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Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Draper and Facu, Co-Founders of Smol and Contributors at Yearn FinanceMy guests today are Draper and Facu, co-founders of Smol and contributors to Yearn and Ajna.
Smol is a set of practical EVM tools born out of Draper and Facu's experience building frontends and marketing material for Yearn Finance.
On this episode, Facu and Draper walk us through the variety of tools and projects they've worked on together, and give us insights into how DeFi protocols do successful go to market. We also get a sneak peek at upcoming projects like Smol v2, and a new interface to Yearn Finance.
It was great...2024-02-201h 03Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Farcaster Frames Development with Cassie Heart, Christopher Wallace, Jacopo Ranalli & friendsFarcaster Frames are an exciting new feature of the Farcaster protocol that let developers quickly build mini apps with a few lines of code. Frames extend the OpenGraph meta tags, which are typically used to serve rich media embeds when pasting a link. Frames add interactive buttons which, when clicked inside of a compatible Farcaster client like Warpcast or Supercast, let the server know which Farcaster user clicked the button. The Frame's image can be updated in response. In short, developers can build polls, NFT claims, airdrop slot machines, games, and more, all with the very simple primitives provided...2024-02-151h 08Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ David Sneider and Chris Cassano, Co-Founders of Lit ProtocolMy guests today are David Sneider and Chris Cassano, co-founders of Lit Protocol.
Lit is a distributed key management network. Lit leverages multi-party computation and threshold signature schemes, spreading private key shares are across a network of Lit node operators so users can sign and encrypt data, without any one machine ever holding the entire the entire private key.
On this episode, David and Chris explain how Lit was born from their understanding of the crypto's pain points, after many years in the industry. We dive into the Lit nodes software, distributed key generation and...2024-02-131h 35Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Brian Weickmann, Co-Founder of ZKP2PMy guest today is Brian Weickmann, co-founder of ZKP2P.
ZKP2P is a trustless fiat-to-crypto P2P onramp powered by ZK proofs.
On this episode, Brian explains how ZKP2P leverages ZK proofs to translate DKIM signatures in Venmo and HDFC transaction confirmation emails to unlock onchain assets like ETH and USDC. ZKP2P lets depositors charge a fee, creating a financial incentive to draw liquidity into the protocol.
It was great learning more about ZKP2P from Brian, as this is one of the most exciting and tangible applications of ZK...2024-02-081h 15Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Kristof Gazso, Founder of PimlicoMy guest today is Kristof Gazso, founder of Pimlico.
Pimlico is an ERC-4337 smart account infrastructure provider. Pimlico offers a handful of services, including Alto, the most popular bundler by total executed user operations, a paymaster transaction sponsorship solution, and permissionless.js a new platform agnostic typescript library built on top of viem, that helps devs wire dapps up to smart accounts.
On this episode, Kristof and I chat about the design of 4337, the most recent updates to the spec, and their recent seed round fundraise.
It was great getting a chance to...2024-02-061h 35Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Dogan and Ulas from ClaveMy guests today are Ulas and Dogan, founder and founding engineer at Clave.
Clave is a stablecoin wallet powered by passkeys and zkSync smart accounts. On this episode, Ulas and Dogan dive into the origins of Clave on Optimism, the UX advantages of account abstraction, and Rollup Improvement Proposal 7212, which aims to bring secp256r1 passkey elliptic curve verification to L2s. We also discuss their partnership with ZkSync, and some of the very slick onboarding flows they have to bring new to crypto users onchain.
It was fantastic getting to know Ulas and Dogan...2024-02-021h 02Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Chris Chang and George Datskos, Founders of GhostLogsMy guests today are Chris Chang and George Datskos, founders of GhostLogs.
GhostLogs is a new platform that allows developers to fork contracts on various EVMs, inject their own custom events and view functions, and then interact with them via RPC, Dune Analytics, or Flipside.
In this episode, Chris and George explain how their journey doing MEV on Binance Smart Chain and building NFT loan aggregator Snow Genesis led them to build GhostLogs. We also discuss EIP-7571, another potentially compatible approach to moving event logs out of transaction execution.
It was great getting...2024-01-3055 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Itai Turbahn, Co-Founder of DynamicMy guest today is Itai Turbahn, co-founder and CEO of Dynamic.
Dynamic is a Web3 login provider that offers embedded wallets, account management, and webhooks. In this episode, Itai and I talk about the present and future of wallets, authentication, multichain, passkeys, AA smart accounts, and more.
It was nice getting to learn more about Itai's journey building Dynamic. I hope you enjoy the show.
As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and...2024-01-251h 13Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Hilmar Maximilian Orth, Founder of Gelato Network and Arrakis FinanceMy guest today is Hilmar Maximilian Orth, founder of Gelato Network and Arrakis Finance.
Gelato is a service provider that helps protocol developers automate smart contract and rollup maintenance. Gelato's network of nodes automate and relay EVM transactions to many EVMs. Gelato also supplies rollup as a service tools to help new rollups launch with the necessary infrastructure to attract third party devs.
It was great getting to chat with Hilmar about his journey building Gelato, how the company's products fit together, and what's next for the EVM ecosystem. I hope you enjoy the show. 2024-01-231h 25Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Eito Miyamura, ZK MicrophoneMy guest today is Eito Miyamura, co-creator of ZK Microphone.
ZK Microphone is an EthGlobal Paris hackathon project that prototypes generating hardware signed audio recordings, which uniquely link a file of captured audio to the device that recorded it. This application is enabled by hardware security modules, also known as trusted execution environments and secure enclaves.
In this conversation, Eito explains how hardware attested recording devices work, and how his team used zero knowledge provable computation techniques to go beyond and enable editors to mutate hardware attested audio files while maintaining a cryptographically provable link...2024-01-1855 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Ryan Smith, Founder of IndexSupplyMy guest today is Ryan Smith, founder of Index Supply.
Index Supply is a company dedicated to open source indexing the EVM. Index Supply builds on Ryan's years of experience building backends and indexing services at Heroku, Chain, and Mint.fun, and through consulting with Zora, Reservoir, and more.
On this episode we discuss Shovel, Index Supply's open source indexer that transcribes every event emitted in an EVM node to an OLTP postgres database. We discuss the ins-and-outs of indexing, Index Supply's companion Block API, and the company's unconventional approach to funding open source software...2024-01-131h 33Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Nazar Ilamanov, creator of MonobaseMy guest today is Nazar Ilamanov, Solidity and Web3 dev and creator of Monobase.
Monobase is a collection of tools for reading smart contracts. It includes a universal frontend for contract interactions, a scheme for creating onchain HTML interfaces, and a forthcoming VSCode extension for writing contract interactions in Solidity.
It was fun getting to chat with Nazar about his experimentation around the EVM. I hope you enjoy the show.
As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or...2024-01-0854 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Nick Hollins and Ivano Salonia of UFOMy guests today are Nick Hollins and Ivano Salonia, co-founders of UFO. UFO is an onchain radio network and a spiritual offspring of indie radio.
In this episode, Nick, Ivano, and I discuss the work of creating podcasts that grow onchain brands and build community. We consider how Web3 communities make use of Web2, how NFT drops create momentum, and how media consumption habits have changed in the last few years.
It was great getting to know Nick and Ivano who are exploring what's possible at the intersection of indie subcultures and the Ethereum ecosystem...2023-12-271h 27Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Bryce Ferguson and Jack Kearney, CEO and CTO of TurnkeyMy guests today are Bryce Ferguson and Jack Kearney, CEO and CTO of Turnkey.
