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Jinglan Wang & Karl Floersch: Optimism – The Optimistic Approach to Ethereum Scaling
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Plasma Group was a not for profit research group focussing on layer-2 scaling on Ethereum. Optimism is a new Public Benefit Corporation that build...
Tom Pocock & Zac Williamson: AZTEC Protocol – Bringing Zero-Knowledge Transactions to Ethereum
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
AZTEC Protocol is a protocol that enables private transactions on Ethereum. At its core, AZTEC is an Ethereum contract, otherwise known as the AZTEC C...
Ryan Sean Adams: Mythos Capital – On Becoming Bankless
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Sean Adams is the Founder of Mythos Capital, a crypto fund and staking provider for “big fish” stakeholders. He also writes the popular DeFi ...
James Dyer & Jason Goldberg: Pepo & Decrypt – New Token Models for Media Engagement
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In another of our bonus episodes recorded at EthCC in Paris, we caught up with Jason Goldberg, CEO and Founder of Pepo and Ost, and James Dyer, Co-fou...
Albert Wenger: Union Square Ventures – Towards the Knowledge Age and the World After Capital
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What will the World look like when capital is no longer scarce? In his book, World After Capital, Albert Wenger makes the case that technological prog...
Joseph Lubin: What's Next for ConsenSys and Ethereum
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We caught up with Joseph Lubin, Founder of ConsenSys, at this year's EthCC. It has been over a year since he last came on the show, and we wanted to g...
David Hoffman: Eth Is Money?
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we are joined by David Hoffman, Chief of Operations at RealT, a company which tokenizes realestate assets into security tokens. He is ...
Ryan Selkis: “Too Many Variables” – Understanding the Lasting Effects of COVID19
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we have a special episode on the entire globe's most talked about topic, the Corona Virus. We are joined by guest Ryan Selkis, CEO of Messar...
EthCC 3 – Flash Loans and Elbow Bumps
13 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was recorded at the third annual Ethereum Community Conference in Paris last week and we were joined by Gonçalo Sá, Co-founder of Conse...
Jacob Arluck: TQ Tezos – Meet the Independent Driving Force Behind the Growth of Tezos
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by founder of TQ Tezos, Jacob Arluck. TQ Tezos is a company that works to advance the Tezos ecosystem by creating open source software a...
Joe Lallouz: Bison Trails – Building a Better Proof of Stake Ecosystem for Everyone
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Lallouz is the CEO of Bison Trails, who provide staking infrastructure for a variety of PoS blockchains. They have built a really impressive syste...
Clinton Donnelly: Bitcoin & Crypto Taxes – What Every US Taxpayer Needs to Know (sponsored)
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Income tax. Not a particularly exciting topic, especially when it comes to paying them. But something we all need to deal with nevertheless. We are al...
Gabriel Shapiro: ZeroLaw – A Philosophy of Securities Laws for Tokenized Networks
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gabriel Shapiro is an independent attorney who has spent the last two years focusing on the tokens and crypto. He has published several pieces diving ...
Itamar Lesuisse: Argent – The Self-Custody Crypto Bank
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Decentralized finance (DeFi) is continuing on its remarkable path to the broad adoption of permissionless financial services. While many people celebr...
Kevin Wang: Nervos – Scaling Smart Contact Blockchains With Proof of Work and Generalized UTXO
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While recent blockchain launches seem to leverage various Proof of Stake consensus mechanisms, some believe Satoshi’s consensus mechanism is optimal...
Kain Warwick: Synthetix – Bringing the World’s Assets Into DeFi
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Like previous crypto winters, those actually building the ecosystem have been working diligently to create applications with industry-changing potenti...
Yaya Fanusie: Bitcoin and Terrorism – How Compliance Will Shape Cryptocurrencies
28 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Many within the cryptofinance industry have been patiently waiting for regulatory oversight to deliver the clarity required for institutional adoption...
Silvio Micali & Steven Kokinos: Algorand – In Pursuit of the Blockchain Trilemma
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The blockchain trilemma is the generally accepted concept that it's not possible to scale public and permissionless blockchains without compromising o...
Dillon Chen: Edgeware – Coordinating Distributed Communities With On-Chain Governance
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Governance within any community has been a work in progress for humanity's history. The blockchain ecosystem continues to develop and offer an alterna...
Charlie Shrem: The Untold Story of a Bitcoin Pioneer and Renegade
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Shrem became fascinated with Bitcoin in 2011 but grew frustrated with the hassle of buying it from the leading exchange at the time, Mt. Gox. ...
