The Massive 'Infra to Apps' Shift in Crypto Investing with Wei Dai

For today's podcast, we were joined by Wei Dai, a researcher at 1kx and PhD cryptographer, to discuss investing in crypto's killer apps, the shift from infra to apps, and interop.

Think of rollup clusters as the high-speed railways of blockchain - they're not merely accelerating transactions, they're fundamentally transforming how we approach value transfer across networks.

Just as railways reshaped urban development, rollup clusters are establishing more efficient and interconnected DeFi ecosystems. We'll examine three key innovations that define rollup clusters:

First, their approach to resolving the scalability trilemma.
Second, the economic architecture that ensures system sustainability.
And third, the expanding landscape of opportunities for builders and users.

Whether you're developing protocols or exploring DeFi opportunities, these developments have significant implications. We're observing these systems actively reconstruct how liquidity flows and how value is generated throughout the DeFi ecosystem.

Crypto is going through a shift from infra to apps, welcome to the app era.

The Rollup