Into the Bytecode
44 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsInto the Bytecode is a podcast about building the future.
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#29 – Martin Köppelmann: AI agents as onchain actors
March 26, 2024 15:12 - 1 hour - 95.8 MBThis 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 - ...
#28 – Varun Srinivasan: Farcaster, building a decentralized social network
March 01, 2024 15:16 - 1 hour - 122 MBThis 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 proto...
#27 – Rebecca Rettig & Michael Mosier: genuine DeFi as critical infrastructure
February 20, 2024 16:43 - 1 hour - 103 MBThis 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 la...
#26 – Vitalik Buterin: making sense in a changing world
February 09, 2024 15:50 - 1 hour - 90.7 MBThis is my conversation with Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum. 00:00:00 intro 00:01:07 sponsor: Optimism 00:02:17 micro prediction markets, community notes, AIs as participants 00:14:13 decentralized social networks, zk identity, Dark Forest, and Frogcrypto 00:25:54 the dense jungle 00:30:08 sponsor: Privy 00:31:29 political instability, technology 00:34:16 coordination and technology in climate 00:36:13 AI, debugging and drawing, agency, security 00:44:02 timeline for the sing...
Hart Lambur: UMA, Across, Oval, and MEV capture for protocols
January 24, 2024 18:01 - 1 hour - 85 MBThis 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 Intro 00:01:29 Sponsor: Privy (privy.io) 00:02:50 The idea maze, Goldman Sachs, RFQ systems, legal vs smart contracts 00:11:03 UMA, schelling point and optimistic oracle 00:16:41 Raising the seed round 00:19:38 ...
Jesse Pollak: Base, Coinbase's path to building an L2
June 08, 2023 01:36 - 1 hour - 71.4 MBThis 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...
Liam Horne: Optimism, and why scaling Ethereum matters
June 02, 2023 14:43 - 1 hour - 74.4 MBThis is my conversation with Liam Horne, former CEO and advisor to Optimism Labs. 00:00 Intro 00:59 sponsor: Privy (privy.io) 03:35 early influences, classmates with Vitalik in Waterloo 08:31 Ethereum's potential and why scalability matters 10:06 learning from Jeff Coleman 17:23 defining a common language 21:06 importance of community in Ethereum 26:34 hackathons lead to progress 31:36 collaboration as a core ETH value 38:30 humility and collective learning 47:27 building a publi...
Aya Miyaguchi: reflections on Ethereum and the Ethereum Foundation
May 25, 2023 13:46 - 1 hour - 75.3 MBThis is my conversation with Aya Miyaguchi, Executive Director at the Ethereum Foundation. 00:00 intro 01:20 sponsor: Optimism (optimism.io) 02:38 reflecting on early days of Ethereum 9:01 Ethereum as an Infinite Garden 19:14 books and ideas that influenced Aya 24:54 the insignificance of titles 32:02 what does “Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation” mean? 40:33 the “teacher” mindset and how it applies to management 47:24 the importance of diversity 51:41 sponsor: ...
Dan Romero: Farcaster, building a decentralized social network
November 04, 2022 18:08 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBThis is my conversation with Dan Romero about Farcaster - a decentralized social network being developed as an open protocol. We talked about how product decisions in social networks have ripple effects on society, Farcaster’s strategy in the highly competitive world of social products, and Dan's personal philosophies around hiring and team building. Timestamps: 0:00 intro 2:08 why this problem? 12:54 both product and protocol 23:41 the algorithmic feed 29:40 Farcaster’s stra...
Jango & Nnnnicholas: Juicebox, programming internet-native organizations
September 28, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 90.9 MBThis is my conversation with Jango and Nnnnicholas from Juicebox Protocol. Juicebox is a playful but ambitious project: the DAO operates as a full-stack instantiation of the protocol it's building, and fully reconceptualizes the relationship between contributors and shareholders. It has powered projects like SharkDAO, ConstitutionDAO, and AssangeDAO in the past. Timestamps: 0:00 intro 1:37 an alternative to traditional org structures 9:53 philosophical alignment 27:30 the key m...
Nadia Asparouhova: on public goods & peer production
August 31, 2022 18:22 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBNadia Asparouhova is an independent researcher. She previously wrote about her research on open-source communities in "Working in Public", and more recently, has been researching the history of and approaches to philanthropy - which she defines with this phrase “if venture capital is risk capital for private goods, philanthropy is risk capital for public goods”. In this conversation, we talked about public goods from this broader perspective. We talked about how previous generation...
