Ethereum's Roadmap with Domothy My guest today is Dom, who goes by Domothy online. Dom works on the Research Team at the Ethereum Foundation. He is passionate about Ethereum development and tries to keep tabs on all parts of the roadmap, and communicates these details between the many teams at the EF. This conversation comes in three parts. In the introduction, Dom and I discuss how he found his way from passionate bystander to working for the EF. In the second section, we discuss the hottest de...
Jul 06, 2023•1 hr 19 min
0xmons is my guest on this episode. 0xmons (aka Owen) is a blockchain artist and the founder of sudoswap , which just launched its v2. In this conversation, Owen and I cover the big questions: Why does the world need an NFT AMM? What's new in v2? Why the reverse course on honoring ERC-2981 royalties? We also roleplay LPing on sudoswap and walk through how LPs might choose the parameters of their position. I was particularly intrigued by the new 1155 open edition pools, which sound like a great f...
Jun 22, 2023•55 min
Jayden Windle and Benny Giang of NFT studio Future Primitive join me on this episode to discuss ERC-6551: Non-fungible Token Bound Accounts, which they co-authored. ERC-6551 is a draft EIP that proposes a CREATE2 based proxy contract scheme to give every ERC-721 its own address on Ethereum, and other EVM chains. In short, this EIP turns every NFT into a smart contract wallet, which can hold NFTs and fungibles, have special access permissions on other contracts, and more. 6551’s flexible yet simp...
Jun 13, 2023•1 hr 14 min
On today’s episode I sit down with David Horvath for an epic dive into the world of character IP. Since the late 90s, David and his wife and business partner Sun-Min Kim have been creating character brands in the US and Korea. Their two most famous creations are Uglydoll, which started as a handmade designer toy at Giant Robot, and Bossy Bear, which began life as a children’s book. David shares contrarian insights about his experience growing character brands that endure. This episode is a treat...
May 30, 2023•2 hr 38 min
My guests today are Ed Fornieles , Sam Spike , and Jake Allen, three of the four cofounders of Finiliar . Finiliar is an NFT collection of cute 3D characters whose mood and animations are driven by price action of popular cryptocurrencies. Ed Fornieles created the project first as a gallery exhibited artwork, and it has since grown into a character brand and software company. On this episode we discuss Ed’s career making fine art installation and sculptural work in London, Sam’s art production a...
May 23, 2023•1 hr 6 min
On today’s episode I’m joined by Paul Seidler and Sam Hart. Paul Seidler is an artist and design researcher. He is co-founder of terra0, an art project, DAO, and EVM framework for automated ecosystem management and simulation. He has worked at research groups including Hybrid Platform and Design Research Lab and has created onchain NFT artworks including Straylight Protocol, which explores multiplayer EVM-gaming with onchain NFT automata. Sam Hart Berman is a programmer and artist. He has a back...
May 19, 2023•1 hr 30 min
On today’s episode I’m joined by Julien Genestoux, founder of Unlock Protocol. Unlock is a protocol for memberships as time-bound NFTs. Creators can monetize their work with Unlock by deploying sovereign membership contracts that allow for trials, partial refunds, and membership trading, in addition to the various superpowers granted by the ERC721 ecosystem, such as airdrops, token gating, and governance. On this episode, Julien and I discuss the attention economics at the heart of advertising d...
May 12, 2023•1 hr 16 min
On today’s episode, I’m joined by Sepana co-founder and CEO Daniel J. Keyes . Sepana is a decentralized search infrastructure provider. Developers can create Sepana engines, which are able to index data on any decentralized protocol to create Search APIs, or feed data into other Sepana engines. The community has built engines enabling users to search Mirror articles on L1, Optimism, and Arweave, Lens posts on Polygon PoS, and Farcaster casts on Hub network. Over time, Sepana aims to decentralize...
Apr 18, 2023•44 min
Today, I’m joined by Chris Carella , Osama , Bill Zh , Phil Mohun , Kmac , and Alex Paden to discuss Purple, a DAO dedicated to proliferating the Farcaster protocol and its ecosystem. Farcaster is a progressively decentralizing open-source social network protocol. Its account system is built on top of Ethereum. User identities are managed on L1, while Farcaster’s increasingly decentralized network of nodes, called Farcaster Hubs, manage message storage and sharing. For more information about Far...
Apr 11, 2023•1 hr 26 min
On today’s show, I’m joined by María Paula, Trent Elmore, and Sam Spike to discuss JPG. JPG, or Juried Protocol Galleries, is an evolving set of experiments that seeks to bring curatorial memory to the NFT art scene. Often contrasting themselves with the highly financialized speculative art market for which NFTs are well known, the JPG team is dedicated to bringing art appreciation and long term curatorial memory to the decentralized art world through onchain interventions. JPG’s latest project ...
