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.
\n\nThey discuss the unique aspects of working within Web3 law, such as needing a working knowledge of complex technology, blockchain-specific terminology, staying on top of evolving blockchain regulation, as well as their recommendation to become familiar with the legal side of the blockchain space. In addition, you'll learn how legal teams support Web3, by bridging the gap between national laws (to avoid what happened with FTX, for example), identifying and mitigating risks, and how accountability works for breaches of the law within a decentralized system.
\n\nLinks
\n\nParity Technologies
\nThe General Public License
\nLess Trust More Truth: DOT has morphed and is Software, not a Security
\nCoindesk policy and legal sections
Highlights
\n\n00:50 The journey from Web2 to Web3 legal
\n\n07:30 Working for a legal team in a blockchain company
\n\n17:50 Challenges as legal professionals within the blockchain space
\n\n25: 45 How Parity and the wider ecosystem benefits from legal knowledge
\n\n27:00 Compliance for a codebase with no exciting legal precedence
\n\n32:00 Open source licensing 101
\n\n37:00 DIsadvantages of open source licensing
\n\n40:45 Deciding on GPL as the license for Polkadot and Kusama
\n\n44:30 How to learn more about DOT morphing into software
\n\n47:00 Cross-ecosystem collaboration across legal teams
\n\n50:20 Code is law philosophy vs. rule of law
Special Guests: Alica Schiffhauer and Chrissy Hill.
","summary":"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.","date_published":"2023-02-07T20:00:00.000+01:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/5c3a7e14-24bf-48c3-b839-ae4ff3c31fd4.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":56291792,"duration_in_seconds":3518}]},{"id":"c7b2e3a0-bdd8-4c46-9ddb-2cb207df9d82","title":"Polkadot Common Good Parachains Update: Blockchains to Benefit the Polkadot Community","url":"https://relaychain.fm/polkadot-common-good-parachains-update","content_text":"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. Since Statemint, dedicated to asset and NFT functionality, launched as Polkadot’s first common good parachain, many more have been in development. This episode explores how common good chains are evolving and what this means for the Polkadot ecosystem, from the new Collectives parachain, evolving NFTs on Statemint, to the upcoming Bridge Hub parachain, and many exciting projects coming out of the ecosystem.\n\nDuring this talk, Petrowski describes how common good parachains are elected, categorized, onboarded, and eventually made available to users. He highlights the importance of the Cross-Consensus Message Format (XCM) for system-level parachains, and those which are ready to launch once XCMv3 is deployed. Finally, during the analysis of parachain transaction validation and finalization, we discover the eye-opening benefits of moving core functionality off the relay chain; Polkadot could support far more than 100 parachains, with far fewer than 1,000 validators needed to process transactions with the same security guarantees as before.\n\nLinks\nRoadmap for Parity-developed common good parachains\n\nHighlights\n2.00 The humble beginnings of common good parachains\n3.22 System vs public utility chains\n12:00 Pallets abstracting work away from the relay chain\n13:00 How transactions are processed on the relay chain vs a parachain\n15:12 The benefits of taking core functionality off the relay chain: > 100 parachains!\n17:30 System level common good parachains under development \n22:45 The Collectives parachain\n31:35 How to create a collective or DAO using Substrate's Collective pallet\n36:00 Governance to set up the Collectives parachain\n39.45 Developments and roadblocks to launching the Bridge Hub\n51:10 Evolution of Statemine/ Statemint including evolving NFTs\n56:45 Community shoutout for support - particularly deployment toolingSpecial Guest: Joe Petrowski.","content_html":"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. Since Statemint, dedicated to asset and NFT functionality, launched as Polkadot’s first common good parachain, many more have been in development. This episode explores how common good chains are evolving and what this means for the Polkadot ecosystem, from the new Collectives parachain, evolving NFTs on Statemint, to the upcoming Bridge Hub parachain, and many exciting projects coming out of the ecosystem.
\n\nDuring this talk, Petrowski describes how common good parachains are elected, categorized, onboarded, and eventually made available to users. He highlights the importance of the Cross-Consensus Message Format (XCM) for system-level parachains, and those which are ready to launch once XCMv3 is deployed. Finally, during the analysis of parachain transaction validation and finalization, we discover the eye-opening benefits of moving core functionality off the relay chain; Polkadot could support far more than 100 parachains, with far fewer than 1,000 validators needed to process transactions with the same security guarantees as before.
\n\nLinks
\nRoadmap for Parity-developed common good parachains
Highlights
\n2.00 The humble beginnings of common good parachains
\n3.22 System vs public utility chains
\n12:00 Pallets abstracting work away from the relay chain
\n13:00 How transactions are processed on the relay chain vs a parachain
\n15:12 The benefits of taking core functionality off the relay chain: > 100 parachains!
\n17:30 System level common good parachains under development
\n22:45 The Collectives parachain
\n31:35 How to create a collective or DAO using Substrate's Collective pallet
\n36:00 Governance to set up the Collectives parachain
\n39.45 Developments and roadblocks to launching the Bridge Hub
\n51:10 Evolution of Statemine/ Statemint including evolving NFTs
\n56:45 Community shoutout for support - particularly deployment tooling
Special Guest: Joe Petrowski.
","summary":"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. ","date_published":"2022-12-01T14:00:00.000+01:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/c7b2e3a0-bdd8-4c46-9ddb-2cb207df9d82.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":53748933,"duration_in_seconds":3839}]},{"id":"6f5a4e1e-8869-47e4-b0f2-89454420756c","title":"Composable Finance Part 2: Envisioning the Valhalla of Cross-Chain DeFi","url":"https://relaychain.fm/45-composable-finance-part-2","content_text":"This week we have the second half of the conversation between Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) 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. \n\nIf you missed part 1, have a listen here.\n\nIn part 2, they talk more about Mosaic, Composable’s transfer availability layer, and XCVM, their cross-consensus virtual machine. They look at how Composable approaches cross-chain bridging and communication, interoperability with ecosystems outside of Polkadot, and thinking outside the box for cross-chain applications beyond what’s already been done before.\n\nLinks\nComposable Finance \nPicasso Network \nAngular Finance \nWhirlpool Cash \n\nHighlights\n01:35 - Mosaic, XCVM and liquidity fragmentation\n03:45 - Transaction fees w/ multiple blockchains\n04:50 - Intro to XCVM (cross-consensus virtual machine)\n07:15 - Interoperability with Cosmos and other ecosystems\n11:32 - XCVM and bridging deep dive\n16:30 - Cross-chain developer and user experience\n24:30 - Angular, Substrate’s first money market\n26:45 - Whirlpool Cash (zk mixing)Special Guest: 0xbrainjar.","content_html":"This week we have the second half of the conversation between Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) 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.
\n\nIf you missed part 1, have a listen here.
\n\nIn part 2, they talk more about Mosaic, Composable’s transfer availability layer, and XCVM, their cross-consensus virtual machine. They look at how Composable approaches cross-chain bridging and communication, interoperability with ecosystems outside of Polkadot, and thinking outside the box for cross-chain applications beyond what’s already been done before.
\n\nLinks
\nComposable Finance
\nPicasso Network
\nAngular Finance
\nWhirlpool Cash
Highlights
\n01:35 - Mosaic, XCVM and liquidity fragmentation
\n03:45 - Transaction fees w/ multiple blockchains
\n04:50 - Intro to XCVM (cross-consensus virtual machine)
\n07:15 - Interoperability with Cosmos and other ecosystems
\n11:32 - XCVM and bridging deep dive
\n16:30 - Cross-chain developer and user experience
\n24:30 - Angular, Substrate’s first money market
\n26:45 - Whirlpool Cash (zk mixing)
Special Guest: 0xbrainjar.
","summary":"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. ","date_published":"2022-07-07T15:00:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/6f5a4e1e-8869-47e4-b0f2-89454420756c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":30401945,"duration_in_seconds":2171}]},{"id":"9187f69c-9cf1-410e-a457-06d6ff66428e","title":"Composable Finance Part 1: Unlocking Cross-Chain, Cross-Layer DeFi on Polkadot","url":"https://relaychain.fm/44-composable-finance-part-1-unlocking-cross-chain-cross-layer-defi-on-polkadot","content_text":"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 (Decentralized Finance) with new interoperability standards, the project is accelerating this technology into the mainstream. \n\nThis talk covers Composable's solutions for developers and end users. 0xbrainjar describes building with Substrate and the new pallets they created, the native functionality of Composable and Picasso, and the various products and DeFi primitives they offer.\n\nAdditionally, 0xbrainjar discusses cross-layer NFT transfers, building oracles for price manipulation resistance, achieving protocol-owned liquidity, bootstrapping DeFi and what could be considered ‘DeFi 3.0'.\n\nLinks\nComposable Finance\nPicasso Network\nCubic Vault pallet\n\nHighlights\n01:35 Introduction to Composable\n04:00 What problems does Composable solve?\n06:10 Substrate pallets, customizations, new builds \n10:31 The Pablo DEX\n13:51 Protocol-owned liquidity (POL) within a DEX\n18:40 Cubic: Composable’s modular DeFi vault pallet\n22:20 Oracles and price manipulation resistance\n29:20 'Mural', the Cross-Layer NFT transfer protocol\n32:00 Mosaic — the transfer availability layer\n36:20 Just in time liquidity & bot networks\n39:27 Managed LP tokens Special Guest: 0xbrainjar.","content_html":"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 (Decentralized Finance) with new interoperability standards, the project is accelerating this technology into the mainstream.
\n\nThis talk covers Composable's solutions for developers and end users. 0xbrainjar describes building with Substrate and the new pallets they created, the native functionality of Composable and Picasso, and the various products and DeFi primitives they offer.
\n\nAdditionally, 0xbrainjar discusses cross-layer NFT transfers, building oracles for price manipulation resistance, achieving protocol-owned liquidity, bootstrapping DeFi and what could be considered ‘DeFi 3.0'.
\n\nLinks
\nComposable Finance
\nPicasso Network
\nCubic Vault pallet
Highlights
\n01:35 Introduction to Composable
\n04:00 What problems does Composable solve?
\n06:10 Substrate pallets, customizations, new builds
\n10:31 The Pablo DEX
\n13:51 Protocol-owned liquidity (POL) within a DEX
\n18:40 Cubic: Composable’s modular DeFi vault pallet
\n22:20 Oracles and price manipulation resistance
\n29:20 'Mural', the Cross-Layer NFT transfer protocol
\n32:00 Mosaic — the transfer availability layer
\n36:20 Just in time liquidity & bot networks
\n39:27 Managed LP tokens
Special Guest: 0xbrainjar.
","summary":"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. ","date_published":"2022-06-22T14:00:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/9187f69c-9cf1-410e-a457-06d6ff66428e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":40716672,"duration_in_seconds":2544}]},{"id":"84e7493c-75d7-4c7c-9bf7-f84cc5c35b12","title":"OriginTrail: Decentralized Knowledge Graph & the Semantic Web3","url":"https://relaychain.fm/origintrail-the-decentralized-knowledge-graph-and-the-semantic-web3","content_text":"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'.\n\nThis talk explores the real-world use cases of OriginTrail, and how through the synergy of knowledge graphs and blockchains, DKG forms the \"semantic layer of Web3\", enabling Web3 builders to organize, discover, and verify anything. It’s similar to the technology used by major Web2 giants like Google and Amazon to power their services.\n\nThe OriginTrail team explain how they moved into Web3 and achieved mainstream adoption, starting out on Ethereum as one of the first and most promising blockchain projects to address supply chain use cases, and evolving into a multichain decentralized knowledge network. They also discuss the OriginTrail parachain, enhancing the DKG with Substrate, unleashing network effects through Polkadot, collaborating with parachains, and how you can participate in OriginTrail, from running nodes to interacting with the community.\n\nLinks\n\nOriginTrail\nNFT Supercharger \nThe Trace Alliance\n\nHighlights\n\n02:00 What is OriginTrail?\n\n04:45 Who’s using the Decentralized Knowledge Graph\n\n07:00 What does OriginTrail solve?\n\n10:30 Inception and expansion of OriginTrail \n\n15:50 Existing across multiple blockchains \n\n19:15 How OriginTrail works with the DKG\n\n26:20 Forming the semantic layer of Web3\n\n31:04 The OriginTrail parachain\n\n40:15 Shout out to DKG Community members\n\n43:20 How OriginTrail is being used\n\n51:20 Breaking in to the mainstream\n\n01:01:15 The Trace AllianceSpecial Guests: Tomaž Levak and Žiga Drev.","content_html":"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'.
\n\nThis talk explores the real-world use cases of OriginTrail, and how through the synergy of knowledge graphs and blockchains, DKG forms the "semantic layer of Web3", enabling Web3 builders to organize, discover, and verify anything. It’s similar to the technology used by major Web2 giants like Google and Amazon to power their services.
\n\nThe OriginTrail team explain how they moved into Web3 and achieved mainstream adoption, starting out on Ethereum as one of the first and most promising blockchain projects to address supply chain use cases, and evolving into a multichain decentralized knowledge network. They also discuss the OriginTrail parachain, enhancing the DKG with Substrate, unleashing network effects through Polkadot, collaborating with parachains, and how you can participate in OriginTrail, from running nodes to interacting with the community.
\n\nLinks
\n\nOriginTrail
\nNFT Supercharger
\nThe Trace Alliance
Highlights
\n\n02:00 What is OriginTrail?
\n\n04:45 Who’s using the Decentralized Knowledge Graph
\n\n07:00 What does OriginTrail solve?
\n\n10:30 Inception and expansion of OriginTrail
\n\n15:50 Existing across multiple blockchains
\n\n19:15 How OriginTrail works with the DKG
\n\n26:20 Forming the semantic layer of Web3
\n\n31:04 The OriginTrail parachain
\n\n40:15 Shout out to DKG Community members
\n\n43:20 How OriginTrail is being used
\n\n51:20 Breaking in to the mainstream
\n\n01:01:15 The Trace Alliance
Special Guests: Tomaž Levak and Žiga Drev.
","summary":"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'.","date_published":"2022-05-19T16:15:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/84e7493c-75d7-4c7c-9bf7-f84cc5c35b12.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":55520515,"duration_in_seconds":3965}]},{"id":"24d85c99-6133-48ac-89ba-0c744beb166b","title":"Centrifuge, Connecting Real World Assets with DeFi","url":"https://relaychain.fm/42-centrifuge-connecting-real-world-assets-with-defi","content_text":"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.\n\nDaly describes why the team chose Substrate to build Centrifuge and its canary network Altair, and why Centrifuge became a Polkadot parachain: to reconcile issues with Ethereum including scalability and fees, and the difficulty in maintaining an ETH bridge. They also discuss bringing the Tinlake DApp from Ethereum over to Centrifuge to tap into the specialization between interoperable parachains and drive efficiencies, lower the cost of financing and guarantee the custody and ownership of physical assets on-chain. \n\nUseful Links\nCentrifuge's website \nTinlake's website \nAltair's website\nKilt's website\n\nHighlights\n01:47 What is Centrifuge?\n07:27 Creating real-world assets on Centrifuge to use on Ethereum\n12:10 Integrations with MakerDAO and Aave\n15:55 Guaranteeing custody of physical assets on-chain\n22:40 Centrifuge’s potential uses cases\n26:15 Use cases of Altair vs Centrifuge parachains \n33:25 Decentralizing Altair\n36:50 Altair roadmap and the NFT studio DApp\n44:10 Building functionality into the runtime\n46:37 How Centrifuge fits into DeFi 2.0\n49:20 Plans for Centrifuge as a Polkadot parachainSpecial Guest: Cassidy Daly.","content_html":"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.
