Best nnnnicholas Podcasts (2024)

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Credible Accounts with Stephane Gosselin, Co-Founder of OneBalance and Flashbots 1:12:58

18d ago1:12:58

1:12:58

My guest today is Stephane Gosselin. Stephane co-founded the MEV pirate dev collective Flashbots, which he left in late 2022. His new project, OneBalance, is a framework that substantially reimagines how blockchain accounts are created and managed. In this episode, Stephane and I dive into the lifecycle of an Ethereum transaction today, and the gro…

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Decentralized Robotics with Kosuke July Hata, Founder of Faust 1:41:09

1M ago1:41:09

1:41:09

My guest today is Kosuke Hata aka July, founder of Faust. Faust is a nascent hardware startup working at the intersection of distributed sensing, blockchains, and self driving. The team is composed of engineers from automotive and machine learning engineering projects at Google, Apple, and Tesla. On this episode, July shares background about the se…

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Cassandra Heart, Founder of Quilibrium 1:57:13

2M ago1:57:13

1:57:13

My guest today is Cassandra Heart, founder of Quilibrium and part-time contributor at Merkle Manufactory, creators of Farcaster. On today's episode, Cassie and I dive into Quilibrium, a decentralized platform as a service protocol that aims to enable developers to store data and run uncensorable apps. We discuss Cassie's extensive background buildi…

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Jong-Kai Yang, Co-Founder of HackMD 54:37

2M ago54:37

54:37

My guests today is Jong-Kai Yang, founder of HackMD. HackMD is a multiplayer plain text editor on the web. People use HackMD to collaborate on text notes, share read-only documentation, and collect feedback from commenters. HackMD plays especially nicely with markdown and other common markup languages, making the documents one produces in HackMD hi…

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Luke Miles, Co-founder of Rug.Fun and Mint.Fun 1:21:56

3M ago1:21:56

1:21:56

My guest today is Luke Miles, creator of rug.fun, meme.market, mint.fun, and context.app. On this episode, Luke and I run through the history of applications he's created on Ethereum and the EVM. We discuss the recent sale of mint.fun to zora, and go in depth on his two latest memecoin related projects, meme.market and rug.fun. It was a pleasure ca…

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0xTranqui and Salief Lewis, Co-Founders of River 1:12:50

3M ago1:12:50

1:12:50

My guests today are 0xTranqui aka Max and Salief Lewis, two of the four co-founders of Lifeworld, the startup that's creating River. River is a blockchain media protocol. In its launch configuration, users can sign in with Privy, register accounts on a smart contract on Optimism, and post references to IPFS-hosted media as calldata to a smart contr…

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

4M 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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Alex Masmej, Founder of Drakula and Showtime 1:59:27

4M 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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Parthasarathy Ramanujam, Co-Founder & CTO of Etherspot 50:30

5M 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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Cameron Robertson, Founder of Arx 1:09:08

5M 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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Haseeb Awan, Founder of Efani 1:19:10

5M 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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Andrew Huang, Founder of Conduit 1:02:38

5M 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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Jango, Co-Founder of Juicebox, Revnets, Defifa, and Bananapus 1:12:21

6M 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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Vidy Thatte, Co-Founder of Trace 1:00:40

6M 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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Nick Dodson, CEO & Co-Founder of Fuel 1:29:43

6M 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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Draper and Facu, Co-Founders of Smol and Contributors at Yearn Finance 1:03:23

6M 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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Farcaster Frames Development with Cassie Heart, Christopher Wallace, Jacopo Ranalli & friends 1:08:21

6M 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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David Sneider and Chris Cassano, Co-Founders of Lit Protocol 1:35:41

6M 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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Brian Weickmann, Co-Founder of ZKP2P 1:15:47

6M 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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Kristof Gazso, Founder of Pimlico 1:35:28

6M 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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Dogan and Ulas from Clave 1:02:30

6M 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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Chris Chang and George Datskos, Founders of GhostLogs 55:18

7M 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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Itai Turbahn, Co-Founder of Dynamic 1:13:46

7M 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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Hilmar Maximilian Orth, Founder of Gelato Network and Arrakis Finance 1:25:13

7M 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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Eito Miyamura, ZK Microphone 55:13

7M ago55:13

55:13

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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Ryan Smith, Founder of IndexSupply 1:33:15

7M 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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Nazar Ilamanov, creator of Monobase 54:42

7M ago54:42

54:42

My guest today is Nazar Ilamanov, Solidity and Web3 dev and creator of Monobase. Monobase is a collection of tools for reading smart contracts. It includes a universal frontend for contract interactions, a scheme for creating onchain HTML interfaces, and a forthcoming VSCode extension for writing contract interactions in Solidity. It was fun gettin…

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Nick Hollins and Ivano Salonia of UFO 1:27:40

8M ago1:27:40

1:27:40

My guests today are Nick Hollins and Ivano Salonia, co-founders of UFO. UFO is an onchain radio network and a spiritual offspring of indie radio. In this episode, Nick, Ivano, and I discuss the work of creating podcasts that grow onchain brands and build community. We consider how Web3 communities make use of Web2, how NFT drops create momentum, an…

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Bryce Ferguson and Jack Kearney, CEO and CTO of Turnkey 1:18:18

8M ago1:18:18

1:18:18

My guests today are Bryce Ferguson and Jack Kearney, CEO and CTO of Turnkey. Turnkey is a private key as a service provider designed to let app devs and enterprise customers create, manage, and use private keys with a simple API. Turnkey leverages Amazon Nitro, a Trusted Execution Environment as a service, to give customers of all sizes a Secure En…

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ConejoCapital, CEO of Dora 1:45:45

8M ago1:45:45

1:45:45

My guest today is Bunny, aka @ConejoCapital, CEO of Dora. Dora is a user friendly block explorer and blockchain search engine. On this episode, Bunny and I discuss multichain block explorers, unified blockchain interaction interfaces, and the challenges of blockchain indexing. We discuss Dora's search product and it's data product, and it's adventu…

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Derek Chiang, CEO of ZeroDev 1:24:39

8M ago1:24:39

1:24:39

My guest today is Derek Chiang, CEO of ZeroDev. ZeroDev is a smart account provider whose SDK makes it easy for app devs to integrate social authentication, Passkey signers, paymaster gas sponsorships, transaction bundling, and third party plugins. In this conversation, Derek and I discuss 4337 in depth from the perspective of the app dev. We talk …

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3074 vs 4337 with Matt Garnett, Gregory Markou, and Joseph Delong 1:22:36

9M ago1:22:36

1:22:36

Subscribe at web3galaxybrain.com Today's episode is a roundtable discussion about EIP-3074: AUTH and AUTHCALL and EIP-4337: Account Abstraction Using Alt Mempool, two very different approaches to enabling smart contract accounts. To discuss the past, present, and future of 3074 and 4337, I'm joined by Matt Garnett, aka lightclients, developer contr…

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Ahmed Al-Balaghi, CEO of Biconomy 1:21:04

9M ago1:21:04

1:21:04

My guest today is Biconomy co-founder and CEO Ahmed Al-Balaghi. Since 2019, Biconomy has executed over 40 million metatransactions to help devs make crypto UX easier for their users. Today, Biconomy is one of the top Account Abstraction service providers, boasting significant markeshare across popular EVM chains. In this episode, Ahmed and I sit do…

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Jacob Frantz and Zak Salmon, Founders of FirstMate 1:59:38

9M ago1:59:38

1:59:38

Web3 Galaxy Brain on Gitcoin My guests today are Jacob Frantz and Zak Salmon, founders of FirstMate. FirstMate lets Creators build and host their own secondary NFT marketplaces. Creator-owned marketplaces can display all of an artist or team's collections across minting platforms, enforce royalties, and source liquidity from the most popular market…

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Nitya Subramanian, Founder of Capsule 58:25

9M ago58:25

58:25

My guest today is Nitya Subramanian, founder of Capsule. Capsule is an embedded wallet SDK that leverages Passkeys, MPC, and AA Smart Accounts to simplify the user experience around wallet creation and transaction signing. Apps that integrate Capsule's embedded wallet SDK authenticate users by their email address. Capsule creates a Passkey for each…

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Furqan Rydhan, Co-founder of Thirdweb 1:30:36

9M ago1:30:36

1:30:36

My guest today is Furqan Rydhan, co-founder of Thirdweb. Thirdweb is a popular web3 toolkit for app developers. Thirdweb is used by big brands and indie developers to drop NFTs, enable log-in, and power decentralized games. By the numbers, in September 2023, Thirdweb had 50,000 active developers and 5 million active end-users interacting with produ…

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DC Posch and Nalin Bhardwaj, Founders of Daimo 1:07:24

10M ago1:07:24

1:07:24

My guests today are DC Posch and Nalin Bhardwaj, co-founders of Daimo. Daimo is a stablecoin focused iOS wallet built with Passkeys and AA Smart Accounts.On this episode, DC, Nalin, and I discuss their new p256Verifier contract, which is an audited Solidity implementation of p256r1 verification. We discuss the ins-and-outs of gas optimized onchain …

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Pedro Gomes, Founder of WalletConnect 1:07:27

10M ago1:07:27

1:07:27

My guest today is Pedro Gomes, better known as @pedrouid on twitter. Pedro is the founder of WalletConnect, the most important software for connecting wallets to dapps.On this episode, Pedro joins the show to discuss WalletConnect's origins and the architectural changes introduced in WalletConnect v2. We also go in-depth on the recently finalized E…

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Konrad Kopp, Co-Founder of Rhinestone 1:19:34

10M ago1:19:34

1:19:34

My guest today is Konrad Kopp, co-founder of Rhinestone. Rhinestone is an exciting project that's researching and developing smart account modules atop the ERC-4337 Account Abstraction standard. AA modules promise to allow smart contract account owners to safely add new functionality and permissions to their accounts, without having to upgrade to n…

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Account Abstraction with Will Hennessy & Noam Hurwitz 1:17:22

10M ago1:17:22

1:17:22

Smart contract wallets are gaining traction amongst devs, because they offer several advantages over traditional EOA accounts. ERC-4337, the Account Abstraction EIP, proposes a standard for creating smart contract accounts that can have interchangeable signers and authentication schemes, allow for gas to be paid by third parties, and create a new m…

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Rhea Myers, Blockchain Artist 1:57:56

10M ago1:57:56

1:57:56

My guest today is artist, Rhea Myers. Rhea is a programmer, essayist, researcher, thinker, and art practitioner who has been working in the medium of blockchains for over a decade. In this conversation, Rhea takes us through some of the works and writing in her 2011-2021 retrospective, Proof of Work, which is a gorgeous book in the print edition. I…

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Forum with James McComish and Peter Ferguson 1:35:17

10M ago1:35:17

1:35:17

My guests today are James McComish and Peter Ferguson, co-founders of Forum. Forum is an iPhone app where every groupDM has its own shared wallet. James and Peter are among the most knowledgeable builders working with WebAuthn and Passkeys that I've encountered. On this episode, we discuss the ins-and-outs of WebAuthn in production, including large…

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The Consumer Crypto Stack 22:41

10M ago22:41

22:41

The Consumer Crypto Stack lets devs make crypto apps regular people can enjoy. In this talk, I explain the 100x UX improvement enabled by Passkeys, Smart Contract Wallets, L2s, and Gasless interaction design. X.com Video YouTube Zora NFT PDF Slides Today's special episode is the audio version of a research tech talk that I published on October 5, 2…

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Cosmos for EVM Devs with Sam Hart 1:16:21

11M ago1:16:21

1:16:21

My guest today is Sam Hart. Sam is a developer, artist, and biochemist. He is Head of Product & Strategy at Skip Protocol and co-founder at Timewave Labs. He has contributed to the Cosmos ecosystem for years, and is also co-founder of Folia, a blockchain art collective. On September 1, 2023, Sam wrote a long and detailed post to the MakerDAO forums…

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Scott Sunarto Built a Toy L2 1:51:27

11M ago1:51:27

1:51:27

My guest today is Scott Sunarto. Scott is the founder of Argus Labs, a decentralized gaming company. He was contributor to Dark Forest. On this episode, Scott joins me to discuss his Cookie Clicker Rollup, a toy L2 he built to better understand and demonstrate the architecture of optimistic rollups. We discuss optimistic and zk rollups, censorship …

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Jose Aguinaga on Passkeys, MPC, and AA Wallets 2:08:45

11M ago2:08:45

2:08:45

My guest today is Jose Aguinaga. Jose is Head of Digital Custody Services at SEBA Bank in Switzerland. He was previously Head of Engineering at HOPR. Jose is also the creator of passkeys.is and mpc.is, two valuable educational resources that describe and demonstrate passkeys and multi-party computation, respectively. On this episode, Jose and I go …

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Obvious Smart Wallets with Himanshu Retarekar & Jebu Ittiachen 1:22:29

11M ago1:22:29

1:22:29

My guests today are Himanshu Retarekar and Jebu Ittiachen, two of three co-founders of Obvious. Obvious is a smart wallet company with three products. The Obvious Wallet is a multi-chain 4337 account abstraction smart wallet that was among the earliest full featured AA consumer products on the market. Obvious Embed is an AA wallet that third-party …

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Vivian Phung, Founder of Snowball 1:01:13

11M ago1:01:13

1:01:13

Today, I'm joined by Vivian Phung. Viv is the 23 year old solo founder of Snowball, a Web3 dev tools provider focused on mobile apps and webapps. Snowball's first product, Igloo, will give developers a simple solution for SSO authentication, AA smart wallet, and onramping in one SDK. Igloo is currently in private alpha on testnet.Prior to starting …

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Gami, Crypto Producer and Founder of GnarsDAO 1:55:03

11M ago1:55:03

1:55:03

Today, I'm joined by Gami. Gami is a crypto creator and the founder of GnarsDAO, the skateboarding-centric nounish community. Gami is one of a small number of practitioners in an emerging discipline that I call "crypto production." Gami led the creation of several onchain happenings, including GnarsDAO, a DAO dedicated to onboarding skaters to Web3…

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EIP-7212 with Ulaş Erdoğan, Jerome de Tychey, and Lionello Lunesu 1:22:30

11M ago1:22:30

1:22:30

Today's episode is all about EIP-7212. To understand EIP-7212, first we need to talk about Passkeys. Passkeys are a new authentication standard designed to replace passwords. With passkeys, when you sign into an app or website, a passkey is generated on your device, and saved either locally, to a passkey manager, or to a hardware device like a Yubi…

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