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  • This is my conversation with Jesse Pollak (creator of Base), Ben Leventhal (founder/CEO of Blackbird), Julian Holguin (CEO of Doodles), and Yele Bademosi (cofounder/CEO of Onboard).

    Timestamps:

    (00:00) - intro(00:50) - Jesse Pollak, Base(09:41) - how the Base team is structured(17:25) - how the mission and strategy came together(27:43) - the focus in year two(35:38) - Ben Leventhal, Blackbird(39:35) - the restaurant P&L(43:36) - identity and payments(51:25) - Flynet as an L3(53:11) - building an economy(55:46) - the current era of crypto(57:27) - Julian Holguin, Doodles(59:40) - the status quo and the new model(01:09:36) - people want to be a part of something(01:18:22) - Yele Bademosi, Onboard(01:23:48) - being an entrepreneur in Nigeria(01:29:34) - building Onboard(01:34:45) - outro
    Links:

    Jesse Polak: https://x.com/jessepollak

    Base: https://www.coinbase.com/,

    https://x.com/base

    Ben Leventhal: https://x.com/benleventhal

    Blackbird: https://www.blackbird.xyz/,

    https://x.com/blackbird_xyz

    Julian Holguin: https://x.com/jholguin

    Doodles: https://www.doodles.app/,

    https://x.com/doodles

    Yele Bademosi: https://x.com/YeleBademosi

    Onboard: https://www.onboard.xyz/,

    https://x.com/OnboardGlobal

    Into the Bytecode:

    Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab

    Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab

    Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com

    Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

  • This is my conversation with Colin Armstrong, the founder of Paragraph.

    Timestamps:
    (00:00:00) - intro
    (00:00:49) - Substack network effects
    (00:03:53) - new business models
    (00:15:32) - the content layer and the economic layer
    (00:21:18) - sponsor: Privy
    (00:22:34) - mechanisms to think about as a writer
    (00:29:32) - markets and social networks as forces of chaos
    (00:33:42) - building for the crypto-native vs the general audience
    (00:40:43) - emails vs wallets
    (00:48:23) - ARPU is higher in crypto
    (00:51:52) - algorithm for finding product-market fit
    (00:57:10) - sponsor: Optimism
    (00:58:15) - focus + urgency
    (01:02:51) - learnings from Google
    (01:07:58) - creating is fulfilling
    (01:11:35) - outro

    Links:

    Colin Armstrong on X: https://x.com/colinarms

    Colin Armstrong on Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/colin

    Paragraph: https://paragraph.xyz/

    Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:

    Optimism - https://optimism.io

    Privy - https://privy.io

    Into the Bytecode:

    Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab

    Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab

    Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com

    Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor 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 Justin Glibert, CEO of Lattice and cofounder of 0xPARC.

    Timestamps:
    - 00:00:00 intro
    - 00:00:44 digital physics
    - 00:06:27 changing physics + capitalism = theme parks
    - 00:16:12 objective functions are political
    - 00:22:53 sponsor: Optimism
    - 00:23:58 individual agency
    - 00:27:25 violence on the internet
    - 00:39:17 monoliths
    - 00:47:24 sponsor: Privy
    - 00:48:40 value systems
    - 00:58:34 homo economicus and homo ludens
    - 01:10:50 Emissary’s guide to worlding
    - 01:16:55 reading weird books
    - 01:28:49 outro

    Links:
    Justin Glibert: https://x.com/justinglibert
    Lattice: https://lattice.xyz/
    0xPARC: https://0xparc.org/

    Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
    Optimism - https://optimism.io
    Privy - https://privy.io

    Into the Bytecode:
    Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
    Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
    Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com

    Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

  • This is my conversation with Jonny Mack, Cofounder of Fabric and Hypersub.

    Timestamps:
    - 00:00:00 intro
    - 00:01:05 motivations
    - 00:05:43 pooled capital for shared ownership and upside
    - 00:09:24 the computer and the casino, the purist and the tourist
    - 00:13:59 sponsor: Privy
    - 00:15:15 $higher, memecoins, cashflow, headless brands
    - 00:24:38 STP, Hypersub, minting time
    - 00:32:29 onchain memberships are legible
    - 00:40:55 creators are multi-dimensional
    - 00:46:21 sponsor: Optimism
    - 00:47:25 a network of networks
    - 00:53:11 authentic communities
    - 00:59:31 the difference between punk and hip hop, revenue vs GDP
    - 01:06:41 building in public is native to the medium
    - 01:16:15 outro

    Links:
    Jonny Mack: https://x.com/_nonlinear
    Hypersub: https://hypersub.withfabric.xyz/
    Fabric: https://withfabric.xyz/

    Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
    Optimism - https://optimism.io
    Privy - https://privy.io

    Into the Bytecode:
    Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
    Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
    Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com

    Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

  • This is my conversation with Stephane Gosselin, cofounder of Flashbots, Frontier Research, and OneBalance.

