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Welcome to the Blockchain and Beyond Podcast where we talk different ideas in the Web3 ecosystem, speaking to the great minds behind it, and sharing lessons of over the past half decade. We've got a drive for making things easy to understand in an extremely complex space. Hosted by Farzan Akhtar.
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David Furlong: Frames, Frames.js and Farcaster
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Today’s episode is a special episode with David Furlong, founder of frames.js. We discuss everything frames and farcaster. Don't miss out on it ! Participate in the Superfluid Frontier Guild program: https://www.notion.so/superfluidhq/Superfluid-Frontier-Guild-ca56b52629f446989a66fb69b158cd74 FramesJs: https://framesjs.org/ Superfluid: https://www.…
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Revolutionizing Web3 Communication | With Vidhyanand | Founder of Notiboy
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Listen in as AP and I discuss the potential of notifications as a powerful tool for Web3 applications to communicate with their user base. We analyze why communication via Twitter or Discord isn't always effective and how notifications can be sent directly to users who have opted in. Furthermore, we delve into use cases for NFTs and gaming, the rol…
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The Modern Web3 Stack with Vitto Rivabella
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Today's episode features Vitto Rivabella on the modern web3 stack. Vitto on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VittoStack Create Web3 Dapp: https://www.alchemy.com/create-web3-dappBy Superfluid
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Bitcoin Mining and Energy Markets | With JP | Founder of MiningStore
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In this engaging conversation, we had the pleasure of speaking with JP Barrick, the founder of Mining Store. JP shared his journey into the Bitcoin space and how he came to start his business. From trading altcoins and mining Ethereum to setting up facilities and working with the Sacramento Kings, JP's experience in the crypto world is vast and fas…
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Today's episode is with Emily from the Consensys team on all things Linea - Consenys' new zkEVM. Linea: https://linea.build/ Linea Docs: https://docs.linea.build/ On ZK Hardware: https://hackmd.io/@Cysic/BJQcpVbXnBy Superfluid
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Planet IX - Web3 Game Development Behind the Scenes
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Today's episode features Lukas & Emil of the Planet IX core team. You can learn more about Planet IX (and play the game!) here: https://planetix.com/By Superfluid
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Alchemy & Account Abstraction Infrastructure
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Today's guest is Noam Hurwitz, an engineer at Alchemy who is playing a key role in building Alchemy's new account abstraction infrastructure. Alchemy on AA: www.alchemy.com/account-abstraction Alchemy: https://www.alchemy.com Alchemy University: https://university.alchemy.com Follow Noam on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProbablyNoam 00:00 Intro 3:51…
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Alluo Finance - How to Build a Great DeFi UX
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Today's episode is with Remi & Sung - core contributors at Alluo Finance. We went deep into Alluo's smart contract architecture & philosophy on building great DeFi user experiences. Learn more about Alluo: https://linktr.ee/alluo Build on Superfluid: https://www.superfluid.finance/wave-pool 00:00 Intro 5:11 How Remi got into the industry/Alluo's fo…
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The Graph Deep Dive with Pranav Maheshwari
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Today's episode features a deep dive on The Graph with engineer Pranav Maheshwari. Check out the Superfluid Wave Pool here: https://superfluid.finance/wavepoolBy Superfluid
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Zac Williamson on Huff, Aztec, Noir, and Building with ZK Tech
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This week's guest is Zac Williamson, founder & CEO at Aztec. Check out the Superfluid Wave Pool! https://www.superfluid.finance/wavepool Aztec: https://twitter.com/aztecnetwork Noir Docs: https://noir-lang.org/ Zac on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Zac_Aztec 00:00 Intro 3:45 How Zac got into Web3 6:45 The creation of Aztec 14:30 why did he build huff…
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Solidity Fuzzing & Web3 Testing with a Trail of Bits Security Engineer
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This week's episode features an interview between Patrick Collins and a Web3 Security Engineer at Trail of Bits. They cover: - testing methodologies - fuzzing - static analysis With Trail of Bits Security Engineer, Troy! Timestamps 3:10 - Exploring Smart Contract Testing Methodologies with Trail of Bits 5:37 - Testing Strategies for Smart Contracts…
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Ethereum Optimizooor Culture With Rage of Size.Market
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Today's guest is the pseudonymous developer Rage of Size.Market. Rage on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rage_pitBy Superfluid
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How to Level Up as a Web3 Engineer with Alberto Cuesta Cañada
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Building a Full Stack Skillset with Albert Hu
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Today's guest is Albert Hu - Founding Product Engineer at DeForm & former Developer Advocate at Alchemy.By Superfluid
