Episodes

Jan. 10, 2025

Michael Bentley on Euler, credit, and natural selection

This is my conversation with Michael Bentley, the cofounder and CEO of Euler and previously a dynamical systems postdoctoral research associate at Oxford.
Dec. 23, 2024

Jake Chervinsky on regulations from first principles

This is my conversation with Jake Chervinsky, Chief Legal Officer at Variant, and previously the Chief Policy Officer at Blockchain Association and General Counsel at Compound Labs.
Dec. 16, 2024

Andrew Miller on TEEs, account delegation, research, and the early days in Bitcoin

This is my conversation with Andrew Miller who is working on product at Teleport, and is also Associate Director at IC3 and Board Member at the Zcash Foundation.
Dec. 6, 2024

Quintus Kilbourn on TEEs and Secure Hardware

This is my conversation with Quintus Kilbourn, researcher at Flashbots and currently working on Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs).
Nov. 29, 2024

Markus Haas on ethOS and building a crypto-native device

This is my conversation with Markus Haas, the CEO of Freedom Factory and cocreator of the dGEN1.
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…