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Zubin Koticha: Opyn – The Insurance Platform Which Protects Your DeFi Deposits

17 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Opyn is a smart contract-based insurance platform built on a generalized (supports both put and call) options protocol called Convexity. It is intende...

Gabriel Jiménez: Petro – The Crypto Project That Tried to Free Venezuela

10 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In late 2017, Gabriel Jimenez was approached by the Venezuelan presidency and asked to create a national digital currency, the Petro. Although very mu...

Jim Bianco: Deep Insights Into the Global Economic Crisis

02 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We've heard it over and over again, Covid-19 has plunged us into a crisis like none other we’ve experienced in our lifetime. Although it is primaril...

Post-interview chat – Sam Williams of Arweave

28 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this inaugural post-interview chat, Friederike and Sebastien discuss their recent interview with Arweave Co-founder and CEO, Sam Williams.Moving fo...

Sam Williams: Arweave – Bringing Permanence to the Web

26 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The internet was originally created as a platform to communicate freely, but it soon became a place where people could be monitored, controlled, and c...

David Vorick: On Skynet and Trusted Setups

22 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today, half of the internet is built on top of Amazon S3. Although the cloud has allowed Internet applications to scale, centralized infrastructure me...

Daniel Wang: Loopring – A Scalable DEX Protocol Using ZK-Rollups

19 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Decentralized exchanges have been around for some time, and various designs have been attempted. Although they provide a number of privacy and censors...

Harry Halpin & John Shipton: What Julian Assange Represents to the Crypto Movement

12 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Julian Assange, the creator of WikiLeaks, is currently in a maximum-security prison in London facing extradition to the US for violating the Espionage...

Marco Streng: Genesis Mining – Taking Bitcoin Mining to the Cloud

05 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Genesis Mining is a leading hash power provider offering cloud cryptocurrency mining as a service. They offer mining for Bitcoin, Zcash, Dash, Ethereu...

Marc Zeller & Stani Kulechov: Aave – Unlocking Access to Capital With Flash Loans

28 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Aave is building a suite of non-custodial DeFi tools that allow users to earn interest on their deposits and borrow assets. Earlier this year, Aave re...

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 ...