\n\nDaly describes why the team chose Substrate to build Centrifuge and its canary network Altair, and why Centrifuge became a Polkadot parachain: to reconcile issues with Ethereum including scalability and fees, and the difficulty in maintaining an ETH bridge. They also discuss bringing the Tinlake DApp from Ethereum over to Centrifuge to tap into the specialization between interoperable parachains and drive efficiencies, lower the cost of financing and guarantee the custody and ownership of physical assets on-chain.
\n\nUseful Links
\nCentrifuge's website
\nTinlake's website
\nAltair's website
\nKilt's website
Highlights
\n01:47 What is Centrifuge?
\n07:27 Creating real-world assets on Centrifuge to use on Ethereum
\n12:10 Integrations with MakerDAO and Aave
\n15:55 Guaranteeing custody of physical assets on-chain
\n22:40 Centrifuge’s potential uses cases
\n26:15 Use cases of Altair vs Centrifuge parachains
\n33:25 Decentralizing Altair
\n36:50 Altair roadmap and the NFT studio DApp
\n44:10 Building functionality into the runtime
\n46:37 How Centrifuge fits into DeFi 2.0
\n49:20 Plans for Centrifuge as a Polkadot parachain
Special Guest: Cassidy Daly.
","summary":"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.","date_published":"2022-02-15T13:45:00.000+01:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/24d85c99-6133-48ac-89ba-0c744beb166b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":48038928,"duration_in_seconds":3431}]},{"id":"1c56ac7f-c4b2-42a6-81b8-2163c21fa176","title":"Mainstreaming DeFi with Parallel Finance","url":"https://relaychain.fm/41-mainstreaming-defi-with-parallel-finance","content_text":"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. \n\nThis 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). \n\nLinks\n\nParallel Finance’s website\n\nSubstrate Builders Program featuring Parallel Finance\n\nHighlights\n\n01:53 How to launch a parachain in 7 months\n\n03:30 What is Parallel Finance?\n\n05:40 Substrate modules and tech stack upgrades\n\n08:00 Validator participation requirements \n\n11:34 Heiko use cases and the Security Module\n\n14:20 Increasing engagement in governance\n\n21:50 Parallel Finance products\n\n29:38 Staked tokens can participate in governance\n\n31:15 Borrowing based on your collateral\n\n33:30 Auction lending and crowdloans \n\n42:48 Value proposition between networks: Parallel Heiko and Parallel Finance\n\n45:27 Participation in the Substrate Builders ProgramSpecial Guest: Yubo Ruan.","content_html":"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.
\n\nThis 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).
\n\nLinks
\n\n\n\nSubstrate Builders Program featuring Parallel Finance
\n\nHighlights
\n\n01:53 How to launch a parachain in 7 months
\n\n03:30 What is Parallel Finance?
\n\n05:40 Substrate modules and tech stack upgrades
\n\n08:00 Validator participation requirements
\n\n11:34 Heiko use cases and the Security Module
\n\n14:20 Increasing engagement in governance
\n\n21:50 Parallel Finance products
\n\n29:38 Staked tokens can participate in governance
\n\n31:15 Borrowing based on your collateral
\n\n33:30 Auction lending and crowdloans
\n\n42:48 Value proposition between networks: Parallel Heiko and Parallel Finance
\n\n45:27 Participation in the Substrate Builders Program
Special Guest: Yubo Ruan.
","summary":"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). ","date_published":"2021-12-09T14:15:00.000+01:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/1c56ac7f-c4b2-42a6-81b8-2163c21fa176.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":41113235,"duration_in_seconds":2936}]},{"id":"d30d92c3-bdb3-47f3-860c-f6155409232a","title":"Accelerating the Web3 Metaverse with Outlier Ventures","url":"https://relaychain.fm/40-accelerating-the-web3-metaverse-with-outlier-ventures","content_text":"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. \n\nBurke describes what he set out to achieve by founding Outlier Ventures in the context of the current internet where platforms are vulnerable to state capture and coercion and are biased against users. With these flaws in mind, the pair discuss the optimal Web3 tech stack with ‘sovereignty first’ as a core design principle and building a permissionless financial system in the context of the Metaverse. \n\nThe conversation moves on to the Metaverse as a framework for the direction of Web3 where value and identity are transferred and owned by the user. They discuss how to navigate this realm in terms of technology, finance, and culture, and how this aggregate economy would enable a more open metaverse across lots of different use cases, from music to gaming, the creator economy, and more.\n\nLinks\nOutlier Ventures’ website\n\nPolkadot Base Camp\n\nThe Open Metaverse OS\n\nAge of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff\n\nThe Master Switch, Tim Wuh\n\nThe Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (1997, with James Dale Davidson)\n\nHighlights \n\n00:57 Introduction to Outlier Ventures\n\n07:00 User-centricity in Web3 and the Metaverse \n\n11:55 Use cases of NFTs encourage blockchain adoption\n\n18:00 Creating a Web3 Stack to enable a more open Metaverse \n\n21:05 The success of NFTs in the gaming industry\n\n28:40 Integrating into a digital economy to be part of the Metaverse\n\n33:50 Introducing digital scarcity to digital assets = enabling property rights \n\n38:10 Reworking economics primitives\n\n41:25 Free markets, the sovereign individual and fluidity collectors\n\n51:40 Commodification and financialization of data with blockchain technology\n\n54:30 Data unions to empower individuals on Polkadot and Kusama\n\n56:28 How can the Metaverse compete with physical nation-states?\n\n1:05:00 Web3 stack for a better Metaverse user experience\n\n1:10:00 Outlier Ventures support for the Polkadot ecosystemSpecial Guest: Jamie Burke.","content_html":"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.
\n\nBurke describes what he set out to achieve by founding Outlier Ventures in the context of the current internet where platforms are vulnerable to state capture and coercion and are biased against users. With these flaws in mind, the pair discuss the optimal Web3 tech stack with ‘sovereignty first’ as a core design principle and building a permissionless financial system in the context of the Metaverse.
\n\nThe conversation moves on to the Metaverse as a framework for the direction of Web3 where value and identity are transferred and owned by the user. They discuss how to navigate this realm in terms of technology, finance, and culture, and how this aggregate economy would enable a more open metaverse across lots of different use cases, from music to gaming, the creator economy, and more.
\n\nLinks
\nOutlier Ventures’ website
Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff
\n\nThe Master Switch, Tim Wuh
\n\nThe Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (1997, with James Dale Davidson)
\n\nHighlights
\n\n00:57 Introduction to Outlier Ventures
\n\n07:00 User-centricity in Web3 and the Metaverse
\n\n11:55 Use cases of NFTs encourage blockchain adoption
\n\n18:00 Creating a Web3 Stack to enable a more open Metaverse
\n\n21:05 The success of NFTs in the gaming industry
\n\n28:40 Integrating into a digital economy to be part of the Metaverse
\n\n33:50 Introducing digital scarcity to digital assets = enabling property rights
\n\n38:10 Reworking economics primitives
\n\n41:25 Free markets, the sovereign individual and fluidity collectors
\n\n51:40 Commodification and financialization of data with blockchain technology
\n\n54:30 Data unions to empower individuals on Polkadot and Kusama
\n\n56:28 How can the Metaverse compete with physical nation-states?
\n\n1:05:00 Web3 stack for a better Metaverse user experience
\n\n1:10:00 Outlier Ventures support for the Polkadot ecosystem
Special Guest: Jamie Burke.
","summary":"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. ","date_published":"2021-11-25T18:15:00.000+01:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/d30d92c3-bdb3-47f3-860c-f6155409232a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":66380360,"duration_in_seconds":4741}]},{"id":"e646d941-a738-4bd5-8a73-ba456f61174a","title":"Building Blockchain Social Networks with Subsocial","url":"https://relaychain.fm/39-building-blockchain-social-networks-with-subsocial","content_text":"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.\n\nThey provide an overview of their platform and its architecture and discuss their growth strategy, targeting the non-crypto-native masses by creating a better user experience than Web 2.0 versions like Facebook. This means tackling censorship and moderation, prioritizing user sovereignty, and decentralized marketing. Finally, they consider what the metaverse could look like, and Subsocial’s part in it, and future plans to integrate with Polkadot and Kusama projects. \n\nLinks\nSubsocial’s website\nBlog article about Social Finance\nSubsocial on Twitter\n\nHighlights\n1.30 Overview of Subsocial\n06:20 Consensus algorithm to secure Subsocial\n11:00 The architecture of Subsocial\n15:00 Potential for (over) sharing on a blockchain social network\n19:00 Separating personal identity from on-chain data\n24:00 Storing content on blockchain\n28:15 Addressing the issues Facebook created\n35:50 Voluntary ads mechanism\n38:40 Growth strategy and encouraging users to join\n41:40 Account compatibility across Substrate-based chains\n43:15 Targeting the non-crypto-native masses\n48:50 The Subsocial mobile app\n50:15 Rewarding Subsocial ecosystem contributors\n52:40 Evolving social networks with blockchain\n54:00 ‘Social Finance’\n59:30 Integrations with ‘DotSama’ projects Special Guests: Alex Siman and Zachary Edwards .","content_html":"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.
\n\nThey provide an overview of their platform and its architecture and discuss their growth strategy, targeting the non-crypto-native masses by creating a better user experience than Web 2.0 versions like Facebook. This means tackling censorship and moderation, prioritizing user sovereignty, and decentralized marketing. Finally, they consider what the metaverse could look like, and Subsocial’s part in it, and future plans to integrate with Polkadot and Kusama projects.
\n\nLinks
\nSubsocial’s website
\nBlog article about Social Finance
\nSubsocial on Twitter
Highlights
\n1.30 Overview of Subsocial
\n06:20 Consensus algorithm to secure Subsocial
\n11:00 The architecture of Subsocial
\n15:00 Potential for (over) sharing on a blockchain social network
\n19:00 Separating personal identity from on-chain data
\n24:00 Storing content on blockchain
\n28:15 Addressing the issues Facebook created
\n35:50 Voluntary ads mechanism
\n38:40 Growth strategy and encouraging users to join
\n41:40 Account compatibility across Substrate-based chains
\n43:15 Targeting the non-crypto-native masses
\n48:50 The Subsocial mobile app
\n50:15 Rewarding Subsocial ecosystem contributors
\n52:40 Evolving social networks with blockchain
\n54:00 ‘Social Finance’
\n59:30 Integrations with ‘DotSama’ projects
Special Guests: Alex Siman and Zachary Edwards .
","summary":"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.","date_published":"2021-09-17T17:00:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/e646d941-a738-4bd5-8a73-ba456f61174a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":53105976,"duration_in_seconds":3793}]},{"id":"2f7933f1-9c15-4619-a984-b1fd0c4260ff","title":"Robonomics: The Blockchain with Robots","url":"https://relaychain.fm/38-robonomics-the-blockchain-with-robots","content_text":"In this episode, Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by Robonomics Software Architect Sergei 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. Started on Ethereum in 2015, Robonomics is now aiming to be a parachain on Polkadot, with a view to work across both ecosystems. The team also publishes scientific research on the frontier between IoT, blockchain, Ethereum, Substrate, and Polkadot.\n\nThe pair discuss real use cases of robotics, from those currently available, e.g., in smart cities, to futuristic possibilities in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Along the way they talk about Mars colonization, digital twins and robot art. Lonshakov also presents Robonomics Web Services (RWS) and the development of the Robot Operating System (ROS), a framework of ready-to-work packages that enable engineers without blockchain experience to create robotic systems that connect to blockchain.\n\nLinks\nRobonomics Website\nRobonomics Overview PDF\nRobonomics Research\n\nHighlights \n01:13 What is Robonomics?\n05:42 Machine to machine communication\n07:25 Milestones since 2015 – From Ethereum to Substrate\n18:31 The way forward for Robonomics\n21:38 The Robot Operating System (ROS)\n28:16 Robonomics Relay Chain vision\n34:00 Robonomics use cases\n41:07 Robonomics Web Services (RWS)\n47:17 Mars colonization\n53:10 Digital Twins\n58:41 Robot Artist Gaka-Chu\n01:04:13 The Fourth Industrial Revolution\n01:12:54 Side Effects of Robotization Special Guest: Sergei Lonshakov.","content_html":"In this episode, Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by Robonomics Software Architect Sergei 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. Started on Ethereum in 2015, Robonomics is now aiming to be a parachain on Polkadot, with a view to work across both ecosystems. The team also publishes scientific research on the frontier between IoT, blockchain, Ethereum, Substrate, and Polkadot.
\n\nThe pair discuss real use cases of robotics, from those currently available, e.g., in smart cities, to futuristic possibilities in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Along the way they talk about Mars colonization, digital twins and robot art. Lonshakov also presents Robonomics Web Services (RWS) and the development of the Robot Operating System (ROS), a framework of ready-to-work packages that enable engineers without blockchain experience to create robotic systems that connect to blockchain.
\n\nLinks
\nRobonomics Website
\nRobonomics Overview PDF
\nRobonomics Research
Highlights
\n01:13 What is Robonomics?
\n05:42 Machine to machine communication
\n07:25 Milestones since 2015 – From Ethereum to Substrate
\n18:31 The way forward for Robonomics
\n21:38 The Robot Operating System (ROS)
\n28:16 Robonomics Relay Chain vision
\n34:00 Robonomics use cases
\n41:07 Robonomics Web Services (RWS)
\n47:17 Mars colonization
\n53:10 Digital Twins
\n58:41 Robot Artist Gaka-Chu
\n01:04:13 The Fourth Industrial Revolution
\n01:12:54 Side Effects of Robotization
Special Guest: Sergei Lonshakov.
","summary":"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.","date_published":"2021-08-19T18:00:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/2f7933f1-9c15-4619-a984-b1fd0c4260ff.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":67869195,"duration_in_seconds":4847}]},{"id":"027b2b3d-4d01-417c-8229-12c0810584f5","title":"Statemine: A Deep Dive Into Kusama’s Asset Hub with Joe Petrowski ","url":"https://relaychain.fm/a-deep-dive-into-kusamas-asset-hub-with-joe-petrowski","content_text":"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.\n\nThe pair discuss computational resources, achieving faster speeds, lower transaction fees and the potential to shell out those fees for assets, while incentivizing validators. Petrowski also shares his insights into conceiving and deploying a parachain within two months, the Substrate build, and the project’s challenges from upgrading a runtime without governance to asynchronous asset management across chains, and what’s next for the project.\n\nLinks\nStatemint announcement post\nStatemine upgrade announcement \nStatemint’s GitHub repositary\n\nHighlights\n01:17 What is Statemint?\n05.40 Taking transactions off the relay chain\n10:00 Statemine as the first common-good parachain\n16:60 Teleporting assets across multiple chains\n20:04 Implementing Statemint governance\n23:35 Who is building common-good parachains?\n25:49 Incentivizing validators\n29:03 How Statemint interacts with other parachains \n41:35 Considering asynchronous blockchain execution\n44:48 Challenges building Statemint\n49:54 Statemint’s runtime upgrade to become permissionless\n50:30 What’s next for Statemint/ StatemineSpecial Guest: Joe Petrowski.","content_html":"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.
\n\nThe pair discuss computational resources, achieving faster speeds, lower transaction fees and the potential to shell out those fees for assets, while incentivizing validators. Petrowski also shares his insights into conceiving and deploying a parachain within two months, the Substrate build, and the project’s challenges from upgrading a runtime without governance to asynchronous asset management across chains, and what’s next for the project.
\n\nLinks
\nStatemint announcement post
\nStatemine upgrade announcement
\nStatemint’s GitHub repositary
Highlights
\n01:17 What is Statemint?
\n05.40 Taking transactions off the relay chain
\n10:00 Statemine as the first common-good parachain
\n16:60 Teleporting assets across multiple chains
\n20:04 Implementing Statemint governance
\n23:35 Who is building common-good parachains?
