Episodes

Aug. 31, 2022

Nadia Asparouhova: on public goods & peer production

Here is my conversation with Nadia Asparouhova about the second-order effects of wealth booms in tech/crypto, different perspectives on public goods, and peer production in open-source and in crypto.
Aug. 24, 2022

Julien Niset: Argent, building on StarkNet, and a primer on account abstraction

Julien Niset is the cofounder and Chief Science Officer at Argent, a crypto wallet that's used and loved by many people in the crypto ecosystem.
Aug. 11, 2022

Pedro Gomes: WalletConnect v2, account abstraction, and building a communications protocol

Pedro Gomes is the cofounder of WalletConnect, a communications protocol that enables wallets and apps to securely connect and interact.
June 14, 2022

Josh Stark: the Ethereum Foundation & Atoms, Institutions, Blockchains

Here is my conversation with Josh Stark from the Ethereum Foundation.
June 2, 2022

0age: Seaport, and protocol development with OpenSea

0age is the Head of Protocol Development at OpenSea. This is a conversation about Seaport, the new marketplace protocol for buying and selling NFTs.
May 24, 2022

Charles St.Louis: Element Finance, and voting vaults as a primitive

Charles St.Louis is the COO at Element Finance, a protocol for fixed and variable rate yield markets.
May 19, 2022

Henri Stern: Privy, building for data privacy and security

Henri Stern is building Privy - a suite of API tools to store and manage user data off chain. He was previously a research scientist at Protocol Labs and worked on Filecoin’s consensus protocol.
May 5, 2022

Matthew Chaim: Songcamp, immersive digital theatre

Matthew Chaim is building a laboratory experimenting at the edges of music and web3.
April 28, 2022

Simon de la Rouviere: cc0, derivatives, and bottom-up storytelling

Simon de la Rouviere’s contributions to crypto range from seeding the idea of bonding curves and curation markets, to now working on bottom-up storytelling with Untitled Frontier.
March 1, 2022

Sound.xyz: web3 listening parties | David Greenstein, Matt Masurka (Gigamesh), & Vignesh Hirudayakanth

David Greenstein, Matt Masurka (Gigamesh), & Vignesh Hirudayakanth are the cofounders of Sound.xyz, a web3 platform that helps musicians host listening parties and engage with their fans.
Feb. 8, 2022

Mike Sall & Blake West: Goldfinch, uncollateralized loans in emerging markets.

Mike Sall and Blake West are the founders of Goldfinch, a decentralized protocol facilitating uncollateralized credit.
Dec. 24, 2021

Justin Glibert: Ember, and building onchain games.

This is a conversation with Justin Glibert about an early prototype of Ember (an onchain game) and Lattice (the engine powering the game).
Nov. 25, 2021

Phillip Wang and Nate Foss: Gather, and building the open metaverse

This is a conversation with Phillip Wang and Nate Foss about Gather and building the open metaverse.
Nov. 4, 2021

Tracheopteryx: Yearn, Coordinape, and pseudonymity

This is a conversation with Tracheopteryx about the evolution of Yearn, Coordinape, and pseudonymity.
Oct. 29, 2021

John Palmer & Danny Aranda: PartyDAO, and shipping product as a DAO

This is a conversation with John Palmer and Danny Aranda about PartyDAO and PartyBid - the product that lets people pool their funds and participate in NFT auctions as a team.
Oct. 13, 2021

Austin Griffith: building on Ethereum

This is a conversation with Austin Griffith about his continued journey as a builder/educator, and learnings from onboarding thousands of developers onto Ethereum.
Sept. 30, 2021

Gubsheep: Dark Forest, and building crypto-native games.

This is a conversation with Gubsheep about Dark Forest and learnings from building a uniquely crypto-native game.
Sept. 20, 2021

Danny Ryan & Tim Beiko: Eth1, Eth2, and the Merge

This is a conversation with Tim Beiko and Danny Ryan - the lead coordinators for the Eth1 and Eth2 development efforts - about the future of the Ethereum protocol.
Sept. 10, 2021

Vitalik Buterin & Karl Floersch: Retroactive Public Goods Funding

This is a conversation with Vitalik Buterin (the creator of Ethereum) and Karl Floersch (a long-time Ethereum researcher who is working on Optimism). We talk about topics related to public goods funding, governance models, a…