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Relay Chain

50 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings

Relay Chain is a podcast covering blockchain development and building the decentralized web. We focus on the cutting edge of blockchain tech, including Substrate (https://parity.io/substrate) and Polkadot (https://polkadot.network).
Brought to you by Parity Technologies (https://parity.io), a core blockchain infrastructure company. Parity is creating an open-source creative commons that will enable people to create better institutions through technology.
Follow us at @paritytech (https://twitter.com/paritytech) and @relaychain (https://twitter.com/relaychain).
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Episodes

Innovating the Web3 Legal Space

February 07, 2023 19:00 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MB

This week, Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by Chrissy Hill, General Counsel, and Alica Schiffhauer, Legal Operations Specialist, from Parity’s legal team. This episode focuses on the legal side of Web3 and all that it entails, including the challenges of working within compliance for a codebase with no existing legal precedent. They discuss the unique aspects of working within Web3 law, such as needing a working knowledge of complex technology, blockchain-specif...

Polkadot Common Good Parachains Update: Blockchains to Benefit the Polkadot Community

December 01, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 51.3 MB

In this episode, host Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by Joe Petrowski (Common Good Parachains Team Lead, Web3 Foundation) to talk about common good parachains (https://polkadot.network/blog/common-good-parachains-an-introduction-to-governance-allocated-parachain-slots/) (aka system level parachains), the layer-1 Polkadot blockchains dedicated to core functionality that benefits the entire Polkadot ecosystem. Since Statemint, dedicated to asset and NFT functiona...

Composable Finance Part 2: Envisioning the Valhalla of Cross-Chain DeFi

July 07, 2022 13:00 - 36 minutes - 29 MB

This week we have the second half of the conversation between Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) and 0xbrainjar, founder and CEO of the Polkadot parachain Composable Finance. Composable and sister parachain Picasso on Kusama allow smart contracts built on different languages and different chains to connect, enabling cross-chain DeFi applications and more. If you missed part 1, have a listen here (https://relaychain.fm/44-composable-finance-part-1-unlocking-cross-chain-cross...

Composable Finance Part 1: Unlocking Cross-Chain, Cross-Layer DeFi on Polkadot

June 22, 2022 12:00 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MB

Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined this week by 0xbrainjar, founder and CEO of the Polkadot parachain Composable Finance. Composable and sister parachain Picasso on Kusama allow smart contracts built on different languages and different chains to connect, enabling cross-chain swaps and more. By simplifying and unifying DeFi (Decentralized Finance) with new interoperability standards, the project is accelerating this technology into the mainstream. This talk covers...

OriginTrail: Decentralized Knowledge Graph & the Semantic Web3

May 19, 2022 14:15 - 1 hour - 52.9 MB

This week, Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by OriginTrail’s Tomaž Levak (co-founder) and Žiga Drev (co-founder). OriginTrail is a Substrate-based blockchain that recently won a parachain slot on Polkadot. OriginTrail developed the world’s first Decentralized Knowledge Graph (DKG) to organize humanity’s most important assets, making them discoverable, verifiable, and valuable, often referred to as 'the google of Web3'. This talk explores the real-world use cases ...

Centrifuge, Connecting Real World Assets with DeFi

February 15, 2022 12:45 - 57 minutes - 45.8 MB

This week Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by Cassidy Daly, token design and research specialist at Centrifuge, a Substrate-based blockchain that recently won a parachain slot on Polkadot. Centrifuge aims to bring an archaic financial system into the Web3 space, enabling users to unlock financing for their real world assets by bringing them on-chain. Daly describes why the team chose Substrate to build Centrifuge and its canary network Altair, and why Centrifuge ...

Mainstreaming DeFi with Parallel Finance

December 09, 2021 13:15 - 48 minutes - 39.2 MB

This week, Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by Yubo Ruan, founder of Parallel Finance, a lending solutions provider designed to increase liquidity and acceptance on the Polkadot network. Parallel Finance is a Polkadot parachain and its sister network Heiko Finance is a Kusama parachain. This episode begins with an introduction to Parallel Finance and its tech stack. They also discuss how Substrate helped Parallel launch a parachain in 7 months, and how the proje...

