Into the Bytecode Sina Habibian
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Into the Bytecode is a podcast about building the future.
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- Twitter: twitter.com/sinahab
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#31 – Sreeram Kannan: building the verifiable cloud
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- 00:41:35 rollup economics and business models- 01:55:14 the transition from academic to builder/operator- 01:06:38 impact per unit action- 01:10:26 outro
Links:Sreeram Kannan: https://twitter.com/sreeramkannanEigenLayer: https://twitter.com/eigenlayer
Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:Optimism - https://optimism.ioPrivy - https://privy.io
Into the Bytecode:Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahabFarcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahabOther episodes - https://intothebytecode.com
Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. -
#30 – Doug Petkanics & Eric Tang: open video infrastructure
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- 00:40:27 finding latent demand- 00:46:10 sponsor: Privy- 00:47:30 learnings on go-to-market, Livepeer Studio, AI video processing- 01:00:54 AI subnets in the Livepeer network- 01:07:51 doing whatever it takes to get it done- 01:13:19 interacting with the market- 01:18:51 the inner game- 01:24:30 outro
Links:Doug Petkanics - https://twitter.com/petkanicsEric Tang - https://twitter.com/ericxtangLivepeer - https://twitter.com/livepeerLivepeer Studio - https://twitter.com/livepeerstudio
Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:Optimism - https://optimism.ioPrivy - https://privy.io
Into the Bytecode:Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahabFarcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahabOther episodes - https://intothebytecode.com
Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. -
#29 – Martin Köppelmann: AI agents as onchain actors
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 prediction markets as RLHF- 00:46:00 agents and prediction markets as interconnected concepts- 00:56:21 why now for prediction markets- 01:09:08 outro
Show notes:- Martin Köppelmann: https://twitter.com/koeppelmann- Prediction Prophet, an agent by Polywrap in collaboration with Autonolas and Gnosis: https://predictionprophet.ai/
Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:Optimism - https://optimism.ioPrivy - https://privy.io
Into the Bytecode:Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahabFarcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahabOther episodes - https://intothebytecode.com
Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. -
#28 – Varun Srinivasan: Farcaster, building a decentralized social network
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- 00:21:23 the protocol, channels, clients, spam- 00:30:13 direct messaging and end-to-end encryption- 00:36:38 a turing complete social protocol- 00:41:58 sponsor: Privy- 00:43:19 why frames- 00:52:14 Facebook, Twitter, Farcaster- 01:03:25 backstory, growing up in India, Microsoft, YC- 01:08:11 learnings from Coinbase- 01:15:13 building a company- 01:18:53 doing the one thing that matters- 01:28:07 outro
Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:Optimism - https://optimism.ioPrivy - https://privy.io
Into the Bytecode:Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahabFarcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahabOther episodes - https://intothebytecode.com
Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. -
#27 – Rebecca Rettig & Michael Mosier: genuine DeFi as critical infrastructure
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 of Justice, FinCEN, Espresso Systems, the White House, ex/ante - 00:15:12 the current regulatory regime, Bank Secrecy Act, sanctions laws, miners/validators- 00:29:30 sponsor: Optimism- 00:30:40 genuine DeFi vs onchain CeFi, critical infrastructure- 00:44:54 Uniswap contracts, app vs protocol, wallet risk scoring, OFAC, Lazarus Group- 00:54:19 the Security Alliance (SEAL), white hats, working with the FBI- 01:08:04 why do this work, the ability to innovate in the US is a freedom- 01:12:13 crypto policy bootcamp- 01:14:00 outro
Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:Optimism - https://optimism.ioPrivy - https://privy.io
Into the Bytecode:Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahabFarcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahabOther episodes - https://intothebytecode.com
Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. -
#26 – Vitalik Buterin: making sense in a changing world
This is my conversation with Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum.
00:00:00 intro00:01:07 sponsor: Optimism00:02:17 micro prediction markets, community notes, AIs as participants00:14:13 decentralized social networks, zk identity, Dark Forest, and Frogcrypto00:25:54 the dense jungle00:30:08 sponsor: Privy00:31:29 political instability, technology00:34:16 coordination and technology in climate00:36:13 AI, debugging and drawing, agency, security00:44:02 timeline for the singularity00:52:36 living to a 1000 years old00:54:00 brain-computer interfaces01:02:15 Lojban
Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:Optimism - https://optimism.ioPrivy - https://privy.io
Into the Bytecode:Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahabFarcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahabOther episodes - https://intothebytecode.com
Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.
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