Monetary Systems in an International Context
31 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With global commerce and finance continuing to digitize, the world’s borders are seemingly becoming more fluid, even as physical walls are built. Ho...
Increasing Wallet Usability to Decrease the Anxiety of Self-Custody
24 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Managing crypto-assets can be an anxiety-inducing experience for a lot of people. While it's quite empowering to “be your own bank,” it's also sca...
David Vorick: Sia – Creating a P2P Marketplace for Data Storage to Disrupt the Cloud Industry
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Much of the digital world now operates in the cloud. A handful of companies are responsible for the massive market, and the centralization makes many ...
Taylor Monahan: From Side Project to Center Stage – The Story of MyEtherWallet & MyCrypto
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Many people find that the crypto-finance space is quite difficult for non-technical people to understand and interact with the technologies. Some proj...
Dr. Luka Müller: MME – The Law Firm Behind the Rise of Switzerland’s CryptoValley
04 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We were joined by Luka Mueller, who played a key role in establishing Switzerland as a cryptocurrency center and in laying the legal groundwork for th...
Viktor Radchenko: Trust Wallet – Building and Growing the Official Binance Wallet
26 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As the crypto ecosystem continues to grow, wallets and exchanges are quickly evolving to differentiate themselves in a crowded marketplace. Viktor Rad...
Nishant Sharma: Bitmain – Rising to Mining Dominance
19 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bitmain is one of the most well known, and one of the most polarizing companies in the blockchain space. The largest ASIC manufacturer and operator of...
Jesse Powell: How Kraken Accelerates Cryptocurrency Adoption
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As the cryptocurrency space has grown, exchanges have become the dominant juggernauts of the industry. One of the earliest and most reputable exchange...
Anatoly Yakovenko: Solana - Reaching for the Limits of Blockchain Performance
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The vision of a world computer on which anyone can deploy smart contracts has captured our imagination since the publication of the Ethereum whitepape...
Rhys Lindmark: MIT's Digital Currency Initiative – Why We Need Blockchain Ethics
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Blockchain and cryptocurrencies have the potential to change the world in meaningful ways. And this change may drastically impact people’s lives –...
Eli Ben-Sasson: StarkWare – Productizing zk-STARKs to Provide Blockchain Scalability and Privacy
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This past year, we have witnessed what some are calling a “Cambrian Explosion” in zero-knowledge proof systems. New proof systems based on a varie...
Yoni Assia: eToro – The Social Trading Platform
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re joined by Yoni Assia, Founder and CEO of eToro. The concept behind this world-leading social trading platform is users invest smarter by autom...
DappCon 2019 – Tales of Governance: DAOs, Swarms and Anarchic Systems
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As we take some time to record new interviews, we’re releasing content from DappCon which took place in Berlin in August. This week, you’ll hear a...
DappCon 2019 – Look at My Flashy Colors And Rounded Corners!
02 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As we take some time to record new interviews, we're releasing content from DappCon which took place in Berlin in August. This week, you'll hear a pan...
Omer Shlomovits & Ouriel Ohayon: ZenGo – The ‘Keyless’ Crypto Wallet
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Those who have been in crypto long enough remember the not-so-good-ol’ days when an air-gapped machine was the only way to store private keys secure...
Sharon Goldberg: Arwen – Centralized Exchange Trading Without Counterparty Risk
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by Sharon Goldberg, CEO of Arwen, a protocol solution for non-custodial trading. From communications engineering to Internet protocol sec...
David Chaum: The Forefather of Cryptocurrencies and the Cypherpunk Movement
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re pleased to be joined by the legendary cryptographer and computer scientist, David Chaum. From his early beginnings at Berkley, David pioneered...
Ayo Akinyele: Bolt Labs – Zcash on Lightning
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by Ayo Akinyele, CEO of Bolt Labs. Bolt is building a new privacy-focused layer-2 payment channel network design. Initially designed by M...
Anthony Sassano & Eric Conner: EthHub – Ethereum Education and the Quest for Ether Dominance
27 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re joined by Eric Conner and Anthony Sassano, founders of EthHub. Started in January of 2019, EthHub’s goal is to provide a trusted, objective ...
Dan Shin: Terra – The Stable Currency Tackling the Ecommerce Payments Market
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're joined by Daniel Shin. He is the Co-Founder of Terra Money and previous CEO and Co-Founder of TMON, one of Korea's largest players e-c...
