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The Third Web

159 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 28 ratings

Podcast by Arthur Falls

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Understanding ICP Staking and Neurons in Simple English w/ John & Diego

January 20, 2022 17:04 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MB

Principal Engineer, John Wiegley joins Diego Pratts in this episode to reduce the practice of staking ICP to common English. We discuss ICP economics, burning & staking, the importance of governance on the IC and a whole lot more along the way. John Wiegley's community conversation on the subject can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVNSxFFAYUo

The Third Web #18 - Concordium

January 14, 2022 19:51 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MB

Concordium is a "compliant by design" open proof of stake blockchain that has achieved fame among Rust developers as a friendly place to develop. Community representative Beni Issembert Joins to discuss the origins and ambitions of the project.

What Does it mean to be "Web Speed" with Manu & Diego

December 03, 2021 10:58 - 20 minutes - 14 MB

"Web" can be used as a performance descriptor to represent the expectations of contemporary users. Does the IC achieve this? Where does it hit and where does it miss. In this episode, we explore the nuance of this term and gain a deeper grasp of the Internet Computer as a product. cycledao.xyz

ICDevs & the Drive Toward Community Developed Infrastructure

November 17, 2021 11:33 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MB

The Internet Computer requires a large amount of tooling to support web & enterprise developers. Austin Fatheree believes that should be developed by the community. Grants are already active for significant tooling, creating an independent alternative to the DFINITY Developer Grants program. icdevs.org cycledao.xyz

Today New York, Tomorrow, the World

November 17, 2021 11:31 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MB

Andrew and Evan of The Internet Computer Report join to discuss the state of the community, events in New York, and global opportunities for IC-based products. cycledao.xyz

OpenChat Deep Dive

November 17, 2021 11:25 - 38 minutes - 35 MB

From the early days of entrepreneurship to the deep inner workings of the Internet Computer, Matt Grogan discusses his history working with Dominic Williams. We then deep dive on OpenChat, application design patterns, and the SNS.

Decentralised Frontends, Upgrading Canisters, & the Mysteries of Boundary Nodes

October 20, 2021 21:14 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MB

Community Manager Moritz Fuller explains his decision to build a Liquity front end on the Internet Computer. From here we discuss the challenges of hosting DeFi products on the IC, upgrading canisters, and the mysterious role of boundary nodes. Waterslide Announcement: https://blog.waterslide.app/waterslide-the-first-defi-frontend-on-dfinitys-internet-computer/ cycledao.xyz

The No Code Revolution Comes to the IC with ICME

October 11, 2021 22:52 - 22 minutes - 21 MB

The Internet Computer native website builder, ICME, is the brainchild of Houman Shadab & Wyatt Benno, a lawyer/no code enthusiast and startup builder respectively. The website builder is the first step on their path to democratise application building on the IC. icme.io cycledao.xyz

Toniq Labs NFT Art Deep Dive

September 14, 2021 02:51 - 22 minutes - 30.3 MB

Bob Bodily, Chief Product Officer of Toniq Labs dives deep on NFTs and Toniq Labs' plans to expand their offerings. https://toniqlabs.com/ cycledao.xyz https://entrepot.app/

Knowledge Blast: Inter-Subnet Communication, the DKG, and Chainkey

September 07, 2021 03:34 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MB

Manu Drijvers drops a knowledge bomb in this session, answering your questions about the inner workings of the IC. cycledao.xyz

Norton Wang & the cycle_dao

August 26, 2021 23:37 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MB

Norton Wang discusses the future of governance on the IC. The Axon neuron manager, cycle_dao, ICRocks, combine to form a Voltronic image of application & IC governance and code verification. cycledao.xyz axon.ooo ic.rocks

IC Games, the Metaverse, an NFT Marketplace: Toniq Labs Has it All

August 26, 2021 23:36 - 21 minutes - 15 MB

Building an Internet Computer-hosted board game has led the team at Toniq Labs toward a complete metaverse infrastructure. Following the runaway success of their NFT marketplace which sold $350,000 worth of Chronic NFTs, we discuss a universal gaming currency, Stoic wallet, and the future of the Rise of the Magni game. @toniqlabs toniqlabs.com cycledao.xyz

InfinitySwap: The IC's Uniswap

August 26, 2021 23:35 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MB

InfinitySwap aims to provide an AMM to establish liquidity pools for DeFi products and fundraising on the IC. https://infinityswap.one/ cycledao.xyz