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Today's episode is a technical deep dive into how Lens Protocol works under the hood. Build with Superfluid: https://www.superfluid.finance/wavepool Build on Lens: https://www.lens.xyz/garden Chapters: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:45 - Hackathons and the Superfluid Wave Pool 00:05:35 - Understanding Lens: A Developer's Perspective 00:08:11 - Lens Infrast…
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How To Perform an Audit with Damn Vulnerable DeFi Creator & Patrick Collins
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00:00 Intro & Opening Conversation 7:58 Tincho's audit setup 12:35 VSCodium 14:08 Foundry v hardhat 22:00 First audit steps 25:00 Tincho's process for commenting within the code itself 30:00 Processing a codebase with lots of inheritance & moving parts: there’s a kind of art here to flowing back and forth between the big picture architecture/busine…
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Distributed Computing - How It Applies To Blockchain And AI
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In this episode, Farzan discusses distributed computing and how it takes multiple computers work together to solve a large problem. This makes an entire network of computer appear as a single entity as it provides large-scale resources to enable advanced computations. In the context of blockchains, distributed computing is vital for running of the …
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Safe, Smart Contract Wallets, & Account Abstraction with Richard Meissner
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Today’s guest is Richard Meissner, co founder & CTO at Safe. Richard is an expert on all things smart contract wallets, and we used this episode to go deep into account abstraction. In particular, we discussed the Safe contract architecture and how things like Safe modules & smart contract wallets work under the hood. The Safe team has rolled out a…
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Rekeying - How it works with Real World Examples
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In this episode, Farzan discusses what rekeying is in the context of blockchain wallets by using the idea of public/private keys and which keys are allowed to manage signing for transactions. He further goes on to provide some context of when and where it can be used following the recent events of the MyAlgo wallet exploit on the Algorand blockchai…
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Devtooligan on Huff, Audits, & Following Curiosity
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Today’s guest is with Devtooligan - a pseudonymous smart contract engineer and auditor. Devtooligan is a mainstay in the Huff community and just recently landed a job as a security engineer at Trail of Bits. In this episode we went deep into Huff & why so many Huffoors have had lots of success. We also discussed Devtooligan’s career path and his jo…
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A Deep Dive into the Polygon zkEVM with Jordi Baylina
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Today's guest is Jordi Baylina, who leads the technical team building the Polygon zkEVM. The polygon zkEVM launches in late march, and this episode will serve as your technical introduction to how the zkEVM works. We got deep into how Jordi & the team pulled this off - we talked through how the prover & sequencer works, stepped through a sample tra…
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The Need For On-Chain Notifications | With Vidhyanand | Founder of Notiboy
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In this episode with Vidhyanand (AP) , the founder of Notiboy, and on-chain notifcation protocol on Algorand we discuss the need secure on-chain communications in the face of scams and dusting transactions. We also cover his background, how we got into the cryptospace, and also the developing startup and blockchain ecosystem in India, especially in…
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DCBuilder.eth - Zero Knowledge ML and Becoming a Web3 Developer
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Today’s guest is DC Builder - a pseudonymous dev who works as an engineer at Worldcoin and maintains DevPill.me - a guide to becoming a web3 engineer. DC Builder has contributed quite a bit of open source content & research to the space as well. He’s written things like deep dive guides on L2s and he also created the zero knowledge machine learning…
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Exploring my approach to finding value within the crypto market and I share some of my bags that I'm holding. My Links: Twitter - https://twitter.com/FarzanAkhtar1 Podcast - https://www.blockchainandbeyond.co.uk/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpxhLjdOdi5oiOG2nRIgsTQ/featuredBy Farzan Akhtar
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A Deep Dive on StarkNet with Henri Liuetad
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Today’s guest is Henri from StarkWare. Henri is a dev advocate who is deeply plugged into the StarkNet ecosystem and also hosts the StarkNet team’s podcast. This episode is meant to be a great introduction into building on StarkNet for existing web3 devs. We went very deep into all things StarkNet and Cairo. We discussed things like the StarkNet ac…
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Vendible Fireside with Doug, Gwin, and Mehmet
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A casual catch-up with the Vendible team about what they've been working on over the past few months, including: - Focusing on a single product - Cryptography - The bear markets - Justification of a DAO My Links: Twitter - https://twitter.com/FarzanAkhtar1 Podcast - https://www.blockchainandbeyond.co.uk/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC…
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Today’s guest is DeGatchi, an anon web3 dev who has gone from teaching himself to code on the bus, to building some of the most cutting edge open source tooling in the space. In this episode, Degatchi walks us through his journey into crypto, and his work as a dev to date. We discussed his early learning process, and his journey doing things like l…
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Analysis of Blockchain's Effectiveness in Voting and Elections
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My Links: Twitter - https://twitter.com/FarzanAkhtar1 Podcast - https://www.blockchainandbeyond.co.uk/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpxhLjdOdi5oiOG2nRIgsTQ/featured This video explores the topic of blockchain technology's role in the voting and election process. The presenter analyzes the potential benefits and drawbacks of using bloc…
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Account Abstraction, ERC 4337, & Biconomy with sachint.eth
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Today’s guest is Sachin from Biconomy. This episode was dedicated to the details of account abstraction and new technologies that aim to improve the overall user experience in web3. In particular, we went into great detail on ERC4337 vs EIP 3074, and talked through what infrastructure is required to actually get ERC 4337 implemented. Biconomy is wo…
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Check out Superfluid - https://www.superfluid.finance/ My Links: Twitter - https://twitter.com/FarzanAkhtar1 Podcast - https://www.blockchainandbeyond.co.uk/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpxhLjdOdi5oiOG2nRIgsTQ/featured Superfluid is an asset streaming protocol that brings subscriptions, salaries and rewards to DAOs and crypto-native …
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Nader Dabit on UX, Developer Ecosystems, and Giving Back
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Today’s guest is Nader Dabit - the Director of Developer relations at Aave. Nader has had a very positive impact on many, many devs in web3, and in this episode, we tried to get behind the scenes on how Nader approaches creating developer content, building developer communities, and both building & maintaining APIs and developer tooling. If you wor…
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Onboarding The Next 1b Web3 Users with DropChain | With Nate and Carter | Founders of DropChain
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With DropChain you can add Web3 functionality to your Web2 application with a few lines of code. They are aiming to onboard the next 1,000,000 Web3 developers, and the next 1,000,000,000 Web3 users. Carter and Nate are the ambitious minds behind this project and want to streamline the process of using Web3 and leading the way to decentralisation. L…
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A Technical Introduction to NEAR Protocol with Bowen Wang
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Today’s guest is Bowen Wang, the Head of Protocol Development at Near. This episode will serve as a technical introduction to NEAR from the point of view of an EVM developer. Bowen and I discussed a lot of the inner workings of NEAR: we went into sharding, asynchronicity on NEAR, javascript smart contracts, and NEAR’s analogues to account abstracti…
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Ultrade and B2B DeFi solutions | With Dan Goldman | CEO and Founder of Ultrade
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Ultrade describes themselves as a DeFi-As-A-Service solution, building B2B DeFi infrastructure which can be leveraged by brands and creators to strengthen the connection and value with their community. Using Ultrade, anyone can create a fully customisable trading suite which includes AMMs, Order Books, Derivatives, and Lending markets, with just a …
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Harsh Rajat - A Deep Dive Into PUSH Protocol and Web3 Communications
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Push protocol is building a decentralized communication and notification layer for web3, and in this episode, we deep dive the protocol on a technical level. We talk through things like the push smart contracts, PUSH ‘channels’, what exactly the notification itself is under the hood, and more. We also asked Harsh some more general questions about b…
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How I would learn about Blockchain in 2023 - Technical and Non-Technical topics
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Today I discuss how I would approach leaning about Blockchain and Crypto in 2023. We discuss topics like: - History of Blockchain - Smart contracts - Consensus Mechanisms - Issues facing blockchains - Regulatory landscape Twitter - https://twitter.com/FarzanAkhtar1 Discord: https://discord.gg/Rf7CkZEGds Podcast - https://www.blockchainandbeyond.co.…
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Introduction to Solana For Ethereum Developers with Bartosz Lipinski
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Today we’ll be looking beyond the EVM to do a technical deep dive on the Solana ecosystem. Stream Salaries With Superfluid: https://use.superfluid.finance/payroll Bartosz is the head of product engineering at Solana. He’ll tell you more about his journey into crypto in the episode, but Bartosz is someone with deep expertise in building software for…
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An extra episode this week going over what the year 2022 had in store for the blockchain and crypto ecosystem. I definitely glazed over some topics but I get the big ones in there. I also discuss the future of the podcast and how I want to continue to develop it going further including speaking to more thought leaders in the space, and having a hig…
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In this episode, we discuss the concept of proof-of-reserves, a method used by some cryptocurrency exchanges to provide transparency around the amount of cryptocurrency they hold in reserve. We explore the potential benefits of proof-of-reserves and consider whether they are worth the hype. Twitter - https://twitter.com/FarzanAkhtar1 Discord: https…
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Luis (@gitpusha) on Gelato, Smart Contract Automation, & Off Chain Infrastructure
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Today’s guest is Luis (aka gitpusha), co founder of Gelato network. Luis has a fascinating story. He taught himself to code about 5 years ago and jumped into crypto before finding his way into smart contract automation & ultimately the founding of Gelato Network - a protocol for decentralized smart contract automation. In this episode, we deep dive…
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Trantorian and the blockchain gaming ecosystem (With Manuel - CCO of Indelve Studios)
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Trantorian is a blockchain 3D space exploration, battle, economic and civilization development NFT based game situated on a persistent, ever growing metaverse. Trantorian bridges the best of traditional games with the added benefits of blockchain. Such as asset ownership, decentralization and governance. The gameplay brings a combination of genres …
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Julien Niset - Argent and Account Abstraction
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Today’s guest is Julien Niset, co-founder of Argent. Argent is a non custodial smart contract wallet that aims to improve UX across the entirety of web3. Julien has also become an expert & thought leader on account abstraction. In this episode, we deep dive account abstraction, how Argent works under the hood, and what app developers need to unders…
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Verifiable Random Functions (With Bit from D13 Collective)
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A Verifiable Random Function takes a secret key and a value and produces a pseudorandom output, with a proof that anyone can use to verify the result. Today I'm joined by Bit from D13 Collective to talk more about them and their usecases. D13 - https://d13.co/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/d13_co My Links: Podcast - https://www.blockchainandbeyond.…
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Patrick Collins - Developer Advocacy, New Tooling, & Chainlink
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Today’s guest is Patrick Collins. You may know Patrick from his YouTube channel or his work at Chainlink, where he serves as a Lead Developer Advocate. Patrick is one of the industry’s best educators and devrel pros. His latest 32 hour, full stack web3 development course was viewed over 1.3M times, and lives on as one of the best resources for peop…
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The Creator Economy on Algorand (With Christian - Founder of Niftgen)
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Niftgen is an Algorand-based NFT platform where content creators can build and monetize their brands by empowering fans to play a key role in the creative process. Today I am joined by Christian, founder of Niftgen to discuss more about Niftgen and the impact they want to have. Niftgen: Twitter - https://twitter.com/niftgen Discord - https://t.co/3…
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0xBeans - IAmTheOptimizer, MEV, & Smart Contract Security
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Today’s guest is with 0xBeans - a smart contract engineer who worked at Coinbase in the early days and now does work across the space as a solidity engineer. Beans is the creator of the IAmTheOptimizer challenge, which took off earlier this year and saw the industry’s most high profile devs taking a crack at it. In this episode, we discuss gas opti…
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0xFoobar on Delegate.cash and Building Immutable Smart Contracts
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Today’s guest is Foobar - a Dev, writer, and auditor who is also a DeFi & NFT founder. You may know Foobar from Twitter, where he is a grade A memepoaster and prolific commentator on all things crypto. He’s also the creator of Delegate.cash - an immutable primitive to safely claim airdrops for vaulted NFTs. In this episode, we deep dive several of …
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Today’s episode is with Nick Dodson, co-founder of Fuel Labs and one of the minds behind the Sway language. We deep dive the FuelVM, Sway, and how Nick approaches his work as an engineer. Stream salaries with Superfluid: https://use.superfluid.finance/payroll 00:00 Intro 5:14 How Nick got into crypto 8:36 Why build Fuel? 11:51 Where does Fuel fit i…
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@w1nt3r on NFT Development, His EVM Course, and Winning as an Honest Builder in Web3
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Winter has been prolific on Twitter & in his web3 journey. He’s worked on projects for the Nouns and Loot communities, and produced really interesting projects of his own including ERC1155U, Runes of Ethereum, & Hot Chain SVG. Stream salaries with Superfluid: https://use.superfluid.finance/payroll In this episode, we talk about the benefits of buil…
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Igor Yalovoy - Founding a DeFi Protocol, Unlimited Contract Sizes, & Solidity Best Practices
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Igor has a really interesting story. Babylon was a DeFi protocol that ended up shutting down after the Rari capital exploit, but the team gave the project a high integrity effort and it sounds like they learned many things during the journey. Igor walks us through what it was like launching a new DeFi protocol during the bull market, and also talks…
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