Apr 04, 2023•1 hr 18 min
0xGioMedici is the founder of Abacus, a nascent NFT lending protocol experimenting with new ways to value and borrow against NFTs. On this episode, GioMedici joins me for a wide-ranging conversation about the latest developments in machine learning, new opportunities in blockchain design, and his own project, which recently soft launched on Ethereum mainnet. In the first part of this conversation, we discuss Gio’s exploration of ChatGPT, and the surprising information he’s found within the lates...
Mar 28, 2023•1 hr 14 min
On today’s episode I’m joined by and Jorge Izquierdo and Alejandro Perezpayá . Jorge Izquierdo is the co-founder of Aragon , the first full featured on-chain DAO governance system. On this episode, Jorge and Alejandro Perezpayá join me to discuss the history of Aragon and their new startup Firm . First, Jorge tells the story of how he and Luis Cuende pivoted from a building a startup to fight patent trolls to cofounding Aragon in 2016, the year of the infamous DAO fork. We discuss the evolution ...
Mar 21, 2023•1 hr 20 min
On today’s episode, I’m joined by Juan Fran Blanco. Juan is the creator of “Solidity”, the most popular Solidity-oriented VSCode extension in the world. The extension provides hundreds of thousands of Solidity developers daily access to syntax highlighting, autocomplete, and much more. Juan’s main focus is Nethereum, a .NET framework for interacting with EVM blockchains. Nethereum is useful for interacting with the blockchain from Microsoft based operating systems, which constitute a huge number...
Mar 17, 2023•1 hr 41 min
On today’s episode I’m joined by Stelo Labs co-founders Ben Scharfstein and Aman Dhesi. Stelo Labs first product is Stelo, a browser extension that simulates transactions and provides clarifying contextual information and a risk assessment in a pop-up before the transaction request propagates to user’s wallet. They also provide an API that gives developers access to the transaction simulation and risk assessment backend that powers the browser extension. They’ve used this API to create approvals...
Mar 14, 2023•43 min
On today’s show, I’m joined by Munam Wasi, COO at Delegate Cash. Delegate Cash’s first product is an immutable NFT delegation registry. Users can delegate access rights to NFTs in their possession to other public addresses on the various EVM chains where Delegate Cash is deployed. Future airdrops and offchain token gating software can integrate delegate cash’s contracts, to allow people to interact with minting contracts and verify on Discord, all from delegated hotwallet without ever touching t...
Mar 07, 2023•56 min
On February 17, 2023, Context and Mint.Fun co-founder Worm_emoji, aka Luke Miles tweeted “Can someone have me on a podcast to discuss how Blur used OpenSea's own protocol to defeat them on the royalties / creator fees issue?” I responded to the call, and a couple of hours later, Luke, John Palmer from PartyDAO, Jacob the CEO of Zora, and I got on Twitter Spaces to Blur, OpenSea, and the proxy war being fought over NFT Royalties. This is a fantastic episode that covers a good chunk of Blur’s hist...
Feb 28, 2023•1 hr 23 min
I’m joined today by Harpie founder Daniel Chong . Harpie describes itself as an onchain firewall that protects NFTs from theft. In this episode we discuss how Harpie’s mempool monitoring and emergency vault contract works on a technical level. We also cover Harpie’s unique business model, and their growing enterprise service which grants organizations like OpenSea access to their malicious transaction data. We touch on their plans to build an RPC provider in the future that can detect dangerous ...
Feb 16, 2023•49 min
In 2022, Paradigm launched a CTF game called 0xMonaco. 3 players are in a race to the 1000 block finish line. Each car is armed with 15,000 coins which they can spend on acceleration or throwing shells to slow down their opponents. Prices adjust dynamically according to a variable rate gradual Dutch auction. Competitors submit Solidity contracts that manage these resources on their behalf. MatchboxDAO is a blockchain gaming platform that has forked the original 0xMonaco competition, augmented it...
Feb 14, 2023•52 min
Today, I'm joined by Hamzah Khan, Head of DeFi at Polygon. This episode is an inquiry into the secret internal dynamics that set Polygon apart in the blockchain ecosystem. Polygon is known for a run of incredible business development successes, including deep partnerships with Reddit, Starbucks, and OpenSea. But underlying this extraordinary BD is a unique ability to pragmatically manage multiple simultaneous projects. Polygon is an organization whose execution merits study. Together, Hamzah and...
Feb 07, 2023•1 hr 18 min
Today on the show I’m joined by Jeff Krantz and Josh Breite, cofounders of Fire. Fire is a consumer oriented EVM transaction simulator designed to keep blockchain transactors from losing their NFTs and fungibles to malicious transaction requests. In its current form, Fire is a Chromium browser extension. When a dapp requests a Metamask wallet signature, a Fire window pops up next to Metamask, providing human readable context on what this transaction will do. Requests for NFT transfer permissions...
Jan 31, 2023•51 min
Today on the show I’m joined by musician and NFT artist Jonathan Mann . For over 5000 days, Jonathan has written, recorded, and published a Song A Day . After discovering CryptoPunks in 2017, he fell down the crypto rabbit hole. Over the past 6 years he’s melded his daily music practice and his interest in artist empowerment through NFT creation. In this episode, we discuss Song A Day’s evolution from a Youtube song writing project into an NFT collection and full-fledged DAO. We discuss the lega...
Jan 24, 2023•1 hr 22 min
In May of 2022, the Truth NFT studio secretly released the Goblintown generative PFP NFT collection on Ethereum. As the crypto bull market turned into a bear, Goblins and the meme of “going goblinmode” took Crypto Twitter by storm. In my mind, Goblintown is most identified with a surprising and creative new use of Twitter Spaces for NFT community building. During Goblintown Spaces, a short clip of clanging, dungeon-inspired music plays on loop in the background while a cast of volunteer voice ac...
Jan 19, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Public Assembly is a burgeoning software development community that describes itself as a “distributed collective building the missing pieces of the internet.” Today I’m joined by Valerie , Salief Lewis , and Neesh Chaudary , three of the seven founding members of Public Assembly. In this episode, we discuss the barriers to growth and learning that they’ve faced in the first phase of their Web3 careers, and how they’re working together to enable more people to become empowered crypto builders. W...
Jan 10, 2023•46 min
Today I’m joined by a chorus of organizers and critics of ConstitutionDAO2 , a crypto crowdfund effort attempting to buy the Constitution, again. Just over a year since the original ConstitutionDAO failed to acquire the Constitution, a group of contributors to PeopleDAO have banded together to attempt a repeat fundraise, with some new ZK powered technology in hand. On this episode, I’m joined by MatterTurbulent and Y4K from PeopleDAO, who are two of the original organizers of ConstitutionDAO2, a...
Dec 14, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Today I’m joined by Drake Danner, data analyst at Flipside and MetricsDAO. In this episode, we discuss Drake’s latest work in progress, Badger, an ERC-1155 based badging protocol currently deployed on the Polygon network. Badger was conceived in the course of Drake’s work at MetricsDAO, where contributors providing blockchain analytics services needed access to various SaaS tools like Dework and Wonderverse. Inspired by JokeDAO’s disposable ERC-20s, Drake co-created Badger, which allows system a...
Dec 06, 2022•41 min
Today I’m joined by Backseats and Frolic , two independent full stack Solidity devs, for a conversation about their latest projects. First, we discuss Backseats as-yet-unnamed NFT primary marketplace browser extension. His work in progress idea is to deploy an NFT discovery browser extension that populates new browser tabs with 1/1 NFTs for sale from the artist. Artists will list works onchain via contract interaction and artworks will be removed from circulation when sold. Second, we discuss Fr...
Nov 29, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Today I’m joined by Shreyas , co-founder of Llama . Llama is a community that works with the most respected DAOs in the world, including Uniswap, Aave, ENS, Gitcoin, MakerDAO, Nouns, and more. Llama’s contributors work together to provide engineering, treasury management, and analytics services to these protocol DAOs. In this conversation, Shreyas explains the ins-and-outs of Llama’s organizational structure. We discuss how blockchains enable a new way to organize laborers, which he calls a Cont...
Nov 22, 2022•49 min
This is a special episode. Today I’m joined by Brandon H Gomes , CTO at Manta Network and Poseidon Labs. Brandon is one of the smartest people I’ve had the good fortune to meet this year. He’s deep in the ZK technical stack and able to clearly communicate the core mechanisms of ZK to laypeople. In this episode, we discuss what Zero Knowledge Proofs enable, the difference between ZK as a technology and its specific application for rollups, and various cool things you can do with ZK. Brandon share...
Nov 15, 2022•1 hr 36 min
On today’s episode, I’m joined by three members of Nouns eSports. Sasquatch is an OG member of SharkDAO. ApeNoun (aka Oni) is Noun 119. Together they co-founded the Nouns esports Pod, which now participates in several esports leagues. We’re also joined by Costabile , a pro Dota 2 player who recently represented Nouns at The International, the most prestigious tournament in the Dota scene. In this conversation, we discuss the esports world’s economics, the Nouns governance process that enabled th...
Nov 08, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Today, I’m joined by XR researcher and creator Jin . You may be familiar with Jin’s work building and evangelizing open and interoperable VR and AR experiences through the many projects he’s been affiliated with, such as Webaverse, Exokit, M3, The Meta Factory, and more. In this conversation, Jin and I discuss his newest project, Open Voxels, an effort to fund research and archiving activities focused on Cryptovoxels. We discuss the recent Webaverse NFT drop, M3’s latest discoveries, and his upc...
Nov 01, 2022•55 min
