Today’s guest is Alan Keegan. Alan is the co-founder and CSO of Mamori Labs, the company building the Kinto Network. Kinto is a soon-to-be-launched L2 with user permissioning built into the base layer. Prior to that, Alan worked at numerous companies including Bridgewater Associates and Sense Finance.
Get involved: https://engen.kinto.xyz/
Learn more about Alan: https://twitter.com/MisterKeegan
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[00:00:00] Introduction
[00:00:30] What is Kinto?
[00:05:45] The levels of on-chain compliance
[00:08:30] Comparing against other solutions in the market
[00:13:35] Unlocking RWAs full potential
[00:18:00] Attracting capital to the chain
[00:22:30] Discussing the bear case of permissioned chains
[00:27:00] State of ecosystem apps on Kinto on Day 1
[00:30:50] Benefits account abstraction
[00:36:10] Kinto and bridging
[00:38:00] Balancing Kinto with broader crypto ethos
[00:41:00] Alan's background
[00:44:00] Alan's time at Bridgewater
[00:51:25] Co-Founding OmegaOne
[00:52:45] Founding a clothing company
[01:00:00] The concept of "participatory design"
[01:04:40] Alan's time at Sense Finance
[01:06:50] Differences between application vs networks
[01:09:00] Initial draw to the ideals of Kinto
[01:11:45] Get involved with Kinto!