Julien Niset: Argent, building on StarkNet, and a primer on account abstraction
August 24, 2022 17:17 - 1 hour - 86.4 MBJulien Niset is the cofounder and Chief Science Officer at Argent, a crypto wallet that's used and loved by many people in the crypto ecosystem. In this conversation, we talk about how Argent has evolved to get to where it is today. How Julien sees user experience evolving broadly in the ecosystem, and what the flow of a new person interacting with a crypto application for the first time might look like in the future. Another topic we get into deeply is L2s, how Julien and Argent h...
Pedro Gomes: WalletConnect v2, account abstraction, and building a communications protocol
August 11, 2022 20:24 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBPedro Gomes is the cofounder of WalletConnect, a communications protocol that enables wallets and apps to securely connect and interact. In this conversation, We talked about WalletConnect v2 and its architecture, account abstraction, potential downstream effects of a crypto-native chat protocol, and other topics. Timestamps: 0:00 intro 8:00 developing the user experience before creating the product 10:23 account abstraction and the spectrum of security and convenience 20:39 W...
Bonus: Zeitgeist season three
August 10, 2022 01:05 - 1 minute - 1.64 MBZeitgeist is a laboratory for building crypto-native products/protocols, and is what I've been working on alongside this podcast. We've come together for two seasons in the past with teams you'll be familiar with from this podcast like Sound.xyz and Coordinape, and are bringing together a new cohort of teams for season three later this year. If you're building a new crypto-native product/protocol, get in touch by August 26 to participate: zeitgeist.xyz
Josh Stark: the Ethereum Foundation & Atoms, Institutions, Blockchains
June 14, 2022 12:56 - 1 hour - 70 MBHere is my conversation with Josh Stark. Josh has a long history in the Ethereum ecosystem going back to the early days of the community. He cofounded one of the first L2 scaling protocols with Counterfactual. He also cofounded ETHGlobal which is a much-loved series of hackathons/events that brings the community together and which acts as an entry point into the ecosystem for many people. And nowadays and most relevant to our conversation, he works in a leadership capacity at the E...
0age: Seaport, and protocol development with OpenSea
June 02, 2022 14:29 - 1 hour - 75.5 MB0age is the Head of Protocol Development at OpenSea, and this was a conversation about Seaport, the new marketplace protocol for buying and selling NFTs. 0age takes us through a tour of the Seaport protocol, talking about how it's architected; how conduits and zones work; and we even get into the low level gas optimization work they've done on the contracts. I hope this can be a helpful resource for anyone looking to understand the Seaport protocol or anyone who's building with NFT...
Charles St.Louis: Element Finance and voting vaults as a primitive
May 24, 2022 18:14 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBCharles St.Louis is the COO at Element Finance, a protocol for fixed and variable rate yield markets and previously the governance architect at MakerDAO. In this conversation, we talked about Element’s governance system - with a particular focus on voting vaults, a powerful new primitive that decouple the relationship between capital and voting power and allow much more expressiveness in how users are given a governance voice in the ecosystem. Timestamps: 2:54 MakerDAO’s arc of dec...
Charles St.Louis: Element Finance, and voting vaults as a primitive
May 24, 2022 18:14 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBCharles St.Louis is the COO at Element Finance, a protocol for fixed and variable rate yield markets and previously the governance architect at MakerDAO. In this conversation, we talked about Element’s governance system - with a particular focus on voting vaults, a powerful new primitive that decouple the relationship between capital and voting power and allow much more expressiveness in how users are given a governance voice in the ecosystem. Timestamps: 2:54 MakerDAO’s arc of dec...
Henri Stern: Privy, building for data privacy and security
May 19, 2022 22:19 - 1 hour - 69.3 MBHere is my conversation with Henri Stern who is building Privy. Henri was previously a research scientist at Protocol Labs and worked on Filecoin’s consensus protocol. And after many years of thinking through problems related to data privacy and security, he recently co-founded a new company called Privy where they provide a suite of API tools to store and manage user data off chain. In this conversation, we talked through a set of topics that Henri has a unique point of view on — ...
