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This is my conversation with Martin Köppelmann, cofounder of Gnosis.
Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 intro
- 00:01:47 sponsor: Privy
- 00:03:08 Gnosis Pay as an onchain bank account
- 00:13:49 security, passkeys and recovery
- 00:21:19 privacy, Tornado Cash
- 00:28:25 sponsor: Optimism
- 00:29:35 AI agents as a new form of life
- 00:36:43 training with prediction markets as RLHF
- 00:46:00 agents and prediction markets as interconnected concepts
- 00:56:21 why now for prediction markets
- 01:09:08 outroShow notes:
- Martin Köppelmann: https://twitter.com/koeppelmann
- Prediction Prophet, an agent by Polywrap in collaboration with Autonolas and Gnosis: https://predictionprophet.ai/Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.ioInto the Bytecode:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.comDisclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.
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This is my conversation with Varun Srinivasan - cofounder of Merkle Manufactory, the company building the Farcaster protocol and the Warpcast client.
Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 intro
- 00:01:34 sponsor: Optimism
- 00:02:44 Farcaster origins
- 00:05:59 sufficient decentralization, namespaces, hubs and CRDTs
- 00:16:02 type 1 vs type 2 decisions
- 00:21:23 the protocol, channels, clients, spam
- 00:30:13 direct messaging and end-to-end encryption
- 00:36:38 a turing complete social protocol
- 00:41:58 sponsor: Privy
- 00:43:19 why frames
- 00:52:14 Facebook, Twitter, Farcaster
- 01:03:25 backstory, growing up in India, Microsoft, YC
- 01:08:11 learnings from Coinbase
- 01:15:13 building a company
- 01:18:53 doing the one thing that matters
- 01:28:07 outroThank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.ioInto the Bytecode:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.comDisclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.
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This is my conversation with Rebecca Rettig and Michael Mosier. Rebecca is the Chief Legal and Policy Officer at Polygon Labs. Michael is cofounder of Arktouros and partner at Ex Ante.
Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 intro
- 00:01:38 sponsor: Privy
- 0:02:59 Rebecca's background, the Silk Road case, Aave, Polygon
- 00:07:22 Michael's background, Department of Justice, FinCEN, Espresso Systems, the White House, ex/ante
- 00:15:12 the current regulatory regime, Bank Secrecy Act, sanctions laws, miners/validators
- 00:29:30 sponsor: Optimism
- 00:30:40 genuine DeFi vs onchain CeFi, critical infrastructure
- 00:44:54 Uniswap contracts, app vs protocol, wallet risk scoring, OFAC, Lazarus Group
- 00:54:19 the Security Alliance (SEAL), white hats, working with the FBI
- 01:08:04 why do this work, the ability to innovate in the US is a freedom
- 01:12:13 crypto policy bootcamp
- 01:14:00 outroThank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.ioInto the Bytecode:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.comDisclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.
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This is my conversation with Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum.
00:00:00 intro
00:01:07 sponsor: Optimism
00:02:17 micro prediction markets, community notes, AIs as participants
00:14:13 decentralized social networks, zk identity, Dark Forest, and Frogcrypto
00:25:54 the dense jungle
00:30:08 sponsor: Privy
00:31:29 political instability, technology
00:34:16 coordination and technology in climate
00:36:13 AI, debugging and drawing, agency, security
00:44:02 timeline for the singularity
00:52:36 living to a 1000 years old
00:54:00 brain-computer interfaces
01:02:15 LojbanThank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.ioInto the Bytecode:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.comDisclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.
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This is my conversation with Hart Lambur. We talk about Hart's path in building UMA (an oracle using schelling points to bring data onchain), Across (an intents-based bridge connecting ETH/L2s), and now Oval (MEV capture for oracle price updates).
00:00:00 Intro00:01:29 Sponsor: Privy (privy.io)00:02:50 The idea maze, Goldman Sachs, RFQ systems, legal vs smart contracts00:11:03 UMA, schelling point and optimistic oracle00:16:41 Raising the seed round00:19:38 Across, intent-based bridging architecture00:30:42 Sponsor: Optimism (optimism.io)00:31:52 Oval00:46:15 MEV capture for protocols01:01:22 Outro
Timestamps:Into the Bytecode:
More episodes - https://intothebytecode.com
Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahabThank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.ioDisclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.
