Relay Chain

Innovating the Web3 Legal Space

February 7th, 2023  |  58 mins 38 secs

blockchain, ethereum, polkadot, web3

This week, Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by Chrissy Hill, General Counsel, and Alica Schiffhauer, Legal Operations Specialist, from Parity’s legal team. This episode focuses on the legal side of Web3 and all that it entails, including the challenges of working within compliance for a codebase with no existing legal precedent.

Polkadot Common Good Parachains Update: Blockchains to Benefit the Polkadot Community

December 1st, 2022  |  1 hr 3 mins

blockchain, ethereum, polkadot, web3

In this episode, host Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by Joe Petrowski (Common Good Parachains Team Lead, Web3 Foundation) to talk about common good parachains (aka system level parachains), the layer-1 Polkadot blockchains dedicated to core functionality that benefits the entire Polkadot ecosystem.

Composable Finance Part 2: Envisioning the Valhalla of Cross-Chain DeFi

July 7th, 2022  |  36 mins 11 secs

blockchain, ethereum, polkadot, web3

This week we have the second half of the conversation between Parity's Jorrin Bruns and 0xbrainjar, founder and CEO of the Polkadot parachain Composable Finance. Composable and sister parachain Picasso on Kusama allow smart contracts built on different languages and different chains to connect, enabling cross-chain DeFi applications and more.

Composable Finance Part 1: Unlocking Cross-Chain, Cross-Layer DeFi on Polkadot

June 22nd, 2022  |  42 mins 24 secs

blockchain, ethereum, polkadot, web3

Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined this week by 0xbrainjar, founder and CEO of the Polkadot parachain Composable Finance. Composable and sister parachain Picasso on Kusama allow smart contracts built on different languages and different chains to connect, enabling cross-chain swaps and more. By simplifying and unifying DeFi (Decentalized Finance) with new interoperability standards, the project is accelerating this technology into the mainstream.

OriginTrail: Decentralized Knowledge Graph & the Semantic Web3

May 19th, 2022  |  1 hr 6 mins

blockchain, ethereum, polkadot, web3

This week, Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by OriginTrail’s Tomaž Levak (co-founder) and Žiga Drev (co-founder). OriginTrail is a Substrate-based blockchain that recently won a parachain slot on Polkadot. OriginTrail developed the world’s first Decentralized Knowledge Graph (DKG) to organize humanity’s most important assets, making them discoverable, verifiable, and valuable, often referred to as 'the google of Web3'.

Centrifuge, Connecting Real World Assets with DeFi

February 15th, 2022  |  57 mins 11 secs

blockchain, ethereum, polkadot, web3

This week Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by Cassidy Daly, token design and research specialist at Centrifuge, a Substrate-based blockchain that recently won a parachain slot on Polkadot. Centrifuge aims to bring an archaic financial system into the Web3 space, enabling users to unlock financing for their real world assets by bringing them on-chain.

Mainstreaming DeFi with Parallel Finance

December 9th, 2021  |  48 mins 56 secs

blockchain, defi, ethereum, polkadot, web3

This week, Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by Yubo Ruan, founder of Parallel Finance, a lending solutions provider designed to increase liquidity and acceptance on the Polkadot network. Parallel Finance is a Polkadot parachain and its sister network Heiko Finance is a Kusama parachain. This episode begins with an introduction to Parallel Finance and its tech stack. They also discuss how Substrate helped Parallel launch a parachain in 7 months, and how the project is disrupting DeFi through a unique take on lending design and building user interaction interfaces (necessary for interoperability in DeFi).

Accelerating the Web3 Metaverse with Outlier Ventures

November 25th, 2021  |  1 hr 19 mins

blockchain, ethereum, metaverse, polkadot, web3

This week, Joe Petrowski (Technical Integrations Lead, Web3 Foundation) is joined by Jamie Burke, CEO, and founder of Outlier Ventures, an accelerator that supports the development and growth of emerging technologies, including Polkadot. They are currently running a Polkadot accelerator through their Base Camp program.