Matthew Chaim: Songcamp, immersive digital theatre
May 05, 2022 18:15 - 56 minutes - 52 MBMatthew Chaim is building a laboratory experimenting at the edges of music and web3. It's called Songcamp, and right now they're running their third immersive experience. They're coming together with a group of musicians, visual designers, developers, and at the end of this process, will be releasing new music under the moniker of a single headless artist called Chaos. I've been personally completely nerdsniped by Songcamp and think it’s one of the most beautiful corners of our web3...
Simon de la Rouviere: cc0, derivatives, and bottom-up storytelling
April 28, 2022 21:06 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBHere is my conversation with Simon de la Rouviere. Simon’s exploration of creative mechanism design through the years is documented on his blog. His contributions to the space range from seeding the idea of bonding curves and curation markets, to building one of the first creator platforms with Ujo, to writing a full length novel experimenting with different publishing models, to now working on bottom-up storytelling with Untitled Frontier. In this conversation, we talked about cc...
Sound.xyz: building a collaborative music movement | David Greenstein, Matt Masurka (Gigamesh), & Vignesh Hirudayakanth
March 01, 2022 17:26 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBHere is my conversation with David Greenstein, Matt Masurka (Gigamesh), & Vignesh Hirudayakanth, the cofounders at Sound.xyz. Sound is a platform that helps musicians host listening parties and engage with their fans. It's a suite of tools that will grow over time to help musicians make a living using NFTs and other web3-native primitives. I was particularly looking forward to this conversation since David, Matt, and Vignesh participated in Zeitgeist Season One and we got to work ...
Sound.xyz: web3 listening parties | David Greenstein, Matt Masurka (Gigamesh), & Vignesh Hirudayakanth
March 01, 2022 17:26 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBHere is my conversation with David Greenstein, Matt Masurka (Gigamesh), & Vignesh Hirudayakanth, the cofounders at Sound.xyz. Sound is a platform that helps musicians host listening parties and engage with their fans. It's a suite of tools that will grow over time to help musicians make a living using NFTs and other web3-native primitives. I was particularly looking forward to this conversation since David, Matt, and Vignesh participated in Zeitgeist Season One and we got to work ...
Mike Sall & Blake West: Goldfinch, uncollateralized loans in emerging markets.
February 08, 2022 21:05 - 1 hour - 81.4 MBMike Sall and Blake West are the founders of Goldfinch, a decentralized protocol facilitating uncollateralized credit. “One of the borrowers is a company based in Uganda. They provide rent-to-own loans for motorcycle taxis to thousands of customers. They've borrowed $5m to expand their operations." Thousands of people in countries like Uganda, India, and Brazil have been financed by Goldfinch loans through local lenders, largely without realizing crypto is the source of funds. Th...
#9 – Mike Sall & Blake West: Goldfinch, uncollateralized loans in emerging markets.
February 08, 2022 21:05 - 1 hour - 81.4 MBMike Sall and Blake West are the founders of Goldfinch, a decentralized protocol facilitating uncollateralized credit. “One of the borrowers is a company based in Uganda. They provide rent-to-own loans for motorcycle taxis to thousands of customers. They've borrowed $5m to expand their operations." Thousands of people in countries like Uganda, India, and Brazil have been financed by Goldfinch loans through local lenders, largely without realizing crypto is the source of funds. Th...
Justin Glibert: Ember, and building onchain games.
December 24, 2021 19:15 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBThe conversation on publishing today is the very first one I recorded for the podcast about six months ago. It's a conversation with Justin Glibert about patterns he's uncovered while building Ember (an onchain game) and Lattice (the engine behind the game) — patterns related to inflation and zero sum resources, spacial constraints, and user impersonation. I hope you enjoy. Check out our website for other episodes: intothebytecode.xyz Subscribe to our newsletter for updates: byteco...
#8 – Justin Glibert: Ember, and building onchain games.
December 24, 2021 19:15 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBThe conversation on publishing today is the very first one I recorded for the podcast about six months ago. It's a conversation with Justin Glibert about patterns he's uncovered while building Ember (an onchain game) and Lattice (the engine behind the game) — patterns related to inflation and zero sum resources, spacial constraints, and user impersonation. I hope you enjoy. Check out our website for other episodes: intothebytecode.xyz Subscribe to our newsletter for updates: byteco...