Turnkey is a private key as a service provider designed to let app devs and enterprise customers create, manage, and use private keys with a simple API. Turnkey leverages Amazon Nitro, a Trusted Execution Environment as a service, to give customers of all sizes a Secure Enclave in the cloud. This is particularly useful for companies that need to programmatically manage a large volume of private keys.
On this episode, Bryce and Jack explain Turnkey's QuorumOS, a deterministic OS for secure...2023-12-191h 18Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ ConejoCapital, CEO of DoraMy guest today is Bunny, aka @ConejoCapital, CEO of Dora. Dora is a user friendly block explorer and blockchain search engine.
On this episode, Bunny and I discuss multichain block explorers, unified blockchain interaction interfaces, and the challenges of blockchain indexing. We discuss Dora's search product and it's data product, and it's adventures beyond the EVM.
It was fun getting to know Bunny and learn about Dora's journey making blockchain transaction auditing easier for consumers. I hope you enjoy the show.
As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute...2023-12-121h 45Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Derek Chiang, CEO of ZeroDevMy guest today is Derek Chiang, CEO of ZeroDev. ZeroDev is a smart account provider whose SDK makes it easy for app devs to integrate social authentication, Passkey signers, paymaster gas sponsorships, transaction bundling, and third party plugins.
In this conversation, Derek and I discuss 4337 in depth from the perspective of the app dev. We talk about the difference between wallet signer providers and smart contract account providers, how to choose between the many smart account implementations, and which transactions to sponsor. Derek also shares some alpha about an upcoming product that will synchronize smart account state...2023-12-071h 24Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ 3074 vs 4337 with Matt Garnett, Gregory Markou, and Joseph DelongSubscribe at web3galaxybrain.com
Today's episode is a roundtable discussion about EIP-3074: AUTH and AUTHCALL and EIP-4337: Account Abstraction Using Alt Mempool, two very different approaches to enabling smart contract accounts.
To discuss the past, present, and future of 3074 and 4337, I'm joined by Matt Garnett, aka lightclients, developer contributor working on Go Ethereum, Gregory Markou, aka @gregthegreek, CTO at ChainSafe, and Joseph Delong, CTO at Astaria and former CTO at Sushi.
It was fantastic getting these three talented and opinionated developers to the table to discuss the social and technical processes it...2023-12-031h 22Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Ahmed Al-Balaghi, CEO of BiconomyMy guest today is Biconomy co-founder and CEO Ahmed Al-Balaghi. Since 2019, Biconomy has executed over 40 million metatransactions to help devs make crypto UX easier for their users. Today, Biconomy is one of the top Account Abstraction service providers, boasting significant markeshare across popular EVM chains.
In this episode, Ahmed and I sit down to discuss Biconomy's ERC-4337 smart accounts, Paymasters, and Bundlers as a service. We cover session keys, Passkey signers, EIP-7212, multichain permissions. We also touch on ERC-6900 AA Module, which Biconomy and Rhinestone are collaborating on for their forthcoming Module Store, which is planned to...2023-11-291h 21Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Jacob Frantz and Zak Salmon, Founders of FirstMateWeb3 Galaxy Brain on Gitcoin
My guests today are Jacob Frantz and Zak Salmon, founders of FirstMate.
FirstMate lets Creators build and host their own secondary NFT marketplaces. Creator-owned marketplaces can display all of an artist or team's collections across minting platforms, enforce royalties, and source liquidity from the most popular marketplaces thanks to Reservoir. In its initial version, FirstMate is served as an app within the Manifold app store, and it will become its own website soon.
On this episode, Jacob, Zak and I discuss the evolving NFT landscape, what it's like...2023-11-241h 59Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Nitya Subramanian, Founder of CapsuleMy guest today is Nitya Subramanian, founder of Capsule.
Capsule is an embedded wallet SDK that leverages Passkeys, MPC, and AA Smart Accounts to simplify the user experience around wallet creation and transaction signing. Apps that integrate Capsule's embedded wallet SDK authenticate users by their email address. Capsule creates a Passkey for each user, which is configured as a signer on a 2/2 Multi-Party Computation. This MPC, in turn, is the signer on a 4337 smart account. Users that have created a Capsule account in another app will be able to access it in any future app they log...2023-11-2158 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Furqan Rydhan, Co-founder of ThirdwebMy guest today is Furqan Rydhan, co-founder of Thirdweb.
Thirdweb is a popular web3 toolkit for app developers. Thirdweb is used by big brands and indie developers to drop NFTs, enable log-in, and power decentralized games. By the numbers, in September 2023, Thirdweb had 50,000 active developers and 5 million active end-users interacting with products built atop its tools.
In this conversation, Furqan and I discuss Thirdweb's focus on app developers, and how that differentiates it from its peers. We dive into how he thinks about organizing its vast set of product offerings, and what he's learned after...2023-11-151h 30Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ DC Posch and Nalin Bhardwaj, Founders of DaimoMy guests today are DC Posch and Nalin Bhardwaj, co-founders of Daimo. Daimo is a stablecoin focused iOS wallet built with Passkeys and AA Smart Accounts.
On this episode, DC, Nalin, and I discuss their new p256Verifier contract, which is an audited Solidity implementation of p256r1 verification. We discuss the ins-and-outs of gas optimized onchain p256 verification, compare their contract to the FreshCryptoLib implementation, and consider the limitations of precomputation. We cover EIP-7212, which DC and Nalin co-authored alongside the team from Clave, and discuss Daimo's exciting proposal for progressive precompiles, also known as precompile shadowing, which...2023-11-021h 07Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Pedro Gomes, Founder of WalletConnectMy guest today is Pedro Gomes, better known as @pedrouid on twitter. Pedro is the founder of WalletConnect, the most important software for connecting wallets to dapps.
On this episode, Pedro joins the show to discuss WalletConnect's origins and the architectural changes introduced in WalletConnect v2. We also go in-depth on the recently finalized EIP-6963: Multi Injected Provider Discovery, which brings together the most popular browser wallets to solve the instability caused when more than one wallet provider is injected into the same browser session. Finally, we touch on how WalletConnect will intersect with embedded wallets and smart accounts.
...2023-11-011h 07Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Konrad Kopp, Co-Founder of RhinestoneMy guest today is Konrad Kopp, co-founder of Rhinestone. Rhinestone is an exciting project that's researching and developing smart account modules atop the ERC-4337 Account Abstraction standard.
AA modules promise to allow smart contract account owners to safely add new functionality and permissions to their accounts, without having to upgrade to new smart contracts. The module pattern described in the draft ERC-6900: Modular Smart Contract Accounts and Plugins aims to create an ecosystem of interoperable modules to augment the various 4337 implementations that choose to support it.
On this episode, Konrad and I discuss the different...2023-10-251h 19Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Account Abstraction with Will Hennessy & Noam HurwitzSmart contract wallets are gaining traction amongst devs, because they offer several advantages over traditional EOA accounts. ERC-4337, the Account Abstraction EIP, proposes a standard for creating smart contract accounts that can have interchangeable signers and authentication schemes, allow for gas to be paid by third parties, and create a new mempool of transactions that can be bundled and put onchain by motivated third parties.
My guests today are Will Hennessy and Noam Hurwitz, who work on Alchemy's Account Abstraction team.
In this episode, Will and Noam walk me through the ins-and-outs of Account Abstraction...2023-10-191h 17Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Rhea Myers, Blockchain ArtistMy guest today is artist, Rhea Myers. Rhea is a programmer, essayist, researcher, thinker, and art practitioner who has been working in the medium of blockchains for over a decade.
