Sep 30, 2019
Arlyn Culwick is one of the pioneers exploring the design of an internet of blockchains. With Blocknet, he is working to realize this vision of the interchain. In this podcast episode, Brendan and Alwyn explore the API ecosystem in Web2, the interoperability technologies that Blocknet is building, as well as details and...
Sep 23, 2019
Avalanche is a novel consensus protocol that is able to scale consensus by using local consensus snapshots and random sampling. In this episode Meher sits down with Kevin Sekniqi, Co-Founder of AVA Labs, who are using the Avalanche consensus protocol as the basis for their smart contract platform AVA. They discuss...
Sep 16, 2019
In this episode, Felix is joined by Dillon Chen, Co-Founder of Commonwealth Labs, to discuss Edgeware, a smart contracting platform build using Polkadot’s Substrate framework. The episode covers the Commonwealth governance framework, what Edgeware is aiming to accomplish, as well as the project’s innovative...
Sep 9, 2019
This episode is a recording of Brian’s talk at BUIDL Asia 2019 in Seoul, South Korea. In the talk Brian covers the state and evolution of Proof-of-Stake (PoS). The talk compares PoS to the DeFi space going into the benefits to composability. It concludes with thoughts on how tokenized staking positions could help PoS...
Sep 2, 2019
In this episode Meher discusses fungible staking positions with Ryan Park of Ellipti, who was also part of the winning team of the Cosmos Seoul Hackatom. Ryan’s team is working on the Everett protocol to create staking derivatives that could allow staked assets in the Cosmos ecosystem to be used in decentralized...