Phillip Wang and Nate Foss: Gather, and building the open metaverse
November 25, 2021 21:27 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBThis is a conversation with Phillip Wang and Nate Foss two of the co-founders of Gather. Gather is a video chat platform that puts you and the people you're communicating with in a virtual space - and gives you the ability to move around and interact with them based on your locations in that space, just like in real life. It's had a ton of traction over the last year and is being used by millions of people around the world. It's one of the coolest products I've personally used in r...
#7 – Phillip Wang and Nate Foss: Gather and building the open metaverse
November 25, 2021 21:27 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBThis is a conversation with Phillip Wang and Nate Foss two of the co-founders of Gather. Gather is a video chat platform that puts you and the people you're communicating with in a virtual space - and gives you the ability to move around and interact with them based on your locations in that space, just like in real life. It's had a ton of traction over the last year and is being used by millions of people around the world. It's one of the coolest products I've personally used in r...
#7 – Phillip Wang and Nate Foss: Gather, and building the open metaverse
November 25, 2021 21:27 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBThis is a conversation with Phillip Wang and Nate Foss two of the co-founders of Gather. Gather is a video chat platform that puts you and the people you're communicating with in a virtual space - and gives you the ability to move around and interact with them based on your locations in that space, just like in real life. It's had a ton of traction over the last year and is being used by millions of people around the world. It's one of the coolest products I've personally used in r...
Tracheopteryx: Yearn, Coordinape, and pseudonymity
November 04, 2021 17:44 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBThis is a conversation with Tracheopteryx about the evolution of Yearn, Coordinape, and pseudonymity. Tracheopteryx has been a key leader in the Yearn Finance community since its legendary genesis event. In this conversation, we talk about key moments in Yearn's evolution with an eye towards takeaways that might be useful for other projects. We talk about the introduction of the multisig; the mint — a complex governance proposal where the community eventually chose to dilute themse...
#6 – Tracheopteryx: Yearn, Coordinape, and pseudonymity
November 04, 2021 17:44 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBThis is a conversation with Tracheopteryx about the evolution of Yearn, Coordinape, and pseudonymity. Tracheopteryx has been a key leader in the Yearn Finance community since its legendary genesis event. In this conversation, we talk about key moments in Yearn's evolution with an eye towards takeaways that might be useful for other projects. We talk about the introduction of the multisig; the mint — a complex governance proposal where the community eventually chose to dilute themse...
John Palmer & Danny Aranda: PartyDAO, and shipping product as a DAO
October 29, 2021 16:17 - 1 hour - 92.1 MBThis is a conversation with John Palmer and Danny Aranda about PartyDAO and PartyBid - the product that lets people pool their funds and participate in NFT auctions as a team. We dive deep into their experience building this project. We talk about what they see as the role of product vision in the DAO, how they think about hiring, the organizational design, the stack of tools they use to operate, and the legal structures they're considering. And that's not all — we also touched the...
#5 – John Palmer & Danny Aranda: PartyDAO, and shipping product as a DAO
October 29, 2021 16:17 - 1 hour - 92.1 MBThis is a conversation with John Palmer and Danny Aranda about PartyDAO and PartyBid - the product that lets people pool their funds and participate in NFT auctions as a team. We dive deep into their experience building this project. We talk about what they see as the role of product vision in the DAO, how they think about hiring, the organizational design, the stack of tools they use to operate, and the legal structures they're considering. And that's not all — we also touched the...
#4 – Austin Griffith: building on Ethereum
October 13, 2021 16:28 - 1 hour - 71 MBThis is a conversation with Austin Griffith about his continued journey as a builder/educator, and learnings from onboarding thousands of developers onto Ethereum. Austin is a friend and someone I've had the good fortune of working with extensively in our shared time at the Ethereum foundation. In this conversation, we take a tour through the different projects he's worked on over the last two years — starting with ETH.build (the graphical interface for working with smart contracts...
Austin Griffith: building on Ethereum
October 13, 2021 16:28 - 1 hour - 71 MBThis is a conversation with Austin Griffith about his continued journey as a builder/educator, and learnings from onboarding thousands of developers onto Ethereum. Austin is a friend and someone I've had the good fortune of working with extensively in our shared time at the Ethereum foundation. In this conversation, we take a tour through the different projects he's worked on over the last two years — starting with ETH.build (the graphical interface for working with smart contracts...
#3 – Gubsheep: Dark Forest, and building crypto-native games.
