Description
In this episode of UpOnly, Cobie & Ledger are back and talk to Joseph Delong about building Sushi, working in a DAO, the state of the ecosystem, L2 and alt-L1 expansion, open source, and more.
Presented by FTX: https://uponly.tv/ftx
00:00 - Intro
06:35 - Joe’s background
10:20 - Structure at Sushi
13:48 - How does the hiring process work at Sushi?
17:45 - Video games in crypto / CryptoPunks at the Met Gala
22:30 - Moving from the military to crypto
25:40 - Coding experience
27:39 - Ethereum Foundation
29:00 - Other projects integrating Sushi
31:00 - Expanding Sushi
32:15 - Benefits of being open source
38:50 - Crypto Twitter fake beefs
41:15 - Advertising and memeing / NFTs
47:15 - Sushi creating an NFT marketplace
52:10 - Layer 2s
55:00 - Charles Hutchinson / Joe’s degenerate friend
57:20 - DeFi and farming
1:02:45 - NFTs on Layer 2
1:04:13 - Joe’s Twitter list
1:06:20 - Early days of Sushi drama / Satoshi talk
1:13:10 - Who are the best Ethereum smart contract developers?
1:16:20 - Best and worst projects from an engineering perspective
1:19:45 - Thinking long-term
1:21:20 - Questions from the chat
1:34:00 - Free alpha