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This is my conversation with Jesse Pollak. He led retail engineering at Coinbase for many years â building Coinbase, Coinbase Pro, and Coinbase Wallet. More recently, he is leading the development of Base, Coinbase's L2 built on the OP Stack.
00:00:00 intro
00:01:43 sponsor: Optimism (optimism.io)
00:03:07 motivation behind Base
00:11:12 pitching Base to the Coinbase exec team
00:14:24 challenges of innovating on a schedule
00:17:54 failing repeatedly to find the right answer
00:22:09 decision to build an L2 with Michael
00:23:30 convincing Surojit Chatterjee, Coinbaseâs CPO
00:24:59 launching Base internally
00:31:58 blockchains as serverless compute
00:36:53 uniswap as a serverless API for currency conversion
00:39:30 the power of small but leveraged teams
00:42:31 how to straddle product building in the onchain and offchain world
00:45:25 sponsor: Privy (privy.io)
00:51:22 the significance of THIS moment in Crypto
00:53:56 getting a 100M devs and 1B users onchain
00:57:02 how the NFT UX will change with Base
01:10:13 how crypto will be incorporated in applications
01:14:00 the risk of onchain heterogeneity
01:17:27 building privacy-oriented onchain platforms
01:26:00 upgrading the financial system
01:28:33 attending Quaker School
01:34:43 relentless positivity in life
01:38:47 building a better futureJesse Pollak:
jesse.xyz on ETH
Twitter
GithubInto the Bytecode:
More episodes and transcripts - https://intothebytecode.xyz/
Newsletter - https://bytecode.substack.com
Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahabThank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.io
Relevant Links:
Base - https://base.org/
Coinbase - https://www.coinbase.com/
Brian Armstrong - https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong
Surojit Chatterjee Coinbaseâs CPO - https://www.coinbase.com/blog/welcome-surojit-chatterjee-coinbases-chief-product-officer
OP Stack - https://stack.optimism.io/
Uniswap - https://uniswap.org/
Goldfinch - https://goldfinch.finance/
Zora - https://zora.co/Produced by Spectral.to
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This is my conversation with Liam Horne, former CEO and advisor to Optimism Labs.
00:00 Intro
00:59 sponsor: Privy (privy.io)
03:35 early influences, classmates with Vitalik in Waterloo
08:31 Ethereum's potential and why scalability matters
10:06 learning from Jeff Coleman
17:23 defining a common language
21:06 importance of community in Ethereum
26:34 hackathons lead to progress
31:36 collaboration as a core ETH value
38:30 humility and collective learning
47:27 building a public good
53:07 building Optimism with Ethereum values
01:09:27 sponsor: Optimism (optimism.io)
01:17:41 decentralization is a journey
01:20:59 staying true to your principles
01:32:51 building something new is difficult
01:36:28 Jing Wang
01:42:10 Georgios KonstantopoulosThank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.ioInto the Bytecode:
Other episodes and transcripts - https://intothebytecode.xyz/
Newsletter for updates - https://bytecode.substack.com
Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahabRelevant Links:
University of Waterloo https://uwaterloo.ca/(Almost) Everything you need to know about Optimistic Rollup by Georgios Konstantopoulos https://www.paradigm.xyz/2021/01/almost-everything-you-need-to-know-about-optimistic-rollup
ETHGlobal https://ethglobal.com/
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This is my conversation with Aya Miyaguchi, Executive Director at the Ethereum Foundation.
00:00 intro
01:20 sponsor: Optimism (optimism.io)
02:38 reflecting on early days of Ethereum
9:01 Ethereum as an Infinite Garden
19:14 books and ideas that influenced Aya
24:54 the insignificance of titles
32:02 what does âExecutive Director of the Ethereum Foundationâ mean?