Accelerating the Web3 Metaverse with Outlier Ventures

November 25, 2021 17:15 - 1 hour - 63.3 MB

This week, Joe Petrowski (Technical Integrations Lead, Web3 Foundation) is joined by Jamie Burke, CEO, and founder of Outlier Ventures, an accelerator that supports the development and growth of emerging technologies, including Polkadot. They are currently running a Polkadot accelerator through their Base Camp program. Burke describes what he set out to achieve by founding Outlier Ventures in the context of the current internet where platforms are vulnerable to state capture and coercion and...

Building Blockchain Social Networks with Subsocial

September 17, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 50.6 MB

This week, Jorrin Bruns (Polkadot Integration Specialist, Parity Technologies) is joined by Subsocial’s founder and Polkadot Ambassador Alex Siman, and Zachary Edwards, Subsocial’s content lead and community manager. Subsocial is an open protocol for decentralized social networks and marketplaces, and this episode explores the world of social networks on blockchain, through the eyes of the Subsocial team. They provide an overview of their platform and its architecture and discuss their growth...

Robonomics: The Blockchain with Robots

August 19, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 64.7 MB

In this episode, Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by Robonomics Software Architect Sergei Lonshakov. Robonomics is an open-source internet of things (IoT) platform. It provides ways for humans to communicate with robots, and for robots to connect to each other and the internet. Started on Ethereum in 2015, Robonomics is now aiming to be a parachain on Polkadot, with a view to work across both ecosystems. The team also publishes scientific research on the frontier...

Statemine: A Deep Dive Into Kusama’s Asset Hub with Joe Petrowski

August 05, 2021 13:30 - 54 minutes - 43.7 MB

This week the tables are turned on Relay Chain, with Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) interviewing co-host Joe Petrowski (Technical Integrations Lead, Web3 Foundation) as a guest representing his contribution to the Statemint/Statemine project. Statemine — Kusama’s version of Polkadot’s Statemint — is a common-good parachain for creating and managing assets and NFTs on-chain. It recently made history as the first live, featureful parachain to be onboarded to Kusama. Now th...

Prediction Markets and Futarchy with Zeitgeist

July 23, 2021 15:45 - 48 minutes - 39.2 MB

This week, Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by Zeitgeist’s founder Logan Saether, and CIO, David Perry. Zeitgeist is a Substrate-based decentralized network for creating, participating in, and resolving prediction markets, and exploring the potential of futarchy for governance. They discuss prediction market systems, futarchy for decision making, mitigating market biases, how a prediction market works, and its diverse applications — from improving on-chain govern...

Querying the World's Data with SubQuery

July 09, 2021 15:15 - 48 minutes - 39.1 MB

Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) talks with James Bayly, Head of Business Development for OnFinality, one of the largest infrastructure providers for Polkadot and Substrate, about Subquery, a tool that speeds up querying and extracting Polkadot network data so that anyone can take the data off-chain and create something useful. They discuss the team's mission to deliver high performance, decentralized services to distribute assets at scale, integrate with blockchain orac...

Former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves on Blockchain Adoption and Internet Regulation

June 24, 2021 15:45 - 1 hour - 66.3 MB

In this Relay Chain exclusive, Joe Petrowski (Technical Integrations Lead at Web3 Foundation) and Parity’s Úrsula O'Kuinghttons speak with former President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves. Uniquely placed as one of few presidents who knows how to code, Ilves was responsible for implementing the digitization of the Estonian government, one of the first countries to adopt blockchain tech, and many other processes in the country from voting to registering a business. They discuss how Estonia, on...

Creating Your Own Metaverse with Bit.Country

June 11, 2021 13:15 - 52 minutes - 41.8 MB

This week we’re joined by Bit.Country, a Substrate-based decentralized world with a game-like feel that puts community at the forefront. Bit.Country lets anyone create their own decentralized virtual country and grow their own community. Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) talks with members of the Bit.Country team: Shannon Christie, CTO, Justin Pham, CTO, and Ray Lu, CEO about creating customizable experiences in the immersive world of metahuman technology. Besides tech, t...

Confidential Cloud Computing on Phala Network

May 27, 2021 14:45 - 1 hour - 51.7 MB

Privacy takes center stage in this week’s episode as Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) talks with Marvin Tong, co-founder and CEO of the Phala Network, a trustless, privacy-preserving cloud computing network based on Substrate. They dive deep into Phala’s tech, exploring how Phala tackles the issue of trust in the computational cloud by shielding user data from centralized organizations like Google, with the same level of computational power as existing cloud services. Ton...

