L2 The era of recombinability is coming, and Jill’s strengths in her role at Espresso, coupled with her ability to articulate complex topics, may put her in the spotlight multiple times in 2024.
It was a sad day when the last episode of Jill's podcast, Grind My Gears with Meltem Demirors, was released. It was the best podcast in crypto at the time and provided a model for the future of Bankless.
As rollups explode in number, structure, and complexity, Espresso and the shared sequencer will act as the glue that keeps the Ethereum superstructure intact.
I predict that Espresso will become even more important in 2024, either as Jill enters her podcasting journey or CEO Ben Fisch is also worthy of attention.
7. Luca Netz, CEO of Pudgy Penguins
Pudgys the fixer, the grown-up in NFT PFP, the king of distribution, the executor of industry promises.
In 2021, the NFT industry collectively made many promises about the future potential of NFTs. Real-world footprints, game virtual worlds, and unlimited brand value. As predictable as the ticks of a clock are, when prices fall, these bull-mania dreams are dashed and founders abandon their projects.
Luca Netz bought the Pudgy Penguin project in 2022, turning the ship around and heading straight for Valhalla. Penguin plush toys are appearing in Walmart stores, and the Pudgy World virtual world will launch this year.
The thing is, Pudgy Penguins seems to be just getting started, and their current accomplishments are just the first phase of a much grander plan. When other NFT projects have not even found the starting line, Pudgy Penguins has already started their game.
What does this realm have in store for us? How big will the IRL footprint of virtual assets be? pudgy How real can a virtual world be?
You'll have to follow Luca to find out.
8. ETF experts Eric Balchunas and James Seyfartt
Unexpected protagonist, traditional financial voice, world aligner.
After several years, spot Bitcoin ETFs are finally online, and their debut broke all previous volume records for ETF offerings. And a spot ETH ETF may be approved in May.
Even if the spot ETH ETF is rejected (unlikely), Eric and James will still find themselves the center of attention, and the spot ETH ETF will just be resubmitted again and again until it is approved.
As the market capitalization of the crypto industry exceeds $2 trillion and is expected to reach approximately $10 trillion in the next cycle, more and more assets will become interesting targets for TradFi (traditional finance) ETF applications. What’s next for ETH? I don't know, but I'm sure Eric and James will always have something worth hearing.
It doesn't matter if more ETFs don't emerge during this market cycle. It will show up eventually.cryptocurrencyIt represents the birth of a new asset class, only one of which currently has an ETF.
If you follow Eric and James’ Twitter accounts, it’s obvious that they have been influenced by crypto culture. This is a one-way street. They are our people now.
9. Li Jin, co-founder of Variant
Co-founder of Variant Fund, a passionate pioneer, a reinventor of the workforce, a contemplative expressor, someone who injects warmth into cold code.
unlesscryptocurrencyMake a substantial impact on global culture, otherwise it fails. There is a connection between crypto culture and other cultures on the internetXiaobai Navigation明显不同。渐渐地，cryptocurrency碰触到的一切都会受到我们创造的加密文化的影响，无论好坏。
Li Jin is the "better" side. As cryptocurrencies advance in terms of their offerings and influence, they will begin to have a more substantial psychological and cultural impact on those who walk in its orbit. "If you adopt a cryptographic protocol, then you adopt a cryptographic value."
Mainstream crypto products will be cultural products - we see this with friend.tech! Low-cost data availability, modularityBlockchainand parallel virtual machines are great, but these investment themes are geared toward silosCommunityof. We need to discover new cultural elements to bring crypto products to the rest of the 5 billion Internet users.
Li Jin is focusing on the consumer encryption product space, which is why I am also paying attention to what Li Jin is focusing on.
10. Mike Ippolito, founder of Blockworks
Founder of Blockworks, author of many podcasts, swimmer under the waves, down to earth tinkerer of ideas.
Every time I talk to Mike, I learn something new. Unlock a new angle, or there may be some unformed ideas just around the corner. Thank goodness he has his own podcast. His blog is technical, research-based, very advanced, and well worth your time. Mike has some kind of tribal immunity gene that gives him a chain-neutral perspective.
His company, Blockworks, has become my go-to source for crypto news. Crypto journalism is hard, and Blockworks strikes the perfect balance between journalistic integrity and crypto alignment.
11. Anthony Sassano, founder of The Daily Gwei
Founder of The Daily Gwei, creator of infinite possibilities, professional amateur node operator, and humble ETH bull.
Anthony is not in the same category as those mentioned above. When I say "people to watch in 2024," I'm talking more like Anthony Sassano and The Daily Gwei. The Daily Gwei was my first stop on my Ethereum journey. If you are listening to The Daily Gwei every day, you have graduated from Crypto University.
The Daily Gwei discord curated by Anthony is a bastion of well-informed and skilled Ethereum investors and enthusiasts.
12. Deana Burke and Natasha Hoskins, co-founders of The Too Online podcast
Co-founder of Boys Club Podcast, dynamic duo, world builders, sharers and expressers of empathy, dreamers who are always down to earth.
One of my favorite new podcasts lately is Too Online hosted by Boys Club co-founders Natasha Hoskins and Deana Burke.
Natasha and Deana are crypto natives who create internet-themed content for people. In Too Online, they each tell an Internet story that happened last week. The stories aren’t usually about crypto, but are always content that crypto natives can appreciate since we’re all online too.
After intensively listening to more than ten hours of crypto podcasts every week, their lively 30 minutes of online gossip gave me a breath of fresh air and reminded me that there are about 99% people in society who don’t care about crypto-native topics.
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