In this conversation, Rhea takes us through some of the works and writing in her 2011-2021 retrospective, Proof of Work, which is a gorgeous book in the print edition.
I've been wanting to interview Rhea for some time. It was exciting to sit down with her for this sprawling and deep conversation about art, technology, culture, politics, and everything in between. I hope you enjoy...2023-10-121h 57Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Forum with James McComish and Peter FergusonMy guests today are James McComish and Peter Ferguson, co-founders of Forum. Forum is an iPhone app where every groupDM has its own shared wallet.
James and Peter are among the most knowledgeable builders working with WebAuthn and Passkeys that I've encountered. On this episode, we discuss the ins-and-outs of WebAuthn in production, including largeBlob, cross origin domains, session keys, and the three versions of the spec to date. We also delve into the team's journey building Forum.
It was a treat talking to James and Peter about their experience building with Passkeys. I hope...2023-10-101h 35Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ The Consumer Crypto StackThe Consumer Crypto Stack lets devs make crypto apps regular people can enjoy. In this talk, I explain the 100x UX improvement enabled by Passkeys, Smart Contract Wallets, L2s, and Gasless interaction design.
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Today's special episode is the audio version of a research tech talk that I published on October 5, 2023, entitled The Consumer Crypto Stack: The 100x unlock in consumer crypto applications.
If you enjoy this talk and want to go deeper, I encourage you to check out recent and upcoming episodes of Web3 Galaxy Brain...2023-10-0622 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Cosmos for EVM Devs with Sam HartMy guest today is Sam Hart. Sam is a developer, artist, and biochemist. He is Head of Product & Strategy at Skip Protocol and co-founder at Timewave Labs. He has contributed to the Cosmos ecosystem for years, and is also co-founder of Folia, a blockchain art collective.
On September 1, 2023, Sam wrote a long and detailed post to the MakerDAO forums pitching Cosmos as an interesting option for the appchain aspect of Maker's endgame.
Inspired by that post, this episode is an introduction to Cosmos for EVM devs. In this conversation, Sam and I discuss the major...2023-10-041h 16Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Scott Sunarto Built a Toy L2My guest today is Scott Sunarto. Scott is the founder of Argus Labs, a decentralized gaming company. He was contributor to Dark Forest.
On this episode, Scott joins me to discuss his Cookie Clicker Rollup, a toy L2 he built to better understand and demonstrate the architecture of optimistic rollups. We discuss optimistic and zk rollups, censorship resistance, offchain execution, sovereignty, the spectrum of EVM equivalence, and much more. If you're interested in learning more about L2 architecture from first principles, this episode is for you.
My thanks to FirstMate who provided the recording studio...2023-10-021h 51Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Jose Aguinaga on Passkeys, MPC, and AA WalletsMy guest today is Jose Aguinaga. Jose is Head of Digital Custody Services at SEBA Bank in Switzerland. He was previously Head of Engineering at HOPR.
Jose is also the creator of passkeys.is and mpc.is, two valuable educational resources that describe and demonstrate passkeys and multi-party computation, respectively.
On this episode, Jose and I go deep on elliptic curve cryptography, ECDSA, passkeys, homomorphic encryption, distributed key generation, account abstraction smart wallets and much more.
If you're interested in the frontier of self custody smart wallet user experience, this episode is for...2023-09-222h 08Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Obvious Smart Wallets with Himanshu Retarekar & Jebu IttiachenMy guests today are Himanshu Retarekar and Jebu Ittiachen, two of three co-founders of Obvious.
Obvious is a smart wallet company with three products. The Obvious Wallet is a multi-chain 4337 account abstraction smart wallet that was among the earliest full featured AA consumer products on the market. Obvious Embed is an AA wallet that third-party devs can integrate into their own dapps. Obvious Money is a stablecoin focused smart wallet app aimed at emerging markets in Africa and South America.
On this episode we discuss the team's path from building a traditional EOA software wallet...2023-09-201h 22Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Vivian Phung, Founder of SnowballToday, I'm joined byΒ Vivian Phung. Viv is the 23 year old solo founder of Snowball, a Web3 dev tools provider focused on mobile apps and webapps. Snowball's first product, Igloo, will give developers a simple solution for SSO authentication, AA smart wallet, and onramping in one SDK. Igloo is currently in private alpha on testnet.
Prior to starting Snowball, Viv was co-founder of Dora, a multichain block explorer search engine, and she was an engineer on the Instagram feed team before that.
In this conversation, Viv and I dive into the challenges facing mobile crypto app developers today, her a...2023-09-141h 01Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Gami, Crypto Producer and Founder of GnarsDAOToday, I'm joined by Gami. Gami is a crypto creator and the founder of GnarsDAO, the skateboarding-centric nounish community.
Gami is one of a small number of practitioners in an emerging discipline that I call "crypto production." Gami led the creation of several onchain happenings, including GnarsDAO, a DAO dedicated to onboarding skaters to Web3, Forgeries, a nounish open edition and onchain Noun raffle, as well as an arts patronage dao, an onchain tontine, and much more.
In this episode, Gami and I discuss his creative practice, and how he manages to be so prolific...2023-09-081h 55Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ EIP-7212 with UlaΕ ErdoΔan, Jerome de Tychey, and Lionello LunesuToday's episode is all aboutΒ EIP-7212.
To understand EIP-7212, first we need to talk about Passkeys.
Passkeys are a new authentication standard designed to replace passwords.
With passkeys, when you sign into an app or website, a passkey is generated on your device, and saved either locally, to a passkey manager, or to a hardware device like a Yubikey. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla are adopting passkeys because they are more secure than the traditional username and password scheme.
Passkeys use the secp256r1 elliptic curve, or R1 for short. Bitcoin a...2023-09-061h 22Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Henri Stern, CEO of PrivyMy guest today is Henri Stern, CEO of Privy. Privy is an authentication and embedded wallet SDK. With Privy, dapp developers can allow their users to sign in with their existing wallet, or generate an embedded wallet associated with an email, SMS, or SSO provider such as AppleID or Gmail.
Privy's embedded wallet powers friend.tech, the breakout social dapp launched in August 2023. With Privy, friend.tech generates a new embedded wallet for each user that signs in, allowing the PWA dapp to sign transactions at the click of an HTML button element β no WalletConnect back-and-forth required....2023-08-291h 29Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ John C Palmer, Steve Klebanoff, and Danny Aranda of Party ProtocolMy guests today are John C. Palmer, Steve Klebanoff, and Danny Aranda, founding members of PartyDAO, creators of the Party Protocol.
Party is a dapp for onchain group coordination. With Party, a small group of friends or a large group of strangers can come together to raise funds and buy an NFT, trade tokens, or complete any other onchain activity together. Party is a group wallet with onchain governance, designed to allow parties of people to move quickly and get things done onchain.
On this episode, John, Danny and Steve explain how they have expanded...2023-08-231h 42Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Paul Razvan Berg of SablierMy guest today is Paul Razvan Berg. Paul is a longtime Solidity developer whose open source tools, including prb-math and prb-proxy, are integrated into many Ethereum contracts and protocols. Paul is also the co-founder and lead developer of Sablier, the token streaming protocol which launchced its v2 in July 2023.
