In this episode, we talk about what it takes to be a blockchain developer. Fredrik shares some of his insights and interviews Gavin Wood, co-founder of Parity and Ethereum, about how he got into this space as well. We also dig into what properties a good blockchain developer should have.
This week, Anna speaks with Dankrad Feist, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation. They talk about the future of the ETH client infrastructure, the Merge, Verkle Tries, and more. They also explore how concepts that originated in the ZK research space have made their way into the ETH client stack.
This week, Anna catches up with Zaki Manian and his new project Sommelier. They explore how Sommelier aims to develop strategies to better serve the more complex emerging DeFi projects like Uniswap V3, and how this would allow the average user to benefit from these new powerful tools. They also discuss Zaki’s vision for multichain DeFi and how the space has evolved over the last few years.
This week, in our 200th episode (!), Anna chats with Alessandro Chiesa, a professor working on cryptography, complexity and security. Anna and Ale dig into some of the recent SNARK research coming out of his lab and discuss how to navigate the challenges of teaching in a space that changes quickly.
In this week’s episode, Anna chats with Emre Tekişalp and Izaak Meckler about what’s new with Mina, O(1) Labs, the network launch and the anticipated release of Snapps to testnet later this year. We learn more about how Snapps – these SNARK-powered applications are the bridge between real world data that can be represented cryptographically – think https for the blockchain.
In this week’s episode, Anna and Tarun dive back into the NFT space with their guest Luiz from FingerprintsDAO. FingerprintsDAO is a collector organization for artists, curators and producers. Luiz takes us through the new paradigms of NFT token governance and the wild world of on-chain art.
This week, Anna chats with Pedro Gomes, Founder of WalletConnect, about how wallets and DApps traditionally interact and the journey to WalletConnect and WalletConnect 2.0. Pedro shares the ideas behind the new WalletConnect 2.0 development and his thoughts on what role the project will play in a Multi-Chain future.
This week, Anna chats with Harry Halpin, CEO of the Nym project, about a variety of topics related to privacy, politics and the need to build censorship-resistant systems. Harry talks about his early involvement in cryptography and his changing perspectives on capitalism as a tool for good. He shares how Nym aims to protect blockchain transactions from network-based deanonymization attacks.
This week, Anna and James chat with Sushi’s CTO Joseph Delong about what Sushi’s been up to since the early days and a few spicy recent events.
