Episodes

Oct. 23, 2024

Uma Roy on Succinct, STARKs, and zkVM architecture

This is my conversation with Uma Roy, cofounder and CEO of Succinct.
Oct. 18, 2024

Andrew Huang on Conduit and scaling onchain compute

This is my conversation with Andrew Huang, the founder and CEO of Conduit.
Sept. 30, 2024

Georgios Konstantopoulos on Reth, engineering management, and feedback loops

This is my conversation with Georgios Konstantopoulos, General Partner and CTO at Paradigm.
Sept. 20, 2024

Vitalik Buterin on political philosophy in the 21st century

This is my conversation with Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum.
Sept. 18, 2024

Eric Alston on the US constitution

This is my conversation with Eric Alston, faculty director at the Leeds School of Business at CU Boulder and research associate with the Comparative Constitutions Project.
Aug. 14, 2024

BaseCamp 001: Jesse Pollak (Base), Ben Leventhal (Blackbird), Julian Holguin (Doodles), Yele Bademosi (Onboard)

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).
Aug. 1, 2024

Colin Armstrong: Paragraph, writing onchain

This is my conversation with Colin Armstrong, the founder of Paragraph.
July 16, 2024

Justin Glibert: from Economicus to Ludens

This is my conversation with Justin Glibert, CEO of Lattice and cofounder of 0xPARC.
July 11, 2024

Jonny Mack: Hypersub, building for the crypto-native creator

This is my conversation with Jonny Mack, Cofounder of Fabric and Hypersub.
June 24, 2024

Stephane Gosselin: OneBalance, credible accounts and credible commitments

This is my conversation with Stephane Gosselin, cofounder of Flashbots, Frontier Research, and OneBalance.
June 13, 2024

Molly Mackinlay: building Filecoin

This is my conversation with Molly Mackinlay, Head of Engineering, Product, and Research Development at Protocol Labs, and CEO at FilOz.
May 17, 2024

Rish: building infrastructure with Neynar

This is my conversation with Rish, cofounder of Neynar, building infrastructure for Farcaster.
May 8, 2024

Sreeram Kannan: building the verifiable cloud

This is my conversation with Sreeram Kannan, founder at EigenLayer.
May 6, 2024

Doug Petkanics & Eric Tang: open video infrastructure

This is my conversation with Doug Petkanics and Eric Tang, cofounders of Livepeer.
March 26, 2024

Martin Köppelmann: AI agents as onchain actors

This is my conversation with Martin Köppelmann, cofounder of Gnosis.
March 1, 2024

Varun Srinivasan: Farcaster, building a decentralized social network

This is my conversation with Varun Srinivasan - cofounder of Merkle Manufactory, the company building the Farcaster protocol and the Warpcast client.
Feb. 20, 2024

Rebecca Rettig & Michael Mosier: genuine DeFi as critical infrastructure

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.
Feb. 9, 2024

Vitalik Buterin: making sense in a changing world

This is my conversation with Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum.
Jan. 24, 2024

Hart Lambur: UMA, Across, Oval, and MEV capture for protocols

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…
June 8, 2023

Jesse Pollak: Base, Coinbase's path to building an L2

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 buil…
June 2, 2023

Liam Horne: Optimism, and why scaling Ethereum matters

This is my conversation with Liam Horne, former CEO and advisor to Optimism Labs.
May 25, 2023

Aya Miyaguchi: reflections on Ethereum and the Ethereum Foundation

This is my conversation with Aya Miyaguchi, Executive Director at the Ethereum Foundation.
Nov. 4, 2022

Dan Romero: Farcaster, building a decentralized social network

This is my conversation with Dan Romero about Farcaster - a decentralized social network being developed as an open protocol.
Sept. 28, 2022

Jango & Nnnnicholas: Juicebox, programming internet-native organizations

Jango and Nnnnicholas are contributors to Juicebox Protocol, the programmable funding protocol that has powered ConstitutionDAO, SharkDAO, and AssangeDAO.