Building Blockchain Social Networks with Subsocial

September 17th, 2021  |  1 hr 3 mins

blockchain, polkadot, substrate, web3

This week, Jorrin Bruns (Polkadot Integration Specialist, Parity Technologies) is joined by Subsocial’s founder and Polkadot Ambassador Alex Siman, and Zachary Edwards, Subsocial’s content lead and community manager. Subsocial is an open protocol for decentralized social networks and marketplaces, and this episode explores the world of social networks on blockchain, through the eyes of the Subsocial team.

Robonomics: The Blockchain with Robots

August 19th, 2021  |  1 hr 20 mins

blockchain, ethereum, polkadot, web3

In this episode, Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by Robonomics Software Architect Sergey Lonshakov. Robonomics is an open-source internet of things (IoT) platform. It provides ways for humans to communicate with robots, and for robots to connect to each other and the internet.

Statemine: A Deep Dive Into Kusama’s Asset Hub with Joe Petrowski

August 5th, 2021  |  54 mins 30 secs

blockchain, ethereum, polkadot, web3

This week the tables are turned on Relay Chain, with Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) interviewing co-host Joe Petrowski (Technical Integrations Lead, Web3 Foundation) as a guest representing his contribution to the Statemint/Statemine project. Statemine — Kusama’s version of Polkadot’s Statemint — is a common-good parachain for creating and managing assets and NFTs on-chain. It recently made history as the first live, featureful parachain to be onboarded to Kusama. Now that Statemine has been made permissionless, anyone can use it to create and deploy tokens and NFTs.

Prediction Markets and Futarchy with Zeitgeist

July 23rd, 2021  |  48 mins 57 secs

blockchain, ethereum, polkadot, web3

This week, Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by Zeitgeist’s founder Logan Saether, and CIO, David Perry. Zeitgeist is a Substrate-based decentralized network for creating, participating in, and resolving prediction markets, and exploring the potential of futarchy for governance.

Querying the World's Data with SubQuery

July 9th, 2021  |  48 mins 51 secs

blockchain, ethereum, polkadot, web3

Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) talks with James Bayly, Head of Business Development for OnFinality, one of the largest infrastructure providers for Polkadot and Substrate, about Subquery, a tool that speeds up querying and extracting Polkadot network data so that anyone can take the data off-chain and create something useful.

Former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves on Blockchain Adoption and Internet Regulation

June 24th, 2021  |  1 hr 22 mins

blockchain, web3

In this Relay Chain exclusive, Joe Petrowski (Technical Integrations Lead at Web3 Foundation) and Parity’s Úrsula O'Kuinghttons speak with former President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves. Uniquely placed as one of few presidents who knows how to code, Ilves was responsible for implementing the digitization of the Estonian government, one of the first countries to adopt blockchain tech, and many other processes in the country from voting to registering a business.

Creating Your Own Metaverse with Bit.Country

June 11th, 2021  |  52 mins 13 secs

blockchain, ethereum, polkadot, substrate, web3

This week we’re joined by Bit.Country, a Substrate-based decentralized world with a game-like feel that puts community at the forefront. Bit.Country lets anyone create their own decentralized virtual country and grow their own community.

Confidential Cloud Computing on Phala Network

May 27th, 2021  |  1 hr 4 mins

blockchain, ethereum, polkadot, web3

Privacy takes center stage in this week’s episode as Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) talks with Marvin Tong, co-founder and CEO of the Phala Network, a trustless, privacy-preserving cloud computing network based on Substrate. They dive deep into Phala’s tech, exploring how Phala tackles the issue of trust in the computational cloud by shielding user data from centralized organizations like Google, with the same level of computational power as existing cloud services.

Tong details several topics, including node security, Phala’s Substrate-based runtime and bespoke pallets, integrating alternative trusted execution environment (TEE) hardware, and how it tackles consensus. They delve into on-chain data privacy, deploying private smart contract computation for decentralized applications (DApps) and decentralized finance (DeFi) and services on Phala Network including Web3 Analytics and cross-chain interoperability.