\n25:49 Incentivizing validators
\n29:03 How Statemint interacts with other parachains
\n41:35 Considering asynchronous blockchain execution
\n44:48 Challenges building Statemint
\n49:54 Statemint’s runtime upgrade to become permissionless
\n50:30 What’s next for Statemint/ Statemine
Special Guest: Joe Petrowski.
","summary":"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.\r\n","date_published":"2021-08-05T15:30:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/027b2b3d-4d01-417c-8229-12c0810584f5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":45789615,"duration_in_seconds":3270}]},{"id":"430b48fa-9ccb-45d1-af9e-2d752c5359ce","title":"Prediction Markets and Futarchy with Zeitgeist","url":"https://relaychain.fm/36-prediction-markets-and-futarchy-with-zeitgeist","content_text":"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.\n\nThey discuss prediction market systems, futarchy for decision making, mitigating market biases, how a prediction market works, and its diverse applications — from improving on-chain governance to choosing political candidates and predicting parachain slot auction winners. \n\nThe team also describes the next steps for this project in terms of usability and adoption, such as parachains leveraging futarcy, developing an SDK to speed up prediction market app deployment, and their plans for Zeitgeist to become a Kusama parachain. \n\nLinks\nZeitgeist’s website\nThe Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki\nKeynesian beauty contest \nFutarchy\nKusama Derby Conclusion Results\n\nHighlights\n01:05 What is Zeitgeist\n08:10 Prediction market systems\n10:27 Futarchy for decision making\n13:20 Zeitgeist Substrate pallet recipe\n18:00 Automated Market Makers\n20:15 How a prediction market works\n26:14 Prediction market efficiency given subjective information\n27.58 Mitigating prediction market biases and incentives\n30:02 Prediction markets within politics\n34:15 Types of prediction markets\n38:20 Building an SDK\n41:20 Zeitgeist plans as a parachainSpecial Guests: David Perry and Logan Saether.","content_html":"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.
\n\nThey discuss prediction market systems, futarchy for decision making, mitigating market biases, how a prediction market works, and its diverse applications — from improving on-chain governance to choosing political candidates and predicting parachain slot auction winners.
\n\nThe team also describes the next steps for this project in terms of usability and adoption, such as parachains leveraging futarcy, developing an SDK to speed up prediction market app deployment, and their plans for Zeitgeist to become a Kusama parachain.
\n\nLinks
\nZeitgeist’s website
\nThe Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki
\nKeynesian beauty contest
\nFutarchy
\nKusama Derby Conclusion Results
Highlights
\n01:05 What is Zeitgeist
\n08:10 Prediction market systems
\n10:27 Futarchy for decision making
\n13:20 Zeitgeist Substrate pallet recipe
\n18:00 Automated Market Makers
\n20:15 How a prediction market works
\n26:14 Prediction market efficiency given subjective information
\n27.58 Mitigating prediction market biases and incentives
\n30:02 Prediction markets within politics
\n34:15 Types of prediction markets
\n38:20 Building an SDK
\n41:20 Zeitgeist plans as a parachain
Special Guests: David Perry and Logan Saether.
","summary":"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.","date_published":"2021-07-23T17:45:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/430b48fa-9ccb-45d1-af9e-2d752c5359ce.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":41118710,"duration_in_seconds":2937}]},{"id":"4a39c725-07d0-4b9d-9040-ca1936cbf634","title":"Querying the World's Data with SubQuery","url":"https://relaychain.fm/35-querying-the-worlds-data-with-subquery","content_text":"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. \n\nThey discuss the team's mission to deliver high performance, decentralized services to distribute assets at scale, integrate with blockchain oracles and build tools and infrastructure to advance the Polkadot ecosystem. Bayly provides insights into SubQuery’s network participants, how collaboration and feedback from Polkadot projects in New Zealand influenced several of its value-added features, their long-term plans to become a parachain and the road to 1 billion API (application programming interface) requests. \n\nLinks\nOnFinality’s website\nSubQuery’s website\nSubQuery’s white paper\nSubvis.io’s website — the SubQuery project Bayly mentioned as an example of the power of Subquery\n\nHighlights\n01:18 OnFinality and SubQuery: The mission\n15:38 Providing data to blockchains vs. smart contracts\n19:16 Web3 grant for open-source tooling\n21:20 Decentralized cloud infrastructure \n24:00 OnFinality as a distributed cloud provider\n26:02 Collaboration with Polkadot teams in New Zealand\n29:44 Trigger and notifications from on-chain data \n37:06 Integrations with blockchain oracles \n39:13 Capabilities and next steps for SubQuery\n42:33 Long-term goals to become a parachain\n46:10 Open positions to join the SubQuery team\n\nKey Quotes\n“There are around 500 million blocks of data on Polkadot, this team makes the tools to take it off-chain to create something useful.”Special Guest: James Bayly.","content_html":"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.
\n\nThey discuss the team's mission to deliver high performance, decentralized services to distribute assets at scale, integrate with blockchain oracles and build tools and infrastructure to advance the Polkadot ecosystem. Bayly provides insights into SubQuery’s network participants, how collaboration and feedback from Polkadot projects in New Zealand influenced several of its value-added features, their long-term plans to become a parachain and the road to 1 billion API (application programming interface) requests.
\n\nLinks
\nOnFinality’s website
\nSubQuery’s website
\nSubQuery’s white paper
\nSubvis.io’s website — the SubQuery project Bayly mentioned as an example of the power of Subquery
Highlights
\n01:18 OnFinality and SubQuery: The mission
\n15:38 Providing data to blockchains vs. smart contracts
\n19:16 Web3 grant for open-source tooling
\n21:20 Decentralized cloud infrastructure
\n24:00 OnFinality as a distributed cloud provider
\n26:02 Collaboration with Polkadot teams in New Zealand
\n29:44 Trigger and notifications from on-chain data
\n37:06 Integrations with blockchain oracles
\n39:13 Capabilities and next steps for SubQuery
\n42:33 Long-term goals to become a parachain
\n46:10 Open positions to join the SubQuery team
Key Quotes
\n“There are around 500 million blocks of data on Polkadot, this team makes the tools to take it off-chain to create something useful.”
Special Guest: James Bayly.
","summary":"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. ","date_published":"2021-07-09T17:15:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/4a39c725-07d0-4b9d-9040-ca1936cbf634.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":41043885,"duration_in_seconds":2931}]},{"id":"6c916cb8-73e0-498a-861d-2153b44949df","title":"Former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves on Blockchain Adoption and Internet Regulation","url":"https://relaychain.fm/34-former-estonian-president-toomas-hendrik-ilves","content_text":"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.\n\nThey discuss how Estonia, one of the smallest countries in the world, became one of the most entrepreneurial and tech-savvy, what led Estonia to go ‘digital', declare access to the internet as a basic human right, and mediate data integrity for their digital records via blockchain. Ilves talks about his concerns for the internet given its weaponization and populist exploitation, the problematic state of freedom of expression and accountability online, and governance of online communities beyond nation-states.\n\nLinks\nToomas Hendrik Ilves on Twitter\nÚrsula 0'Kuinghtton on Twitter\nX-Road introduction video\nCybernetica’s website\n\nHighlights\n00:00 Intro new co-host, Úrsula 0'Kuinghttons\n03:00 Estonia as a global leader in the state adoption of technology\n09:04 Digitizing a nation via open-source software and distributed systems\n18:55 Access to the internet as a basic human right \n25:24 The weaponization of the internet\n30:22 Regulating social media\n38:46 Defining order and proximity in the digital world\n50:20 Governance of online communities\n54:56 Social media platforms: responsibilities, and oversight\n01:14:30 (e)Residency unbound by offline territorial borders\n\nKey Quotes\n\"If you are going to have digital records you gotta have something to maintain integrity and the way to do it is blockchain. I mean, I don't understand how all of these companies in the world and governments have digital records and don’t put them on blockchain just for security.\"\n\n\"Question the need to use illiberal methods to preserve liberal democracy.\"Special Guest: Toomas Hendrik Ilves.","content_html":"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.
\n\nThey discuss how Estonia, one of the smallest countries in the world, became one of the most entrepreneurial and tech-savvy, what led Estonia to go ‘digital', declare access to the internet as a basic human right, and mediate data integrity for their digital records via blockchain. Ilves talks about his concerns for the internet given its weaponization and populist exploitation, the problematic state of freedom of expression and accountability online, and governance of online communities beyond nation-states.
\n\nLinks
\nToomas Hendrik Ilves on Twitter
\nÚrsula 0'Kuinghtton on Twitter
\nX-Road introduction video
\nCybernetica’s website
Highlights
\n00:00 Intro new co-host, Úrsula 0'Kuinghttons
\n03:00 Estonia as a global leader in the state adoption of technology
\n09:04 Digitizing a nation via open-source software and distributed systems
\n18:55 Access to the internet as a basic human right
\n25:24 The weaponization of the internet
\n30:22 Regulating social media
\n38:46 Defining order and proximity in the digital world
\n50:20 Governance of online communities
\n54:56 Social media platforms: responsibilities, and oversight
\n01:14:30 (e)Residency unbound by offline territorial borders
Key Quotes
\n"If you are going to have digital records you gotta have something to maintain integrity and the way to do it is blockchain. I mean, I don't understand how all of these companies in the world and governments have digital records and don’t put them on blockchain just for security."
"Question the need to use illiberal methods to preserve liberal democracy."
Special Guest: Toomas Hendrik Ilves.
","summary":"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.","date_published":"2021-06-24T17:45:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/6c916cb8-73e0-498a-861d-2153b44949df.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":69550750,"duration_in_seconds":4967}]},{"id":"e0b7f097-a610-4775-aa9a-1213b9d5137e","title":"Creating Your Own Metaverse with Bit.Country","url":"https://relaychain.fm/33-creating-your-own-metaverse-with-bit-country","content_text":"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. \n\nJorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) talks with members of the Bit.Country team: Shannon Christie, CTO, Justin Pham, CTO, and Ray Lu, CEO about creating customizable experiences in the immersive world of metahuman technology. \n\nBesides tech, they discuss incentivizing users for social good, self-rule, and decentralized governance, designing for interoperability with Substrate, plans to launch as a Polkadot parachain and offering a place for entrepreneurs of all skill sets to create and trade NFTs across blockchains.\n\nLinks\nBit.Country’s website\nShannon Christie on Twitter\nJustin Pham on Twitter\nRay Lu on Twitter\nIndustry Connect’s website\n\nHighlights\n02:36 What is Bit.Country?\n09:51 The Good Neighborhood Protocol\n15:20 Interoperability across chains and Bit.Countries\n17:37 Choosing Substrate pallets to build Bit.Country \n20:25 Two-tier governance on Bit.Country\n22:48 Extending the use cases of NFTs \n26:44 Bit.Country’s target audience\n30:58 First steps to creating your Bit.Country \n36:31 Technical stack and skills required to build a Bit.Country\n42:05 Community and education programs\n45:13 Business opportunities on the platformSpecial Guests: Justin Pham, Ray Lu, and Shannon Christie.","content_html":"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.
\n\nJorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) talks with members of the Bit.Country team: Shannon Christie, CTO, Justin Pham, CTO, and Ray Lu, CEO about creating customizable experiences in the immersive world of metahuman technology.
\n\nBesides tech, they discuss incentivizing users for social good, self-rule, and decentralized governance, designing for interoperability with Substrate, plans to launch as a Polkadot parachain and offering a place for entrepreneurs of all skill sets to create and trade NFTs across blockchains.
\n\nLinks
\nBit.Country’s website
\nShannon Christie on Twitter
\nJustin Pham on Twitter
\nRay Lu on Twitter
\nIndustry Connect’s website
Highlights
\n02:36 What is Bit.Country?
\n09:51 The Good Neighborhood Protocol
\n15:20 Interoperability across chains and Bit.Countries
\n17:37 Choosing Substrate pallets to build Bit.Country
\n20:25 Two-tier governance on Bit.Country
\n22:48 Extending the use cases of NFTs
\n26:44 Bit.Country’s target audience
\n30:58 First steps to creating your Bit.Country
\n36:31 Technical stack and skills required to build a Bit.Country
\n42:05 Community and education programs
\n45:13 Business opportunities on the platform
Special Guests: Justin Pham, Ray Lu, and Shannon Christie.
","summary":"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. ","date_published":"2021-06-11T15:15:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/e0b7f097-a610-4775-aa9a-1213b9d5137e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":43866795,"duration_in_seconds":3133}]},{"id":"ac9279ae-c60d-448f-b765-99a10f7a6db2","title":"Confidential Cloud Computing on Phala Network","url":"https://relaychain.fm/33-phala-confidential-cloud-computing","content_text":"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. \n\nTong 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.\n\nLinks\nMarvin Tong on Twitter\nPhala website\npDiem WIKI \nWeb3 Analytics website\n\nHighlights\n01:10 What is Phala Network?\n04:40 Privacy in decentralized cloud computation \n06:54 Scalability through TEE \n09:53 Using multiple TEEs to mitigate trust\n15:10 Integrating alternative hardware\n17:55 Phala’s Substrate runtime\n25:49 Consensus within Phala Network\n30:54 Computation on TEE\n35:44 Use cases for projects running on Phala\n44:41 Bridging Diem (formerly known as Libra) to Polkadot\n55:36 Targeting the second parachain slot\n\nKey quotes\n“Separating computation from consensus is the key to how Phala can bring the benefits of blockchain while delivering computational power on the scale of a cloud server.” \n\n“We think there are two major types of smart contracts, for now, the first is EVM, and the other is written by ink! or Rust language running in Wasm, WebAssembly. WebAssembly is the type we chose. We want to put WebAssembly inside of TEE so that we can support this kind of security technique grade. We think it will be a major choice for not only Polkadot but the whole industry for Web3.” \n\n“Using Web3 Analytics, all of the analysis code is running as a confidential smart contract. This means that the data is not deployed by a centralized server like Google or any other big platform. Using Google Analytics means that you trust to put your user’s data node to Google so that they can analyze it for you. From this perspective, on Web3 Analytics, the data is not trusted by any centralized server or centralized gatekeeper, it is just encrypted by Phala’s system, and how to encrypt it is in the visitor or users hands.”\n\n“We believe that in the next three years, or five years, the major technology of all computation cloud will be confidential computing cloud. That’s what we can see from what Google, Amazon, and Facebook are doing.” Special Guest: Marvin Tong.","content_html":"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.
\n\nTong 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.
\n\nLinks
\nMarvin Tong on Twitter
\nPhala website
\npDiem WIKI
\nWeb3 Analytics website
Highlights
\n01:10 What is Phala Network?
\n04:40 Privacy in decentralized cloud computation
\n06:54 Scalability through TEE
\n09:53 Using multiple TEEs to mitigate trust
\n15:10 Integrating alternative hardware
\n17:55 Phala’s Substrate runtime
\n25:49 Consensus within Phala Network
\n30:54 Computation on TEE
\n35:44 Use cases for projects running on Phala
\n44:41 Bridging Diem (formerly known as Libra) to Polkadot
\n55:36 Targeting the second parachain slot
Key quotes
\n“Separating computation from consensus is the key to how Phala can bring the benefits of blockchain while delivering computational power on the scale of a cloud server.”
“We think there are two major types of smart contracts, for now, the first is EVM, and the other is written by ink! or Rust language running in Wasm, WebAssembly. WebAssembly is the type we chose. We want to put WebAssembly inside of TEE so that we can support this kind of security technique grade. We think it will be a major choice for not only Polkadot but the whole industry for Web3.”
\n\n“Using Web3 Analytics, all of the analysis code is running as a confidential smart contract. This means that the data is not deployed by a centralized server like Google or any other big platform. Using Google Analytics means that you trust to put your user’s data node to Google so that they can analyze it for you. From this perspective, on Web3 Analytics, the data is not trusted by any centralized server or centralized gatekeeper, it is just encrypted by Phala’s system, and how to encrypt it is in the visitor or users hands.”