    Timestamps:
    - 00:00:00 intro
    - 00:01:29 sponsor: Optimism
    - 00:02:34 my existential question about crypto
    - 00:07:13 global consensus is the problem
    - 00:14:27 architecting a new system
    - 00:21:56 OneBalance and Credible Accounts
    - 00:29:39 credible commitment machines
    - 00:34:20 sponsor: Privy
    - 00:35:35 the user issues permissions for solvers
    - 00:37:06 the trust model
    - 00:42:20 the CAKE framework and the Credible stack
    - 00:47:59 privacy
    - 00:54:54 global consensus blockchains and LLM foundation models
    - 00:58:55 a company is a mirror on your state of being
    - 01:08:26 having a strong why
    - 01:17:46 outro

    Links:
    Stephane Gosselin: https://x.com/thegostep
    OneBalance: http://onebalance.io
    Frontier Research: https://frontier.tech/

    Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
    Optimism - https://optimism.io
    Privy - https://privy.io

    Into the Bytecode:
    Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
    Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
    Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com

    Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

  • This is my conversation with Molly Mackinlay, Head of Engineering, Product, and Research Development at Protocol Labs, and CEO at FilOz.

    Timestamps:

    - 00:00:00 intro

    - 00:01:59 sponsor: Privy

    - 00:03:15 motivation

    - 00:09:30 exabytes of network capacity

    - 00:12:11 edge computing, bringing compute to data

    - 00:14:26 the history of IPFS, libp2p, IPLD, Filecoin, FVM, L2s and IPC

    - 00:20:08 designing incentives in Filecoin

    - 00:25:11 designing the block rewards curve

    - 00:27:28 progress through time

    - 00:31:19 learnings from building production systems,

    - 00:34:15 EVM-compatibility, future-proofing and network upgrades

    - 00:43:51 sponsor: Optimism

    - 00:44:56 IPC, L2 scaling on Filecoin

    - 00:48:55 architecting applications on subnets

    - 00:54:12 business models on subnets

    - 00:57:27 the interface between a subnet and the internet

    - 01:04:41 FilOz as a public goods amplifier

    - 01:07:10 opening up the Protocol Labs network

    - 01:12:23 Edge Esmeralda, field building, neurotech, and education

    - 01:21:04 outro

    Links:
    Molly Mackinlay - https://x.com/momack28
    Protocol Labs - https://protocol.ai
    Filecoin - https://filecoin.io
    FilOz - https://www.filoz.org

    InterPlanetary Consensus - https://www.ipc.space/

    Textile Basin - https://basin.textile.io/

    web3.storage - https://web3.storage/

    Filecoin Virtual Machine - https://fvm.filecoin.io/

    Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:

    Optimism - https://optimism.io

    Privy - https://privy.io

    Into the Bytecode:

    Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab

    Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab

    Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com

    Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

  • This is my conversation with Rish, cofounder of Neynar, building infrastructure for Farcaster.

    Timestamps:

    - 00:00:00 intro

    - 00:01:51 sponsor: Optimism

    - 00:03:01 the idea maze for Neynar

    - 00:12:46 exit, building blocks, and monetization models

    - 00:17:20 how Neynar is architected

    - 00:21:52 handling Frames Friday

    - 00:25:04 scaling infrastructure by mapping requests to resources

    - 00:35:05 sponsor: Privy

    - 00:36:25 taking good risks as a startup

    - 00:41:55 iteration and planning ahead, breadth vs depth-first search

    - 00:45:36 the channel protocol spec

    - 00:51:26 why build Frame Studio

    - 00:56:55 companies become extensions of their founders

    - 01:05:53 working on the Base team

    - 01:10:28 having a tight feedback loop with users

    - 01:15:18 cofounder relationship with Manan

    - 01:19:25 outro

    Links:

    Rish - https://warpcast.com/rish

    Neynar - https://neynar.com

    Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:

    Optimism - https://optimism.io

    Privy - https://privy.io

    Into the Bytecode:

    Twitter - / sinahab

    Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab

    Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com

    Disclaimer: 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.