On this episode, Paul and I go in-depth on three topics. First, we discuss a handful of his influential open source repos. Second, we talk about testing in Foundry and recap the Branch Tree Technique test writing framework that Paul presented at EthCC this year. Finally, we cover...2023-08-171h 50Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Ethscriptions with Tom LehmanMy guest today is Tom S. Lehman, who goes by Middlemarch on Twitter. Tom is the creator of Ethscriptions, an NFT standard for inscribing base64 encoded URIs in the data field of EVM transactions. Prior to Ethscriptions, Tom was co-founder and CEO of popular lyrics site and content company Genius.
Ethscriptions are inspired both by Bitcion Inscriptions and the Ethereum practice of appending hex encoded UTF-8 strings to the data field of regular transactions, a gesture that has been used by hackers and artists to communicate onchain.
The best way to think of Ethscriptions is...2023-08-011h 49Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Decent with CTO Will KantarosMy guest today is Decent co-founder and CTO Will Kantaros. Decent is an NFT service provider that has helped over a thousand creators deploy NFT projects to Polygon and other EVMs. According to Will, hundreds of thousands of collectors have minted over six million NFTs on Decent's contracts.
Their new product The Box is a web checkout SDK that lets users pay for Mints and other transactions on one chain, with assets held on another.
On this episode, Will and I discuss Decent's evolution from a NFT dev studio into an NFT infrastructure provider, their...2023-07-2548 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Metamask Snaps with Christian MontoyaMy guest today is Christian Montoya, Senior Project Manager of Metamask Snaps.
Metamask Snaps is a major upgrade to Metamask slated for September 2023. Snaps transforms Metamask into a programmable platform, roughly akin to an App Store. Snaps is an execution environment where third party developeres can, if granted permission by the user, run sandboxed Secure ECMAScript as a user prepares to make a transaction, or periodically in the background.
Snaps will debut in the browser extension, but Christian hints in this conversation that Snaps will eventually find their way to the mobile app, too.
2023-07-181h 21Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Reservoir with Peter WattsMy guest today is Reservoir founder Peter Watts. Reservoir is an NFT API provider that makes it easy to build cross-chain NFT interactivity into any app.
On this episode, Peter shares how he got his start building music and streaming apps and how music NFTs led him to starting Reservoir with a co-founder he had never met in person. We discuss Reservoir's demand driven approach to development prioritization, how they deal with tech debt, and why it is that no one else is making a unified read/write API for cross-chain NFT markets yet.
It...2023-07-111h 25Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Ethereum's Roadmap with DomothyEthereum's Roadmap with Domothy
My guest today is Dom, who goes by Domothy online. Dom works on the Research Team at the Ethereum Foundation. He is passionate about Ethereum development and tries to keep tabs on all parts of the roadmap, and communicates these details between the many teams at the EF.
This conversation comes in three parts. In the introduction, Dom and I discuss how he found his way from passionate bystander to working for the EF. In the second section, we discuss the hottest developments in the six areas of Ethereum Roadmap: The...2023-07-061h 18Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Sudoswap v2 with 0xmons0xmons is my guest on this episode. 0xmons (aka Owen) is a blockchain artist and the founder of sudoswap, which just launched its v2.
In this conversation, Owen and I cover the big questions: Why does the world need an NFT AMM? What's new in v2? Why the reverse course on honoring ERC-2981 royalties?
We also roleplay LPing on sudoswap and walk through how LPs might choose the parameters of their position.
I was particularly intrigued by the new 1155 open edition pools, which sound like a great fit for the bounty of NFTs...2023-06-2255 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ EIP-6551 with Jayden Windle and Benny GiangJayden Windle and Benny Giang of NFT studio Future Primitive join me on this episode to discuss ERC-6551: Non-fungible Token Bound Accounts, which they co-authored.
ERC-6551 is a draft EIP that proposes a CREATE2 based proxy contract scheme to give every ERC-721 its own address on Ethereum, and other EVM chains. In short, this EIP turns every NFT into a smart contract wallet, which can hold NFTs and fungibles, have special access permissions on other contracts, and more. 6551βs flexible yet simple design allows NFTs to own NFTs that own NFTs, and so on.
In th...2023-06-131h 14Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Character Brands with David HorvathOn todayβs episode I sit down with David Horvath for an epic dive into the world of character IP.
Since the late 90s, David and his wife and business partner Sun-Min Kim have been creating character brands in the US and Korea. Their two most famous creations are Uglydoll, which started as a handmade designer toy at Giant Robot, and Bossy Bear, which began life as a childrenβs book.
David shares contrarian insights about his experience growing character brands that endure. This episode is a treat for people who want to know how to c...2023-05-302h 37Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Finiliar with Ed Fornieles, Sam Spike, and Jake AllenMy guests today are Ed Fornieles, Sam Spike, and Jake Allen, three of the four cofounders of Finiliar. Finiliar is an NFT collection of cute 3D characters whose mood and animations are driven by price action of popular cryptocurrencies. Ed Fornieles created the project first as a gallery exhibited artwork, and it has since grown into a character brand and software company.
On this episode we discuss Edβs career making fine art installation and sculptural work in London, Samβs art production and curation work at Fingerprints DAO, and Jakeβs experience as Head of Product at Cam...2023-05-231h 05Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Smart Contracts are Art with Paul Seidler and Sam HartOn todayβs episode Iβm joined by Paul Seidler and Sam Hart.
Paul Seidler is an artist and design researcher. He is co-founder of terra0, an art project, DAO, and EVM framework for automated ecosystem management and simulation. He has worked at research groups including Hybrid Platform and Design Research Lab and has created onchain NFT artworks including Straylight Protocol, which explores multiplayer EVM-gaming with onchain NFT automata.
Sam Hart Berman is a programmer and artist. He has a background academic biochemistry publishing, fine art curation, interdisciplinary publishing at Avant.org and Other Internet, and...2023-05-191h 30Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Unlock Protocol Founder Julien GenestouxOn todayβs episode Iβm joined by Julien Genestoux, founder of Unlock Protocol. Unlock is a protocol for memberships as time-bound NFTs. Creators can monetize their work with Unlock by deploying sovereign membership contracts that allow for trials, partial refunds, and membership trading, in addition to the various superpowers granted by the ERC721 ecosystem, such as airdrops, token gating, and governance.
On this episode, Julien and I discuss the attention economics at the heart of advertising driven Web2 services and social media. Juilen weighs in on Nostr, Blue Sky, Farcaster, and Mastodon, to whic...2023-05-121h 16Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Sepana CEO Daniel J. Keyes
On todayβs episode, Iβm joined by Sepana co-founder and CEO Daniel J. Keyes. Sepana is a decentralized search infrastructure provider. Developers can create Sepana engines, which are able to index data on any decentralized protocol to create Search APIs, or feed data into other Sepana engines. The community has built engines enabling users to search Mirror articles on L1, Optimism, and Arweave, Lens posts on Polygon PoS, and Farcaster casts on Hub network. Over time, Sepana aims to decentralize the operation of its backend software. Β
Β At the top of the show, Daniel and I discuss GPT an...2023-04-1844 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Purple, the Farcaster DAOToday, Iβm joined by Chris Carella, Osama, Bill Zh, Phil Mohun, Kmac, and Alex Paden to discuss Purple, a DAO
dedicated to proliferating the Farcaster protocol and its ecosystem.
Farcaster is a progressively decentralizing open-source social network protocol. Its account system is built on top of Ethereum. User identities are managed on L1, while Farcasterβs increasingly decentralized network of nodes, called Farcaster Hubs, manage message storage and sharing. For more information about Farcaster itself, listen to my interview with Farcaster co-founder DWR linked in the show notes.