\n\n“We believe that in the next three years, or five years, the major technology of all computation cloud will be confidential computing cloud. That’s what we can see from what Google, Amazon, and Facebook are doing.”
Special Guest: Marvin Tong.
","summary":"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. \r\n\r\nTong 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.","date_published":"2021-05-27T16:45:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/ac9279ae-c60d-448f-b765-99a10f7a6db2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":54200664,"duration_in_seconds":3871}]},{"id":"aa092aef-ef76-4e02-9062-7adb4a0b6cfa","title":"Plasm: Scalable, Interoperable DApps on Polkadot","url":"https://relaychain.fm/32-plasm-scalable-interoperable-dapps-on-polkadot","content_text":"This week Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) speaks with Sota Watanabe, CEO of Stake Technologies and founder of Plasm, a platform designed to help developers deploy fast and secure decentralized applications (DApps) on Polkadot.\n\nThey discuss advancing Web3 via cross-chain collaboration, supporting DApp development, and decentralizing the Plasm network. Watanabe walks us through being the first parachain on Rococo, completing the first cross-chain message (together with Acala), bringing Ethereum compatibility and ZK-Rollups to Polkadot, staking and trading DApps, securing a parachain slot, and much more. \n\nHighlights:\n0:00 Intro to Stake Technologies and Plasm \n03:35 Japan’s version of Web3, the Trusted Web Council\n06:35 The value of decentralized organizations \n09.48 Connecting blockchains with Substrate\n10:32 Support for multiple blockchain technologies\n13:05 Plasm’s unique mechanisms; DApp staking and ZKRollups\n16:50 Buy and sell Plasm applications\n18:15 Stake Technologies Web3 grants\n22:10 Schiden and Plasm parachain strategy\n24:07 Making blockchain history \n26:36 Cross-chain message passing\n30:05 NFT capabilities beyond gaming\n33:09 Encouraging DApps to build on the Plasm Network\n\nLinks:\nSota Watanabe on Twitter\nPlasm Network website\nStake Technologies website\n\nKey Quotes:\n“When it comes to a smart contract platform, I think a layer 2 solution is needed in the long run so we are making the foundation, the Substrate of Web3, for really normal people. Polkadot itself is a scaling solution, but this is a layer 1 scalability solution. We need vertical scalability which is layer 1, that is why we are working on ZKRollups now. Vertical scalability is much faster, more flexible, and cheaper since layer 2 doesn’t need to be a broken chain” \n\n“What makes Plasm different from other parachains? We innovated two things, one is DApps staking and another one is the scaling solution ZKRollups”\n\n“We are working on an Ethereum bridge, a Secret Network bridge, and also a Binance bridge in the near future”\n\n“We have already connected our Plasm network testnet to Rococo and we have deployed a Web Assembly smart contract and it works on the top of Polkadot’s parachain testnet”\n\n“In the past few months, we have successfully completed the first cross-chain messaging passing with Acala. Our token can be transferred to Acala and you can receive the Acala token on the Plasm network”\n\n“We support Ethereum Virtual Machine on the top of the Polkadot parachain, so the user can actually develop and make applications on top of Polkadot parachain, instead of individual substrate chains. I think this is one of the most important upgrades in the ecosystem”\n\n“On the top of the Plasm network, we can transfer ownership of a smart contract”\n\n“We are making a new M&A solution in the blockchain system”Special Guest: Sota Watanabe.","content_html":"This week Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) speaks with Sota Watanabe, CEO of Stake Technologies and founder of Plasm, a platform designed to help developers deploy fast and secure decentralized applications (DApps) on Polkadot.
\n\nThey discuss advancing Web3 via cross-chain collaboration, supporting DApp development, and decentralizing the Plasm network. Watanabe walks us through being the first parachain on Rococo, completing the first cross-chain message (together with Acala), bringing Ethereum compatibility and ZK-Rollups to Polkadot, staking and trading DApps, securing a parachain slot, and much more.
\n\nHighlights:
\n0:00 Intro to Stake Technologies and Plasm
\n03:35 Japan’s version of Web3, the Trusted Web Council
\n06:35 The value of decentralized organizations
\n09.48 Connecting blockchains with Substrate
\n10:32 Support for multiple blockchain technologies
\n13:05 Plasm’s unique mechanisms; DApp staking and ZKRollups
\n16:50 Buy and sell Plasm applications
\n18:15 Stake Technologies Web3 grants
\n22:10 Schiden and Plasm parachain strategy
\n24:07 Making blockchain history
\n26:36 Cross-chain message passing
\n30:05 NFT capabilities beyond gaming
\n33:09 Encouraging DApps to build on the Plasm Network
Links:
\nSota Watanabe on Twitter
\nPlasm Network website
\nStake Technologies website
Key Quotes:
\n“When it comes to a smart contract platform, I think a layer 2 solution is needed in the long run so we are making the foundation, the Substrate of Web3, for really normal people. Polkadot itself is a scaling solution, but this is a layer 1 scalability solution. We need vertical scalability which is layer 1, that is why we are working on ZKRollups now. Vertical scalability is much faster, more flexible, and cheaper since layer 2 doesn’t need to be a broken chain”
“What makes Plasm different from other parachains? We innovated two things, one is DApps staking and another one is the scaling solution ZKRollups”
\n\n“We are working on an Ethereum bridge, a Secret Network bridge, and also a Binance bridge in the near future”
\n\n“We have already connected our Plasm network testnet to Rococo and we have deployed a Web Assembly smart contract and it works on the top of Polkadot’s parachain testnet”
\n\n“In the past few months, we have successfully completed the first cross-chain messaging passing with Acala. Our token can be transferred to Acala and you can receive the Acala token on the Plasm network”
\n\n“We support Ethereum Virtual Machine on the top of the Polkadot parachain, so the user can actually develop and make applications on top of Polkadot parachain, instead of individual substrate chains. I think this is one of the most important upgrades in the ecosystem”
\n\n“On the top of the Plasm network, we can transfer ownership of a smart contract”
\n\n“We are making a new M&A solution in the blockchain system”
Special Guest: Sota Watanabe.
","summary":"This week Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) speaks with Sota Watanabe, CEO of Stake Technologies and founder of Plasm, a platform designed to help developers deploy fast and secure decentralized applications (DApps) on Polkadot.\r\n\r\nThey discuss advancing Web3 via cross-chain collaboration, supporting DApp development, and decentralizing the Plasm network. Watanabe walks us through being the first parachain on Rococo, completing the first cross-chain message (together with Acala), bringing Ethereum compatibility and ZK-Rollups to Polkadot, staking and trading DApps, securing a parachain slot, and much more. ","date_published":"2021-05-12T12:00:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/aa092aef-ef76-4e02-9062-7adb4a0b6cfa.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":34111728,"duration_in_seconds":2436}]},{"id":"9c854d8f-06cc-4492-8158-6070925ec062","title":"Tether - Stablecoin Innovation, Regulation, and Mainstream Potential with Paolo Ardoino","url":"https://relaychain.fm/31-tether-stablecoin-paolo-ardoino","content_text":"This week we dive into Tether, a stablecoin playing an important role in disrupting the legacy financial system, recently announced to be launching on Polkadot. \n\nJoe Petrowski, (Technical Integrations Lead, Web3 Foundation) speaks with Paolo Ardoino, CTO of Bitfinex and Tether. They discuss stablecoin trends, regulation and compliance with central banks, CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies), the likelihood of central banks running on public blockchains such as Polkadot and Ethereum, achieving blockchain interoperability through common goods, and the upcoming launch of Tether on Polkadot.\n\nHighlights:\n00:39 - Intro to Ardoino and Tether\n06:38 - The issue of crypto arbitrage \n08:57 - Stability by matching a dollar to the pace of Bitcoin\n11:01 - Boom and innovation in the stablecoin sector\n12:20 - The risks of decentralized stablecoins\n13:30 - Achieving purchasing power stability\n14:49 - The scope for non-US stablecoins\n16:15 - Tether Gold, the precious-metal-backed stablecoin \n20:34 - Individual assets vs. a managed basket of currencies\n22:48 - Regulation and scrutiny from central banks\n27:35 - Blockchain for central banks\n28:40 - Tether’s criteria to deploy on a blockchain\n30:15 - Common goods for blockchain interoperability\n35:07 - Resilience through multiple blockchain support\n36:49 - Tether to launch on Polkadot and Kusama\n\nLinks:\nPaolo Ardoino on Twitter\nTether on Twitter\nGrenache\nAmpleforth website\n\nArdoino’s reading list:\nEric S. Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar \n\nKey Quotes:\n“I believe that you can not really understand as a CTO, all the nuances and complexities of your platform, if you stop coding”\n\n“the reason why our team decided to create Tether was to solve one problem I’m sure you are familiar with, that is crypto Arbitrage”\n\n“Why don’t we create a dollar that moves at the same pace as Bitcoin” \n\n“I would stay pure and not allow centralized stablecoins…. Crypto backed stablecoins are a very good value add to the sector, but I would prefer or would have preferred to not have decentralized stablecoins and centralized stablecoins.”\n\n“If you are using technology and the banking network, you have to respect the same standards, there is no other way around. That is why Tether has the function to freeze funds in order to cooperate with law enforcement. We do it quite openly, and we communicate when we do. Also, we did that to help many projects. There was an exchange hacked six months ago and we helped them to freeze thirty million dollars worth of Tether. There were many DEFI projects that were hacked and we worked with law enforcement to freeze those funds. That is what is happening in the banking world if someone steals funds from your bank account, the bank has the right to freeze your funds if you have stolen funds. We had to replicate the same functionalities in our centralized stablecoins. That is something that the decentralized coins don’t have and don’t need because they don’t use the banking system, we do, and we have to respect that.” \n\n“The idea that central banks will issue directly on Ethereum or Omni or Polkadot is quite realistic.” \n\n“You give more freedom to your users, you will gain traction.”\n\n“Supporting multiple blockchains makes the entire infrastructure resilient.”Special Guest: Paolo Ardoino.","content_html":"This week we dive into Tether, a stablecoin playing an important role in disrupting the legacy financial system, recently announced to be launching on Polkadot.
\n\nJoe Petrowski, (Technical Integrations Lead, Web3 Foundation) speaks with Paolo Ardoino, CTO of Bitfinex and Tether. They discuss stablecoin trends, regulation and compliance with central banks, CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies), the likelihood of central banks running on public blockchains such as Polkadot and Ethereum, achieving blockchain interoperability through common goods, and the upcoming launch of Tether on Polkadot.
\n\nHighlights:
\n00:39 - Intro to Ardoino and Tether
\n06:38 - The issue of crypto arbitrage
\n08:57 - Stability by matching a dollar to the pace of Bitcoin
\n11:01 - Boom and innovation in the stablecoin sector
\n12:20 - The risks of decentralized stablecoins
\n13:30 - Achieving purchasing power stability
\n14:49 - The scope for non-US stablecoins
\n16:15 - Tether Gold, the precious-metal-backed stablecoin
\n20:34 - Individual assets vs. a managed basket of currencies
\n22:48 - Regulation and scrutiny from central banks
\n27:35 - Blockchain for central banks
\n28:40 - Tether’s criteria to deploy on a blockchain
\n30:15 - Common goods for blockchain interoperability
\n35:07 - Resilience through multiple blockchain support
\n36:49 - Tether to launch on Polkadot and Kusama
Links:
\nPaolo Ardoino on Twitter
\nTether on Twitter
\nGrenache
\nAmpleforth website
Ardoino’s reading list:
\nEric S. Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Key Quotes:
\n“I believe that you can not really understand as a CTO, all the nuances and complexities of your platform, if you stop coding”
“the reason why our team decided to create Tether was to solve one problem I’m sure you are familiar with, that is crypto Arbitrage”
\n\n“Why don’t we create a dollar that moves at the same pace as Bitcoin”
\n\n“I would stay pure and not allow centralized stablecoins…. Crypto backed stablecoins are a very good value add to the sector, but I would prefer or would have preferred to not have decentralized stablecoins and centralized stablecoins.”
\n\n“If you are using technology and the banking network, you have to respect the same standards, there is no other way around. That is why Tether has the function to freeze funds in order to cooperate with law enforcement. We do it quite openly, and we communicate when we do. Also, we did that to help many projects. There was an exchange hacked six months ago and we helped them to freeze thirty million dollars worth of Tether. There were many DEFI projects that were hacked and we worked with law enforcement to freeze those funds. That is what is happening in the banking world if someone steals funds from your bank account, the bank has the right to freeze your funds if you have stolen funds. We had to replicate the same functionalities in our centralized stablecoins. That is something that the decentralized coins don’t have and don’t need because they don’t use the banking system, we do, and we have to respect that.”
\n\n“The idea that central banks will issue directly on Ethereum or Omni or Polkadot is quite realistic.”
\n\n“You give more freedom to your users, you will gain traction.”
\n\n“Supporting multiple blockchains makes the entire infrastructure resilient.”
Special Guest: Paolo Ardoino.
","summary":"This week we dive into Tether, a stablecoin playing an important role in disrupting the legacy financial system, recently announced to be launching on Polkadot. \r\n\r\nJoe Petrowski, (Technical Integrations Lead, Web3 Foundation) speaks with Paolo Ardoino, CTO of Bitfinex and Tether. They discuss stablecoin trends, regulation and compliance with central banks, CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies), the likelihood of central banks running on public blockchains such as Polkadot and Ethereum, achieving blockchain interoperability through common goods, and the upcoming launch of Tether on Polkadot.","date_published":"2021-04-22T15:15:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/9c854d8f-06cc-4492-8158-6070925ec062.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":33354720,"duration_in_seconds":2382}]},{"id":"d8fe885c-c194-4261-911f-3bbfbe15ece1","title":"Joe Petrowski on Imagining a Brighter Future with Polkadot and Web3","url":"https://relaychain.fm/30-joe-petrowski-on-imagining-a-brighter-future-with-polkadot-and-web3","content_text":"After a short hiatus, we’re back this week with a new co-host joining the podcast, Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies). In this episode, Jorrin turns the tables and interviews Joe Petrowski (Technical Integrations Lead, Web3 Foundation, and Relay Chain co-host) about the future of the podcast, Joe’s journey from the aerospace industry to professional cycling to Web3, and how blockchain innovation brings together diverse interest groups. They discuss the potential for Polkadot and Web3 to realize a propian future, breaking down surveillance capitalism through decentralized governance, infinitely scalable parachains (so-called hierarchical or nested relay chains), and building a decentralized economy of robots powered by Polkadot.\n\nLinks & Resources:\nJoe Petrowski on Twitter\n\nJoe’s Blockchain reading list\nThe Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff\nEdward Luce, The Retreat of Western Liberalism\nThe Art of Cruelty, Maggie Nelson \nWeapons of Math Destruction, Cathy O'Neil \nAutomating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks\n\nHighlights\n0:00 - Intro to new Relay Chain host, Jorrin\n02:51 - Joe’s interesting journey in to the blockchain space\n08:04 - What attracts different people to blockchain\n13.59 - Difference between Parity Technologies and Web3 Foundation\n15:47 - The potential for infinitely scalable parachains\n17.28 - The future direction of the podcast\n21:31 - Big tech’s misuse of data in the age of surveillance capitalism \n25.20 - Transparency through Polkadot’s open governance \n29.38 - Should governments break up tech monopolies? \n33:19 - Literary recommendations for working in blockchain\n36:20 - Blockchain’s role in building a better future\n38:18 - A look at the Polkadot ecosystemSpecial Guest: Joe Petrowski.","content_html":"After a short hiatus, we’re back this week with a new co-host joining the podcast, Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies). In this episode, Jorrin turns the tables and interviews Joe Petrowski (Technical Integrations Lead, Web3 Foundation, and Relay Chain co-host) about the future of the podcast, Joe’s journey from the aerospace industry to professional cycling to Web3, and how blockchain innovation brings together diverse interest groups. They discuss the potential for Polkadot and Web3 to realize a propian future, breaking down surveillance capitalism through decentralized governance, infinitely scalable parachains (so-called hierarchical or nested relay chains), and building a decentralized economy of robots powered by Polkadot.