Origyn & the Emergence of Pan Industry Platforms

August 26, 2021 23:35 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MB

From a background in traditional systems to the forefront of decentralisation in traditional industry, Mike Shwartz has seen a lot. His project, Origyn, is an effort to make robust NTFs, or digital twins, of real-world objects. This extends to something he calls a "Plan Industry Platform" - an administrative platform for entire industries. origyn.ch cycledao.xyz

The First of the Accelerators: DeFiStarter

August 26, 2021 23:34 - 16 minutes - 11.6 MB

Singapore-based decentralised finance-oriented accelerator, DeFiStarter, is gunning for the Internet Computer financial ecosystem. By onboarding Ethereum-based teams and mirroring their applications on the Internet Computer, DeFiStarter gains access to both communities and, once IC Ethereum integration is complete, the benefits of cross-platform solutions. CTO, Sam, explains https://www.dfistarter.io/ cycledao.xyz

Token Standards On the Internet Computer

August 26, 2021 23:33 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MB

Hazel is back to discuss token standards on the IC. We dive deep on the HZLD token, canister upgradability, NFTs and Micropayments. After this interview was recorded, Hazel launched an NFT experiment, the background of which is described here. @suddenlyhazel cycledao.xyz

Experiments In Tokens and a Decentralised Patreon

July 05, 2021 02:44 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MB

To those who saw the HZLD token experiment on Twitter, Hazel will be a familiar figure. HZLD was actually a component in a much larger experiment: Hazels decentralised Patreon challenger Bunchd. In this chat, we discuss Hazel's reasons for building on DFINITY and her vision for Bunchd. @suddenlyhazel @GetBunchd @hzld_

From Linkedup to Distrikt - Professional Social Networking on the Internet Computer

June 29, 2021 20:24 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MB

Distrikt is a decentralised professional social media platform that began its life inside the DFINITY Foundation as Linkedup. Co-founder Andra Georgescu describes Distrikt's ambitions and her vision for decentralised social media. distrikt.io cycledao.xyz

Misconceptions & Open Questions with Jordan Last

June 17, 2021 22:38 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MB

Between the Internet Identity System and application scaling, there are a large number of subjects that the Internet Computer community is still coming to understand. Especially in the context of the prior described vision of the IC. Jordan Last addresses misconceptions and reformulates unanswered questions, bringing clarity to areas of ambiguity.

DSCVR the Decentralised Reddit

June 16, 2021 08:35 - 37 minutes - 51 MB

DSCVR is in essence a decentralised Reddit - or news aggregator - hosted on the Internet Computer. Rick Porter, formerly BCG, began building DSCVR in 2020 on a hunch that a decentralised news aggregator might be a significantly impactful app. The project has taken him on a journey through token economics, scaling and future application design on the Internet Computer.

Jordan Last & The Sudograph Odyssey

June 10, 2021 18:10 - 16 minutes - 22.1 MB

Longtime DFINITY Community member, Jordan Last takes us on a journey from his love of technology as a youth to his discovery of the Internet Computer. We discuss Sudograph, Jordan's open-source implementation of the GraphQL database for the Internet Computer, and some of his other numerous projects. Among them, his new podcast Demergence hosted entirely on the IC. @lastmjs https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/demergence/id1570746602

Jordan Last & The GraphQL Odyssey Mixdown

June 10, 2021 18:10 - 16 minutes - 22.1 MB

Longtime DFINITY Community member, Jordan Last takes us on a journey from his love of technology as a youth to his discovery of the Internet Computer. We discuss Pseudograph, Jordan's open-source implementation of the GraphQL database for the Internet Computer, and some of his other numerous projects. Among them, his new podcast Demergence hosted entirely on the IC. @lastmjs https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/demergence/id1570746602

Harrison Hines On Infrastructure And IC DAOs Mixdown

June 07, 2021 20:35 - 18 minutes - 25.4 MB

Harrison Hines is back with an insightful discussion into the future of infrastructure funding and an examination of DAOs as infrastructure builders

The Internet Computer Weekly - Decentralised Web On Fleek

June 01, 2021 22:55 - 30 minutes - 42.3 MB

Harrison Hines of Fleek discusses the challenges faced by the current generation of decentralised applications. Namely, the lack of decentralised frontend hosting. Enter the decentralised web, also known as Web 3. Fleek is a provider of decentralised web tooling. visit at Fleek.co or follow on Twitter: @FleekHQ Subsctribe to the Newsletter at cycleDAO.zyx