Plasm: Scalable, Interoperable DApps on Polkadot

May 12, 2021 10:00 - 40 minutes - 32.5 MB

This week Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) speaks with Sota Watanabe, CEO of Stake Technologies and founder of Plasm, a platform designed to help developers deploy fast and secure decentralized applications (DApps) on Polkadot. They discuss advancing Web3 via cross-chain collaboration, supporting DApp development, and decentralizing the Plasm network. Watanabe walks us through being the first parachain on Rococo, completing the first cross-chain message (together with Acal...

Tether - Stablecoin Innovation, Regulation, and Mainstream Potential with Paolo Ardoino

April 22, 2021 13:15 - 39 minutes - 31.8 MB

This week we dive into Tether, a stablecoin playing an important role in disrupting the legacy financial system, recently announced to be launching on Polkadot. Joe Petrowski, (Technical Integrations Lead, Web3 Foundation) speaks with Paolo Ardoino, CTO of Bitfinex and Tether. They discuss stablecoin trends, regulation and compliance with central banks, CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies), the likelihood of central banks running on public blockchains such as Polkadot and Ethereum, achiev...

Joe Petrowski on Imagining a Brighter Future with Polkadot and Web3

April 08, 2021 10:30 - 41 minutes - 33.1 MB

After a short hiatus, we’re back this week with a new co-host joining the podcast, Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies). In this episode, Jorrin turns the tables and interviews Joe Petrowski (Technical Integrations Lead, Web3 Foundation, and Relay Chain co-host) about the future of the podcast, Joe’s journey from the aerospace industry to professional cycling to Web3, and how blockchain innovation brings together diverse interest groups. They discuss the potential for Polkadot...

Equilibrium and the Global Impact of Blockchain, DeFi, and Web3

December 02, 2020 13:30 - 37 minutes - 30.2 MB

In this wide-ranging and eye-opening discussion, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Lesley Czuma, Head of Business Development at Equilibrium, a cross-chain money market combining pooled lending with synthetic asset generation and trading. They discuss the massive potential of Web3 and DeFi to radically impact global systems of organization and power, to disrupt monopolies, and bring benefits to those marginalized by the current economic paradigm. They also dive...

Web3 Community-Building and Advocacy Through the Polkadot Ambassador Program

November 19, 2020 16:30 - 38 minutes - 31.2 MB

Polkadot and Web3 take center stage in this week's episode. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Zoé Meckbach, a senior Polkadot ambassador and blockchain technology and cybersecurity advocate. They discuss the Polkadot and Web3 communities, the Polkadot ambassador program and what it’s like to be an ambassador, and some of the exciting things happening in the space. Links: Zoé Meckback on Twitter (https://twitter.com/MeckbachZoe) Polkadot Ambassador Program (htt...

Freedom of the Press in the Age of Digital Surveillance

October 29, 2020 13:30 - 37 minutes - 30.4 MB

This week we look at the intersection between journalism, freedom of the press, and technology. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Harlo Holmes, Director of Digital Security at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. They discuss the role of journalism in a free society, the contemporary media landscape, the Snowden revelations, surveillance, the role of technology and privacy, the political implications of technology development, and best practices for whistleblow...

Running Node Infrastructure Easier with Bison Trails

October 08, 2020 10:45 - 33 minutes - 26.9 MB

This week we look at proof-of-stake blockchain node infrastructure with the space’s leading solutions provider, Bison Trails. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Aaron Henshaw, CTO and cofounder of Bison Trails, which pioneers blockchain node infrastructure and lowers the barrier to entry across multiple networks, including Polkadot, Cosmos, Eth 2.0, Near, Celo, and more. They discuss how and why Bison Trails was founded, the current state of node infrastructure,...

Polkadot-Ethereum Compatibility with Moonbeam

September 23, 2020 10:00 - 37 minutes - 29.9 MB

This week we dive into cross-network compatibility and interoperability between Polkadot and Ethereum. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Derek Yoo of Moonbeam, an Ethereum-compatible smart contract parachain built on Substrate for Polkadot. They discuss Moonbeam and how it works, the role of smart contracts on Polkadot, the difference between Moonbeam and Ethereum layer-2 solutions, and the future of cross-network interoperability. Links: Derek Yoo: https://twi...