\n\nLinks & Resources:
\nJoe Petrowski on Twitter
Joe’s Blockchain reading list
\nThe Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff
\nEdward Luce, The Retreat of Western Liberalism
\nThe Art of Cruelty, Maggie Nelson
\nWeapons of Math Destruction, Cathy O'Neil
\nAutomating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks
Highlights
\n0:00 - Intro to new Relay Chain host, Jorrin
\n02:51 - Joe’s interesting journey in to the blockchain space
\n08:04 - What attracts different people to blockchain
\n13.59 - Difference between Parity Technologies and Web3 Foundation
\n15:47 - The potential for infinitely scalable parachains
\n17.28 - The future direction of the podcast
\n21:31 - Big tech’s misuse of data in the age of surveillance capitalism
\n25.20 - Transparency through Polkadot’s open governance
\n29.38 - Should governments break up tech monopolies?
\n33:19 - Literary recommendations for working in blockchain
\n36:20 - Blockchain’s role in building a better future
\n38:18 - A look at the Polkadot ecosystem
Special Guest: Joe Petrowski.
","summary":"After a short hiatus, we’re back this week with a new co-host joining the podcast, Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies). In this episode, Jorrin turns the tables and interviews Joe Petrowski (Technical Integrations Lead, Web3 Foundation, and Relay Chain co-host) about the future of the podcast, Joe’s journey from the aerospace industry to professional cycling to Web3, and how blockchain innovation brings together diverse interest groups. They discuss the potential for Polkadot and Web3 to realize a propian future, breaking down surveillance capitalism through decentralized governance, infinitely scalable parachains (so-called hierarchical or nested relay chains), and building a decentralized economy of robots powered by Polkadot.","date_published":"2021-04-08T12:30:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/d8fe885c-c194-4261-911f-3bbfbe15ece1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":34662225,"duration_in_seconds":2475}]},{"id":"3554c814-259b-4f2f-8770-6ecad203b884","title":"Equilibrium and the Global Impact of Blockchain, DeFi, and Web3","url":"https://relaychain.fm/29-equilibrium-and-the-global-impact-of-blockchain-defi-web3","content_text":"In this wide-ranging and eye-opening discussion, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Lesley Czuma, Head of Business Development at Equilibrium, a cross-chain money market combining pooled lending with synthetic asset generation and trading. They discuss the massive potential of Web3 and DeFi to radically impact global systems of organization and power, to disrupt monopolies, and bring benefits to those marginalized by the current economic paradigm. They also dive into what Equilibrium is building and the role played by Polkadot and Substrate, the blockchain-building framework from Parity Technologies.\n\nLinks:\nEquilibrium website\nEquilibrium on Twitter\nEquilibrium on Telegram\n\nHighlights:\n02:00 - Web3’s potential effects on global systems of power and monopolies\n10:30 - What Web3 can learn from political unions and nation states\n16:40 - Web3’s impact beyond infrastructure builders\n24:09 - Replacing legacy systems vs integrating with them\n28:15 - Equilibrium’s mission\n30:50 - Equilibrium’s role in the Polkadot ecosystem\n33:35 - Equilibrium’s roadmap\n\nKey Quotes:\n“It’s not a coincidence that Web3 is sometimes compared to a borderless global society where people have the same chances.” \n\n“This tech jump that we’re observing right now is catapulting new actors onto the world stage and forcing established monopolies to rethink their business models in order to stay on their toes, and it actually ends up being a little bit like a system of checks and balances”\n\n“If the previously rich and advanced industrialized societies had the say on the world stage, together with some leading brands, I think there’s a clear trend that this new technology with blockchain is actually empowering individuals with no particular means, especially those have been disempowered until now.”\n\n“Some of the large brand names, let’s say in credit cards, are keying into the process and realizing that if they don’t start taking blockchain seriously then they’re going to lose out.”\n\n\"As the scope in adoption of blockchain and DeFi grows, it’s automatically going to draw in more people from different walks of life. The mainstreaming is going to happen in the same way that it did with the dotcom revolution. You’re going to have blockchain apps becoming so essential that no one is going to be able to ignore them anymore.”Special Guest: Lesley Czuma.","content_html":"In this wide-ranging and eye-opening discussion, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Lesley Czuma, Head of Business Development at Equilibrium, a cross-chain money market combining pooled lending with synthetic asset generation and trading. They discuss the massive potential of Web3 and DeFi to radically impact global systems of organization and power, to disrupt monopolies, and bring benefits to those marginalized by the current economic paradigm. They also dive into what Equilibrium is building and the role played by Polkadot and Substrate, the blockchain-building framework from Parity Technologies.
\n\nLinks:
\nEquilibrium website
\nEquilibrium on Twitter
\nEquilibrium on Telegram
Highlights:
\n02:00 - Web3’s potential effects on global systems of power and monopolies
\n10:30 - What Web3 can learn from political unions and nation states
\n16:40 - Web3’s impact beyond infrastructure builders
\n24:09 - Replacing legacy systems vs integrating with them
\n28:15 - Equilibrium’s mission
\n30:50 - Equilibrium’s role in the Polkadot ecosystem
\n33:35 - Equilibrium’s roadmap
Key Quotes:
\n“It’s not a coincidence that Web3 is sometimes compared to a borderless global society where people have the same chances.”
“This tech jump that we’re observing right now is catapulting new actors onto the world stage and forcing established monopolies to rethink their business models in order to stay on their toes, and it actually ends up being a little bit like a system of checks and balances”
\n\n“If the previously rich and advanced industrialized societies had the say on the world stage, together with some leading brands, I think there’s a clear trend that this new technology with blockchain is actually empowering individuals with no particular means, especially those have been disempowered until now.”
\n\n“Some of the large brand names, let’s say in credit cards, are keying into the process and realizing that if they don’t start taking blockchain seriously then they’re going to lose out.”
\n\n"As the scope in adoption of blockchain and DeFi grows, it’s automatically going to draw in more people from different walks of life. The mainstreaming is going to happen in the same way that it did with the dotcom revolution. You’re going to have blockchain apps becoming so essential that no one is going to be able to ignore them anymore.”
Special Guest: Lesley Czuma.
","summary":"In this wide-ranging and eye-opening discussion, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Lesley Czuma, Head of Business Development at Equilibrium, a cross-chain money market combining pooled lending with synthetic asset generation and trading. They discuss the massive potential of Web3 and DeFi to radically impact global systems of organization and power, to disrupt monopolies, and bring benefits to those marginalized by the current economic paradigm. They also dive into what Equilibrium is building and the role played by Polkadot and Substrate, the blockchain-building framework from Parity Technologies.","date_published":"2020-12-02T14:30:00.000+01:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/3554c814-259b-4f2f-8770-6ecad203b884.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":31655632,"duration_in_seconds":2260}]},{"id":"d973d45e-3e1a-48dd-9b07-980a1feaf7ae","title":"Web3 Community-Building and Advocacy Through the Polkadot Ambassador Program","url":"https://relaychain.fm/28-web3-community-building-and-advocacy","content_text":"Polkadot and Web3 take center stage in this week's episode. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Zoé Meckbach, a senior Polkadot ambassador and blockchain technology and cybersecurity advocate. They discuss the Polkadot and Web3 communities, the Polkadot ambassador program and what it’s like to be an ambassador, and some of the exciting things happening in the space. \n\nLinks:\nZoé Meckback on Twitter\nPolkadot Ambassador Program\n\nHighlights:\n02:03 - From Google to blockchain\n09:20 - What is the Polkadot Ambassador Program? \n20:15 - Exciting developments in the Polkadot ecosystem\n26:10 - Web3 and freedom of speechSpecial Guest: Zoé Meckbach.","content_html":"Polkadot and Web3 take center stage in this week's episode. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Zoé Meckbach, a senior Polkadot ambassador and blockchain technology and cybersecurity advocate. They discuss the Polkadot and Web3 communities, the Polkadot ambassador program and what it’s like to be an ambassador, and some of the exciting things happening in the space.
\n\nLinks:
\nZoé Meckback on Twitter
\nPolkadot Ambassador Program
Highlights:
\n02:03 - From Google to blockchain
\n09:20 - What is the Polkadot Ambassador Program?
\n20:15 - Exciting developments in the Polkadot ecosystem
\n26:10 - Web3 and freedom of speech
Special Guest: Zoé Meckbach.
","summary":"Polkadot and Web3 take center stage in this week's episode. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Zoé Meckbach, a senior Polkadot ambassador and blockchain technology and cybersecurity advocate. They discuss the Polkadot and Web3 communities, the Polkadot ambassador program and what it’s like to be an ambassador, and some of the exciting things happening in the space. ","date_published":"2020-11-19T17:30:00.000+01:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/d973d45e-3e1a-48dd-9b07-980a1feaf7ae.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":32688832,"duration_in_seconds":2334}]},{"id":"687e4ac0-10ab-4ee8-a680-8fef3a6feeda","title":"Freedom of the Press in the Age of Digital Surveillance","url":"https://relaychain.fm/27-freedom-of-the-press-in-the-age-of-digital-surveillance","content_text":"This week we look at the intersection between journalism, freedom of the press, and technology. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Harlo Holmes, Director of Digital Security at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. They discuss the role of journalism in a free society, the contemporary media landscape, the Snowden revelations, surveillance, the role of technology and privacy, the political implications of technology development, and best practices for whistleblowers. \n\nLinks:\nFreedom of the Press Foundation Website\nFreedom of the Press Foundation Twitter\nPress Freedom Tracker\n\nHighlights:\n0:40 - Intro to Holmes and FPF\n03:30 - Edward Snowden’s impact\n09:08 - Journalism’s role in a free society\n11:43 - The change in media today\n16:31 - Technology’s role in journalism \n19:27 - How to use technology without being exploited\n23:27 - The influence that programmers have\n29:42 - Blockchain experiments\n34:42 - Best practices for whistleblowers\n\nKey Quotes:\n\n“Journalism’s role in society is as old as the printing press itself…. People have the right to know what’s going on. You can’t make informed decisions if you don’t know what’s going on.”\n\n“Certain media sources are more skewed towards obfuscating rather than illuminating, and there has always been a challenge for individuals to find news sources that they can trust.”\n\n“Historians will look at the rise of platforms such as Facebook and Twitter as a turning point in the way that the media has had to reevaluate its reach, reevaluate its funding model, and reevaluate how it presents itself to the public at large in order to secure its reach. This is quite a shift in the material of media itself.”\n\n“People don’t necessarily realize that because the more digital aspects of our engagement are incredibly easy to parse, that opens us up to being entirely surveilled very easily and automatically”\n\n“You have a profile, everybody is profiled based off their patterns of behavior on the internet however they interact with it, and you pretty much don’t live a day in your existence without interacting and without contributing to this profile.”Special Guest: Harlo Holmes.","content_html":"This week we look at the intersection between journalism, freedom of the press, and technology. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Harlo Holmes, Director of Digital Security at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. They discuss the role of journalism in a free society, the contemporary media landscape, the Snowden revelations, surveillance, the role of technology and privacy, the political implications of technology development, and best practices for whistleblowers.
\n\nLinks:
\nFreedom of the Press Foundation Website
\nFreedom of the Press Foundation Twitter
\nPress Freedom Tracker
Highlights:
\n0:40 - Intro to Holmes and FPF
\n03:30 - Edward Snowden’s impact
\n09:08 - Journalism’s role in a free society
\n11:43 - The change in media today
\n16:31 - Technology’s role in journalism
\n19:27 - How to use technology without being exploited
\n23:27 - The influence that programmers have
\n29:42 - Blockchain experiments
\n34:42 - Best practices for whistleblowers
Key Quotes:
\n\n“Journalism’s role in society is as old as the printing press itself…. People have the right to know what’s going on. You can’t make informed decisions if you don’t know what’s going on.”
\n\n“Certain media sources are more skewed towards obfuscating rather than illuminating, and there has always been a challenge for individuals to find news sources that they can trust.”
\n\n“Historians will look at the rise of platforms such as Facebook and Twitter as a turning point in the way that the media has had to reevaluate its reach, reevaluate its funding model, and reevaluate how it presents itself to the public at large in order to secure its reach. This is quite a shift in the material of media itself.”
\n\n“People don’t necessarily realize that because the more digital aspects of our engagement are incredibly easy to parse, that opens us up to being entirely surveilled very easily and automatically”
\n\n“You have a profile, everybody is profiled based off their patterns of behavior on the internet however they interact with it, and you pretty much don’t live a day in your existence without interacting and without contributing to this profile.”
Special Guest: Harlo Holmes.
","summary":"This week we look at the intersection between journalism, freedom of the press, and technology. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Harlo Holmes, Director of Digital Security at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. They discuss the role of journalism in a free society, the contemporary media landscape, the Snowden revelations, surveillance, the role of technology and privacy, and best practices for whistleblowers. ","date_published":"2020-10-29T14:30:00.000+01:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/687e4ac0-10ab-4ee8-a680-8fef3a6feeda.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":31886800,"duration_in_seconds":2277}]},{"id":"9ea8a798-274e-41c1-959c-c80fee9f9d91","title":"Running Node Infrastructure Easier with Bison Trails","url":"https://relaychain.fm/26-running-node-infrastructure-easier-with-bison-trails","content_text":"This week we look at proof-of-stake blockchain node infrastructure with the space’s leading solutions provider, Bison Trails. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Aaron Henshaw, CTO and cofounder of Bison Trails, which pioneers blockchain node infrastructure and lowers the barrier to entry across multiple networks, including Polkadot, Cosmos, Eth 2.0, Near, Celo, and more. They discuss how and why Bison Trails was founded, the current state of node infrastructure, risk management, and possibilities for future development.\n\nLinks:\nBison Trails Website\nBison Trails on Twitter\nAaron Henshaw on Twitter\n\nHighlights:\n02:14 - How Bison Trails came to focus on proof of stake\n06:12 - Bison Trails background\n08:22 - Node infrastructure setup\n10:12 - Similarities/differences between protocols\n12:06 - Monitoring, alerting, and availability guarantees\n16:36 - Node infrastructure risk and mitigation\n22:44 - Blockchain infrastructure beyond staking\n28:37 - Future opportunities for node providersSpecial Guest: Aaron Henshaw.","content_html":"This week we look at proof-of-stake blockchain node infrastructure with the space’s leading solutions provider, Bison Trails. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Aaron Henshaw, CTO and cofounder of Bison Trails, which pioneers blockchain node infrastructure and lowers the barrier to entry across multiple networks, including Polkadot, Cosmos, Eth 2.0, Near, Celo, and more. They discuss how and why Bison Trails was founded, the current state of node infrastructure, risk management, and possibilities for future development.
\n\nLinks:
\nBison Trails Website
\nBison Trails on Twitter
\nAaron Henshaw on Twitter
Highlights:
\n02:14 - How Bison Trails came to focus on proof of stake
\n06:12 - Bison Trails background
\n08:22 - Node infrastructure setup
\n10:12 - Similarities/differences between protocols
\n12:06 - Monitoring, alerting, and availability guarantees
\n16:36 - Node infrastructure risk and mitigation
\n22:44 - Blockchain infrastructure beyond staking
\n28:37 - Future opportunities for node providers
Special Guest: Aaron Henshaw.