  • This is my conversation with Sreeram Kannan, founder at EigenLayer.

    Timestamps:
    - 00:00:00 intro
    - 00:01:21 sponsor: Optimism
    - 00:02:42 the AVS economy
    - 00:05:24 blockchains separate trust and innovation
    - 00:16:53 sponsor: Optimism
    - 00:18:02 specialized services and SaaS on EigenLayer
    - 00:24:50 rollups are open verifiable web servers
    - 00:41:35 rollup economics and business models
    - 01:55:14 the transition from academic to builder/operator
    - 01:06:38 impact per unit action
    - 01:10:26 outro

    Links:
    Sreeram Kannan: https://twitter.com/sreeramkannan
    EigenLayer: https://twitter.com/eigenlayer

    Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
    Optimism - https://optimism.io
    Privy - https://privy.io

    Into the Bytecode:
    Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
    Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
    Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com

    Disclaimer: 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.

  • This is my conversation with Doug Petkanics and Eric Tang, cofounders of Livepeer.

    Timestamps:
    - 00:00:00 intro
    - 00:01:45 sponsor: Optimism
    - 00:03:55 Livepeer origin story
    - 00:11:54 FFmpeg and the video infrastructure stack
    - 00:17:07 compute capacity and cost in open vs closed systems
    - 00:22:59 GPUs as the supply side, working at NVIDIA
    - 00:40:27 finding latent demand
    - 00:46:10 sponsor: Privy
    - 00:47:30 learnings on go-to-market, Livepeer Studio, AI video processing
    - 01:00:54 AI subnets in the Livepeer network
    - 01:07:51 doing whatever it takes to get it done
    - 01:13:19 interacting with the market
    - 01:18:51 the inner game
    - 01:24:30 outro

    Links:
    Doug Petkanics - https://twitter.com/petkanics
    Eric Tang - https://twitter.com/ericxtang
    Livepeer - https://twitter.com/livepeer
    Livepeer Studio - https://twitter.com/livepeerstudio

    Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
    Optimism - https://optimism.io
    Privy - https://privy.io

    Into the Bytecode:
    Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
    Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
    Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com

    Disclaimer: 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.

  • 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 outro

    Show 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.io

    Into the Bytecode:
    Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
    Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
    Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com

    Disclaimer: 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.

  • 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 outro

    Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
    Optimism - https://optimism.io
    Privy - https://privy.io

    Into the Bytecode:
    Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
    Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
    Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com

    Disclaimer: 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.

  • 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 outro

    Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
    Optimism - https://optimism.io
    Privy - https://privy.io

    Into the Bytecode:
    Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
    Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
    Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com

    Disclaimer: 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.

  • 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 Lojban

    Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
    Optimism - https://optimism.io
    Privy - https://privy.io

    Into the Bytecode:
    Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
    Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
    Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com

    Disclaimer: 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.

  • 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).


    Timestamps:

    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

    Into the Bytecode:
    More episodes - https://intothebytecode.com
    Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab

    Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
    Optimism - https://optimism.io
    Privy - https://privy.io

    Disclaimer: 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.

  • This is my conversation with Jesse Pollak. He led retail engineering at Coinbase for many years — 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, Coinbase’s 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 future

    Jesse Pollak:
    jesse.xyz on ETH
    Twitter
    Github

    Into the Bytecode:
    More episodes and transcripts - https://intothebytecode.xyz/
    Newsletter - https://bytecode.substack.com
    Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab

    Thank 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 Coinbase’s 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

  • 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 Konstantopoulos

    Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
    Optimism - https://optimism.io
    Privy - https://privy.io

    Into the Bytecode:
    Other episodes and transcripts - https://intothebytecode.xyz/
    Newsletter for updates - https://bytecode.substack.com
    Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab

    Relevant 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/


    Produced by https://spectral.to

  • 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 “Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation” mean?

    40:33 the “teacher” 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 it’s 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.io

    Into the Bytecode:
    Other episodes and transcripts - https://intothebytecode.xyz/
    Newsletter for updates - https://bytecode.substack.com
    Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab

  • 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, Farcaster’s 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 Farcaster’s strategy for competing with Twitter

    1:00:52 approach to team building

    1:14:41 how to use social networks, and meme’ing

    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/

  • 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 DAOs’s 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

  • 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 “if venture capital is risk capital for private goods, philanthropy is risk capital for public goods”.

    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

    Nadia’s website - https://nadia.xyz/

    “Working in Public” - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578675862/

    Gitcoin - https://gitcoin.co/