The Challenges of Disrupting the System with Blockchain

July 13, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 49.1 MB

This week we talk to the Parity's head of security Kirill Pimenov about the shortcomings and potential of blockchain, open-source software and DLT. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Kirill Pimenov, head of security at Parity Technologies. The disruptive nature of blockchain has attracted many great minds from many backgrounds, and Kirill Pimenov's wealth of experience and knowledge clears up some of the hype and promises of blockchain regarding its relationship...

The challenges of disrupting the system with Blockchain

July 13, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 49.1 MB

This week we talk to the Parity's head of security Kirill Pimenov about the shortcomings and potential of blockchain, open-source software and DLT. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Kirill Pimenov, head of security at Parity Technologies. The disruptive nature of blockchain has attracted many great minds from many backgrounds, and Kirill Pimenov's wealth of experience and knowledge clears up some of the hype and promises of blockchain regarding its relationship...

DeFi on Polkadot with Acala and Laminar: Part 2

June 22, 2020 10:00 - 30 minutes - 24.1 MB

This week we talk to the Acala Network team and learn about the Acala Network and their Sovereign Wealth Fund. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Dr. Antonia Chen, Chief Econominst and Co-founder of Laminar and Acala, and Ruitao Su, CEO and Co-founder of Acala and Laminar. They are working on a governed protocol that enables decentralized finance applications on blockchain, allowing everyday users to join the DeFi revolution by leveraging the Acala stable token ...

DeFi on Polkadot with Acala and Laminar: Part 1

June 08, 2020 11:00 - 31 minutes - 25.4 MB

This week we talk to the Acala Network team and learn about their ventures in DeFi on Polkadot and Ethereum. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Dr. Antonia Chen, Chief Econominst and Co-founder of Laminar and Acala, and Ruitao Su, CEO and Co-founder of Acala and Laminar. They are working on a governed protocol that enables decentralized finance applications on blockchain, allowing everyday users to join the DeFi revolution by having margin trading, synthetic ass...

The Economics of Next-Generation Blockchain Tokens

May 21, 2020 11:00 - 40 minutes - 32.8 MB

This week we dive deep into the economics of cryptocurrencies, proof of stake scenarios, and Polkadot's application of security, interoperability and token economics. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Stefanie von Jan, an economics lecturer at the FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management in Munich, Germany. Her interests in Austrian economics, Blockchain technology, and token economics led to her providing her expertise with founders and ...

Deploying Dapps Quickly on Layer-2 at SKALE

May 07, 2020 16:00 - 25 minutes - 20.4 MB

This week we talk about layer-2 scaling and quick and easy deployment of Dapps. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Christine Perry of SKALE labs, a layer-2 solution that augments applications and transactions built on public blockchains such as Ethereum. They discuss the developer experience on Ethereum and SKALE, interesting blockchain use cases, and why layer-2 is the solution for creating usable and powerful Dapps. Links: SKALE network (https://skale.network/...

Deploying Dapps quickly on layer-2 at SKALE

May 07, 2020 16:00 - 25 minutes - 20.4 MB

This week we talk about layer-2 scaling and quick and easy deployment of Dapps. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Christine Perry of SKALE labs, a layer-2 solution that augments applications and transactions built on public blockchains such as Ethereum. They discuss the developer experience on Ethereum and SKALE, interesting blockchain use cases, and why layer-2 is the solution for creating usable and powerful Dapps. Links: SKALE network (https://skale.network/...

Blockchain for Climate Action and Smart Cities

April 23, 2020 10:45 - 38 minutes - 30.5 MB

This week we meet at the intersection of blockchain, climate action, smart cities, finance, and IoT. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Anita Mujumdar of Evercity, a blockchain-based platform to aid in financing sustainability projects to meet the UN’s 2030 climate action goals. They discuss climate finance, decentralized robot economies, using measurement and data to build the sustainable smart cities of tomorrow, and how Substrate and Polkadot are helping make...

Web3 vs. Web2: How to Avoid Repeating the Same Mistakes

April 09, 2020 10:00 - 49 minutes - 39.3 MB

What can we learn from the failures of Web2 idealism? How do we build systems that continue to reflect Web3 ideals as business models scale into the future? In this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks with Shira Frank, co-founder of Maiden, the first global user research lab dedicated to forging a path to mainstream blockchain adoption. They explore the importance of building Web3 systems with proper research into possible downstream risks so as to create true change and o...

Investing in the Future of Web 3.0

March 26, 2020 14:00 - 38 minutes - 30.6 MB

How do you place a value on a more open, transparent, and representative web? What will be the true impact of blockchain technology and what motivates VC investments in the space? In this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks with Jasmine Zhang of IOSG Ventures, an early-stage venture fund investing in the blockchain space. They discuss the future of web 3.0, the impact that open finance and prediction markets will have on society, the potential impact of Polkadot and Substr...

Innovating Blockchain-Based Accounting with Totem

March 12, 2020 14:15 - 48 minutes - 39.1 MB

Why is the “black art” of accounting still stuck in the 20th century, and how can blockchain technology make it more efficient? In this episode, Joe Petrowski (research analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Chris D’Costa and and Toufiqur Chowdhury of Totem Live Accounting, a blockchain-based accounting system. They discuss why today’s accounting practices are so inefficient and how blockchain technology can improve them. Find out how Totem is innovating accounting for the 21st century, ho...

Chainlink: Oracles, DeFi, and Social Impact with Sergey Nazarov

February 27, 2020 11:45 - 46 minutes - 37.1 MB

What are the challenges in integrating off-chain data into blockchain smart contracts with oracle systems, and how might secure, oracle-powered DeFi create meaningful social impact? In this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks with Sergey Nazarov from Chainlink, a decentralized oracle system bringing external, real-world data to blockchain-based smart contracts. Oracle systems like Chainlink are a necessary part of decentralized finance (DeFi), for which off-chain data such...

Privacy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism, with Nym's Claudia Diaz

February 13, 2020 09:30 - 42 minutes - 34.2 MB

What is the role of privacy in the modern age, and how do we go about protecting it? How can new technologies help shield us from the rise of surveillance capitalism? In this episode, host Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) speaks with Claudia Diaz, Associate Professor and researcher at K.U. Leuven and Chief Scientist at Nym, an open-source, decentralized, permissionless protocol providing full-stack privacy infrastructure. We discuss the recent history of public perception on privacy, ...

Designing Universal Basic Income and Trusted Execution Environments

January 30, 2020 13:00 - 41 minutes - 33.4 MB

How do you design an effective universal basic income scheme on the blockchain? What are trusted execution environments, and how can they be used to enhance privacy? In this episode, host Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) speaks with Alain Brenzikofer of encointer, a blockchain-based universal basic income (UBI) system, and Supercomputing Systems, which is developing the SubstraTEE trusted execution environment (TEE) framework. With encointer, Brenzikofer came up with a novel way for ...

Ethereum: Past, Present, and Future with Parity Core-Developer Wei Tang

January 16, 2020 11:00 - 43 minutes - 35.1 MB

In this episode, hosts Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) and Phil Lucsok (Product Communications Manager, Parity) speak with Wei Tang (Core Developer, Parity) about his work on several Ethereum- and Substrate-related projects. They discuss Tang’s experience working on Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, and Substrate, including innovative proposals for account versioning, backwards compatibility, and bridging and merging different Ethereum chains, as well as the future of ETH 2.0 and the broad...

Democratizing Access to Wealth Creation: Tokenized Securities on Polymesh

December 19, 2019 14:00 - 49 minutes - 39.9 MB

What are the benefits of tokenizing regulated assets, and how might it revolutionize the world of finance? In this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research, Parity) is joined by Adam Dossa, Head of Blockchain at Polymath, a security token platform currently building a custom blockchain on Substrate called Polymesh. They discuss the world of tokenized securities and the promise this area of decentralized finance holds for democratizing global wealth creation. Dossa also explains Polymath’s reasoning...

Building a Custom Blockchain with Substrate

December 05, 2019 08:00 - 37 minutes - 30.1 MB

What is it like to develop on the Substrate blockchain building framework, and what resources are available to developers? How different is it from developing Ethereum smart contracts? In this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research, Parity) is joined by Shawn Tabrizi and Joshy Orndorff from the Developer Experience team at Parity Technologies, where they help developers building or interested in building on Substrate, regardless of experience level. Highlights: 01:12 - What is Substrate? 02:18 - S...

On-Chain Trust with KILT Protocol

November 21, 2019 10:00 - 45 minutes - 36.6 MB

How do trust and identity work in decentralized systems, and how can we help ensure our data isn't abused by centralized authorities? In this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) is joined by Ingo Rübe (Founder and CEO, BOTlabs) and Timo Welde (Product Owner and Technical Lead, KILT Protocol) of KILT Protocol, a built-on-Substrate project providing credentialing and authentication for web 3.0. Learn the difference between identity and attribution, and how KILT is bui...

Jillian York: Censorship, Human Rights, and Activism in the Digital Age

November 07, 2019 18:15 - 1 hour - 51 MB

Where should digital platforms draw the line between content moderation and censorship? How do company policies shape our culture, and how can we make technology a force for good? In this episode, writer and activist Jillian York (Director for International Freedom of Expression, Electronic Frontier Foundation) joins Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) to discuss freedom of expression, censorship and surveillance by digital platforms, and the role of internet activism in glo...

Mentorship and Values in Open-Source Development

October 25, 2019 10:00 - 48 minutes - 38.5 MB

How do you create meaningful change with open source software and what role does mentorship play? In this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks to Ben Kampmann (Core Developer, Parity) about the role of mentorship, learning, and values in the open-source community. They also discuss Open Tech School, a non-profit organization Ben created for open source education, as well as recent Substrate developments, including Substrate LFS (Large File Storage). For more info on Ben Kam...

Mona El Isa and how Melon Protocol is disrupting asset management

October 11, 2019 21:00 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MB

Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks to Mona El Isa (Co-Founder Melonport, MAMA) about using Melon Protocol to reduce the barriers in setting up and managing funds. Mona discusses delivering on a two-year roadmap, IRL Melon experiments, and educating the next generation of financial industry disruptors. Note: Mona has launched a new project called Avantgarde Finance. Avantgarde Finance positions itself as a company devoted towards creating value on the Melon protocol. The longer t...

Exploring a Multi-Chain Universe with Polkascan

September 27, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 49.4 MB

In our fifth episode, Nicole Zhu and Joe Petrowski talk to Emiel Sebastiaan, WEB3SCAN CEO, about Polkascan, an open-source block explorer that allows any Substrate-based blockchain project to have a block explorer. They discuss the Polkadot multi-chain explorer, how a DAO could fund block explorer services, Polkascan vs. Polkadot UI, and the nitty-gritty of how one actually goes about extracting data from a blockchain. Links: https://www.web3scan.com https://polkascan.io https://medium.com/po...

Zcash’s Anna and Deirdre on Zebra and quantum-resistant cryptography

September 13, 2019 08:00 - 48 minutes - 38.8 MB

In this episode, Joe talks to Deirdre Connolly and Anna Kaplan from Zcash Foundation (https://www.zfnd.org/) on the state of the Rust Zcash client, “Zebra,” originally developed by Parity Technologies (https://parity.io) and now maintained by Zcash Foundation. They also discuss integrating cryptography into our day-to-day lives, quantum-resistant cryptography, and what baby zebras are called. Highlights 00:28 - How Anna and Deirdre got to the Zcash Foundation 02:08 - Why have multiple Zcas...

Staking and Validating on Kusama and Polkadot

August 29, 2019 12:00 - 51 minutes - 41.1 MB

Gautam Dhameja (Solutions Architect, Parity) talks to Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) about staking, validating, and nominating on Kusama and Polkadot. If you want to learn more about how Kusama's and Polkadot's nominated proof-of-stake system works, or if you're interested in staking or validating, this episode is a great place to start. To get more information on staking, validating, and validator setup on Kusama, check out the Kusama network guide at https://guide.kusama.network/...

Clovyr’s Amber Baldet and Patrick Nielsen on Building Simple Tools for a Wider Reach

August 23, 2019 07:00 - 49 minutes - 39.8 MB

In Relay Chain’s second episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks to Amber Baldet and Patrick Nielsen from Clovyr. They discuss connecting app devs with tools to easily plug into blockchains, non-surveillance business models, why working for large corporations has its value, and more. Check it out and subscribe for more episodes of Relay Chain. Highlights: (00:22) How Clovyr is connecting application developers with tools to easily plug into blockchains. (05:44) Customizabilit...

Gavin Wood: Building Tech That Protects Our Interests

August 06, 2019 16:00 - 41 minutes - 33 MB

In Relay Chain’s inaugural episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks to Dr. Gavin Wood, Ethereum Cofounder and Founder Polkadot and Parity Technologies. They discuss nation states vs. protocols, building technology that fundamentally protects our interests, the most important skills for those looking to get into the blockchain industry, and more. Topics covered: (03:49) Web3 (http://gavwood.com/web3lt.html) as a meta-platform (04:42) Nation states vs. protocols (08:27) Buildin...

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