","summary":"This week we look at proof-of-stake blockchain node infrastructure with the space’s leading solutions provider, Bison Trails. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Aaron Henshaw, CTO and cofounder of Bison Trails, which pioneers blockchain node infrastructure and lowers the barrier to entry across multiple networks, including Polkadot, Cosmos, Eth 2.0, Near, Celo, and more. They discuss how and why Bison Trails was founded, the current state of node infrastructure, risk management, and possibilities for future development.","date_published":"2020-10-08T12:45:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/9ea8a798-274e-41c1-959c-c80fee9f9d91.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":28210624,"duration_in_seconds":2014}]},{"id":"5ebb0a71-6e11-46bb-a258-18b4738956dd","title":"Polkadot-Ethereum Compatibility with Moonbeam","url":"https://relaychain.fm/25-polkadot-ethereum-compatibility-with-moonbeam","content_text":"This week we dive into cross-network compatibility and interoperability between Polkadot and Ethereum. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Derek Yoo of Moonbeam, an Ethereum-compatible smart contract parachain built on Substrate for Polkadot. They discuss Moonbeam and how it works, the role of smart contracts on Polkadot, the difference between Moonbeam and Ethereum layer-2 solutions, and the future of cross-network interoperability.\n\nLinks:\nDerek Yoo: https://twitter.com/derekyoo\nMoonbeam: https://twitter.com/MoonbeamNetwork\nPurestake: https://twitter.com/purestakeco\n\nHighlights:\n06:27 - What is Moonbeam?\n08:15 - Why Moonbeam is more than just an EVM implementation\n12:16 - The difference between Moonbeam and an Ethereum-Polkadot bridge\n15:40 - How parachain solutions compare to Ethereum layer-2 solutions\n18:17 - The role of smart contracts on Polkadot\n20:36 - Where the EVM fits in to Polkadot\n24:44 - Motivation for also deploying Moonbeam to Kusama\n30:05 - How different networks will work together\n33:22 - Current state of applications on Moonbeam\n\nKey Quotes:\n“The power of Substrate is definitely the magic here. I think people don’t appreciate how powerful a framework on Substrate is. We’ve worked with some teams that are building a blockchain from scratch, and that’s a 20-30 person engineering effort….It’s a dramatic difference when you use a framework like Substrate.”\n\n“Part of our attraction to Polkadot is this ability for different chains to leverage each other’s specialized services.”\n\n“[Kusama] is a pretty key competitive advantage to Substrate-based projects. This ability to move, maintain momentum and respond to what’s happening….You can have larger competitors but if you’re able to move faster and respond faster you can get a big competitive advantage.”\n\n“[Interoperability] is more in changing people's minds than it being a technical problem. You’re always going to get a bit of tribalism at play in this space…but we’re drawn to the interoperability idea because it opens choices for developers to take advantage of the best that any given chain has to offer.”Special Guest: Derek Yoo.","content_html":"This week we dive into cross-network compatibility and interoperability between Polkadot and Ethereum. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Derek Yoo of Moonbeam, an Ethereum-compatible smart contract parachain built on Substrate for Polkadot. They discuss Moonbeam and how it works, the role of smart contracts on Polkadot, the difference between Moonbeam and Ethereum layer-2 solutions, and the future of cross-network interoperability.
\n\nLinks:
\nDerek Yoo: https://twitter.com/derekyoo
\nMoonbeam: https://twitter.com/MoonbeamNetwork
\nPurestake: https://twitter.com/purestakeco
Highlights:
\n06:27 - What is Moonbeam?
\n08:15 - Why Moonbeam is more than just an EVM implementation
\n12:16 - The difference between Moonbeam and an Ethereum-Polkadot bridge
\n15:40 - How parachain solutions compare to Ethereum layer-2 solutions
\n18:17 - The role of smart contracts on Polkadot
\n20:36 - Where the EVM fits in to Polkadot
\n24:44 - Motivation for also deploying Moonbeam to Kusama
\n30:05 - How different networks will work together
\n33:22 - Current state of applications on Moonbeam
Key Quotes:
\n“The power of Substrate is definitely the magic here. I think people don’t appreciate how powerful a framework on Substrate is. We’ve worked with some teams that are building a blockchain from scratch, and that’s a 20-30 person engineering effort….It’s a dramatic difference when you use a framework like Substrate.”
“Part of our attraction to Polkadot is this ability for different chains to leverage each other’s specialized services.”
\n\n“[Kusama] is a pretty key competitive advantage to Substrate-based projects. This ability to move, maintain momentum and respond to what’s happening….You can have larger competitors but if you’re able to move faster and respond faster you can get a big competitive advantage.”
\n\n“[Interoperability] is more in changing people's minds than it being a technical problem. You’re always going to get a bit of tribalism at play in this space…but we’re drawn to the interoperability idea because it opens choices for developers to take advantage of the best that any given chain has to offer.”
Special Guest: Derek Yoo.
","summary":"This week we dive into cross-network compatibility and interoperability between Polkadot and Ethereum. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Derek Yoo of Moonbeam, an Ethereum-compatible smart contract parachain built on Substrate for Polkadot. They discuss Moonbeam and how it works, the role of smart contracts on Polkadot, the difference between Moonbeam and Ethereum layer-2 solutions, and the future of cross-network interoperability.","date_published":"2020-09-23T12:00:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/5ebb0a71-6e11-46bb-a258-18b4738956dd.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":31330048,"duration_in_seconds":2237}]},{"id":"c71036bc-c3b4-4e74-9afb-0b25d7ba3d88","title":"The Challenges of Disrupting the System with Blockchain","url":"https://relaychain.fm/the-challenges-of-disrupting-the-system-with-blockchain","content_text":"This week we talk to the Parity's head of security Kirill Pimenov about the shortcomings and potential of blockchain, open-source software and DLT.\n\nJoe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Kirill Pimenov, head of security at Parity Technologies. The disruptive nature of blockchain has attracted many great minds from many backgrounds, and Kirill Pimenov's wealth of experience and knowledge clears up some of the hype and promises of blockchain regarding its relationship to power, raising capital, and freedom.\n\nLinks:\n\nThe Moral Character of Cryptographic Work - Phillip Rogaway\n\nBanana Split - Shamir Secret Sharing for people with friends \n\nHighlights:\n\n01:40 - Mining a Bitcoin block in 2010\n\n03:02 - The ethics of open source\n\n04:15 - Kirill's introduction to programming\n\n10:05 - Blockchain as the field where money meets engineering\n\n13:25 - The Silicon Valley version of the American Dream\n\n15:30 - Blockchain is the first non-military application which pays people enough\n\n16:45 - \"The thing you're supposed to decentralize is power\"\n\n23:06 - What underlying principle led to the internet to being this way?\n\n27:01 - How can users have a say in the way systems work?\n\n32:07 - If you optimize for profit, you get immoral, profit-maximizing machines\n\n36:52 - Can a decentralized system be corrupted?\n\n43:05 - DLT and blockchain is short-sighted right now\n\n50:12 - We haven't figured out how to beat the current financial system yet\n\n52:18 - We can never build a fair system without humans in the loop\n\n57:10 - Who are your role models?Special Guest: Kirill Pimenov.","content_html":"This week we talk to the Parity's head of security Kirill Pimenov about the shortcomings and potential of blockchain, open-source software and DLT.
\n\nJoe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Kirill Pimenov, head of security at Parity Technologies. The disruptive nature of blockchain has attracted many great minds from many backgrounds, and Kirill Pimenov's wealth of experience and knowledge clears up some of the hype and promises of blockchain regarding its relationship to power, raising capital, and freedom.
\n\nLinks:
\n\nThe Moral Character of Cryptographic Work - Phillip Rogaway
\n\nBanana Split - Shamir Secret Sharing for people with friends
\n\nHighlights:
\n\n01:40 - Mining a Bitcoin block in 2010
\n\n03:02 - The ethics of open source
\n\n04:15 - Kirill's introduction to programming
\n\n10:05 - Blockchain as the field where money meets engineering
\n\n13:25 - The Silicon Valley version of the American Dream
\n\n15:30 - Blockchain is the first non-military application which pays people enough
\n\n16:45 - "The thing you're supposed to decentralize is power"
\n\n23:06 - What underlying principle led to the internet to being this way?
\n\n27:01 - How can users have a say in the way systems work?
\n\n32:07 - If you optimize for profit, you get immoral, profit-maximizing machines
\n\n36:52 - Can a decentralized system be corrupted?
\n\n43:05 - DLT and blockchain is short-sighted right now
\n\n50:12 - We haven't figured out how to beat the current financial system yet
\n\n52:18 - We can never build a fair system without humans in the loop
\n\n57:10 - Who are your role models?
Special Guest: Kirill Pimenov.
","summary":"This week we talk to the Parity's head of security Kirill Pimenov about the shortcomings and potential of blockchain, open-source software and DLT.","date_published":"2020-07-13T13:00:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/c71036bc-c3b4-4e74-9afb-0b25d7ba3d88.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":51493072,"duration_in_seconds":3677}]},{"id":"1bd0d191-fa71-4e86-964a-875528a29b5d","title":"DeFi on Polkadot with Acala and Laminar: Part 2","url":"https://relaychain.fm/defi-on-polkadot-with-acala-laminar-part-2","content_text":"This week we talk to the Acala Network team and learn about the Acala Network and their Sovereign Wealth Fund.\n\nJoe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Dr. Antonia Chen, Chief Econominst and Co-founder of Laminar and Acala, and Ruitao Su, CEO and Co-founder of Acala and Laminar. They are working on a governed protocol that enables decentralized finance applications on blockchain, allowing everyday users to join the DeFi revolution by leveraging the Acala stable token to create a Sovereign Wealth Fund and other defi applications.\n\nLinks:\n\n\nRegaining confidence in Decentralized Stablecoins - Ruitao Su\nBuilding a Decentralized Sovereign Wealth Fund\nLaminar Website\nAcala Network Website\n\n\nHighlights: \n\n01:00 - How is the Acala stablecoin different from MakerDAO?\n\n04:50 - Deploying custom logic to interact with the Acala stable token\n\n05:12 - Homa: how your funds can do more\n\n08:00 - What is the decentralized Sovereign Wealth Fund?\n\n10:55 - How the Sovereign Wealth Fund can generate returns\n\n15:30 - A comparison to traditional sovereign wealth funds\n\n16:59 - The Sovereign Wealth Fund as a parachain and beyond\n\n20:53 - The many functions of tokens on Acala and Polkadot\n\n25:05 - A digital society with Acala on Polkadot and Web3\n\n26:12 - How will people use the many different protocols of Polkadot and AcalaSpecial Guests: Antonia Chen and Ruitao Su.","content_html":"This week we talk to the Acala Network team and learn about the Acala Network and their Sovereign Wealth Fund.
\n\nJoe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Dr. Antonia Chen, Chief Econominst and Co-founder of Laminar and Acala, and Ruitao Su, CEO and Co-founder of Acala and Laminar. They are working on a governed protocol that enables decentralized finance applications on blockchain, allowing everyday users to join the DeFi revolution by leveraging the Acala stable token to create a Sovereign Wealth Fund and other defi applications.
\n\nLinks:
\n\n\n\nHighlights:
\n\n01:00 - How is the Acala stablecoin different from MakerDAO?
\n\n04:50 - Deploying custom logic to interact with the Acala stable token
\n\n05:12 - Homa: how your funds can do more
\n\n08:00 - What is the decentralized Sovereign Wealth Fund?
\n\n10:55 - How the Sovereign Wealth Fund can generate returns
\n\n15:30 - A comparison to traditional sovereign wealth funds
\n\n16:59 - The Sovereign Wealth Fund as a parachain and beyond
\n\n20:53 - The many functions of tokens on Acala and Polkadot
\n\n25:05 - A digital society with Acala on Polkadot and Web3
\n\n26:12 - How will people use the many different protocols of Polkadot and Acala
Special Guests: Antonia Chen and Ruitao Su.
","summary":"This week we talk to the Acala Network team and learn about the Acala Network and their Sovereign Wealth Fund.","date_published":"2020-06-22T12:00:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/1bd0d191-fa71-4e86-964a-875528a29b5d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25312288,"duration_in_seconds":1807}]},{"id":"9eafddb5-7057-4f31-ab66-011cdbc1416c","title":"DeFi on Polkadot with Acala and Laminar: Part 1","url":"https://relaychain.fm/defi-on-polkadot-with-acala-laminar-part-1","content_text":"This week we talk to the Acala Network team and learn about their ventures in DeFi on Polkadot and Ethereum.\n\nJoe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Dr. Antonia Chen, Chief Econominst and Co-founder of Laminar and Acala, and Ruitao Su, CEO and Co-founder of Acala and Laminar. They are working on a governed protocol that enables decentralized finance applications on blockchain, allowing everyday users to join the DeFi revolution by having margin trading, synthetic assets, stable coins, and integrated money markets all on the Polkadot network.\n\nLinks:\n\n\nRegaining confidence in Decentralized Stablecoins - Ruitao Su\nBuilding a Decentralized Sovereign Wealth Fund\nLaminar Website\nAcala Network Website\n\n\nHighlights: \n\n01:36 - What is Defi and how does it compare to traditional financial markets?\n\n03:20 - What makes Defi more \"fair\" than traditional finance?\n\n05:40 - What new things are possible with defi on blockchain?\n\n10:20 - The limitations of DeFi\n\n15:01 - 3 Protocols on Laminar: Margin trading, Synthetic assets and Integrated Money Markets\n\n19:40 - 3 protocols on one chain or three?\n\n21:15 - The issues with tokens on Ethereum\n\n23:12 - Polkadot's shared security enabling better tokens / Why parachains are advantageous to smart contracts\n\n26:05 - Dual-launch on Ethereum and Polkadot\n\n30:04 - Going live on PolkadotSpecial Guests: Antonia Chen and Ruitao Su.","content_html":"This week we talk to the Acala Network team and learn about their ventures in DeFi on Polkadot and Ethereum.
\n\nJoe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Dr. Antonia Chen, Chief Econominst and Co-founder of Laminar and Acala, and Ruitao Su, CEO and Co-founder of Acala and Laminar. They are working on a governed protocol that enables decentralized finance applications on blockchain, allowing everyday users to join the DeFi revolution by having margin trading, synthetic assets, stable coins, and integrated money markets all on the Polkadot network.
\n\nLinks:
\n\n\n\nHighlights:
\n\n01:36 - What is Defi and how does it compare to traditional financial markets?
\n\n03:20 - What makes Defi more "fair" than traditional finance?
\n\n05:40 - What new things are possible with defi on blockchain?
\n\n10:20 - The limitations of DeFi
\n\n15:01 - 3 Protocols on Laminar: Margin trading, Synthetic assets and Integrated Money Markets
\n\n19:40 - 3 protocols on one chain or three?
\n\n21:15 - The issues with tokens on Ethereum
\n\n23:12 - Polkadot's shared security enabling better tokens / Why parachains are advantageous to smart contracts
\n\n26:05 - Dual-launch on Ethereum and Polkadot
\n\n30:04 - Going live on Polkadot
Special Guests: Antonia Chen and Ruitao Su.
