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RedStone: The Oracle Pioneering the Future of DeFi - Marcin Kaźmierczak
Episode 581
The DeFi landscape has significantly evolved since 2018 when Chainlink was launched. Recent developments such as L2 rollups, liquid staking, restaking and the rise of BTC DeFi have created huge deman…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Privado ID & Quark ID: On-Chain ZK-Powered Unified ID - Diego Fernandez & Evin McMullen
Episode 580
Traditional KYC and AML regulations have often forced companies to comply, without having the right tools to do so. Simply storing users’ personal information led to the creation of security honeypot…
Published on 11 months, 4 weeks ago
Abundance: The First 1 Gigagas/second Stack for Sovereign Rollups - Hilmar Orth
Episode 579
One of the most limited blockchain resources is blockspace. From Bitcoin’s Blocksize Wars to Ethereum’s scaling roadmap, a common denominator seems to have emerged in the form of rollups. Advancement…
Published on 1 year ago
Monad: The EVM-Compatible 10,000 TPS L1 Blockchain - Keone Hon
Episode 578
The status quo for developers choosing an ecosystem for their blockchain usually revolves around trade-offs: do they go for Ethereum’s network effect, liquidity and decentralisation, or sacrifice som…
Published on 1 year ago
Succinct: Every Rollup Will Be a ZK Rollup! - Uma Roy
Episode 577
Polynomials are quintessential in machine learning for establishing relationships between outputs and inputs. However, there is also a field in cryptography which could not be made possible without p…
Published on 1 year ago
Bitcoin OS: Bitcoin Block 853626 Changed Everything For BTC Smart Contracts - Edan Yago
Episode 576
Bitcoin’s Taproot update paved the way for a new & exciting era for Bitcoin, as it expanded its use case far beyond that of an immutable ledger. However, Ordinals, BRC-20 tokens and, more recently, R…
Published on 1 year ago
Symbiotic: Scaling Shared Security Through Restaking - Misha Putiatin
Episode 575
Bootstrapping and maintaining a validator set can be a challenging endeavour, especially for projects that are in search of a product market fit. However, this does not mean one should abandon the et…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Ari Juels: Can AI Weaponize Blockchain Smart Contracts? - Chainlink
Episode 574
A smart contract’s rigid rule system represents a double-edged sword. ‘The Code is Law’, but what happens when rogue large language models or AI agents bend the Law? Can smart contracts be weaponised…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Citrea: Modular Rollup Framework on Bitcoin - Orkun Mahir Kilic
Episode 573
Bitcoin’s lack of native programmability, coupled with advancements in zero knowledge cryptography, has led to rollups being explored as a substitute for an execution layer. Citrea’s approach involve…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Anoma: Solving Cross-Chain Interoperability Through Intents - Adrian Brink
Episode 572
Inspired by Cosmos’ IBC ethos, Anoma takes interoperability a step further, from VM (virtual machine) to IM (intent machine). While traditional dApps that run on virtual machines require step-by-step…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago