Best Arx Podcasts (2024)

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DS277 | Alpha Centauri | Chronicles of Chiron: Excising Arx | Part 10 of 10 1:02:55

5d ago1:02:55

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In which the dangers of siege worms are made completely clear. Scene 33 Scene 34 Scene 35 Scene 36 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!By Dicey Stories

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Pete Horne, Founder of 4th.Energy 1:41:06

2h ago1:41:06

1:41:06

My guest today is Pete Horne, founder of 4th Energy. Pete is a veteran programmer who thinks deeply about the EVM and computation. With 4th.energy, Pete is exploring how the EVM can be used to serve applications directly from the blockchain. In this vision, application data is verifiably stored on one or multiple of the EVMs connected to L1 Ethereu…

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DS280 | Wesnoth | Echoes of Invasion: The Heart Mountains | Part 1 of 7 48:55

1h ago48:55

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Heppa deviates from Ash’s carefully chosen path as he leads her and Tric up into the Heart Mountains. Scene 1 Scene 2 GM Notes While preparing for this arc, I studied up on the Mountain Travel section in Skill Adventures by David Shamp, available from the Genesys Foundry on DriveThruRPG. It gave me some ideas for ways different skills could come in…

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DS279 | Alpha Centauri | Chronicles of Chiron: Reformatting Data Haven | Part 1 of 5 37:13

27m ago37:13

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Cleve makes deliveries around Data Haven while Mariah recovers from his injuries. Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!By Dicey Stories

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DS278 | Wesnoth | Echoes of Invasion: Wesmere Welcome | Part 6 of 6 46:28

1d ago46:28

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Extended family helps Heppa with her corruption and Tric with taking on the mantle of his noble heritage. Scene 13 Scene 14 GM Notes As usual, many NPCs in this arc are derived from units in the Battle for Wesnoth video game. Ash is an Avenger, and with Ruthiel, we get our first Shyde, the ultimate unit in the Druid line in the mainline game. User-…

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Alex Masmej, Founder of Drakula and Showtime 1:59:27

8d ago1:59:27

1:59:27

My guest today is Alex Masmej, founder of Drakula, Showtime, and $ALEX token. Alex's new app, Drakula, is a so-called SocialFi mixture of TikTok, friend.tech, Farcaster, and $DEGEN. On this episode, Alex and I discuss consumer crypto product iteration methodology, team composition, how to sustain setbacks including departing co-founders, the bear m…

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DS276 | Wesnoth | Echoes of Invasion: Wesmere Welcome | Part 5 of 6 40:12

9d ago40:12

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Heppa seeks guidance from Soliana, an elf steeped in knowledge of fae magic. Scene 11 Scene 12 Our character art by Del Borovic and the map we refer to (by me!) can be found here. Our music is sampled from Return to Wesnoth by Matthias Westlund (aka West), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, part of The Battle for Wesnoth Project. Visit them at wesnoth.or…

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DS275 | Alpha Centauri | Chronicles of Chiron: Excising Arx | Part 9 of 10 46:38

19d ago46:38

46:38

On the way back to Data Haven, the group comes across some ominous remains. Scene 30 Scene 31 Scene 32 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!By Dicey Stories

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DS274 | Wesnoth | Echoes of Invasion: Wesmere Welcome | Part 4 of 6 52:58

17d ago52:58

52:58

Tric and Heppa present the needs of the Grey Woods woses to the most prestigious elvish council of all, the Ka’lian. Scene 10 GM Notes This whole episode with the Ka’lian is very much indebted to A War of Life and Death by Mystical_Warlord. In that non-mainline campaign for the Battle for Wesnoth video game, Scenario 13 sees the primary character, …

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DS273 | Alpha Centauri | Chronicles of Chiron: Excising Arx | Part 8 of 10 52:33

20d ago52:33

52:33

Reunited, Cleve and Mariah patch each other up and share information on their new contacts. Scene 26 Scene 27 Scene 28 Scene 29 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!By Dicey Stories

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DS272 | Wesnoth | Echoes of Invasion: Wesmere Welcome | Part 3 of 6 51:06

24d ago51:06

51:06

Tric and Heppa enjoy a dance party with the young elves of Wesmere and then cookies with their grandparents. Scene 7 Scene 8 Scene 9 GM Notes The special items gifted to Tric and Heppa were created with input from the players on what type of item they were interested in. Tric’s player wanted something stealth-related, and since the shadow ring turn…

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Parthasarathy Ramanujam, Co-Founder & CTO of Etherspot 50:30

24d ago50:30

50:30

My guest today is Partha Ramanujam, co-founder of Etherspot. Etherspot is a 4337 Account Abstraction service provider. On this episode, Partha and I discuss the Pillar personal data locker, and how it led them to account abstraction and founding Etherspot. We get into the details of their AA Bundler, React library, and embedded wallet services. We …

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DS271 | Alpha Centauri | Chronicles of Chiron: Excising Arx | Part 7 of 10 53:10

1M ago53:10

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Mariah and Cleve find different ways out of the dome. Scene 22 Scene 23 Scene 24 Scene 25 GM Notes It was a spur of the moment decision to have Fritz be the same character as Morris. The tailor was intended as a single-scene NPC, but Mariah took a liking to him. This was the perfect place to bring him back and showcase a consensual encounter. But w…

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Cameron Robertson, Founder of Arx 1:09:08

1M ago1:09:08

1:09:08

My guest today is Cameron Robertson, founder of Arx. Arx is an NFC chip with a ECDSA private key. On this episode, Cameron and I dive into the devices and protocols at the intersection of NFC and blockchain. We discuss tamper resistance, signing APIs, and the interaction patterns available in today's mobile device ecosystem. It was great learning m…

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DS270 | Wesnoth | Echoes of Invasion: Wesmere Welcome | Part 2 of 6 53:05

1M ago53:05

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Tric and Heppa get acquainted with an unexpected new relative. Scene 4 Scene 5 Scene 6 GM Notes In this episode, we meet Ash, an NPC who holds a special place in my heart for a number of reasons I’ll get into more some time in the future. But for now, I’ll share that Ash sneaking around Carcyn on the way to the Grey Woods without being spotted by h…

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DS269 | Alpha Centauri | Chronicles of Chiron: Excising Arx | Part 6 of 10 1:04:35

1M ago1:04:35

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An unexpected additional rescue opportunity presents itself. Scene 18 Scene 19 Scene 20 Scene 21 GM Notes The University of Chiron in our tabletop game is a mix of University of Planet and Lord’s Believers from the Alpha Centauri video game. This melding of science and religion was itself inspired by the Supremacy affinity in Beyond Earth. Supremac…

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Haseeb Awan, Founder of Efani 1:19:10

1M ago1:19:10

1:19:10

My guest today is Haseeb Awan, founder of Efani. Efani is a telephone service provider for people and companies that are concerned about SIM swapping. On this episode, Haseeb and I dive into his history founding the original Bitcoin ATM network as a computer science student in Canada, going to YC, and becoming an American citizen. We dive into the …

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DS268 | Wesnoth | Echoes of Invasion: Wesmere Welcome | Part 1 of 6 53:25

1M ago53:25

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Newly arrived in Wesmere, Tric and Heppa settle in and meet Neia, an ambitious young shaman. Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 GM Notes In this episode, we meet Neia, a character from the User-Made Content campaign A War of Life and Death, and the information she shares with Tric and Heppa is basically a summary of that campaign. We also get our first look a…

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Andrew Huang, Founder of Conduit 1:02:38

1M ago1:02:38

1:02:38

My guest today is Andrew Huang, founder of Conduit. Conduit is a rollup as a service provider, which lets anyone deploy their own rollup in only a few clicks. Conduit operates Zora, Aevo, Mode, Frame, Public Goods Network, and several other rollups, and each of these ships with a suite of helpful infrastructure like robust RPCs, block explorers. On…

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DS267 | Alpha Centauri | Chronicles of Chiron: Excising Arx | Part 5 of 10 45:43

2M ago45:43

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Mariah and Arx search for a way out of the Hospital for Experimental Miasma Treatment. Scene 15 Scene 16 Scene 17 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!By Dicey Stories

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DS266 | Wesnoth | Echoes of Invasion: The Society of Shadow | Part 7 of 7 1:01:39

2M ago1:01:39

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Bruised and battered, Tric and Heppa leave the Grey Woods for Wesmere, bearers of the woses’ call for aid. Scene 15 Scene 16 Scene 17 GM Notes The first Wesmere elf we meet, Filvarel, is a minor character from Scene 13 of A War of Life and Death by Mystical_Warlord. This user-made campaign has many more types of units than mainline Battle for Wesno…

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DS265 | Alpha Centauri | Chronicles of Chiron: Excising Arx | Part 4 of 10 47:40

2M ago47:40

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Mariah gets Arx released from Dr. Bingyi Khan’s care. Scene 10 Scene 11 Scene 12 Scene 13 Scene 14 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!By Dicey Stories

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Jango, Co-Founder of Juicebox, Revnets, Defifa, and Bananapus 1:12:21

2M ago1:12:21

1:12:21

My guest today is Jango, co-founder of Juicebox Protocol, Revnets, Defifa, and Bananpus. Launched in 2021, Juicebox is a programmable fundraising protocol that has processed more than $180 million of contributions to over 1000 projects, from culture DAOs to open source projects. Most recently, Juicebox Protocol facilitated over 300 ETH in donations…

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DS264 | Wesnoth | Echoes of Invasion: The Society of Shadow | Part 6 of 7 52:12

2M ago52:12

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Society of Shadow remnants clash with Tric and Heppa deep in the Grey Woods. Scene 14 GM Notes This combat features more units from the Battle for Wesnoth video game. Donella, like Efa, is styled after the Bandit and was fighting alongside a Poacher. In the video game, the Bandit has a morningstar attack, while the Poacher has both a bow and a dagg…

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Vidy Thatte, Co-Founder of Trace 1:00:40

2M ago1:00:40

1:00:40

My guest today is Vidy Thatte, co-founder of Trace. Trace is a website that lets you build SwiftUI components with LLM text prompts, screenshots, and drawings on a canvas. In short, Trace lets you build iPhone apps with AI. On this episode, Vidy and I take a walk down memory lane, chronicling his illustrious history of app development projects and …

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DS263 | Alpha Centauri | Chronicles of Chiron: Excising Arx | Part 3 of 10 43:49

2M ago43:49

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Cleve and Mariah overcome physical and emotional challenges on their way to the hospital where Arx is imprisoned. Scene 7 Scene 8 Scene 9 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!By Dicey Stories

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Nick Dodson, CEO & Co-Founder of Fuel 1:29:43

2M ago1:29:43

1:29:43

My guest today is Nick Dodson, co-founder and CEO of Fuel. Fuel is a moduler execution layer that's designed to facilitate performant L2 rollups. On this episode, Nick and I discuss the history of rollup design, the scaling challenges facing the EVM, and how his years of experience writing Solidity, EVM Assembly, and participating in the EIP proces…

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DS262 | Wesnoth | Echoes of Invasion: The Society of Shadow | Part 5 of 7 47:42

2M ago47:42

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Following the fight against Gaenyn, Tric and Heppa return to the Society of Shadow encampment to ensure no stragglers linger. Scene 11 Scene 12 Scene 13 Our character art by Del Borovic and the map we refer to (by me!) can be found here. Our music is sampled from Return to Wesnoth by Matthias Westlund (aka West), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, part o…

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Draper and Facu, Co-Founders of Smol and Contributors at Yearn Finance 1:03:23

2M ago1:03:23

1:03:23

My guests today are Draper and Facu, co-founders of Smol and contributors to Yearn and Ajna. Smol is a set of practical EVM tools born out of Draper and Facu's experience building frontends and marketing material for Yearn Finance. On this episode, Facu and Draper walk us through the variety of tools and projects they've worked on together, and giv…

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DS261 | Alpha Centauri | Chronicles of Chiron: Excising Arx | Part 2 of 10 50:37

2M ago50:37

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Cleve and Mariah attract some unanticipated attention during the Planetfall Day festivities. Scene 4 Scene 5 Scene 6 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!By Dicey Stories

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Farcaster Frames Development with Cassie Heart, Christopher Wallace, Jacopo Ranalli & friends 1:08:21

2M ago1:08:21

1:08:21

Farcaster Frames are an exciting new feature of the Farcaster protocol that let developers quickly build mini apps with a few lines of code. Frames extend the OpenGraph meta tags, which are typically used to serve rich media embeds when pasting a link. Frames add interactive buttons which, when clicked inside of a compatible Farcaster client like W…

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DS260 | Wesnoth | Echoes of Invasion: The Society of Shadow | Part 4 of 7 1:19:25

2M ago1:19:25

1:19:25

The shadow mages launch their ambush… as do the elves and woses. Scene 8 Scene 9 Scene 10 GM Notes One of the inspirations for setting our tabletop Wesnoth game in the aftermath of Mal-Ravanal’s war was me playing through A War of Life and Death, a User-Made Content campaign by Mystical_Warlord. It is set in a similar timeframe, and at the very end…

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David Sneider and Chris Cassano, Co-Founders of Lit Protocol 1:35:41

2M ago1:35:41

1:35:41

My guests today are David Sneider and Chris Cassano, co-founders of Lit Protocol. Lit is a distributed key management network. Lit leverages multi-party computation and threshold signature schemes, spreading private key shares are across a network of Lit node operators so users can sign and encrypt data, without any one machine ever holding the ent…

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DS259 | Alpha Centauri | Chronicles of Chiron: Excising Arx | Part 1 of 10 49:27

2M ago49:27

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Mariah, Cleve, and Takuto enter the main dome of Morgan Industries. Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!By Dicey Stories

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Brian Weickmann, Co-Founder of ZKP2P 1:15:47

2M ago1:15:47

1:15:47

My guest today is Brian Weickmann, co-founder of ZKP2P. ZKP2P is a trustless fiat-to-crypto P2P onramp powered by ZK proofs. On this episode, Brian explains how ZKP2P leverages ZK proofs to translate DKIM signatures in Venmo and HDFC transaction confirmation emails to unlock onchain assets like ETH and USDC. ZKP2P lets depositors charge a fee, crea…

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DS258 | Wesnoth | Echoes of Invasion: The Society of Shadow | Part 3 of 7 49:13

2M ago49:13

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Tric and Heppa gain further insight into forbidden magic and the corruption that the woses can sense in the Grey Woods. Scene 5 Scene 6 Scene 7 Our character art by Del Borovic and the map we refer to (by me!) can be found here. Our music is sampled from Return to Wesnoth by Matthias Westlund (aka West), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, part of The Bat…

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Kristof Gazso, Founder of Pimlico 1:35:28

3M ago1:35:28

1:35:28

My guest today is Kristof Gazso, founder of Pimlico. Pimlico is an ERC-4337 smart account infrastructure provider. Pimlico offers a handful of services, including Alto, the most popular bundler by total executed user operations, a paymaster transaction sponsorship solution, and permissionless.js a new platform agnostic typescript library built on t…

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DS257 | Alpha Centauri | Chronicles of Chiron: The Cryopod Caper | Part 4 of 4 51:51

3M ago51:51

51:51

Cleve, Mariah, and Takuto explore a Progenitor wreck. Scene 11 Scene 12 Scene 13 Scene 14 Scene 15 GM Notes This is the first real look we have at Progenitor technology and design. In the Sid Meier’s Alien Crossfire expansion, these aliens have lost some of their technology and are relatively peers with the human factions. On our Chiron, however, w…

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Dogan and Ulas from Clave 1:02:30

3M ago1:02:30

1:02:30

My guests today are Ulas and Dogan, founder and founding engineer at Clave. Clave is a stablecoin wallet powered by passkeys and zkSync smart accounts. On this episode, Ulas and Dogan dive into the origins of Clave on Optimism, the UX advantages of account abstraction, and Rollup Improvement Proposal 7212, which aims to bring secp256r1 passkey elli…

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DS256 | Wesnoth | Echoes of Invasion: The Society of Shadow | Part 2 of 7 43:14

3M ago43:14

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Ulf introduces Tric and Heppa to Gaenyn, the leader of the shadow mages, who has uncomfortable ideas about how he and the elves might collaborate. Scene 4 GM Notes Our Society of Shadow grew out of the shadow mages from the mainline campaign Liberty in the Battle for Wesnoth video game. Gaenyn’s physical appearance is based on the artwork for Shado…

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Chris Chang and George Datskos, Founders of GhostLogs 55:18

3M ago55:18

55:18

My guests today are Chris Chang and George Datskos, founders of GhostLogs. GhostLogs is a new platform that allows developers to fork contracts on various EVMs, inject their own custom events and view functions, and then interact with them via RPC, Dune Analytics, or Flipside. In this episode, Chris and George explain how their journey doing MEV on…

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DS255 | Alpha Centauri | Chronicles of Chiron: The Cryopod Caper | Part 3 of 4 42:42

3M ago42:42

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Mariah and Cleve negotiate for the right to recover data from their cryobeds. Scene 8 Scene 9 Scene 10 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!By Dicey Stories

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Itai Turbahn, Co-Founder of Dynamic 1:13:46

3M ago1:13:46

1:13:46

My guest today is Itai Turbahn, co-founder and CEO of Dynamic. Dynamic is a Web3 login provider that offers embedded wallets, account management, and webhooks. In this episode, Itai and I talk about the present and future of wallets, authentication, multichain, passkeys, AA smart accounts, and more. It was nice getting to learn more about Itai's jo…

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DS254 | Wesnoth | Echoes of Invasion: The Society of Shadow | Part 1 of 7 41:51

3M ago41:51

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Ulf guides Tric and Heppa through the Grey Woods. Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 GM Notes When preparing for this arc, I scoured the mainline campaigns of the Battle for Wesnoth for any mention of the Grey Woods. There are battles there in both Liberty and Secrets of the Ancients. We’ve already seen ideas from Scenario 6 of Liberty in all the clues that h…

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Hilmar Maximilian Orth, Founder of Gelato Network and Arrakis Finance 1:25:13

3M ago1:25:13

1:25:13

My guest today is Hilmar Maximilian Orth, founder of Gelato Network and Arrakis Finance. Gelato is a service provider that helps protocol developers automate smart contract and rollup maintenance. Gelato's network of nodes automate and relay EVM transactions to many EVMs. Gelato also supplies rollup as a service tools to help new rollups launch wit…

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DS253 | Alpha Centauri | Chronicles of Chiron: The Cryopod Caper | Part 2 of 4 40:41

3M ago40:41

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Morgan Prospecting’s activities at the crash site do not go unnoticed. Scene 6 Scene 7 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!By Dicey Stories

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Eito Miyamura, ZK Microphone 55:13

3M ago55:13

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My guest today is Eito Miyamura, co-creator of ZK Microphone. ZK Microphone is an EthGlobal Paris hackathon project that prototypes generating hardware signed audio recordings, which uniquely link a file of captured audio to the device that recorded it. This application is enabled by hardware security modules, also known as trusted execution enviro…

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DS252 | Wesnoth | Echoes of Invasion: Downtime in Dan’Tonk | Part 4 of 4 38:58

3M ago38:58

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At the pottery market on the outskirts of Dan’Tonk, Tric and Heppa bump into an old acquaintance who is able to help them with the next stage of their journey through Wesnoth. Scene 12 Scene 13 Scene 14 Our character art by Del Borovic and the map we refer to (by me!) can be found here. Our music is sampled from Return to Wesnoth by Matthias Westlu…

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DS251 | Alpha Centauri | Chronicles of Chiron: The Cryopod Caper | Part 1 of 4 38:35

3M ago38:35

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Mariah, Cleve, and Takuto head out on a recovery job for Data Haven. Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4 Scene 5 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!By Dicey Stories

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Ryan Smith, Founder of IndexSupply 1:33:15

3M ago1:33:15

1:33:15

My guest today is Ryan Smith, founder of Index Supply. Index Supply is a company dedicated to open source indexing the EVM. Index Supply builds on Ryan's years of experience building backends and indexing services at Heroku, Chain, and Mint.fun, and through consulting with Zora, Reservoir, and more. On this episode we discuss Shovel, Index Supply's…

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