Episodes

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. We talk about video's increasingly important role on the internet, the impact of generative AI, and how Livepeer is able to provide a 90% …
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.
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).