Hashing It Out

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Jaye and Corey lead a panel discussion about the Aftermath of The Beacon Chain Launch for ETH 2.0. Panel members are Ben Edington (ConsenSys) and Gregory Markou(ChainSafe)

Sarah Friend is one of two developers working on Circles UBI. Circles is a basic income project that seeks to build local economic communities.

Toby Simpson is COO of Fetch.ai. This company is building these Autonomous Economic Agents that can perform proactive economic activity using the combination of blockchain and AI technologies.

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Marco from The Slack(You Should Join)talks with John and Corey about the fundamental underline infrastructures of the internet and how Web 3.0 should look like in the future now.

DAIHard uses Ethereum smart contracts to create burnable deposits as a means to gamify exchange of goods and services. In a burnable deposit, both parties put up collateral and in the event the servicing party delivers, they recieve their deposit plus their compensation. Failure and both parties may lose their deposits. We have Logan Brutsche back on the program to discuss the platform build around this concept, DAIHard, and how it seeks to fill the niche market of fiat currency exchange via crypto.

Handshake is a decentralized, permissionless naming protocol where every peer is validating and in charge of managing the root DNS naming zone with the goal of creating an alternative to existing Certificate Authorities and naming systems. Names on the internet (top level domains, social networking handles, etc.) ultimately rely upon centralized actors with full control over a system which are relied upon to be honest, as they are vulnerable to hacking, censorship, and corruption. Handshake aims to experiment with new ways the internet can be more secure, resilient, and socially useful with a peer-to-peer system validated by the network’s participants.

This episode features Jay and Ken from Cypher Core. Cypher Core offers a staking as a service platform for Proof of Stake protocols. Primarily focused on Cosmos network, we talk with them about their experience implementing their system, incentive models involved with staking services, and the overall Cosmos community.

If you know the show, you know we are very keen to see Plasma implemented as a technology. To discuss the progress in the past year, we have the great pleasure of bringing on Kelvin Fichter, former Plasma researcher with OmiseGo and the Plasma Group. We talk about the advancements made, and how the specification is gradually coalescing into a singular vision. We also get into some more heady topics such as the nature of trust in society and the role language in trusting someone.

Nano is providing a new approach to fee-less pure payments networks. We are privileged to speak with Colin LeMahieu, CEO of Nano to discuss their DAG voting-based consensus protocol, their accounts-blockchain model, and their NanoPoW for memory-hard PoW to replace fees in a network. Interesting stuff, and definitely a great conversation.

This episode, Corey interviews Ayo Akinyele, a former security researcher turned CEO of Bolt Labs. Bolt Labs is a privacy solution for the Lightning Network which allows for an asymmetry of knowledge in the channel. While this is quite useful and interesting, we instead turn our focus on things such as attribute-based encryption, a security researcher’s view of blockchain systems, and much more. Join us for an awesome conversation of where we are as a community, and where we’re going!

In today’s episode, Corey and Collin talk with Anatoly Yakovenko, the Co-Founder and CEO of Solana. Solana is a blockchain platform attempting to scale transactions without the need of sharding and we want to know how they plan to do it. Join us as we dive into their strategy, their current progress, and where they plan to go. We ask the right questions to get you to the right answers on how this technology works, so come listen and enjoy!

This episode Corey and Collin bring on the academics Arthur Gervais and Dominik Harz from Imperial College London. They discuss a new protocol that attempts to reduce the required financial deposits for various mechanisms in a way that does not reduce security. In other words, it is an attempt to help with over-collateralization, which could save investors a lot of money! As always, we get into the weeds to try and figure out exactly how it works, and where it is best used. Come listen and enjoy!

Corey and John speak with Mahdi Zerouali of Sigma Prime on how ETH 2 is going to look like for users of Ethereum.

Today, Corey and John talk with Rex Hygate, head of DefiSafety, a company seeking to perform process quality audits on Smart Contracts in the Ethereum Community. This novel process helps is an attempt to bridge the gap between security between the community and the projects they interact with.

Dan Robinson is a Research Partner at Paradigm.xyz, an investment fund active in the DeFi space. Reflecting his interests, our conversation covers a broad range of topics, including frontrunning and MEV (the mempool as a dark forest), Uniswap and building a defensible business on-chain, and Yield protocol a novel design for fixed rate on-chain lending using Automated Market Makers.

On this episode Dean and Corey have Guest Ian Ferreira of Core Scientific cover the usage of AI in the blockchain spaces and building efficient mining architecture.

Karl Floersch is an Developer that is working on layer-2 solutions for Ethereum. Karl walks us through the development Plasma, Casper, and then moving on to Optimistic Roll-ups.

Max Sklar is an engineer at Foursquare and is the head of a project called Swarm. John and Jaye speak with Max about this project, machine learning, how to build an app in 2020, and can tokens/NTFS on blockchain be incorporated into Foursquare.