40:33 the âteacherâ mindset and how it applies to management
47:24 the importance of diversity
51:41 sponsor: Privy (privy.io)
53:03 the idea of subtraction and how it plays out in practice
1:05:42 funding in a non-profit context
1:08:48 why itâs difficult to describe the potential of Ethereum
1:16:46 embracing imperfection
1:20:43 learning from (un)natural disasters
1:33:20 what the 'next billion' means for Ethereum
1:42:59 Ethereum in emerging economies
1:49:09 outro
Relevant Links:
Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_and_Infinite_Games
Aya on Executing with Subtraction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noXPewi5qOk
Ethereum Foundation - https://ethereum.org/en/foundation/Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.ioInto the Bytecode:
Other episodes and transcripts - https://intothebytecode.xyz/
Newsletter for updates - https://bytecode.substack.com
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This is my conversation with Dan Romero about Farcaster - a decentralized social network being developed as an open protocol.
We talked about how product decisions in social networks have ripple effects on society, Farcasterâs strategy in the highly competitive world of social products, and Dan's personal philosophies around hiring and team building.
Timestamps:
0:00 intro
2:08 why this problem?
12:54 both product and protocol
23:41 the algorithmic feed
29:40 Farcasterâs strategy for competing with Twitter
1:00:52 approach to team building
1:14:41 how to use social networks, and memeâing
Relevant links:
Dan Romero - https://twitter.com/dwr
Farcaster - https://www.farcaster.xyz/
Farcaster docs - https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol
Varun - https://twitter.com/varunsrin
Keybase - https://keybase.io/
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This is my conversation with Jango and Nnnnicholas from Juicebox Protocol. Juicebox is a playful but ambitious project: the DAO operates as a full-stack instantiation of the protocol it's building, and fully reconceptualizes the relationship between contributors and shareholders. It has powered projects like SharkDAO, ConstitutionDAO, and AssangeDAO in the past.
Timestamps:
0:00 intro
1:37 an alternative to traditional org structures
9:53 philosophical alignment
27:30 the key mechanisms of the Juicebox Protocol
35:51 fundraising mechanics and the extensibility of Juicebox v2
46:05 a DAOsâs origins shape its culture
54:46 guiding principles for compensation
1:02:06 working backwards from the future
1:12:11 the subtraction philosophy and Ethereum as the Big Bang
1:31:25 StudioDAO and models for permissionless DAOs
Relevant links:
Jango - https://twitter.com/me_jango
Nnnnicolas - https://twitter.com/nnnnicholas
Juicebox - https://juicebox.money/
Nouns - https://nouns.wtf/
StudioDAO - https://www.studiodao.xyz/
Juicecast podcast about StudioDAO - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-9-kenny-from-studiodao/id1623504302?i=1000576149672
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Nadia Asparouhova is an independent researcher. She previously wrote about her research on open-source communities in "Working in Public", and more recently, has been researching the history of and approaches to philanthropy - which she defines with this phrase âif venture capital is risk capital for private goods, philanthropy is risk capital for public goodsâ.
In this conversation, we talked about public goods from this broader perspective. We talked about how previous generations have thought about this question, and how the tech ecosystem outside of crypto are grappling with this today. We talked about the second-order effects of wealth booms which have happened in both tech and crypto, how peer production happens, and the role that intrinsic versus extrinsic rewards might play in the development of crypto protocols.
Timestamps:
0:00 intro
2:01 working as an independent researcher
6:09 understanding wealth booms in tech and crypto
13:01 the unique perspectives of each successive community
25:46 the right (and wrong) question to ask
34:41 the landscape of public goods provisioning
39:22 innovative philanthropic funding models
45:35 the first wave of open source communities and crypto
54:42 different classes of stakeholders
1:05:00 research methodology and tools for thought
Relevant links:Nadia Asparouhova - https://twitter.com/nayafia
Nadiaâs website - https://nadia.xyz/
âWorking in Publicâ - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578675862/
Gitcoin - https://gitcoin.co/
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Julien Niset is the cofounder and Chief Science Officer at Argent, a crypto wallet that's used and loved by many people in the crypto ecosystem.
In this conversation, we talk about how Argent has evolved to get to where it is today. How Julien sees user experience evolving broadly in the ecosystem, and what the flow of a new person interacting with a crypto application for the first time might look like in the future.Another topic we get into deeply is L2s, how Julien and Argent have thought about the topic of EVM equivalence and compatibility, and why they ultimately chose to build on ZK Rollups like ZkSync and StarkNet.
And lastly, we dive into what has been like to build on StarkNet, what the early community feels like today, what it's been like to write code in Cairo, and as a bit of a snapshot into this experience we do a deep dive into what account abstraction looks like on StarkNet.