The Internet Computer Weekly - Chain Keys and Ethereum Interoperation with Dominic Williams

May 27, 2021 01:18 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MB

In this session, Dominic Williams, Founder of DFINITY, creator of the Internet Computer, and all-round good dude explains how the internet computer interoperates with Ethereum. Subscribe @ cycledao.xyz

The Internet Computer Weekly #2 - Tacen

May 25, 2021 21:15 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MB

This episode of the Internet Computer Weekly features hybrid decentralised exchange Tacen, which enables users to settle trades atomically, matching trades using a centralised service but storing the orderbook and settlement information in user run oracles living on the Internet Computer. This approach is interesting in its use of an orderbook instead of the automated market maker design used by Uniswap and its derivatives. This is made possible by the inexpensive storage and compute the Inte...

The Internet Computer Weekly #1 - Capsule

May 19, 2021 22:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MB

Nadim Kobeissi of the Capsule decentralised social media project describes the need for an alternative to the existing big-tech offerings and the reason the Internet Computer was chosen as a hosting layer. capsule.social CycleDAO.xyz

Understanding Urbit #7 - Tlon Operations Community

April 13, 2020 20:47 - 42 minutes - 58.7 MB

Tlon COO Erik Newton and Community Manager Kenny Rowe join this session to provide some additional background to Tlon and the Urbit Community. Erik Newton begins by explaining the relationship between the Tlon corporation and the Urbit project. We also discuss the reason behind the valuation of the address space, business opportunities, and plans for the launch of Urbit OS 1. Then Kenny describes the cultural reach of the Urbit aesthetic and how he found himself pulled into the project fro...

Understanding Urbit #6 - Built to Last

April 13, 2020 20:44 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MB

The recurrent theme of calm computing is explored more deeply in this discussion with Logan Allen whose focus is infrastructure and product at Tlon. Logan sees the attention economy, with all it’s popups and news feed clickbait as a result of the way startups are organised and funded. In between rebukes of VC capital and the growth business model, Logan describes a software landscape where the user is king, extending the views of Christian and Anthony. The only way Logan believes this can b...

Understanding Urbit #5 - Urbit & Bitcoin

April 13, 2020 20:41 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MB

Christian Langalis is the resident bitcoin ambassador to the Urbit team. His motto is sound money requires sound computing and this well describes his role is to develop Bitcoin infrastructure for the Urbit ecosystem. Christian’s interest in Urbit derives from a desire for a sound foundation on which Bitcoin can operate. He makes the argument that for all its potential, bitcoin cannot offer the benefits of sound money (sound being a term that requires specific definition in this case) witho...

Understanding Urbit #4 - Urbit ID & the Network

April 13, 2020 20:35 - 22 minutes - 31.3 MB

As Ted indicated in episode 2, The Urbit ID public key infrastructure and the Urbit network are core to the way individual Urbits communicate and maintain self-sovereignty. In this episode we hear from three members of the Tlon team, each explaining the part of the system they are most familiar with. OS lead Ted returns to introduce the subject. Tlon engineer, Logan, Explains the use experience of Urbit ID, The reason for some of the design choices, and the topography of the Urbit Network. ...

Understanding Urbit #3 - Technology Freedom Mixdown

April 13, 2020 20:30 - 40 minutes - 55.2 MB

The effect technology has on individual freedom is a recurring theme in lunchtime discussions in the Tlon office. Chief Product Officer, Anthony Arroyo has a background in linguistics and the philosophy of technology. This positions him well to explain the nature of this relationship and how Urbit positions itself between the two. Anthony offered the key insight that today computers have evolved from their nature as tools into mechanical colonizers of our lives. More than just absorbing our ...

Understanding Urbit #3 - Technology & Freedom

April 13, 2020 20:30 - 40 minutes - 55.2 MB

The effect technology has on individual freedom is a recurring theme in lunchtime discussions in the Tlon office. Chief Product Officer, Anthony Arroyo has a background in linguistics and the philosophy of technology. This positions him well to explain the nature of this relationship and how Urbit positions itself between the two. Anthony offered the key insight that today computers have evolved from their nature as tools into mechanical colonizers of our lives. More than just absorbing our ...

