Episode 49: Blockchain 101: Cryptoeconomic Primitives and Staking

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.

Anna chats with Jordi Baylina and David Schwartz about their recently announced zkEVM design.

No full episode this week, but we just wanted to let you know about the new zeroknowledge.fm website. Finally, we have a site that brings together all the different parts of the ZK Community: podcast episodes, upcoming and past events, blog, social channels and more.

Anna chats with Brian Fabian Crain, early crypto community member in Berlin who founded the Chorus One validator & the Epicenter podcast.

Anna & Tarun chat with Tracheopteryx and Facu, core devs at Yearn.finance, to learn about the project’s history and current innovations in DAO governance, DeFi products & more.