ETH 2.0: What You Need to Know - Ryan Watkins, Wilson Withiam, Ep. 123

Ethereum 2.0, arguably the most significant catalyst for ETH, is finally live. Analysts Wilson Withiam (@WilsonWithiam) and Ryan Watkins (@RyanWatkins_) from Messari Crypto join us in breaking down all things ETH 2.0 for the savvy investor. What are the ETH 2.0 phases? How will ETH monetary policy change? How will ETH 2.0 affect Ethereum's value? What are the key existential challenges to ETH? Does ETH's transition provide an opportunity for competitors? Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). This show is not financial advice; show host and guest may hold some of the assets discussed.  ****** Sponsors: Bittrex Global is offering Blockcrunch listeners a place to trade tokenized stocks like Alibaba, Amazon, Google, Netflix, 24/7 from around the world. Users can even trade fractions of a share from their new or existing accounts. Trade now at https://global.bittrex.com/discover/tokenized-stocks.  Radix (www.radixdlt.com) is the first layer-one protocol specifically built to serve DeFi. Decentralized finance applications are currently built on protocols that are not fit for purpose, leading to congestion, hacks and developer frustration. Radix changes this by introducing a scalable, secure-by-design, composable platform with a DeFi specific build environment to make it easy to build and launch scalable DeFi. Find out more at www.radixdlt.com Borrow and lend crypto at market-beating rates: Nexo.io Subscribe to my essays here: jasonchoi.substack.com    ****** Musical credits: Intro track: Underground Stars by Loxbeats https://spoti.fi/34tPBBO Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/underground-stars Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/vpJDMD2EzkA Disclaimer: Jason Choi is an investor at Spartan Capital, the hedge fund arm of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries and personnel. This podcast is for information purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions.