This is my conversation with Justin Glibert, CEO of Lattice and cofounder of 0xPARC. Timestamps: - 00:00:00 intro - 00:00:44 digital physics - 00:06:27 changing physics + capitalism = theme parks - 00:16:12 objective functions are political - 00:22:53 sponsor: Optimism - 00:23:58 individual agency - 00:27:25 violence on the internet - 00:39:17 mono…

This is my conversation with Jonny Mack, Cofounder of Fabric and Hypersub. Timestamps: - 00:00:00 intro - 00:01:05 motivations - 00:05:43 pooled capital for shared ownership and upside - 00:09:24 the computer and the casino, the purist and the tourist - 00:13:59 sponsor: Privy - 00:15:15 $higher, memecoins, cashflow, headless brands - 00:24:38 STP,…

This is my conversation with Stephane Gosselin, cofounder of Flashbots, Frontier Research, and OneBalance. Timestamps: - 00:00:00 intro - 00:01:29 sponsor: Optimism - 00:02:34 my existential question about crypto - 00:07:13 global consensus is the problem - 00:14:27 architecting a new system - 00:21:56 OneBalance and Credible Accounts - 00:29:39 cr…

This is my conversation with Molly Mackinlay, Head of Engineering, Product, and Research Development at Protocol Labs, and CEO at FilOz. Timestamps: - 00:00:00 intro - 00:01:59 sponsor: Privy - 00:03:15 motivation - 00:09:30 exabytes of network capacity - 00:12:11 edge computing, bringing compute to data - 00:14:26 the history of IPFS, libp2p, IPLD…

This is my conversation with Rish, cofounder of Neynar, building infrastructure for Farcaster. Timestamps: - 00:00:00 intro - 00:01:51 sponsor: Optimism - 00:03:01 the idea maze for Neynar - 00:12:46 exit, building blocks, and monetization models - 00:17:20 how Neynar is architected - 00:21:52 handling Frames Friday - 00:25:04 scaling infrastructur…

This is my conversation with Sreeram Kannan, founder at EigenLayer. Timestamps: - 00:00:00 intro - 00:01:21 sponsor: Optimism - 00:02:42 the AVS economy - 00:05:24 blockchains separate trust and innovation - 00:16:53 sponsor: Optimism - 00:18:02 specialized services and SaaS on EigenLayer - 00:24:50 rollups are open verifiable web servers - 00:41:3…

This is my conversation with Doug Petkanics and Eric Tang, cofounders of Livepeer. Timestamps: - 00:00:00 intro - 00:01:45 sponsor: Optimism - 00:03:55 Livepeer origin story - 00:11:54 FFmpeg and the video infrastructure stack - 00:17:07 compute capacity and cost in open vs closed systems - 00:22:59 GPUs as the supply side, working at NVIDIA - 00:4…

This is my conversation with Martin Köppelmann, cofounder of Gnosis. Timestamps: - 00:00:00 intro - 00:01:47 sponsor: Privy - 00:03:08 Gnosis Pay as an onchain bank account - 00:13:49 security, passkeys and recovery - 00:21:19 privacy, Tornado Cash - 00:28:25 sponsor: Optimism - 00:29:35 AI agents as a new form of life - 00:36:43 training with pred…

This is my conversation with Varun Srinivasan - cofounder of Merkle Manufactory, the company building the Farcaster protocol and the Warpcast client. Timestamps: - 00:00:00 intro - 00:01:34 sponsor: Optimism - 00:02:44 Farcaster origins - 00:05:59 sufficient decentralization, namespaces, hubs and CRDTs - 00:16:02 type 1 vs type 2 decisions - 00:21:…

This is my conversation with Rebecca Rettig and Michael Mosier. Rebecca is the Chief Legal and Policy Officer at Polygon Labs. Michael is cofounder of Arktouros and partner at Ex Ante. Timestamps: - 00:00:00 intro - 00:01:38 sponsor: Privy - 0:02:59 Rebecca's background, the Silk Road case, Aave, Polygon - 00:07:22 Michael's background, Department …