Erik Voorhees: ShapeShift – There's a New Fox in Town
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re joined by Erik Voorhees, Founder & CEO of Shapeshift. His third appearance on the podcast is timed nicely as July marked ShapeShift’s fi...
Igor Barinov: POA Network – Enabling Scaling Through Trust in Public Notaries
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by Igor Barinov, the tech lead of the POA Network. The POA Network achieves a reduction in transaction costs by many orders of magnitude ...
Rune Christensen: Maker DAO – The Central Bank of Web 3.0
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by Rune Christensen, CEO and Co-Founder of MakerDAO. We discuss the rise of Maker DAI as an algorithmically backed stable token and get i...
Ameen Soleimani: Moloch DAO – A Simple Yet Unforgiving DAO to Fund Ethereum Development
24 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re joined by Ameen Soleimani, Co-founder and CEO of SpankChan. From his humble beginnings at ConsenSys, he went on to create SpankChain in 2017 a...
Jerry Brito: The Case for Electronic Cash in an Open and Free Society
16 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re joined by Jerry Brito, Executive Director of Coin Center. Having discovered Bitcoin in 2011, Jerry was among the first lawyers to talk about c...
Robert Leshner: Compound – An Automated Money Market for Ethereum Tokens
09 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we caught up with Robert Leshner, founder of the Compound protocol. Compound is a fascinating smart contract protocol, running atop E...
Rob Dawson: PegaSys – Enterprise-Grade Ethereum Protocol Engineering
04 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by Rob Dawson, Head of Product at PegaSys. PegaSys is the protocol engineering spoke of ConsenSys, and the team building Pantheon, a Java...
Stephen Palley: The Regulatory Landscape for Cryptocurrencies and the SEC's Case Against Kik
25 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The complex and evolving regulatory landscape for cryptocurrencies has been a topic for many years. After a long period of waiting, the SEC started pu...
Bonus 2/2: Cosmos Validator Panel and Governance Debates – Interchain Conversations Berlin
21 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is part two of a two part bonus series. These sessions were recorded at the first Interchain Conversations conference which took place in Berlin ...
Bonus 1/2: “Epicenter Live” and a Chat with Jae Kwon of Cosmos – Interchain Conversations Berlin
21 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is part one of a two-part bonus series. These sessions were recorded at the first Interchain Conversations conference which took place in Berlin ...
Hayden Adams: Uniswap – An Automated Decentralized Exchange for Ethereum
18 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The concept of a decentralized exchange has been a holy grail in the cryptocurrency space for many years. Many attempts have been made, but most decen...
Tal Moran: Spacemesh – The Space-Time Consensus Blockchain
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by Tal Moran, Chief Scientist at Spacemesh. This new consensus protocol is designed to run on home desktop PCs, filling free space on use...
Dominic Tarr: Secure Scuttlebutt – The “Localized” but Distributed Social Network
04 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re joined by Dominic Tarr, a sailor, and the Founder of Secure Scuttlebutt. This curiously named project has a fascinating approach to creating a...
Dan Robinson: Rainbow Network – Off-Chain Synthetics Exchange or “Multicolored Lightning”
28 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re joined by Dan Robinson, a research partner at Paradigm, and the author the “Rainbow Network” paper. The paper describes an off-chain decen...
Jill Carlson: Open Money Initiative – Free Access to Finance as a Human Right
22 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A common meme in the cryptocurrency space is that it has the potential to help people in countries where only the rich and powerful access to global f...
Aya Miyaguchi: The Role and Challenges of the Ethereum Foundation
16 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Ethereum Foundation has played a crucial role in the evolution of the blockchain ecosystem. They pioneered the Swiss foundation structure and ran ...
Mark Miller: Agoric and the Decades-Long Quest for Secure Smart Contracts
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We were joined by Mark S. Miller, Chief Scientist at Agoric. Mark is a computer scientist who has done ground-breaking work on many topics relevant to...
Mike Pieciak: NASAA – A “To The Moon” Approach to Regulating Crypto
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by Mike Pieciak, President of the NASAA. Not to be confused with the space agency, the North American Securities Administrators Associati...
Griff Green: Giveth – Creating the New Economic Model of Giving
23 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by Griff Green, one of the founders at Giveth. The organization, which emerged out of the ashes of the DAO, aims to create a better model...
Yaniv Tal: The Graph – A Marketplace for Web3 Data Indexes Based on GraphQL
16 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
At the core of the Web 2.0 stack lies the REST API. It's the fiber which allows frontend applications to communicate with their backend counterparts, ...
