Illia Polosukhin on the development and launch of NEAR protocol
This week, Anna catches up with Illia Polosukhin, CTO and co-founder of NEAR, to talk about what's new in the network since last year. They go deeper on some of the topics they discussed last time - s...
25 Nov 20201h 2min
Stateless Validation with Alin Tomescu
In this week’s episode, Anna and Fredrik chat with Alin Tomescu, a post-doc researcher at VMWare Research Group, about the concept of stateless systems. Specifically, they explore his work on stateles...
18 Nov 20201h 5min
Testing PoW Consensus Algorithm Security with Ren Zhang from Nervos
In this week’s episode, we revisit the topic of consensus algorithms with Ren Zhang, a researchers at Nervos and previously at imec-COSIC (KU Leuven). We chat about an earlier work he did on evaluati...
11 Nov 202055min
ZK for authentication with Nolan and Locke from NuID
In this week’s episode, Anna spoke with Nolan Smith and Locke Brown, co-founders at NuID - a zero knowledge authentication solution. They explore the use-case of zk-powered password management and how...
4 Nov 202052min
Monsters in the Mempool with Dan Robinson from Paradigm
In this week’s episode, we chat with Dan Robinson, a Research Partner at Paradigm. We talk about the world of crypto VC and revisit of the topic of the Ethereum mempool. We then hear Dan's story abou...
28 Okt 202055min
Blockchain analytics with Alex Svanevik from Nansen
In this week’s episode, guest host Tarun Chitra and Anna chat with Alex Svanevik, CEO & cofounder of Nansen. They cover crypto analytics, DeFi analytics as well as discuss the push and pull between a ...
21 Okt 20201h 3min
John Adler on Optimistic vs ZK Rollup and the data availability problem
In this episode, we chat with John Adler - co-founder of Lazy Ledger (now Celestia) and Fuel Labs. We compare Optimistic Rollups and ZK Rollups as well as discuss how Ethereum, specifically Eth1, cou...
14 Okt 20201h 10min
NFTs & Rarible with Alex Salnikov
This week, Anna continues to dig into the topic of NFTs - That is Non-Fungible-Tokens or unique digital items - with Alex Salnikov, co-founder & chief product officer at Rarible. They talk about the p...
7 Okt 202052min
