Here is my conversation with Vitalik Buterin & Karl Floersch. Vitalik is the creator of Ethereum, and Karl is a long-time Ethereum researcher who is working on Optimism (the Layer 2 optimistic rollup). We begin the conversation with a focus on retroactive public goods funding - a compelling idea that…
Here is my conversation with Justin Glibert about an early prototype of Ember (an onchain game) and Lattice (the engine powering the game). This conversation is the very first one I recorded for the podcast about six months ago. It's a conversation with Justin Glibert about patterns he's uncovered while…
Here is my conversation with Simon de la Rouviere. 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. Simon’s exploration of creative mechanism design through the years is documented on his blog.…
Here is my conversation with Mike Sall and Blake West, the founders of Goldfinch, a decentralized protocol facilitating uncollateralized credit. “One of the borrowers is a company based in Uganda. They provide rent-to-own loans for motorcycle taxis to thousands of customers. They've borrowed $5m to expand their operations." Thousands of…
Here is my conversation with David Greenstein, Matt Masurka (Gigamesh), & Vignesh Hirudayakanth, the cofounders at Sound.xyz. Sound is a platform that helps musicians host listening parties and engage with their fans. It's a suite of tools that will grow over time to help musicians make a living using NFTs…
Here is my conversation with Danny Ryan and Tim Beiko - the lead coordinators for the Eth1 and Eth2 development efforts - about the future of the Ethereum protocol. In this conversation, we go deep on the future of the Ethereum protocol together. We talk about the Merge (the transition…
Here is my conversation with Austin Griffith about his continued journey as a builder/educator, and learnings from onboarding thousands of developers onto Ethereum. Austin is a friend and someone I've had the good fortune of working with extensively in our shared time at the Ethereum foundation. In this conversation, we…
Here is my conversation with Tracheopteryx about the evolution of Yearn, Coordinape, and pseudonymity. Tracheopteryx has been a key leader in the Yearn Finance community since its legendary genesis event. In this conversation, we talk about key moments in Yearn's evolution with an eye towards takeaways that might be useful…
Here is my conversation with Matthew Chaim. Matthew is building a laboratory experimenting at the edges of music and web3. It's called Songcamp, and right now they're running their third immersive experience. They're coming together with a group of musicians, visual designers, developers, and at the end of this process,…
Here is my conversation with Henri Stern who is building Privy. Henri was previously a research scientist at Protocol Labs and worked on Filecoin’s consensus protocol. And after many years of thinking through problems related to data privacy and security, he recently co-founded a new company called Privy where they…
Here is my 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. We dive deep into their experience building this project. We talk about what they see as the role of…
Here is my conversation with Charles St.Louis. Charles is the COO at Element Finance, a protocol for fixed and variable rate yield markets and previously the governance architect at MakerDAO. In this conversation, we talked about Element’s governance system - with a particular focus on voting vaults, a powerful new…
Here is my conversation with Phillip Wang and Nate Foss, two of the co-founders of Gather. Gather is a video chat platform that puts you and the people you're communicating with in a virtual space - and gives you the ability to move around and interact with them based on…
Here is my conversation with Gubsheep about Dark Forest and building crypto-native games. Gubsheep is one of the builders behind Dark Forest. Dark Forest is a uniquely crypto-native game, and embodies patterns that we can all learn from. It’s a game that takes place in a procedurally-generated universe that’s shared…