On this episode, the Purple gang and...2023-04-111h 26Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ JPG GalleryOn todayβs show, Iβm joined by MarΓa Paula, Trent Elmore, and Sam Spike to discuss JPG. JPG, or Juried Protocol Galleries, is an evolving set of experiments that seeks to bring curatorial memory to the NFT art scene. Often contrasting themselves with the highly financialized speculative art market for which NFTs are well known, the JPG team is dedicated to bringing art appreciation and long term curatorial memory to the decentralized art world through onchain interventions.
JPGβs latest project is Canons. Canons are Token Curated Registries. Holders of the Canonicon non-transferrable NFT vote to elec...2023-04-041h 18Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Abacus with 0xGioMedici
0xGioMedici is the founder of Abacus, a nascent NFT lending protocol experimenting with new ways to value and borrow against NFTs.
On this episode, GioMedici joins me for a wide-ranging conversation about the latest developments in machine learning, new opportunities in blockchain design, and his own project, which recently soft launched on Ethereum mainnet.
In the first part of this conversation, we discuss Gioβs exploration of ChatGPT, and the surprising information heβs found within the latest modelβs training dataset. We discuss Gioβs meditations the future convergence of verifiable blockchain data and large la...2023-03-281h 14Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Aragon & Firm co-founder Jorge IzquierdoOn todayβs episode Iβm joined by and Jorge Izquierdo and Alejandro PerezpayΓ‘. Β
Jorge Izquierdo is the co-founder of Aragon, the first full
featured on-chain DAO governance system. On this episode, Jorge and Alejandro
PerezpayΓ‘ join me to discuss the history of Aragon and their new startup Firm.
First, Jorge tells the story of how he and Luis Cuende pivoted from a building a startup to fight patent trolls
to cofounding Aragon in 2016, the year of the infamous DAO fork. We discuss the
evolution of Aragon, and what worked and what didnβt in the first...2023-03-221h 20Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Juan Blanco, creator of Solidity for VSCode and NethereumOn todayβs episode, Iβm joined by Juan Fran Blanco.
Juan is the creator of βSolidityβ, the most popular Solidity-oriented VSCode extension in the world. The extension provides hundreds of thousands of Solidity developers daily access to syntax highlighting, autocomplete, and much more.
Juanβs main focus is Nethereum, a .NET framework for interacting with EVM blockchains. Nethereum is useful for interacting with the blockchain from Microsoft based operating systems, which constitute a huge number of the virtual and physical devices in the world.
In this episode, we discuss Juanβs experiences working on U...2023-03-171h 41Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Stelo Transaction Analysis API with Ben Scharfstein and Aman DhesiOn todayβs episode Iβm joined by Stelo Labs co-founders Ben Scharfstein and Aman Dhesi. Stelo Labs first product is Stelo, a browser extension that simulates transactions and provides clarifying contextual information and a risk assessment in a pop-up before the transaction request propagates to userβs wallet. They also provide an API that gives developers access to the transaction simulation and risk assessment backend that powers the browser extension. Theyβve used this API to create approvals.xyz, a token approval dashboard akin to revoke.cash or the Etherscan approvals page.
In this episode we discuss...2023-03-1442 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Delegate Cash with Munam WasiOn todayβs show, Iβm joined by Munam Wasi, COO at Delegate Cash. Delegate Cashβs first product is an immutable NFT delegation registry. Users can delegate access rights to NFTs in their possession to other public addresses on the various EVM chains where Delegate Cash is deployed. Future airdrops and offchain token gating software can integrate delegate cashβs contracts, to allow people to interact Β with minting contracts and verify on Discord, all from delegated hotwallet without ever touching the wallet that holds their precious NFT.
Munam and I discuss the current product and ERC-5639 Delegatio...2023-03-0755 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Blur vs OpenSeaOn February 17, 2023, Context and Mint.Fun co-founder Worm_emoji, aka Luke Miles tweeted βCan someone have me on a podcast to discuss how Blur used OpenSea's own protocol to defeat them on the royalties / creator fees issue?β I responded to the call, and a couple of hours later, Luke, John Palmer from PartyDAO, Jacob the CEO of Zora, and I got on Twitter Spaces to Blur, OpenSea, and the proxy war being fought over NFT Royalties.
This is a fantastic episode that covers a good chunk of Blurβs history, discusses the battle between the two biggest NFT ma...2023-02-281h 22Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Harpie: Frontrunning Malicious Transactions with Daniel ChongIβm joined today by Harpie founder Daniel Chong. Harpie describes itself as an onchain firewall that protects NFTs from theft. In this episode we discuss how Harpieβs mempool monitoring and emergency vault contract works on a technical level. We also cover Harpieβs unique business model, and their growing enterprise service which grants organizations like OpenSea access to their malicious transaction data. We touch on their plans to build an RPC provider in the future that can detect dangerous transactions before they reach the mempool. At the end of the show, Daniel and I discuss Bitcoin Ordinals.
...2023-02-1649 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ 0xMonaco Battle of the Titans with MatchboxDAO and ZellicIn 2022, Paradigm launched a CTF game called 0xMonaco. 3 players are in a race to the 1000 block finish line. Each car is armed with 15,000 coins which they can spend on acceleration or throwing shells to slow down their opponents. Prices adjust dynamically according to a variable rate gradual Dutch auction. Competitors submit Solidity contracts that manage these resources on their behalf.
MatchboxDAOis a blockchain gaming platform that has forked the original 0xMonaco competition, augmented it with more features, a rich 3D visualization, and live commentated Twitch Streams to reveal the results of the races.
On this...2023-02-1452 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ What makes Polygon special with Hamzah KhanToday, I'm joined by Hamzah Khan, Head of DeFi at Polygon.
This episode is an inquiry into the secret internal dynamics that set Polygon apart in the blockchain ecosystem. Polygon is known for a run of incredible business development successes, including deep partnerships with Reddit, Starbucks, and OpenSea. But underlying this extraordinary BD is a unique ability to pragmatically manage multiple simultaneous projects. Polygon is an organization whose execution merits study. Together, Hamzah and I try to figure out how Polygon is able to build a crypto network that spans several generations of blockchain scaling technology, while...2023-02-071h 17Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Fire Transaction Simulator with Jeff Krantz and Josh BreiteToday on the show Iβm joined by Jeff Krantz and Josh Breite, cofounders of Fire. Fire is a consumer oriented EVM transaction simulator designed to keep blockchain transactors from losing their NFTs and fungibles to malicious transaction requests. In its current form, Fire is a Chromium browser extension. When a dapp requests a Metamask wallet signature, a Fire window pops up next to Metamask, providing human readable context on what this transaction will do. Requests for NFT transfer permissions and fungible token transfers are displayed in clear language, with a picture of any NFTs that will be affected....2023-01-3151 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Song A Day with Jonathan Mann and Edouard Bessire from GBM AuctionsToday on the show Iβm joined by musician and NFT artist Jonathan Mann. For over 5000 days, Jonathan has written, recorded, and published a Song A Day. After discovering CryptoPunks in 2017, he fell down the crypto rabbit hole. Over the past 6 years heβs melded his daily music practice and his interest in artist empowerment through NFT creation.