","summary":"This week we talk to the Acala Network team and learn about their ventures in DeFi on Polkadot and Ethereum.","date_published":"2020-06-08T13:00:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/9eafddb5-7057-4f31-ab66-011cdbc1416c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":26637472,"duration_in_seconds":1902}]},{"id":"8e7a05e1-ebe3-4772-8b30-5455d07c071b","title":"The Economics of Next-Generation Blockchain Tokens","url":"https://relaychain.fm/the-economics-of-next-generation-blockchain-tokens","content_text":"This week we dive deep into the economics of cryptocurrencies, proof of stake scenarios, and Polkadot's application of security, interoperability and token economics.\n\nJoe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Stefanie von Jan, an economics lecturer at the FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management in Munich, Germany. Her interests in Austrian economics, Blockchain technology, and token economics led to her providing her expertise with founders and academics, and now shares her latest insights about Bitcoin and Polkadot with us.\n\nLinks:\nPolkadot: Shared security or Single point of failure?\nMedium Blog from Stefanie von Jan\n\nHighlights:\n\n02:15 - What makes blockchain economics unique?\n\n03:50 - The Bitcoin token model\n\n06:05 - A Keynesian cryptoeconomic model?\n\n07:43 - Proof of Work vs. Proof of Stake\n\n11:16 - How do we measure the value of a decentralized protocol?\n\n13:42 - Are tokens tied to the value they intend to provide?\n\n16:20 - Value competition of protocols and the applications on them\n\n22:20 - What do Proof-of-Stake attack scenarios look like?\n\n25:12 - Token security for Polkadot parachains\n\n31:20 - The governance of parachain tokens\n\n34:15 - Sound rule systems for parachainsSpecial Guest: Stefanie von Jan.","content_html":"This week we dive deep into the economics of cryptocurrencies, proof of stake scenarios, and Polkadot's application of security, interoperability and token economics.
\n\nJoe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Stefanie von Jan, an economics lecturer at the FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management in Munich, Germany. Her interests in Austrian economics, Blockchain technology, and token economics led to her providing her expertise with founders and academics, and now shares her latest insights about Bitcoin and Polkadot with us.
\n\nLinks:
\nPolkadot: Shared security or Single point of failure?
\nMedium Blog from Stefanie von Jan
Highlights:
\n\n02:15 - What makes blockchain economics unique?
\n\n03:50 - The Bitcoin token model
\n\n06:05 - A Keynesian cryptoeconomic model?
\n\n07:43 - Proof of Work vs. Proof of Stake
\n\n11:16 - How do we measure the value of a decentralized protocol?
\n\n13:42 - Are tokens tied to the value they intend to provide?
\n\n16:20 - Value competition of protocols and the applications on them
\n\n22:20 - What do Proof-of-Stake attack scenarios look like?
\n\n25:12 - Token security for Polkadot parachains
\n\n31:20 - The governance of parachain tokens
\n\n34:15 - Sound rule systems for parachains
Special Guest: Stefanie von Jan.
","summary":"This week we dive deep into the economics of cryptocurrencies, proof of stake scenarios, and Polkadot's application of security, interoperability and token economics.","date_published":"2020-05-21T13:00:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/8e7a05e1-ebe3-4772-8b30-5455d07c071b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":34344976,"duration_in_seconds":2452}]},{"id":"263f94ca-72e8-49cb-b260-9c1fc1b325c0","title":"Deploying Dapps Quickly on Layer-2 at SKALE","url":"https://relaychain.fm/20-deploying-dapps-quickly-on-layer-2-at-skale","content_text":"This week we talk about layer-2 scaling and quick and easy deployment of Dapps. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Christine Perry of SKALE labs, a layer-2 solution that augments applications and transactions built on public blockchains such as Ethereum. They discuss the developer experience on Ethereum and SKALE, interesting blockchain use cases, and why layer-2 is the solution for creating usable and powerful Dapps.\n\nLinks:\nSKALE network\nSKALE blog with Christine\nSKALE blog regarding BLS signatures and Intel SGX\n\nHighlights:\n1:50 - The major problems for Dapp developers\n3:40 - Enabling developers to run smart contracts on SKALE\n4:42 - How SKALE speeds up development and throughput\n5:55 - Why is layer-2 the solution?\n8:02 - The role of layer-2 with Ethereum\n10:08 - What are the best use cases for blockchain?\n12:14 - SKALE's approach to applications on blockchain, and interesting use cases\n15:45 - A layer-2 network with consensus!\n20:32 - Beyond Ethereum: How SKALE is blockchain-agnosticSpecial Guest: Christine Perry.","content_html":"This week we talk about layer-2 scaling and quick and easy deployment of Dapps. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Christine Perry of SKALE labs, a layer-2 solution that augments applications and transactions built on public blockchains such as Ethereum. They discuss the developer experience on Ethereum and SKALE, interesting blockchain use cases, and why layer-2 is the solution for creating usable and powerful Dapps.
\n\nLinks:
\nSKALE network
\nSKALE blog with Christine
\nSKALE blog regarding BLS signatures and Intel SGX
Highlights:
\n1:50 - The major problems for Dapp developers
\n3:40 - Enabling developers to run smart contracts on SKALE
\n4:42 - How SKALE speeds up development and throughput
\n5:55 - Why is layer-2 the solution?
\n8:02 - The role of layer-2 with Ethereum
\n10:08 - What are the best use cases for blockchain?
\n12:14 - SKALE's approach to applications on blockchain, and interesting use cases
\n15:45 - A layer-2 network with consensus!
\n20:32 - Beyond Ethereum: How SKALE is blockchain-agnostic
Special Guest: Christine Perry.
","summary":"This week we talk about layer-2 scaling and quick and easy deployment of Dapps. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Christine Perry of SKALE labs, a layer-2 solution that augments applications and transactions built on public blockchains such as Ethereum. They discuss the developer experience on Ethereum and SKALE, interesting blockchain use cases, and why layer-2 is the solution for creating usable and powerful Dapps.","date_published":"2020-05-07T18:00:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/263f94ca-72e8-49cb-b260-9c1fc1b325c0.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":21424144,"duration_in_seconds":1529}]},{"id":"160e4039-6f17-4dc7-8039-9b31dd7262bb","title":"Blockchain for Climate Action and Smart Cities","url":"https://relaychain.fm/19-blockchain-for-climate-action-and-smart-cities","content_text":"This week we meet at the intersection of blockchain, climate action, smart cities, finance, and IoT.\nJoe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Anita Mujumdar of Evercity, a blockchain-based platform to aid in financing sustainability projects to meet the UN’s 2030 climate action goals. They discuss climate finance, decentralized robot economies, using measurement and data to build the sustainable smart cities of tomorrow, and how Substrate and Polkadot are helping make Evercity’s mission a reality. \n\nLinks:\nEvercity Website\nDAO \"Integral Platform for Climate Initiatives\"\nAnita’s presentation at COP25 \nRobonomics website\nClimate Change Coalition - Digital Finance\nSub0 Online Substrate Developer and Community Conference\n\nHighlights:\n02:10 - What is climate finance? \n06:50 - Sustainable cities approach\n12:30 - What a sustainable city looks like\n17:15 - Pilot programs\n20:20 - Robonomics platform\n25:35 - Role of DAO & blockchain\n28:15 - Why decentralize climate finance?\n31:00 - Trends outlook\n32:15 - Why build on Substrate/Polkadot\n34:50 - Launch plan\n\n*The dates of the events mentioned in the podcast may have shifted due to coronavirus pandemicSpecial Guest: Anita Mujumdar.","content_html":"This week we meet at the intersection of blockchain, climate action, smart cities, finance, and IoT.
\nJoe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Anita Mujumdar of Evercity, a blockchain-based platform to aid in financing sustainability projects to meet the UN’s 2030 climate action goals. They discuss climate finance, decentralized robot economies, using measurement and data to build the sustainable smart cities of tomorrow, and how Substrate and Polkadot are helping make Evercity’s mission a reality.
Links:
\nEvercity Website
\nDAO "Integral Platform for Climate Initiatives"
\nAnita’s presentation at COP25
\nRobonomics website
\nClimate Change Coalition - Digital Finance
\nSub0 Online Substrate Developer and Community Conference
Highlights:
\n02:10 - What is climate finance?
\n06:50 - Sustainable cities approach
\n12:30 - What a sustainable city looks like
\n17:15 - Pilot programs
\n20:20 - Robonomics platform
\n25:35 - Role of DAO & blockchain
\n28:15 - Why decentralize climate finance?
\n31:00 - Trends outlook
\n32:15 - Why build on Substrate/Polkadot
\n34:50 - Launch plan
*The dates of the events mentioned in the podcast may have shifted due to coronavirus pandemic
Special Guest: Anita Mujumdar.
","summary":"This week we meet at the intersection of blockchain, climate action, smart cities, finance, and IoT. Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Anita Mujumdar of Evercity, a blockchain-based platform to aid in financing sustainability projects to meet the UN’s 2030 climate action goals. They discuss climate finance, decentralized robot economies, using measurement and data to build the sustainable smart cities of tomorrow, and how Substrate and Polkadot are helping make Evercity’s mission a reality. ","date_published":"2020-04-23T12:45:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/160e4039-6f17-4dc7-8039-9b31dd7262bb.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":32006312,"duration_in_seconds":2284}]},{"id":"f68897da-fbe1-457e-ac17-91bda538dee0","title":"Web3 vs. Web2: How to Avoid Repeating the Same Mistakes","url":"https://relaychain.fm/18-web3-vs-web2-how-to-avoid-repeating-the-same-mistakes","content_text":"What can we learn from the failures of Web2 idealism? How do we build systems that continue to reflect Web3 ideals as business models scale into the future?\n\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks with Shira Frank, co-founder of Maiden, the first global user research lab dedicated to forging a path to mainstream blockchain adoption. They explore the importance of building Web3 systems with proper research into possible downstream risks so as to create true change and offset imbalances of wealth, power, information, and agency. \n\nLinks:\nhttps://twitter.com/shirabfrank\nhttps://twitter.com/maidencrypto\nhttps://maiden.global/\nhttps://sub0.parity.io/\n\nHighlights:\n01:25 - From Middle-East politics to blockchain\n09:45 - How Maiden started\n12:00 - Failings of Web2.0 idealism\n14:00 - How Web3.0 can avoid the same mistakes \n15:55 - Sense making and the role of user data\n22:01 - What is a blockchain “user’?\n24:00 - The role of education \n29:55 - How to make protocol change decisions\n34:49 - Importance of diversity in the space\n\nKey Quotes:\n\n“The biggest problem we have to solve, in so many ways, blockchain or not, is how do we make decisions that are collectively intelligent for the whole?”\n\n“I don’t think the general Web2 or tech community actually solved inclusivity or diversity.”\n\n“We know what happens when decentralized protocols scale. So we have no excuse to not include major threat and risk mitigation at the very beginning of choices we’re making about how we are introducing products, what kind of products we’re building, and what kind of business models and incentives we’re putting into those products.”\n\n“We talk in blockchain a lot about autonomy or self-sovereignty. And I’m always curious, can you be sovereign if you’re not even aware of why you’re making the choice you are?”\n\n“Today institutions make money by taking agency away from people. I would imagine we create something where institutions make money by giving people agency over their assets. So what would it look like if people were making money by giving you agency over your money? Giving you agency over your data? If the more agency you were given the more money and scalability there was in this protocol.”\n\n“I think it’s worth thinking about at the protocol level. Just like with the internet, what should have been done early on to protect against the aggregation of power that happened at the application layer and the company level?”Special Guest: Shira Frank.","content_html":"What can we learn from the failures of Web2 idealism? How do we build systems that continue to reflect Web3 ideals as business models scale into the future?
\n\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks with Shira Frank, co-founder of Maiden, the first global user research lab dedicated to forging a path to mainstream blockchain adoption. They explore the importance of building Web3 systems with proper research into possible downstream risks so as to create true change and offset imbalances of wealth, power, information, and agency.
\n\nLinks:
\nhttps://twitter.com/shirabfrank
\nhttps://twitter.com/maidencrypto
\nhttps://maiden.global/
\nhttps://sub0.parity.io/
Highlights:
\n01:25 - From Middle-East politics to blockchain
\n09:45 - How Maiden started
\n12:00 - Failings of Web2.0 idealism
\n14:00 - How Web3.0 can avoid the same mistakes
\n15:55 - Sense making and the role of user data
\n22:01 - What is a blockchain “user’?
\n24:00 - The role of education
\n29:55 - How to make protocol change decisions
\n34:49 - Importance of diversity in the space
Key Quotes:
\n\n“The biggest problem we have to solve, in so many ways, blockchain or not, is how do we make decisions that are collectively intelligent for the whole?”
\n\n“I don’t think the general Web2 or tech community actually solved inclusivity or diversity.”
\n\n“We know what happens when decentralized protocols scale. So we have no excuse to not include major threat and risk mitigation at the very beginning of choices we’re making about how we are introducing products, what kind of products we’re building, and what kind of business models and incentives we’re putting into those products.”
\n\n“We talk in blockchain a lot about autonomy or self-sovereignty. And I’m always curious, can you be sovereign if you’re not even aware of why you’re making the choice you are?”
\n\n“Today institutions make money by taking agency away from people. I would imagine we create something where institutions make money by giving people agency over their assets. So what would it look like if people were making money by giving you agency over your money? Giving you agency over your data? If the more agency you were given the more money and scalability there was in this protocol.”
\n\n“I think it’s worth thinking about at the protocol level. Just like with the internet, what should have been done early on to protect against the aggregation of power that happened at the application layer and the company level?”
Special Guest: Shira Frank.
","summary":"What can we learn from the failures of Web2 idealism? How do we build systems that continue to reflect Web3 ideals as business models scale into the future?\r\n\r\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks with Shira Frank, co-founder of Maiden, the first global user research lab dedicated to forging a path to mainstream blockchain adoption. They explore the importance of building Web3 systems with proper research into possible downstream risks so as to create true change and offset imbalances of wealth, power, information, and agency. ","date_published":"2020-04-09T12:00:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/f68897da-fbe1-457e-ac17-91bda538dee0.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":41161178,"duration_in_seconds":2940}]},{"id":"c2e00060-5d64-47b1-9d3a-74fcede74eb2","title":"Investing in the Future of Web 3.0","url":"https://relaychain.fm/17-investing-in-the-future-of-web3","content_text":"How do you place a value on a more open, transparent, and representative web? What will be the true impact of blockchain technology and what motivates VC investments in the space?\n\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks with Jasmine Zhang of IOSG Ventures, an early-stage venture fund investing in the blockchain space. They discuss the future of web 3.0, the impact that open finance and prediction markets will have on society, the potential impact of Polkadot and Substrate, and the broader blockchain investment scenario. \n\nLinks:\nIOSG Website\nIOSG on Twitter\nJasmine Zhang: Jasmine@iosg.vc\n\nHighlights:\n01:25 - Why invest in web3.0?\n04:26 - How can web 3.0 fit into web 2.0 business models?\n10:00 - How blockchain applications will democratize finance\n13:06 - How prediction markets will influence society\n24:33 - How do you determine the valuation of a protocol?\n29:20 - Value of Substrate \n31:11 - Why come from China to Berlin for investment?\n\nKey Quotes:\n\n“[Web 2.0] definitely brings more convenience to our daily life, and you feel like you cannot really live without these applications. On the other hand you also feel like, at the end of the day, they’re all platforms. And platforms create value by connecting the service providers and the end users. But they also try to maximize their profit and can one day expand their commission fees from the two sides. You’re kind of taken advantage of by them in a certain way. They sell at you into every part of your life and then they become super huge, they become like giants—more money, more data, more capital that is generated by us, the end users. And they they can use all of these resources to keep building their monopoly.”\n\n“Web 3 is a new way, more personalized way that you share your data. To be your own boss of your data. So you have ownership of your data. Is going to be more open, more transparent, and more fair.”\n\n“A centralized authority will never beat the efficiency of a decentralized economy. Because knowledge is unevenly dispersed among the whole of humanity. Only if you can combine them can you have a better decision to be made.”Special Guest: Jasmine Zhang.","content_html":"How do you place a value on a more open, transparent, and representative web? What will be the true impact of blockchain technology and what motivates VC investments in the space?
