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Tim Galebach: Uqbar – Smart Contracts on Urbit

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Building a truly decentralised, peer-to-peer network, based on a built-in identity system, limits the ecosystem’s interoperability with the outside world. Onboarding developers and users to Urbit was only the first hurdle. On-ramping crypto was a whole different & daunting task. Uqbar set out to build an execution layer on top of Urbit, enabling smart contracts, which would ultimately settle, via a ZK rollup, on Starknet.

We were joined by Tim Galebach, founder of Uqbar, to discuss the different design choices involved, from Hoon programming DevEx to a hybrid ZK-optimistic rollup.

Topics covered in this episode:

  • Tim’s background
  • Urbit explained
  • How Uqbar took shape
  • Integrating crypto in the Urbit stack
  • Hoon’s usability and DevEx
  • AI-enabled Uqbar
  • Uqbar interoperability
  • Rollup vs. L1 approach for Uqbar
  • Hybrid ZK-optimistic rollup
  • Getting from programming in Hoon to ZK proofs
  • Use cases for Uqbar & Urbit

Episode links:

This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Meher Roy. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/491

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Building a truly decentralised, peer-to-peer network, based on a built-in identity system, limits the ecosystem’s interoperability with the outside world. Onboarding developers and users to Urbit was only the first hurdle. On-ramping crypto was a whole different & daunting task. Uqbar set out to build an execution layer on top of Urbit, enabling smart contracts, which would ultimately settle, via a ZK rollup, on Starknet.

We were joined by Tim Galebach, founder of Uqbar, to discuss the different design choices involved, from Hoon programming DevEx to a hybrid ZK-optimistic rollup.

Topics covered in this episode:

  • Tim’s background
  • Urbit explained
  • How Uqbar took shape
  • Integrating crypto in the Urbit stack
  • Hoon’s usability and DevEx
  • AI-enabled Uqbar
  • Uqbar interoperability
  • Rollup vs. L1 approach for Uqbar
  • Hybrid ZK-optimistic rollup
  • Getting from programming in Hoon to ZK proofs
  • Use cases for Uqbar & Urbit

Episode links:

This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Meher Roy. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/491

  continue reading

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