Into the Bytecode Sina Habibian

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/
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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
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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
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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
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This is my conversation with Hart Lambur. We talk about Hart's path in building UMA (an oracle using schelling points to bring data onchain), Across (an intents-based bridge connecting ETH/L2s), and now Oval (MEV capture for oracle price updates).
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro00:01:29 Sponsor: Privy (privy.io)00:02:50 The idea maze, Goldman Sachs, RFQ systems, legal vs smart contracts00:11:03 UMA, schelling point and optimistic oracle00:16:41 Raising the seed round00:19:38 Across, intent-based bridging architecture00:30:42 Sponsor: Optimism (optimism.io)00:31:52 Oval00:46:15 MEV capture for protocols01:01:22 OutroInto the Bytecode: More episodes - https://intothebytecode.com Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
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This is my conversation with Jesse Pollak. He led retail engineering at Coinbase for many years — building Coinbase, Coinbase Pro, and Coinbase Wallet. More recently, he is leading the development of Base, Coinbase's L2 built on the OP Stack.
00:00:00 intro 00:01:43 sponsor: Optimism (optimism.io) 00:03:07 motivation behind Base 00:11:12 pitching Base to the Coinbase exec team 00:14:24 challenges of innovating on a schedule 00:17:54 failing repeatedly to find the right answer 00:22:09 decision to build an L2 with Michael 00:23:30 convincing Surojit Chatterjee, Coinbase’s CPO 00:24:59 launching Base internally00:31:58 blockchains as serverless compute 00:36:53 uniswap as a serverless API for currency conversion 00:39:30 the power of small but leveraged teams 00:42:31 how to straddle product building in the onchain and offchain world 00:45:25 sponsor: Privy (privy.io) 00:51:22 the significance of THIS moment in Crypto 00:53:56 getting a 100M devs and 1B users onchain 00:57:02 how the NFT UX will change with Base 01:10:13 how crypto will be incorporated in applications 01:14:00 the risk of onchain heterogeneity01:17:27 building privacy-oriented onchain platforms 01:26:00 upgrading the financial system 01:28:33 attending Quaker School 01:34:43 relentless positivity in life 01:38:47 building a better future
Jesse Pollak: jesse.xyz on ETH Twitter Github
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Relevant Links: Base - https://base.org/ Coinbase - https://www.coinbase.com/ Brian Armstrong - https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong Surojit Chatterjee Coinbase’s CPO - https://www.coinbase.com/blog/welcome-surojit-chatterjee-coinbases-chief-product-officer OP Stack - https://stack.optimism.io/ Uniswap - https://uniswap.org/ Goldfinch - https://goldfinch.finance/ Zora - https://zora.co/ 
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