In this episode, we discuss Song A Dayβs evolution from a Youtube song writing project into an NFT collection and full-fledged DAO. We discuss the legal organization of SongADAOas a Colorado co-op, Jonathanβs collaboration with RaidGuild, who built th...2023-01-241h 22
An Internet of PeopleWeb3 and Contributor Economy with @nnnnicholas.ethIn this episode, Nicolas helped us understand the world of Web3 builders, including the mindset and culture. He explains the kinds of people that gravitate towards Web3 work. We explore DAOs, the ways builders communicate, contribute and get rewarded. This includes the nature of working in total transparency, inclusive governance and tokens as a democratic way to make decisions.
Guest bio: Nicholas is an NFT developer and contributor at JuiceboxDAO. He is the host of web3galaxybrain.com, a Twitter Space and podcast featuring conversations with Web3 builders.
To learn more about Nicholas follow him...2023-01-1946 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ What Goblintown Learned from the TheaterIn May of 2022, the Truth NFT studio secretly released the Goblintown generative PFP NFT collection on Ethereum. As the crypto bull market turned into a bear, Goblins and the meme of βgoing goblinmodeβ took Crypto Twitter by storm.
In my mind, Goblintown is most identified with a surprising and creative new use of Twitter Spaces for NFT community building. During Goblintown Spaces, a short clip of clanging, dungeon-inspired music plays on loop in the background while a cast of volunteer voice actors sourced ad-hoc from the Twitter Spaces audience put on their best Goblin character voice. These unsc...2023-01-191h 14Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Public Assembly with Valerie, Salief Lewis, and Neesh ChaudaryPublic Assembly is a burgeoning software development community that describes itself as a βdistributed collective building the missing pieces of the internet.β Today Iβm joined by Valerie, Salief Lewis, and Neesh Chaudary, three of the seven founding members of Public Assembly.
In this episode, we discuss the barriers to growth and learning that theyβve faced in the first phase of their Web3 careers, and how theyβre working together to enable more people to become empowered crypto builders. We also discuss Neosound.xyz, the groupβs first project, and their Nouns Builder proposal to build a WYSIWYG we...2023-01-1046 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ ConstitutionDAO2 and Nucleo ZK MultisigToday Iβm joined by a chorus of organizers and critics of ConstitutionDAO2, a crypto crowdfund effort attempting to buy the Constitution, again.
Just over a year since the original ConstitutionDAO failed to acquire the Constitution, a group of contributors to PeopleDAO have banded together to attempt a repeat fundraise, with some new ZK powered technology in hand.
On this episode, Iβm joined by MatterTurbulent and Y4K from PeopleDAO, who are two of the original organizers of ConstitutionDAO2, aka WAGBTC (We Are Going to Buy The Constitution). Weβre also joined by Matt Wyatt...2022-12-141h 07Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Badger with Drake DannerToday Iβm joined by Drake Danner, data analyst at Flipside and MetricsDAO.
In this episode, we discuss Drakeβs latest work in progress, Badger, an ERC-1155 based badging protocol currently deployed on the Polygon network. Badger was conceived in the course of Drakeβs work at MetricsDAO, where contributors providing blockchain analytics services needed access to various SaaS tools like Dework and Wonderverse. Inspired by JokeDAOβs disposable ERC-20s, Drake co-created Badger, which allows system administrators to grant access to Web3 compatible tools by provisioning NFT Badges to their members corresponding to their roles. Drake believes...2022-12-0641 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Solidity Dev Chat with Backseats and FrolicToday Iβm joined by Backseats and Frolic, two independent full stack Solidity devs, for a conversation about their latest projects.
First, we discuss Backseats as-yet-unnamed NFT primary marketplace browser extension. His work in progress idea is to deploy an NFT discovery browser extension that populates new browser tabs with 1/1 NFTs for sale from the artist. Artists will list works onchain via contract interaction and artworks will be removed from circulation when sold.
Second, we discuss Frolicβs EthFS, a tool facilitating onchain data storage and composability. EthFS is a frontend and smart contract backend for...2022-11-291h 11Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Llama Contributor DAOs with ShreyasToday Iβm joined by Shreyas, co-founder of Llama.
Llama is a community that works with the most respected DAOs in the world, including Uniswap, Aave, ENS, Gitcoin, MakerDAO, Nouns, and more. Llamaβs contributors work together to provide engineering, treasury management, and analytics services to these protocol DAOs.
In this conversation, Shreyas explains the ins-and-outs of Llamaβs organizational structure. We discuss how blockchains enable a new way to organize laborers, which he calls a Contributor DAO, through the lens of his article on Ronald Coaseβs theory of the firm.
Very few peop...2022-11-2248 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Zero Knowledge with Brandon H GomesThis is a special episode.
Today Iβm joined by Brandon H Gomes, CTO at Manta Network and Poseidon Labs. Brandon is one of the smartest people Iβve had the good fortune to meet this year. Heβs deep in the ZK technical stack and able to clearly communicate the core mechanisms of ZK to laypeople.
In this episode, we discuss what Zero Knowledge Proofs enable, the difference between ZK as a technology and its specific application for rollups, and various cool things you can do with ZK. Brandon shares his candid opinions of the ZK...2022-11-151h 36Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Nouns EsportsOn todayβs episode, Iβm joined by three members of Nouns eSports. Sasquatch is an OG member of SharkDAO. ApeNoun (aka Oni) is Noun 119. Together they co-founded the Nouns esports Pod, which now participates in several esports leagues. Weβre also joined by Costabile, a pro Dota 2 player who recently represented Nouns at The International, the most prestigious tournament in the Dota scene.
In this conversation, we discuss the esports worldβs economics, the Nouns governance process that enabled the founding of the Nouns Esports Pod, and the successes the Nouns teams have had playing Dota 2, PokΓ©mon...2022-11-081h 09Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ OpenVoxels with Jin (@dankvr)Today, Iβm joined by XR researcher and creator Jin.
You may be familiar with Jinβs work building and evangelizing open and interoperable VR and AR experiences through the many projects heβs been affiliated with, such as Webaverse, Exokit, M3, The Meta Factory, and more.
In this conversation, Jin and I discuss his newest project, Open Voxels, an effort to fund research and archiving activities focused on Cryptovoxels. We discuss the recent Webaverse NFT drop, M3βs latest discoveries, and his upcoming Burning Man-like party thatβs set to take place in an archival s...2022-11-0155 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ TheDefiant and BasedAF with Robin SchmidtToday, Iβm joined by Robin Schmidt, video creator and former Head of Video & Content at The Defiant.
In this episode, Robin and I talk about his love of cinema, 16mm film, Firewire, and anamorphic lenses. Robin tells me how his team found their groove making irreverent explainers and analysis with their video about Curve, and we discuss how The Defiantβs video team scaled production to 7-videos a week. Robin also sheds light on BasedAF, his upcoming PFP collection, and his ambition to create the MTV of the metaverse.
It was great talking with Robi...2022-10-2859 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ XMTP with Matt GalliganToday, Iβm joined by Matt Galligan, co-founder of XMTP Labs.
XMTP is a messaging protocol built atop EVM wallets. Situating itself in the lineage of email protocol SMTP and Jabber IM protocol XMPP, XMTP aims to make DMs, notifications, group chats, and more available to everyone with a blockchain wallet. XMTP Labs, Mattβs new company, is the primary developer of the protocol.
In this episode, Matt shares what it was like to be one of the very earliest Twitter users. We discuss his prior startups Socialthing and Circa, and his motivation for creating a de...2022-10-2353 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ BLVKHVND with SirsuhaybToday, Iβm joined by SirsuHayb to learn all about the past, present and future of esports gaming DAO BLVKHVND.
