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Jordan McKinney

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TECHNOLOGY

"It is time for man to fix his goal. It is time for man to plant the seed of his highest hope. His soil is still rich enough for it. But this soil will one day be poor and weak; no longer will a high tree be able to grow from it… I tell you: one must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in you… The time is coming when man will give birth to no more stars…" — Nietzsche

11/06/2025

Ethereum & the Future of Civilization

In this video I talk about the evolution of the human psyche and coordination systems over the ages, how the age of Pisces was characterized by tension between Christ and anti-Christ energy, and how we're at a fork in the road now. We can further descend into a panopticon control system as described in the book of Revelation, or we can break out of this trap and build new civilizations of the future which protect human freedom and creative expression.

21 min
10/28/2025

EigenCloud: a Next Generation Crypto Platform

In this video I explain EigenCloud. I explain EigenLayer, EigenDA, EigenCompute, EigenVerify, and EigenAI. Then I talk about some of the potential use-cases and example applications that can be built on this platform.

31 min
05/20/2025

zkTLS: Key to Crypto Mass Adoption

In this video I explain zkTLS. I first explain what zkTLS does at a high-level, then explain a bit about how it works in relation to TLS. Then I go over a bunch of use-cases.

32 min
04/04/2025

AI + Crypto: Golden Age or Dystopia?

In this video I talk about some major trends in crypto and AI, and why it is critically important that we have verifiable AI (through systems like EigenLayer). Without verifiability we risk building an unstoppable turn-key authoritarian system. But if we use crypto tools to build verifiable AI we can build something great.

25 min
03/08/2025

ETH vs. BTC: Bitcoin Security Budget & Eth's Superior Monetary Policy

In this video I explain why Ethereum, not Bitcoin, has the superior monetary policy. Blockchains have to choose between certainty of security and certainty of issuance. If they opt for certainty of issuance (capped supply) like Bitcoin, they sacrifice security and compromise the whole system. The correct engineering approach is the one taken by Ethereum. Security must be reliably funded, which means no absolute certainty of supply. Supply growth can then be offset by a fee burn, and if the system has sufficient usage, token inflation can be flat or negative. This is the way.

35 min
01/22/2025

Brevis: ZK & Optimistic Querying through Time

In this video I explain how smart contracts have limited access to data and how Brevis expands this access to include historical state, blockchain history, and even other chains. I also explain the 2 modes which Brevis has for this data access: a pure zk mode, and an optimistic mode.

33 min
11/19/2024

HyperScaling Ethereum: 4844, DankSharding & EigenDA

In this video I explain 4844/protodanksharding, full danksharding, and EigenDA. I start by explaining what Data Availability is, and why it's integral to Ethereum's L2 scaling vision. Then I explain how 4844/protodanksharding works, and how it allows for a total ~200 TPS of Ethereum L2s. Next I explain full danksharding and how we can shard the DA data as long as we have efficient Data Availability Sampling — which requires erasure coding. Finally I explain EigenDA and how it achieves horizontal scaling and can ultimately provide 1 GB/s of DA throughput which implies a maximum L2 scaling of 43M TPS.

42 min
10/21/2024

Aligned Layer: Super Scaling Ethereum with Optimistic ZK Proofs

In this video I talk about the L2 landscape for Ethereum and why it's currently dominated by Optimistic roll-ups, but will likely evolve toward ZK roll-ups. I then break down some of the costs that roll-ups pay to Ethereum, specifically compute costs. Then we look at Aligned Layer and how it can reduce these compute costs for ZK roll-ups by allowing for "optimistic" ZK proof verification.

22 min

"It is time for man to fix his goal. It is time for man to plant the seed of his highest hope. His soil is still rich enough for it. But this soil will one day be poor and weak; no longer will a high tree be able to grow from it… I tell you: one must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in you… The time is coming when man will give birth to no more stars…" — Nietzsche

Creator

Jordan McKinney
Years Active

2023 - 2025
Episodes

24
Rating

Clean
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