Odysseas.eth: Cross Chain Tech, Good Design Patterns, and the Sovereign Stack

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Today’s guest is Odysseas.eth, an engineer at Nomad who has provided a lot of value to the space as an engineer and open source contributor to various projects such as Foundry. Odysseas has a passion for decentralization, and in this episode, we discuss the technical details of what he calls the Sovereign Stack - a suite of tools he feels are important for crypto natives seeking to live decentralized lives.

We also dive deep on cross chain messaging, favorite design patterns in the Foundry codebase and Odysseas’ own work (which include a really cool script for tracing contract storage I thought was awesome), and the importance of focus for engineers working in the space. This is a wide ranging conversation that decentralization maxis and protocol engineers alike will enjoy.

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4:00 How Odysseas got involved in crypto
10:00 The Sovereign Stack

14:30 What is urbit?

20:20 Radicle and decentralization around git

24:50 What do devs need to build into the sovereign stack?

27:20 Staying decentralized at the hardware level

30:40 Devcon and what we should be building

37:06 Avoiding getting distracted as a new solidity developer (decent SB)

44:10 Cross chain messaging

48:20 Advice on making open source contributions

51:30 High quality patterns in the Foundry codebase

54:00 Odysseas favorite design pattern: a bash script to print a txt file of your contract’s storage layout

58:15 the importance of focus, and why Odysseas doesn’t focus on gas golfing

1:00:00 Where Odysseas hopes the industry goes within the next 10 years

Odysseas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/odysseas_eth
Odysseas' Blog: https://odyslam.com/
Github: https://github.com/OdysLam/