Understanding Urbit #2 - Under the Hood of the Urbit OS

April 13, 2020 20:22 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MB

Engineer Ted Blackman works on the Urbit OS kernel. Like many Tlon employees, Ted initially came to the project as an open source contributor. In this discussion Ted breaks the operating system down into its components and explains its relationship to Urbit ID which we will cover in-depth in episode 4. Ted begins by helping us establish a foundational understanding of what an operating system is and what roles traditional OSs excel in. Then he explores how Urbit functions as a layer above, ...

Understanding Urbit #1 - Introducing the Personal Server

April 13, 2020 20:17 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MB

Few software projects today share either the contemporary relevance or fringe mystique of the Urbit Operating and Identity System. As a highly secure personal server, Urbit aims to deliver on many of the ideas pioneered by the Cypherpunks, and, after nearly 20 years in development the platform has begun a phased launch. Urbit gives us persistent digital identity, a new benchmark for secure computing, and maybe even an open source response to more modern social computing platforms like WeChat ...

The Third Web #17 - Arthur Brock, Holochain

May 09, 2019 23:17 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MB

Holochain has been a project simminging in the background of the blockchain space for several years now. The promise has been a panaceaic solution to the performance and scalability issues facing decentralised hosting platforms. It’s an oft heard claim, but, as founder Arthur Brock expounds in this interview, by giving up our insistence on global consensus in favor of discoverable and verifiable local state, a world of options is opened to us. This kind of discussion follows from the Secure ...

The Third Web #16 - Urbit, Your New Server

March 18, 2019 01:13 - 44 minutes - 41 MB

The range of third-web platforms in development today is greater than ever. From data-centric blockchain based approaches to agent-centric designs like Secure Scuttlebut, the potential futures of the third web are rapidly expanding. Today we look at another approach with the Urbit platform. Like Secure Scuttlebutt, Urbit is agent centric. It is a deterministic operating system designed to be the filter between a user and the online services they use. I last covered Urbit in 2016 and the p...

The Third Web #15 - Edgeware & Parity, Infrastructure on Top of Infrastructure

March 03, 2019 22:29 - 35 minutes - 81.6 MB

What is Edgeware Edgeware being developed by an entity called Commonwealth Labs Built on Parity’s Substrate Grandpa finality tool On-chain governance Scripting built in. Using Web Assembly (Wasm) Building on Substrate People used to build their own web servers, now they use the cloud. People used to build new chains, now they can use Substrate. This enables builders to focus on the area of their expertise. One month after development began a test net was operational Three months the project ...

The Third Web #14 - Dawn Of An Ecosystem: Substrate & Polkadot

January 30, 2019 18:00 - 27 minutes - 37.8 MB

Care of DFINITY I was privileged to attend the Web 3 Summit in Berlin last year. While there I interviewed Aeron Buchanan, the Executive Vice President of the Web 3 Foundation and Gavin Wood, Founder of Ethereum, Parity, and the Web 3 Foundation. These guys are two of the individuals that launched the programmable blockchain revolution and these interviews plot a course from the founding of Ethereum to their vision of the decentralized web and give us a trajectory beyond. A quick production n...

The Third Web #13 - Consensus Primer with Aparna Krishnan

December 20, 2018 09:00 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MB

Aparna Krishnan is head of education at Blockchain at Berkeley and co-founder of Mechanism Labs, an open source blockchain research lab. Earlier this year, Aparna was awarded a scholarship by the DFINITY Foundation for Mechanism Labs’ research into consensus mechanisms. This episode is essentially a primer for advanced discussion of consensus in decentralized networks. https://mechanismlabs.io/ https://github.com/aparnakr https://twitter.com/aparnalocked https://medium.com/@aparnalocked Apa...

The Third Web #12 - The Actor Model

December 12, 2018 15:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MB

Subodh Sharma is a professor of computer science at IIT Delhi, one of the most prestigious universities in India. While he’s not teaching, Subodh conducts research into the formal verification of distributed systems, and his work on the automated formal verification of smart contacts has drawn international interest. I called up Subodh because I was looking for someone to explain an approach to writing software called the actor model. The actor model essentially involves sandboxing tasks in...

The Third Web #11 - Scuttlebutt & Cypherspace

November 20, 2018 15:54 - 30 minutes - 70.2 MB

Dominic Tarr is a hacker who resides on a sailboat, usually found in New Zealand's beautiful Hauraki Gulf. In recent years he has risen to fame as the creator of the Secure Scuttlebutt protocol, Scuttlebutt for short. Scuttlebutt is comprised of a standardized message format and a subjective append only log stored locally by users. The first application has been a multi-client decentralized social media platform that is an absolute joy to use, and I encourage everyone to download my favouri...

The Third Web #10 - An Emerging India

November 06, 2018 15:04 - 50 minutes - 40.8 MB

Recently I visited India representing the DFINITY Foundation. The trip was supported by upstart venture production and consulting group, Dunya Labs, and advocacy group, InCrypt. Those ten days altered my understanding of the way technology manifests products and the driving role the needs of high growth nations will have in defining the digital landscape of tomorrow. In this episode, I’m joined by co-founder of Dunya Labs, Cathy Guo, and co-founders of InCrypt, Nitin Sharma & Sumukh Shetty. ...

The Third Web #9 - Jack du Rose, Colony & Coase

October 27, 2018 12:30 - 26 minutes - 20.9 MB

In 2015 I interviewed Jack du Rose about Colony - his autonomous platform that could track contribution to a common enterprse and reward tokens representing stake in said enterprise. Three years and two private betas on, we hear from Jack about his experience building a system to revolutionize the way we work together. Part of what makes Colony facinating is to see the enormity of the events that have taken place in the years since it’s conception and how in spite of these events, the proces...

The Third Web #8 - Zilliqa & Singapore

August 24, 2018 00:00 - 38 minutes - 31 MB

Zilliqa is a Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance based, public, programmable blockchain platform that uses Proof of Work as a syble resistance mechanism. Combining PBFT and PoW is a brilliant trick to bring the state finality required for scaling through network and state sharding. Amrit Kumar, Head of Research, and Xinshu Dong, CEO, offer an overview of the project. At the same time, we learn from two of Singapore's innovation magnates of innovation about the advantage provided by both the ...

The Third Web #7 - Brian Behlendorf

April 06, 2018 14:11 - 18 minutes - 24.8 MB

On this episode of Web 3.0, we hear from Brian Behlendorf, the head of the Hyperledger project at the Linux Foundation, and leading figure in the open-source software movement. Brian began developing open-source code during the mid-1990's and was also the lead developer of Apache Web Server — one of the worlds most used pieces of software. Today, in the midst of a blockchain boom, Brian’s focus is still on free software development. I spoke with Brian in October. We were both in Cancun for...

The Third Web #6 - DFINITY Consensus

January 24, 2018 01:38 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MB

"The DFINITY project was formed to research ways of enabling public decentralized networks to host a virtual computer of unlimited capacity. This rests upon a new blockchain computer that is similar in concept to Ethereum but has vastly improved performance and, ultimately, unlimited capacity. The starting requirement was that the systems developed should be useful in joining 1 million or more mining clients." Huge claims, but the DFINITY project is indeed one of the most interesting infrast...

The Third Web #5 - SingularityNet

January 18, 2018 23:55 - 41 minutes - 57.4 MB

Artificial Intelligence Researcher Ben Goertzal and Blockchain Solution Architect, Simone Vulpem discuss the SingularityNet artificial intelligence marketplace. Currently, the market for artificial intelligence is dominated by industry giants with huge monolithic offerings with features far beyond the often niche applications may businesses have a need for. Smaller organisations provide bespoke solutions but these can be expensive and configuration heavy. SingularityNet gives independent dev...

The Third Web #4 - SpankChain

December 11, 2017 01:51 - 46 minutes - 63.4 MB

In today’s episode we look at spank chain, an adult industry cryptocurrency payment system built using Ethereum. Currently, financial intermediaries in the adult entertainment industry exploiting their position to impose arbitrary rules on content by refusing to serve participants who produce content a specific payment processor finds objectionable. The effect of this is to persecute already marginalized groups like trans men and women and as well as severing the income of both individuals...

The Third Web #3 - Quantifying Gaze

November 21, 2017 01:24 - 14 minutes - 20.1 MB

Today we are taking a quick look at a range of problems and their solutions through the lens of a little known project known as Gazecoin. Under the gaze coin banner are a range of projects, among them, a virtual world with purchasable real estate which serves as a content delivery channel. I first encountered Gazecoin when founder Jonny peters invited me to check out the project’s pilot content-creation studio in Sydney. Jonny is an accomplished entrepreneur who made his first move in the ...

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