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Andreas Tsamados & Vijay Krishnavanshi: Fileverse: A Trustless Stack to Decentralize Knowledge and Collaboration
Episode 531
Web2 file storage relies heavily on centralised entities, which have mostly outgrown their competitors, establishing a quasi-monopoly. The reasons for this are twofold: enormous operating costs and s…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Guy Itzhaki & Guy Zyskind: Fhenix – FHE-powered End-to-End Encrypted Ethereum L2
Episode 530
Fully homomorphic encryption, also known as the Holy Grail of cryptography, allows for computation to be performed on encrypted data, without the need for prior decryption. Its blockchain application…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Illia Polosukhin: Near Protocol – From AI to High-Throughput Blockchain
Episode 529
What began as an AI company trying to seek solutions in order to pay remote (unbanked) workers, Near AI became, in 2018, Near Protocol. Its sharded design was inspired by modern database architecture…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Isidoros Passadis: Lido DAO – Staking Decentralisation for Ethereum and LSTs in DeFi
Episode 528
As Ethereum ‘merged’ to its current proof-of-stake consensus model, the steep (for retail) minimum stake of 32 ETH created a serious risk of centralisation through staking delegation to centralised e…
Published on 2 years ago
Epicenter - 10-Year Anniversary Livestream
Episode 527
10 years ago, Adam B Levine, the host of ‘Let’s Talk Bitcoin!’, decided that it was time to encourage other voices to step onto the crypto podcast scene. Among many applicants, Sebastien and Brian we…
Published on 2 years ago
Aki Balogh: DLC Link – Self-Wrapped Bitcoin (dlcBTC)
Episode 526
gnosis.ioUnlike Ethereum ‘programmable money’, Bitcoin lacks native smart contracts by design. In an attempt to expand Bitcoin past its store of value narrative, wrapper contracts provided wBTC on ot…
Published on 2 years ago
Yat Siu: Animoca Brands – From NFTs & Blockchain Gaming to the Open Metaverse
Episode 525
When it comes to NFTs and blockchain gaming, very few companies can rival with Animoca Brands’ early conviction, investment thesis and time horizon. They understood early on that community building a…
Published on 2 years ago
Marek Olszewski & Rene Reinsberg: Celo – The Mobile-First High-Throughput Blockchain
Episode 524
With an average block time of 5 seconds and sub-cent transaction gas fees, Celo focuses on scalability and ease of access in order to bring DeFi to those that need it the most. Celo’s vision of ensur…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Rand Hindi: Zama - Fully Homomorphic Encryption in Blockchain Applications & Privacy
Episode 523
Homo- (Greek prefix meaning ‘same’); -morphic (Greek suffix meaning ‘having a specific shape/form’)
Intuitively, one could deduct that homomorphic encryption indicates that the initial data and the en…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Ye Zhang: Scroll - EVM-compatible ZK rollup
Episode 522
"The advancements of zero knowledge proving technology, hardware acceleration and proof recursion have significantly increased the efficiency of EVM-compatible zk provers. As a result, the former tra…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago