This week, Anna catches up with Illia Polosukhin, CTO and co-founder of NEAR, to talk about what’s new in the network since last year. They go deeper on some of the topics they discussed last time – such as sharded vs non-sharded blockchains and data availability as well as discuss the long and rocky road to launching a new PoS network, building a validator community and where we might see privacy and zkp tech in Near.

In this week’s episode, Anna and Fredrik chat with Alin Tomescu, a post-doc researcher at VMWare Research Group, about the concept of stateless systems. Specifically, they explore his work on stateless validation, why this would be desirable and what is the state of the research around this topic.

In this week’s episode, we revisit the topic of Consensus Algorithms with Ren Zhang, a researchers at Nervos and previously at imec-COSIC (KU Leuven). We chat about an earlier work he did on evaluating PoW consensus protocols security and explore his more recent work on NC-Max – a consensus protocol that breaks the throughput limit and enables the full utilization of the nodes’ bandwidth in confirming transactions

In this week’s episode, Anna spoke with Nolan Smith and Locke Brown, co-founders at NuID – a zero knowledge authentication solution. They explore the use-case of zero knowledge powered password management and how this relates to Identity.

In this week’s episode, we chat with Dan Robinson, a Research Partner at Paradigm. We talk about the world of crypto VC and revisit of the topic of the Ethereum mempool. We then hear Dan’s story about how he and some colleagues tried to save a transaction from the monsters that lurk in the mempool as told in his blog post entitled “Ethereum is a Dark Forest”.

In this week’s episode, guest host Tarun Chitra and Anna chat with Alex Svanevik, CEO & cofounder of Nansen. They cover crypto analytics, DeFi analytics as well as discuss the push and pull between a need for privacy and the need for blockchain transparency and data.

In this episode, we chat with John Adler – co-founder of Lazy Ledger (now Celestia) and Fuel Labs. We compare Optimistic Rollups and ZK Rollups as well as discuss how Ethereum, specifically Eth1, could look over the next few years. We also talk about the data availability challenge in blockchains and how Lazy Ledger aims to solve this.

This week, Anna continues to dig into the topic of NFTs – That is Non-Fungible-Tokens or unique digital items – with Alex Salnikov, co-founder & chief product officer at Rarible. They talk about the project, the link between NFTs and DeFi concepts, how the NFT space is developing, novel use cases and more.

In this week’s episode, we chat with Dieter Shirley, CTO Dapper Labs, Chief Architect of Flow, and co-creator of CryptoKitties. We go back to look at the history of CryptoKitties, the NFT standard, what pushed Dapper Labs to build their own blockchain, how Flow works and what’s next.

This is a short bonus chat to Episode 148 “Tale of the Sushi(swap)”. Tarun, Hasu, and Anna reconvene to wrap up the story of Governance Tokens, Sushiswap and the Uniswap token distribution.

In this special podcast crossover episode, Tarun, Hasu and Anna cover the emergence of governance tokens in the DeFi space and specifically dive into the Sushiswap story – as a case study and cautionary tale. This episode is the 1st part of the episode, with the 2nd part airing on Hasu’s Uncommon Core podcast. Enjoy!

In this episode, we catch up with Vishwanath Raman, Privacy Architect at Oasis Labs. Oasis is a privacy-enabled blockchain platform for responsible data use. Using a combination of secure computing and privacy technologies, the Oasis Network enables data owners to take control of their data and treat their data as a digital asset via data tokenization. They provide privacy as a service and use secure enclaves and differential privacy in order build a platform for a responsible data economy.