September 30, 2021 16:40 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBThis is a conversation with Gubsheep about Dark Forest and building crypto-native games. Dark Forest is a uniquely crypto-native game, and embodies patterns that we can all learn from. It's a game that takes place in a procedurally-generated universe that's shared by all players, where the smart contracts enforce the rules of the game, but where they don't leak information about what each player is up to by using ZK SNARKs. In this conversation, we talk about how Dark Forest uses ...
Gubsheep: Dark Forest, and building crypto-native games.
September 30, 2021 16:40 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBThis is a conversation with Gubsheep about Dark Forest and building crypto-native games. Dark Forest is a uniquely crypto-native game, and embodies patterns that we can all learn from. It's a game that takes place in a procedurally-generated universe that's shared by all players, where the smart contracts enforce the rules of the game, but where they don't leak information about what each player is up to by using ZK SNARKs. In this conversation, we talk about how Dark Forest uses ...
#3 – Gubsheep: Dark Forest and building crypto-native games.
September 30, 2021 16:40 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBThis is a conversation with Gubsheep about Dark Forest and building crypto-native games. Dark Forest is a uniquely crypto-native game, and embodies patterns that we can all learn from. It's a game that takes place in a procedurally-generated universe that's shared by all players, where the smart contracts enforce the rules of the game, but where they don't leak information about what each player is up to by using ZK SNARKs. In this conversation, we talk about how Dark Forest uses ...
#2 – Tim Beiko & Danny Ryan: Eth1, Eth2, and the Merge
September 20, 2021 14:36 - 1 hour - 80.7 MBMy guests today are Tim Beiko and Danny Ryan - the lead coordinators for the Eth1 and Eth2 development efforts. In this conversation, we go deep on the future of the Ethereum protocol together. We talk about the Merge (the transition from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake via the Beacon Chain - which is the most substantial Ethereum network upgrade to date, and happening sooner than many people realize), the cryptoeconomics of PoS, MEV, staking derivatives, and how protocol developme...
#2 – Danny Ryan & Tim Beiko: Eth1, Eth2, and the Merge
September 20, 2021 14:36 - 1 hour - 80.7 MBMy guests today are Tim Beiko and Danny Ryan - the lead coordinators for the Eth1 and Eth2 development efforts. In this conversation, we go deep on the future of the Ethereum protocol together. We talk about the Merge (the transition from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake via the Beacon Chain - which is the most substantial Ethereum network upgrade to date, and happening sooner than many people realize), the cryptoeconomics of PoS, MEV, staking derivatives, and how protocol developme...
Danny Ryan & Tim Beiko: Eth1, Eth2, and the Merge
September 20, 2021 14:36 - 1 hour - 80.7 MBMy guests today are Tim Beiko and Danny Ryan - the lead coordinators for the Eth1 and Eth2 development efforts. In this conversation, we go deep on the future of the Ethereum protocol together. We talk about the Merge (the transition from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake via the Beacon Chain - which is the most substantial Ethereum network upgrade to date, and happening sooner than many people realize), the cryptoeconomics of PoS, MEV, staking derivatives, and how protocol developme...
#1 – Vitalik Buterin & Karl Floersch: Retroactive Public Goods Funding
September 10, 2021 14:37 - 52 minutes - 47.6 MBThis is a conversation with Vitalik Buterin and Karl Floersch. Vitalik is the creator of Ethereum, and Karl is a long-time Ethereum researcher who is working on Optimism (the Layer 2 optimistic rollup). We begin the conversation with a focus on retroactive public goods funding - a compelling idea that Vitalik and Karl shared earlier this year. We then move onto topics like decoupling value creation and value capture, the sustainability of public goods, Ether's Phoenix (a play on R...
Vitalik Buterin & Karl Floersch: Retroactive Public Goods Funding
September 10, 2021 14:37 - 52 minutes - 47.6 MBThis is a conversation with Vitalik Buterin and Karl Floersch. Vitalik is the creator of Ethereum, and Karl is a long-time Ethereum researcher who is working on Optimism (the Layer 2 optimistic rollup). We begin the conversation with a focus on retroactive public goods funding - a compelling idea that Vitalik and Karl shared earlier this year. We then move onto topics like decoupling value creation and value capture, the sustainability of public goods, Ether's Phoenix (a play on R...