Timestamps:
0:00 intro
1:56 leaning into zk rollups and account abstraction
7:29 scaling the self-custody experience
13:20 what onboarding users to crypto will look like in 3 years
20:24 some of the friction points that still need to be abstracted
33:52 L2s and the trade-offs between different rollups
39:45 is breaking EVM-equivalency worth it?
48:01 Julien's experience in the StarkNet ecosystem
58:24 a primer on account abstraction
1:15:38 session keys
1:28:17 starting a sensible wallet set up from scratch
Relevant links:Julien Niset: https://twitter.com/jniset
Argent - https://www.argent.xyz/
StarkNet - https://starkware.co/starknet/
zkSync - https://zksync.io/
Topology - https://www.topology.gg/
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Pedro Gomes is the cofounder of WalletConnect, a communications protocol that enables wallets and apps to securely connect and interact.
In this conversation, We talked about WalletConnect v2 and its architecture, account abstraction, potential downstream effects of a crypto-native chat protocol, and other topics.
Timestamps:
0:00 intro
8:00 developing the user experience before creating the product
10:23 account abstraction and the spectrum of security and convenience
20:39 WalletConnect APIs and âLog in with Ethereumâ
28:55 how WalletConnect works
37:45 light clients and generalized messaging protocols
45:36 the politics of making big changes to the Ethereum protocol
50:14 connecting wallets with WalletConnect Chat
Mentioned in the show:
WalletConnect - https://walletconnect.com/
EIP2938 (account abstraction) - https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2938
WalletConnect APIs - https://docs.walletconnect.com/2.0
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Here is my conversation with Josh Stark.
Josh has a long history in the Ethereum ecosystem going back to the early days of the community. He cofounded one of the first L2 scaling protocols with Counterfactual. He also cofounded ETHGlobal which is a much-loved series of hackathons/events that brings the community together and which acts as an entry point into the ecosystem for many people. And nowadays and most relevant to our conversation, he works in a leadership capacity at the Ethereum Foundation.
In this conversation, we talked about two topics: one being the Ethereum Foundation, and two being the question of why blockchain is matter â this being something that Josh has spent a lot of time thinking about and which he's written about in a long form piece titled Atoms Institutions Blockchains.
Timestamps:
3:50 subtraction
7:22 creating a self-sufficient crypto ecosystem
12:33 the property of âhardnessâ for blockchains
17:47 understanding decentralization
23:11 Atoms, Institutions, Blockchains
26:00 blind men and an elephant
33:06 our civilizationâs infrastructure
43:33 digitally-native hardness
59:38 how the EF operates
1:06:21 challenges with decentralized coordination
1:12:08 infinite players have nothing but their names
Mentioned in the show:
Atoms, Institutions, Blockchains: https://stark.mirror.xyz/n2UpRqwdf7yjuiPKVICPpGoUNeDhlWxGqjulrlpyYi0
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0age is the Head of Protocol Development at OpenSea, and this was a conversation about Seaport, the new marketplace protocol for buying and selling NFTs.
0age takes us through a tour of the Seaport protocol, talking about how it's architected; how conduits and zones work; and we even get into the low level gas optimization work they've done on the contracts. I hope this can be a helpful resource for anyone looking to understand the Seaport protocol or anyone who's building with NFTs more broadly. I also consider 0age to be a true veteran of the space, and hearing him talk through the design of the protocol can be an educational experience in its own rights.
Timestamps:
1:42 why build Seaport
10:20 the Seaport architecture
12:44 EIP712 signatures
14:17 the global concept of a nonce
16:02 EIP1271 and bulk listings
17:18 the Executor and conduits
25:08 zones, additional rules that can be applied on top of an order
29:47 implementing English auctions via zones
32:17 layers of the stack
36:05 fulfillment
40:42 gas optimizations and understanding the low-level behavior of the EVM
58:40 the interaction between OpenSea the product and Seaport the protocol
01:07:06 criteria based items, and partial fills
01:17:50 ideas to build on top of Seaport
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Charles St.Louis is the COO at Element Finance, a protocol for fixed and variable rate yield markets and previously the governance architect at MakerDAO. In this conversation, we talked about Elementâs governance system - with a particular focus on voting vaults, a powerful new primitive that decouple the relationship between capital and voting power and allow much more expressiveness in how users are given a governance voice in the ecosystem.