Simon de la Rouviere: Bonding Curves, Curation Markets, Token Curated Registries… and Art
10 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Human beings have a penchant for creating lists. We make lists for things like the top music artists at any given time, the best restaurants in the wo...
Ethan Buchman & Sunny Aggarwal: Cosmos – Launching the Internet of Blockchains
03 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The shipping container brought standardization to the way we move goods around the world. Similarly, TCP/IP packets normalized how information transit...
Jackson Palmer: Dogecoin – wow! so meme. such community. very charity. much story.
27 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dogecoin was born from the association of two browser tabs: one was an article about the popularity of the doge meme, and the other, CoinMarketCap. Th...
Brian Hoffman & Washington Sanchez: OpenBazaar – Growing a Permissionless Marketplace
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the early days of Bitcoin, much of the community’s focus was around payment and getting merchants to adopt cryptocurrencies. Although the technol...
Daniel Lehnberg & Michael Cordner: Grin – Cypherpunk Mimblewimble
12 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Three years ago, a mysterious txt file signed by a pseudonymous Tom Elvis Jedusor was dropped in the Bitcoin-Wizards IRC channel outlining a proposal ...
Amaury Séchet: Bitcoin Cash – Part 2
05 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Amaury Séchet is the lead developer of Bitcoin ABC, the largest client for the Bitcoin Cash blockchain. Amaury first got started with Bitcoin in 2010...
Amaury Séchet: Bitcoin Cash
28 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Amaury Séchet is the lead developer of Bitcoin ABC, the largest client for the Bitcoin Cash blockchain. Amaury first got started with Bitcoin in 2010...
Ben Goertzel: SingularityNET – The Global AI Network and Marketplace
20 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial Intelligence is often misunderstood. And much like blockchain, those who fiercely stand by the technology believe it will change the world ...
Alexey Akhunov: Ethereum 1.x – BUIDLing Things One Step at a Time
13 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re joined by Alexey Akhunov, an independent Ethereum researcher. Alexey has been working on an ambitious project called TurboGeth. As the name im...
Christian Decker: Lightning Network – The Road to Scaling Bitcoin
07 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When the Lightning Network (LN) was conceived in 2015, it was quickly embraced by the Bitcoin community as the way to dramatically scale Bitcoin’s c...
Jameson Lopp: On Being a Professional Cypherpunk
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re joined by Jameson Lopp. Jameson is the CTO of Casa, a company providing key storage solutions. Previously, he was an early engineer at BitGo. ...
Martin Köppelmann & Matan Field: How the dxDAO could become the world’s largest organization
24 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The concept of DAOs has been captivating to many in the crypto space for years. When “The DAO” was created in 2016, in the few weeks of its existe...
Looking Back on 5 Years of Epicenter
15 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Epicenter turned 5 years old this month – that’s a long time in the blockchain space! When the podcast began in January 2014, the entire ecosystem...
Joseph Lubin: ConsenSys – The Distributed Incubator which Jumpstarted the Ethereum Ecosystem
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re joined by Joseph Lubin, Founder and CEO of ConsenSys. Joseph founded ConsenSys as an Ethereum development studio on the heels of the Ethereum ...
Andy Bromberg: CoinList – Capital Formation for the Crypto Industry
01 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When token sales and ICOs took off in 2017, most projects chose to push ahead despite large regulatory risks. One of the few that went the other direc...
Nadav Hollander: Dharma – A protocol for tokenized debt
25 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lending is one core pillar of the economy, enabling one person or company to be entrepreneurial with someone else’s capital. However, in the traditi...
David Andolfatto: The Impact of Central Bank Digital Currencies on the Banking Sector
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Since the rise of digital currencies and cryptocurrencies, central banks are considering the role these new forms of money may play in our evolving di...
James Prestwich: Summa One – Cross-chain Financial Instruments and Contracts
12 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
While trustless interactions on Ethereum are native to the protocol, trustless interactions between the Ethereum blockchain and other blockchains are ...
Nick Sullivan: Cloudflare – The Internet’s (De)centralized Security Blanket
04 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We enter dozens of trust relationships ever time we interact with the Web. Browsers, ISPs, DNS providers, cloud hosting companies, all the way down to...
Justin Drake: Ethereum’s Audacious Roadmap to Build a True World Computer
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Ethereum vision has always been to create a world computer. But its scalability and performance limitations have meant that it has fallen far shor...
