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Dan Guido: Trail of Bits – The Evolution of Smart Contract Security
Episode 346
Just like all software, smart contracts on the blockchain are subject to serious security vulnerabilities and coding errors. The fact however that sm…
5 years, 6 months ago
Hugh Karp: Nexus Mutual – The Decentralized Insurance for Ethereum
Episode 345
Nexus Mutual provides an alternative decentralized insurance solution for Ethereum. The protocol is built on the public chain and operates under a di…
5 years, 6 months ago
Zubin Koticha: Opyn – The Insurance Platform Which Protects Your DeFi Deposits
Episode 344
Opyn is a smart contract-based insurance platform built on a generalized (supports both put and call) options protocol called Convexity. It is intend…
5 years, 6 months ago
Gabriel Jiménez: Petro – The Crypto Project That Tried to Free Venezuela
Episode 343
In late 2017, Gabriel Jimenez was approached by the Venezuelan presidency and asked to create a national digital currency, the Petro. Although very m…
5 years, 6 months ago
Jim Bianco: Deep Insights Into the Global Economic Crisis
Episode 342
We've heard it over and over again, Covid-19 has plunged us into a crisis like none other we’ve experienced in our lifetime. Although it is primarily…
5 years, 7 months ago
Post-interview chat – Sam Williams of Arweave
In this inaugural post-interview chat, Friederike and Sebastien discuss their recent interview with Arweave Co-founder and CEO, Sam Williams.
Moving f…
5 years, 7 months ago
Sam Williams: Arweave – Bringing Permanence to the Web
Episode 341
The internet was originally created as a platform to communicate freely, but it soon became a place where people could be monitored, controlled, and …
5 years, 7 months ago
David Vorick: On Skynet and Trusted Setups
Today, half of the internet is built on top of Amazon S3. Although the cloud has allowed Internet applications to scale, centralized infrastructure m…
5 years, 7 months ago
Daniel Wang: Loopring – A Scalable DEX Protocol Using ZK-Rollups
Episode 340
Decentralized exchanges have been around for some time, and various designs have been attempted. Although they provide a number of privacy and censor…
5 years, 7 months ago
Harry Halpin & John Shipton: What Julian Assange Represents to the Crypto Movement
Episode 339
Julian Assange, the creator of WikiLeaks, is currently in a maximum-security prison in London facing extradition to the US for violating the Espionag…
5 years, 7 months ago