Timestamps:
2:54 MakerDAOâs arc of decentralization
7:51 how Maker influenced Elementâs design
10:22 the Governance Steering Council
21:25 voting vaults
29:10 L1 and L2 for governance
33:23 qualitative evaluation for contributions
37:50 the ElFiverse and NFTs in the Element community
42:24 on being a protocol delegateMentioned in the show:
The Governance Steering Council - https://medium.com/element-finance/the-governance-steering-council-63aea7732262
Voting Vaults - https://docs.element.fi/governance-council/council-protocol-smart-contracts/voting-vaults
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Here is my conversation with Henri Stern who is building Privy.
Henri was previously a research scientist at Protocol Labs and worked on Filecoinâs consensus protocol. And after many years of thinking through problems related to data privacy and security, he recently co-founded a new company called Privy where they provide a suite of API tools to store and manage user data off chain.In this conversation, we talked through a set of topics that Henri has a unique point of view on â starting with the question around the seeming trade-off between privacy/security on the one hand and UX/convenience on the other. We talked about principles he has in mind in designing an off-chain data system; how privy does encryption and key management; how they do permissioning; and how they think about data storage.
Timestamps:
2:30 - designing the product/protocol roadmap10:30 - privacy/security vs. convenience19:27 - building an web3 application23:20 - decentralizing Privy32:09 - key management architecture46:11 - verifiability, transparency as a disinfectant59:02 - building a product with private data1:07:08 - cofounder relationship -
Matthew Chaim is building a laboratory experimenting at the edges of music and web3.
It's called Songcamp, and right now they're running their third immersive experience. They're coming together with a group of musicians, visual designers, developers, and at the end of this process, will be releasing new music under the moniker of a single headless artist called Chaos.
I've been personally completely nerdsniped by Songcamp and think itâs one of the most beautiful corners of our web3 ecosystem.Timestamps:
1:08 - Songcamp a web3 laboratory3:27 - songwriting camps6:30 - imaginative language and lore11:12 - incentive alignment20:55 - selection and curation30:31 - immersive digital theatre36:18 - having fun38:03 - the power of IRL43:01 - whatâs next51:37 - economic models for internet-native collectives -
Here is my conversation with Simon de la Rouviere.
Simonâs exploration of creative mechanism design through the years is documented on his blog. His contributions to the space range from seeding the idea of bonding curves and curation markets, to building one of the first creator platforms with Ujo, to writing a full length novel experimenting with different publishing models, to now working on bottom-up storytelling with Untitled Frontier.
In this conversation, we talked about cc0, designing NFT economies to welcome derivative works, bottom-up storytelling, and much more.
Timestamps:
1:29 - How Simon got into the craft of storytelling6:25 - The lonely process of long-form content creation9:53 - KishĆtenketsu14:26 - Top-down vs. bottom-up storytelling21:52 - âThe medium is the message.â27:17 - CC0, derivatives, Jenkins the Valet34:43 - Harberger Taxes and mechanism design39:51 - NFTs vs ERC20s for ownership and governance44:06 - New power structures -
Here is my conversation with David Greenstein, Matt Masurka (Gigamesh), & Vignesh Hirudayakanth, the cofounders at Sound.xyz.
Sound is a platform that helps musicians host listening parties and engage with their fans. It's a suite of tools that will grow over time to help musicians make a living using NFTs and other web3-native primitives.
I was particularly looking forward to this conversation since David, Matt, and Vignesh participated in Zeitgeist Season One and we got to work pretty closely together. They're moving fast and are working towards a beautiful vision of the world.
Timestamps:
3:42 - Redefining engagement between artists and fans7:23 - MySpace, HypeMachine, Optimism, and Friends With Benefits12:50 - Using Discord DMs for recruiting16:53 - NFTs as the perfect medium for music patronage20:34 - Fair-play incentive structures for music26:25 - Differentiating the first fan and the millionth fan32:03 - The technical architecture underpinning Sound34:33 - Getting to market and building in public39:45 - Oshi breaks the website41:37 - The Daniel Allan EP42:14 - RAC and deploying to mainnet44:12 - Zeitgeistâs impact - Se mer