Sirsu is a prolific Web3 builder and organizer. In 2021, Sirsu co-created The Mint Fund, Crypto Cookout, The Well, and the primary subject of todayβs conversation, BLVKHVND.
BLVKHVNDis an esports DAO. Itβs essential premise: put ownership of an esports team into the hands of the players and fans. At the time of recording, BLVKHVNDβs world class teams participate in Halo Infinite, Apex Legends, Pokemon Unite, CS:GO, and Rogue Company leagues. HVND also holds NF...2022-10-0156 min
Into the BytecodeJango & Nnnnicholas: Juicebox, programming internet-native organizationsThis 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:(00:00:00) - intro(00:01:37) - an alternative to traditional org structures(00:09:53) - philosophical alignment(00:27:30) - the key mechanisms of the Juicebox Protocol(00:35:51) - fundraising mechanics and the extensibility of Juicebox v2(00:46:05) - a DAOsβs origins shape its culture(00:54:46) - gu...2022-09-281h 39Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Brian (@pbrianandj) of NounsDAO and AddressBoardToday, Iβm joined by NounsDAO developer Brian (aka @pbrianandj). Brian is one of a small group of developers in residence at NounsDAO. His work for the DAO is focused on the nouns.wtf website, which is the primary interface to the DAOβs daily auctions. Brian is also the creator of AddressForm, a Google Forms for Web3 SaaS product.
In this episode, Brian tells me about his experience working on NounsDAO and the DAOβs builderly culture. We also discuss his new project, AddressBoard, which aims to replace the popular Discourse forum software, with a Web3 native...2022-09-2050 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ ZK Gaming with LordOfAFewToday Iβm joined by LordOfAFew (aka LOAF), Cairo developer and core dev at Realms.
Realms started life as a Loot derivative NFT collection on Ethereum Mainnet. In the year since the collectionβs initial deployment, LordOfAFew has led the charge transforming Realms into an onchain multiplayer resource management game. The first module will be called Realms: Eternum.
In this episode, LOAF tell me about the creative constraints of onchain gaming. We dive into the game feel and mechanics of Eternum, and get a glimpse at future questing modules their composable ZK architecture enables. Weβre als...2022-09-131h 21Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Den with Jonah Erlich and Ittai SvidlerToday Iβm joined by Jonah Erlich and Ittai Svidler, cofounders of Den.
Building on their experience coordinating multisig transaction signing in ConsitutionDAO, Jonah and Ittai are creating a suite of tools for operational multisig teams to create, track, and execute Gnosis Safe transactions.
At the time of recording, Den comprises a webapp interface for building and annotating multisig transactions. Den also maintains Discord, Telegram, and SMS bots that can notify teams of pending transactions at regular intervals.
In this episode we talk about the past, present, and future of onchain coordination. I ho...2022-09-0650 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Lens Protocol with David SilvermanAt the end of each week, I sit down for a Friday afternoon conversation with some of the brightest people building web3.
In this episode, I'm joined by David Silverman, Project Manager at Lens Protocol and Aave.
Lens Protocol is a set of social publishing primitives, built for the EVM and currently deployed on the Polygon Network. David and I discuss the motivations for building Lens, its essential architecture and data structures, and the design decisions his team made when building this first iteration of the protocol. We chat about the power of data portability...2022-08-301h 30Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ DeveloperDAO with Nader Dabit and KempsterToday, Iβm joined by Nader Dabit, founder of DeveloperDAO.
DeveloperDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization composed of thousands of Web3 developers. In this episode, author, educator, and developer relations specialist Nader Dabit walks us through discovering his passion for programming in his late 20s, his time at AWS and Edge & Node (creators of The Graph Protocol), and how he created the Devs for Revolution NFT that became the membership token for DeveloperDAO. Weβre joined by DevDAO Operations Lead Kempster who sheds light on the many areas of activity the DAO engages in, and what to look...2022-08-251h 24Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Farcaster with Dan RomeroToday Iβm joined by Dan Romero. Dan is the co-founder of Farcaster and former VP of Operations at Coinbase.
Farcaster is a decentralized communication protocol that uses Ethereum as a username registration service. Farcaster promises users a direct and uncensorable relationship with their audience. It promises developers permissionless access to all content on the network, no API required.
In this conversation Dan walks me through the early days at Coinbase, and what he learned interfacing with global banks. We discuss the technical architecture of Farcaster, and how its security model maximizes decentralization while limiting ri...2022-08-231h 12Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Decentralized Databases with GUN founder Mark NadalIn this episode Iβm joined by GUN founder Mark Nadal to discuss GUN.
GUN, also known as GUNDB, is a real-time, decentralized, offline-first, graph database. In practice, GUN provides a Javascript API that allows webapps to sync data between peers with no centralized server dependency. GUN peers use WebRTC and similar transport protocols to sync data to localStorage and IndexedDB in the client. GUN also provides access controls, which allow developers to store encrypted data on the network. The API can be used in browser tabs, on mobile apps, or run as a relay peer in a...2022-08-021h 00Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Mint.fun with @worm_emoji and Adam LudwinOn this episode, Iβm joined by Luke (aka @worm_emoji) and Adam Ludwin, co-founders of Context. Our conversation focuses on mint.fun, their nft mint aggregator. Mint.fun is the best place to see whatβs minting right now. The site prominently features a list of the NFT collections that have been minted on the most in the last hour on Ethereum. The site generates mint buttons at every popular price point for all ERC721 and 1155 collections that are not yet sold out.
Luke, Adam and I discuss their observations since creating the project, future product desi...2022-07-2648 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Lending Protocol Arcadia FinanceOn this episode Iβm joined by Jasper and Thomas, the co-founder developers of Arcadia Finance. Arcadia is a forthcoming lending protocol whose modular contract architecture will allow users to deposit any onchain asset into a user-controlled vault, and withdraw a credit line against it. Arcadia lets users combine several types of collateral into a single basket, and for loans to be borrowed against the cumulative value of the vault. A vault could contain NFTs, fungibles, and future asset types that have yet to be invented. Jasper and Thomas explain how this architecture allows for risk diversification and even mo...2022-07-211h 03Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Interface with Wijuwiju and AnnaOn todayβs episode, Iβm joined by Wijuwiju and Anna who are building Interface, a human readable social web3 feed. At the time of recording, Interface is an iOS and Android app that lets you follow wallets and scroll through an infinite feed of their recent activity. Itβs a great way to see recent swaps, mints, and transfers, and over time the team is developing richer indexing and transaction parsing, to show things like Snapshot votes, Mirror blog posts, and their most recent feature, Gnosis multisig signatures.
Anna and Wiju describe how they found their passio...2022-07-121h 09
Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ DAO Governance and the Law with Oliver Zerhusen (The Graph) and Ross Campbell (LexDAO & KaliDAO)In this throwback episode, Iβm joined by Oliver Zerhusen, Decentralized Governance coordinator at Graph Advocates (previously Graph Protocol), and Ross Campbell, legal engineer at LexDAO and KaliDAO.
In this episode, Oliver explains how The Graphβs $GRT tokenomics incentivize subgraph indexing and how The Graphβs 4 core teams are organized. Ross explains why itβs so hard to work with lawyers, and we explore cool DAO related contracts like Radicle Drips, DictatorDAO, Aragon Optimistic Governance, and Molochβs concept of the Ragequit.
Topics discussed:
Graph token $GRT
Delegators, curators, and indexers
The Graphβs 4 core tea...2022-07-051h 34Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Staked ETH with Lido and Index CoopIn this episode, Iβm joined by three voices in the ETH liquid staking space. WalshyNFG works on business development at Lido, Crews works on product and growth at Index Coop, and Leo Glisic is a blockchain watcher who is active on Twitter.
