Aug 26, 2019

In this episode Brendan sits down with Matt Luongo, Co-Founder of Thesis (Keep Network) to discuss tBTC during Berlin Blockchain Week. tBTC describes a way to issue a decentralized BTC-backed token as an ERC-20 token on Ethereum. The interview goes into Matt’s background, how the technology and economics around...

Aug 19, 2019

In this episode, Meher and E. Dean Tribble explore the Agoric platform and the value proposition. Dean and his team are among the first to work on smart contracts, starting in the 80s with the Agoric Open System papers.

Agoric’s focus on object-capabilities security approach enables developers to write secure smart...

Aug 12, 2019

In this episode, Felix walks through the history of Proof-of-Stake and explains how PoS compares to economic arrangements like surety bonds. The episode covers early examples of surety bonds, the parties in such an agreement, the analogy between Proof-of-Stake and surety bonds, as well as important dates in the history...

Aug 5, 2019

This episode is a discussion on the impact of 0% fee validators between Brian Crain (Chorus One), Sunny Aggarwal (SikkaTech/Tendermint), Michael Perklin (ShapeShift), and Chris Remus (Chainflow). The discussion covers the trend towards no commission validators on the Cosmos Hub and opinions on whether this trajectory...