Brian Behlendorf: Hyperledger – From Blockchain Hype to Production Networks
20 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Most observers of the ecosystem will probably agree that 2015-2017 were the years of the enterprise blockchain. It was during that time that many star...
Ben Sharafian & Stefan Thomas: Coil – A New Business Model for the Web
13 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The difficulties of compensating content creators for their work has been a driving force of the web for decades. It gave rise to advertising-driven t...
Devcon4 Recap – From HODL to BUIDL
06 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s that time of year again, Devcon time! Just as the conference was wrapping up, we sat down at the Prague Congress Center for a Devcon4 recap. Jo...
Gavin Wood: Substrate, Polkadot and the Case for On-Chain Governance
31 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
From one of the main Ethereum clients, to Polkadot to Substrate; Parity has become exceptional at developing successful open-source blockchain project...
Monica Quaintance: Kadena – Public and Permissioned Blockchains that Scale
23 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We’re joined by Monica Quaintance, Head of Engineering and Adoption at Kadena. While most companies providing enterprise solutions focus primarily o...
Kevin Owocki: Gitcoin – Aligning Incentives in Open-Source Development
17 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Building open source software is a collaborative process which relies on good faith and willingness of volunteers. While most of the software we use d...
Aleksandr Bulkin & Jake Brukhman: CoinFund – Crypto-Investing by Community Building
11 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
CoinFund is one of the earliest crypto-funds to have taken shape, forming in early 2016. The fund is well known for running an active Community Slack,...
Arthur Breitman & Kathleen Breitman: Tezos – The Long Road Towards A Digital Commonwealth
05 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Tezos whitepaper, published in 2014, anticipated several areas that would become major issues for blockchain networks. Especially around governanc...
Allen Day: Google’s Mission to Provide Open Datasets for Public Blockchains
26 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Public blockchains produce enormous amounts of data. In theory, anyone can access the raw contents of transaction and blocks. In practice, however, qu...
Angela C. Walch: The Case for Treating Developers as Fiduciaries in Public Blockchains
19 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The expectation has become widespread that blockchains will end up underpinning major societal infrastructures. The narrative in the blockchain space ...
Ralph Merkle: Revolutionizing Democracy Using DAOs (rebroadcast)
12 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Legendary scientist and cryptography pioneer Ralph Merkle joined us to discuss his recent paper on DAOs. Merkle examined how the voting mechanisms in ...
Glen Weyl: Radical Markets – Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
05 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The rise of populism and increasing inequality have led to widespread questioning of democracy and capitalism. Glen Weyl, a political economist and Pr...
Clement Lessage & Federico Ast: Kleros – Crowdsourced Arbitration for Blockchain Applications
30 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dispute resolution is the process by which contracting parties settle disagreements. Whether in the form of litigation, arbitration, or other means of...
Ryan Zurrer: Polychain – A Crypto Hedge Fund Success Story
22 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by Ryan Zurrer, Principal and Venture partner, at Polychain capital. Polychain capital is a breakout crypto hedge fund with over $100 mi...
Uri Klarman: bloXroute – Layer-0 Scaling with the Blockchain Distribution Network
15 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Until now, proposals to improve blockchain scalability have addressed the problem in one of two ways. One seeks to increase efficiency by optimizing t...
Ryan Selkis: Messari – Bringing Transparency and Self-Regulation to the Blockchain Industry
09 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Since he started blogging as Two Bit Idiot in 2013, Ryan Selkis has been both industry insider and industry critic. Consistently calling out excesses ...
Guy Zyskind: Enigma – Providing Scalable Privacy-Preservation to Smart Contacts
02 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Privacy and scalability are arguably the most challenging issues blockchains face. Scalable privacy-preserving state machines are inherently difficult...
Martin Becze: Primea – The Next-Generation Blockchain Operating System
24 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Becze is a researcher at Dfinity working on a next-generation “Blockchain Operating System” called Primea – a continuation of his work on...
Anthony Lusardi: Ethereum Classic Cooperative – Accelerating the Growth of ETC
17 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The 2016 Ethereum hard fork left us with two distinct Ethereum chains. While the main Ethereum chain dwarfs Ethereum Classic in terms of market cap, E...
Evan Shapiro & Izaak Meckler: Coda – A Succinct Blockchain
12 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
One of the key scalability challenges with public cryptocurrency blockchains is that their size grows linearly with the number of transactions. Mature...