This episode is all about Lido Staked ETH, Index Coopβs leveraged icETH, and more.
Topics discussed:
- Β Lido Staked ETH
- Β Rocket Pool ETH
- Β Index Coop $icETH
- Β Leoβs thread on icETH2022-06-281h 17Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Fast Fiat Onramps with Wyre and Horizon GamesOn today's episode I'm joined by Peter Kieltyka, CEO of Horizon Games, creators of blockchain trading card game Skyweaver, Jamal Raees, Blockchain Strategy Head at Wyre, and Craig Lou, Project Manager at Wyre. This episode is all about Smartramp, Wyre's new fast fiat onramp, and how its enabling more players to get started playing Skyweaver. Smartramp is an API that lets people interact with EVM smart contract functions directly from a Credit Card transaction.
We also discuss Horizon's Sequence smart contract wallet, and Niftyswap, their ERC-20 to ERC-1155 AMM DEX.
Topics Discussed
@peterk, CEO...2022-06-2151 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Staked Juicebox with Mr. GoldsteinThe conversation opens with a recap of the Curve wars and the fascinating relationship between yield emission governance tokens and staking aggregators like Convex. The conversation then turns to veBanny, the work-in-progress staked Juicebox ($JBX) token and the many intriguing designs active contributors are considering.
Topics Discussed
Β· @Mr__Goldstein - Juicebox Contributor
Β· Juicebox - A programmable treasury for community-owned Ethereum projects
Β· @squarishbread -FinTech PM and defi thinker https://teachmehowtodefi.substack.com/2022-06-141h 10Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ NFT MEV with Devan Non, Ape Dev, and JiranIn this episode, I'm joined by Devan Non, Ape Dev, and Jiran for a fascinating discussion all about NFT MEV. MEV, or Maximum Extractable Value, is the value that can be extracted from block production in excess of block rewards and transaction fees. Two of today's guests, Devan Non and Ape Dev, are a professional MEV searcher team. They observe the mempool to find arbitrage opportunities that they can act upon for profit. In this very special episode of Web3 Galaxy Brain, they reveal their techniques for NFT MEV and explain why they've decided to return to fungible MEV...2022-05-311h 12
Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ vibes.art and [the reliquary] with remnyntIn this episode, I'm joined by @remnynt, creator of onchain NFT collections vibes.art and the reliquary. We chat about remnyntβs background as a mobile game dev, his transition into generative NFT art, and the influence of Artblocks, Terraforms, and Corruptions on his practice. We dive into vibes.art, his first on-chain Javascript based collection, and the reliquary his latest creation, which combines his interest in on-chain generative art and fantasy RPGs.
I've never seen anyone use source code to tell a story in the way today's guest has. It was great chatting with remnynt about ga...2022-05-2447 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Button.lol and Watchfaces.world with w1nt3r and Tyler AngertIn this episode, Iβm joined by solidity devs w1nt3r and Tyler Angert to talk about button.lol, watchfaces.world, and onchain SVG.
Button.lol is a website with a single button that holders on the optimism network can click once every 6 hours to collect points.
watchfaces.world is an on-chain SVG time piece NFT collection. Each NFT is customizable at mint time and will forever display the current time through the use of on-chain SVG rendering. While telling the story of watchefaces world, w1nt3r also tells me how he built an...2022-05-1841 minWeb3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ NFT Burnout with Jiran Z, Andrew Thurman, Nodar Janashia, and Igor YuzoIn this episode, I'm joined by four exceptional guests. Jiran Z is a blockchain sleuth and nft mev brain, Andrew Thurman is a journalist who has worked at CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, and now Nansen.ai. Nodar Janashia is the creator of DeFi Zaps and co-founder of crypto dashboard Zapper. He and Igor Yuzo, the host of the Web3 Frontier podcast, are co-founders of DeFragFinance, a new NFT loan protocol.
In this episode, Jiran, Andrew, Nodar, Igor and I jam on EthDenver, NFT burnout, and DeFragFinance's approach to NFT lending.
A small note: This episode was recorded...2022-05-102h 12Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ JokeDAO and Governance as Entertainment with Sean McCaffery + EthRio Recap with Zeugh, 0xGogo, and NeodaoistIn this episode, I'm joined by Sean McCaffery of the gamified governance DAO JokeDAO, and Zeugh from community management DAO CanuDAO.
In the first hour of today's show, Sean explains the origins of JokeDAO, a joke writing contest whose winner is decided by $JOKE token voting. We get into the project's origins using Mirror Write Race, and the DAO's transition to building their own multichain voting-as-entertainment dapp.
In the second half of the show, Zeugh and members of the Slice community tell us all about EthRio and the EthRio hackathon winning project Mosaico, a NFT...2022-04-212h 16Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Webaverse and the Dream of an Open and Composable Metaverse with Avaer and JinIn today's episode, I'm joined by XR dev Avaer, and XR philosopher and community builder Jin for an exciting conversation all about their dream of an open and composable metaverse.
This conversation is a behind the scenes look at the most exciting projects at the intersection of NFTs and XR. Avaer and Jin teach me all about Webaverse, an in-development web-based open source 3D social experience that stands as a counterpoint to the centralizing tech conglomerate's vision of the Metaverse future. The guests teach me all about the many open technologies that enable Webaverse to be a...2022-04-013h 33Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ What is Corruption(s*)? With Timshel, Shahruz, Fabian, and ScotatoIn this special Monday-night episode, I'm joined by TimShel, Shahruz, Fabian, and Scotato to talk all about Dom Hoffman's Corruption(*s).
The Corruptions crew explains the project's origin story, from its original discovery on Context.app, to their decision to band together and communicate as one with the mysterious figure on the other side of the collection. This conversation taught me a lot about the intriguing participatory performance art that sets Corruptions apart.
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dormant @html twitter account dropped some alpha about the project
Corruption-Messaging
Corruptions.io
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...2022-03-161h 50Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ #daoshit with Dennison Bertram (Tally), Danny Aranda (PartyDAO), John C. Palmer (PartyDAO), and Jango (Juicebox)Nicholas is joined by Dennison Bertram (Tally), Danny Aranda (PartyDAO), John C. Palmer (PartyDAO), and Jango (Juicebox) for a wide ranging conversation about DAO governance. In the first half of the show, we discuss the history of DAOs and Tally, the origins story of Dennison's Loot derivative Dope Wars and the DAO that sprung up around it. Danny and Dennison are surprised to learn they both joined the famed Park Slope co-op to study the cooperative roots of collective governance. John Palmer shares details about Uniswap governance, Uniswap Grants, and fish.vote, a Uni Grant-funded collaboration he created with...2022-02-233h 08Web3 Galaxy Brain ππ§ Decentralized Work with Ellie Day (Always Online)Web3 Galaxy Brain is a series of casual conversations with the people building Web3, recorded on Friday afternoons. For the inaugural episode, @nnnnicholas is joined by Ellie Day, programmer, decentralized thinker, and partner at SeedClubVentures. We talk about about Ellieβs new project, Always Online, and Ellie teaches Nicholas all about Decentralized Joint Ventures (DJV).
Later in this episode, Nicholas is joined by Danny Aranda, of PartyDAO, Stefen Delev of Carribean Blockchain Alliance, and a handful of Web3 builders who ask questions and share their comments on DAOs, onboarding musicians, and more.
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