\n\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks with Jasmine Zhang of IOSG Ventures, an early-stage venture fund investing in the blockchain space. They discuss the future of web 3.0, the impact that open finance and prediction markets will have on society, the potential impact of Polkadot and Substrate, and the broader blockchain investment scenario.
\n\nLinks:
\nIOSG Website
\nIOSG on Twitter
\nJasmine Zhang: Jasmine@iosg.vc
Highlights:
\n01:25 - Why invest in web3.0?
\n04:26 - How can web 3.0 fit into web 2.0 business models?
\n10:00 - How blockchain applications will democratize finance
\n13:06 - How prediction markets will influence society
\n24:33 - How do you determine the valuation of a protocol?
\n29:20 - Value of Substrate
\n31:11 - Why come from China to Berlin for investment?
Key Quotes:
\n\n“[Web 2.0] definitely brings more convenience to our daily life, and you feel like you cannot really live without these applications. On the other hand you also feel like, at the end of the day, they’re all platforms. And platforms create value by connecting the service providers and the end users. But they also try to maximize their profit and can one day expand their commission fees from the two sides. You’re kind of taken advantage of by them in a certain way. They sell at you into every part of your life and then they become super huge, they become like giants—more money, more data, more capital that is generated by us, the end users. And they they can use all of these resources to keep building their monopoly.”
\n\n“Web 3 is a new way, more personalized way that you share your data. To be your own boss of your data. So you have ownership of your data. Is going to be more open, more transparent, and more fair.”
\n\n“A centralized authority will never beat the efficiency of a decentralized economy. Because knowledge is unevenly dispersed among the whole of humanity. Only if you can combine them can you have a better decision to be made.”
Special Guest: Jasmine Zhang.
","summary":"How do you place a value on a more open, transparent, and representative web? What will be the true impact of blockchain technology and what motivates VC investments in the space?\r\n\r\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks with Jasmine Zhang of IOSG Ventures, an early-stage venture fund investing in the blockchain space. They discuss the future of web 3.0, the impact that open finance and prediction markets will have on society, the potential impact of Polkadot and Substrate, and the broader blockchain investment scenario. ","date_published":"2020-03-26T15:00:00.000+01:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/c2e00060-5d64-47b1-9d3a-74fcede74eb2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":32110191,"duration_in_seconds":2293}]},{"id":"0363693b-ad2c-4c48-b433-d100d83b919b","title":"Innovating Blockchain-Based Accounting with Totem","url":"https://relaychain.fm/16-innovating-blockchain-based-accounting-with-totem","content_text":"Why is the “black art” of accounting still stuck in the 20th century, and how can blockchain technology make it more efficient?\n\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (research analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Chris D’Costa and and Toufiqur Chowdhury of Totem Live Accounting, a blockchain-based accounting system. They discuss why today’s accounting practices are so inefficient and how blockchain technology can improve them. Find out how Totem is innovating accounting for the 21st century, how the project fits into the Polkadot ecosystem, and why the team decided to build on the Substrate blockchain framework. \n\nLinks:\nTotem on Gitlab\nChris D’Costa: chris.dcosta@totemaccounting.com\n\nHighlights:\n01:23 - Accounting & accounting software explainer\n05:00 - Problem Totem is solving\n07:74 - Totem active vs. passive users\n13:00 - Dealing with different jurisdictions\n15:20 - On- vs off-chain data\n19:10 - How Totem fits into Polkadot\n20:35 - Why use Substrate to build Totem?\n23:15 - Current state of Totem development\n24:16 - Totem’s native token\n27:00 - Inefficiencies of current accounting practices\n31:41 - Similarities between accounting and programming\n35:20 - Why blockchain is perfect for accounting\n46:20 - What’s ahead for Totem\n\nKey Quotes:\n\n“Generally people think of accounting as being a bit of a black art.”\n\n“Accounting is one of the spaces that doesn’t get much love in the tech world. You don’t see many startups that are doing anything really innovative in accounting.”\n\n“It’s crazy that a lot of this gets done manually when a lot of these accounting rules are formally specified. If you can put it in a formal specification then you can write instructions for a machine to do it.”\n\n“Global corporations are in desperate need of having their own currency. It sounds crazy but it’s true.”\n\n“Trust is one of the issues…but there’s also the issue of things that just get overlooked. This happens not just in small companies but also in big companies as well. Invoices don’t get paid, or they get sent to the wrong department, or somehow they just got missed. And large companies as well as small companies spend a lot of manual effort to put that back together again.”\n\n“In Substrate you can upgrade the runtime, so that helps us with continuous development, upgrading the system, making the changes that are required. If we had a smart contract it would have to be redeployed completely.”Special Guests: Chris D'Costa and Toufiqur Chowdhury.","content_html":"Why is the “black art” of accounting still stuck in the 20th century, and how can blockchain technology make it more efficient?
\n\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (research analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Chris D’Costa and and Toufiqur Chowdhury of Totem Live Accounting, a blockchain-based accounting system. They discuss why today’s accounting practices are so inefficient and how blockchain technology can improve them. Find out how Totem is innovating accounting for the 21st century, how the project fits into the Polkadot ecosystem, and why the team decided to build on the Substrate blockchain framework.
\n\nLinks:
\nTotem on Gitlab
\nChris D’Costa: chris.dcosta@totemaccounting.com
Highlights:
\n01:23 - Accounting & accounting software explainer
\n05:00 - Problem Totem is solving
\n07:74 - Totem active vs. passive users
\n13:00 - Dealing with different jurisdictions
\n15:20 - On- vs off-chain data
\n19:10 - How Totem fits into Polkadot
\n20:35 - Why use Substrate to build Totem?
\n23:15 - Current state of Totem development
\n24:16 - Totem’s native token
\n27:00 - Inefficiencies of current accounting practices
\n31:41 - Similarities between accounting and programming
\n35:20 - Why blockchain is perfect for accounting
\n46:20 - What’s ahead for Totem
Key Quotes:
\n\n“Generally people think of accounting as being a bit of a black art.”
\n\n“Accounting is one of the spaces that doesn’t get much love in the tech world. You don’t see many startups that are doing anything really innovative in accounting.”
\n\n“It’s crazy that a lot of this gets done manually when a lot of these accounting rules are formally specified. If you can put it in a formal specification then you can write instructions for a machine to do it.”
\n\n“Global corporations are in desperate need of having their own currency. It sounds crazy but it’s true.”
\n\n“Trust is one of the issues…but there’s also the issue of things that just get overlooked. This happens not just in small companies but also in big companies as well. Invoices don’t get paid, or they get sent to the wrong department, or somehow they just got missed. And large companies as well as small companies spend a lot of manual effort to put that back together again.”
\n\n“In Substrate you can upgrade the runtime, so that helps us with continuous development, upgrading the system, making the changes that are required. If we had a smart contract it would have to be redeployed completely.”
Special Guests: Chris D'Costa and Toufiqur Chowdhury.
","summary":"Why is the “black art” of accounting still stuck in the 20th century, and how can blockchain technology make it more efficient?\r\n\r\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (research analyst, Parity Technologies) speaks with Chris D’Costa and and Toufiqur Chowdhury of Totem Live Accounting, a blockchain-based accounting system. They discuss why today’s accounting practices are so inefficient and how blockchain technology can improve them. Find out how Totem is innovating accounting for the 21st century, how the project fits into the Polkadot ecosystem, and why the team decided to build on the Substrate blockchain framework. ","date_published":"2020-03-12T15:15:00.000+01:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/0363693b-ad2c-4c48-b433-d100d83b919b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":40988168,"duration_in_seconds":2927}]},{"id":"a97e41ed-349f-41e5-b1bd-0f296c71ed50","title":"Chainlink: Oracles, DeFi, and Social Impact with Sergey Nazarov","url":"https://relaychain.fm/15-chainlink","content_text":"What are the challenges in integrating off-chain data into blockchain smart contracts with oracle systems, and how might secure, oracle-powered DeFi create meaningful social impact?\n\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks with Sergey Nazarov from Chainlink, a decentralized oracle system bringing external, real-world data to blockchain-based smart contracts. Oracle systems like Chainlink are a necessary part of decentralized finance (DeFi), for which off-chain data such as market prices are used to trigger smart contract functions. We discuss the inherent challenges in integrating off-chain data with end-to-end security guarantees, the barriers to building smart contracts that go beyond tokenization, Chainlink use cases, the promise of blockchain for social impact, and how Chainlink is planning a Polkadot integration. \n\nHighlights:\n01:04 - Chainlink overview\n07:20 - Oracle weakest link problem\n14:45 - Chainlink use cases\n17:40 - How to trust off-chain data\n22:53 - Social promise of blockchain\n41:00 - Chainlink Polkadot integration\n\nLinks:\nhttps://twitter.com/SergeyNazarov\nhttps://chain.link/\nhttps://docs.chain.link/docs\nhttps://twitter.com/chainlink\n\nKey Quotes:\n\n“The thing to remember is, what you’re doing when you’re making DeFi products or smart contract insurance is yes, you’re making a smart contract because you’re using on-chain logic, but you’re also expanding what you define a smart contract as. And that expansion into this off-chain realm of data delivery or randomness, for fraud-proof gaming or any other set of off-chain resources, needs to be equally secure if you expect that contract to hold large amounts of value.”\n\n“The guarantees that society provides around ownership, when compared with Bitcoin guarantees, are laughably weak.”Special Guest: Sergey Nazarov.","content_html":"What are the challenges in integrating off-chain data into blockchain smart contracts with oracle systems, and how might secure, oracle-powered DeFi create meaningful social impact?
\n\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks with Sergey Nazarov from Chainlink, a decentralized oracle system bringing external, real-world data to blockchain-based smart contracts. Oracle systems like Chainlink are a necessary part of decentralized finance (DeFi), for which off-chain data such as market prices are used to trigger smart contract functions. We discuss the inherent challenges in integrating off-chain data with end-to-end security guarantees, the barriers to building smart contracts that go beyond tokenization, Chainlink use cases, the promise of blockchain for social impact, and how Chainlink is planning a Polkadot integration.
\n\nHighlights:
\n01:04 - Chainlink overview
\n07:20 - Oracle weakest link problem
\n14:45 - Chainlink use cases
\n17:40 - How to trust off-chain data
\n22:53 - Social promise of blockchain
\n41:00 - Chainlink Polkadot integration
Links:
\nhttps://twitter.com/SergeyNazarov
\nhttps://chain.link/
\nhttps://docs.chain.link/docs
\nhttps://twitter.com/chainlink
Key Quotes:
\n\n“The thing to remember is, what you’re doing when you’re making DeFi products or smart contract insurance is yes, you’re making a smart contract because you’re using on-chain logic, but you’re also expanding what you define a smart contract as. And that expansion into this off-chain realm of data delivery or randomness, for fraud-proof gaming or any other set of off-chain resources, needs to be equally secure if you expect that contract to hold large amounts of value.”
\n\n“The guarantees that society provides around ownership, when compared with Bitcoin guarantees, are laughably weak.”
Special Guest: Sergey Nazarov.
","summary":"What are the challenges in integrating off-chain data into blockchain smart contracts with oracle systems, and how might secure, oracle-powered DeFi create meaningful social impact?\r\n\r\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks with Sergey Nazarov from Chainlink, a decentralized oracle system bringing external, real-world data to blockchain-based smart contracts. Oracle systems like Chainlink are a necessary part of decentralized finance (DeFi), for which off-chain data such as market prices are used to trigger smart contract functions. We discuss the inherent challenges in integrating off-chain data with end-to-end security guarantees, the barriers to building smart contracts that go beyond tokenization, Chainlink use cases, the promise of blockchain for social impact, and how Chainlink is planning a Polkadot integration. ","date_published":"2020-02-27T12:45:00.000+01:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/a97e41ed-349f-41e5-b1bd-0f296c71ed50.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":38892987,"duration_in_seconds":2777}]},{"id":"ba58d77c-c027-40c4-a09f-622ca28e2086","title":"Privacy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism, with Nym's Claudia Diaz ","url":"https://relaychain.fm/14-privacy-in-the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism","content_text":"What is the role of privacy in the modern age, and how do we go about protecting it? How can new technologies help shield us from the rise of surveillance capitalism?\n\nIn this episode, host Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) speaks with Claudia Diaz, Associate Professor and researcher at K.U. Leuven and Chief Scientist at Nym, an open-source, decentralized, permissionless protocol providing full-stack privacy infrastructure. We discuss the recent history of public perception on privacy, how to balance the trade offs between technology’s benefits and its use for mass surveillance, and how Nym is building infrastructure that protects our privacy rights by default.\n\nHighlights:\n01:24 - Claudia’s history\n02:19 - 9/11 and the erosion of privacy\n06:20 - Snowden’s impact in US vs EU\n08:15 - Defining privacy and how to protect it\n17:46 - Surveillance capitalism & opaque systems\n21:11 - Balancing tech benefits and privacy\n22:25 - How privacy technologies can help\n24:03 - Transparency & information asymmetry\n25:00 - Benefits of blockchain vs other technologies\n27:29 - What Nym is building\n39:50 - Anonymity vs privacy\n\nLinks:\nClaudia Diaz @ K.U. Leuven\nNym on Twitter\nNym website\nNym on Telegram\n\nKey Quotes:\n“This idea of individual control—my data, I decide—while I understand it is compelling, I think it’s a bit limited. My view is I think we need to build systems in a way that we just don’t have this exposure by default.” \n\n“I believe that information is power”\n\n“I think privacy is very political intrinsically”\n\n“One of the problems when you start talking about all the privacy threats is that you almost want to just disconnect yourself from the internet and throw away your phone….But that’s not the point. I don’t think we should be regressive and go back to some ideal past.”Special Guest: Claudia Diaz.","content_html":"What is the role of privacy in the modern age, and how do we go about protecting it? How can new technologies help shield us from the rise of surveillance capitalism?
\n\nIn this episode, host Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) speaks with Claudia Diaz, Associate Professor and researcher at K.U. Leuven and Chief Scientist at Nym, an open-source, decentralized, permissionless protocol providing full-stack privacy infrastructure. We discuss the recent history of public perception on privacy, how to balance the trade offs between technology’s benefits and its use for mass surveillance, and how Nym is building infrastructure that protects our privacy rights by default.
\n\nHighlights:
\n01:24 - Claudia’s history
\n02:19 - 9/11 and the erosion of privacy
\n06:20 - Snowden’s impact in US vs EU
\n08:15 - Defining privacy and how to protect it
\n17:46 - Surveillance capitalism & opaque systems
\n21:11 - Balancing tech benefits and privacy
\n22:25 - How privacy technologies can help
\n24:03 - Transparency & information asymmetry
\n25:00 - Benefits of blockchain vs other technologies
\n27:29 - What Nym is building
\n39:50 - Anonymity vs privacy
Links:
\nClaudia Diaz @ K.U. Leuven
\nNym on Twitter
\nNym website
\nNym on Telegram
Key Quotes:
\n“This idea of individual control—my data, I decide—while I understand it is compelling, I think it’s a bit limited. My view is I think we need to build systems in a way that we just don’t have this exposure by default.”
“I believe that information is power”
\n\n“I think privacy is very political intrinsically”
\n\n“One of the problems when you start talking about all the privacy threats is that you almost want to just disconnect yourself from the internet and throw away your phone….But that’s not the point. I don’t think we should be regressive and go back to some ideal past.”
Special Guest: Claudia Diaz.
","summary":"What is the role of privacy in the modern age, and how do we go about protecting it? How can new technologies help shield us from the rise of surveillance capitalism?\r\n\r\nIn this episode, host Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) speaks with Claudia Diaz, Associate Professor and researcher at K.U. Leuven and Chief Scientist at Nym, an open-source, decentralized, permissionless protocol providing full-stack privacy infrastructure. We discuss the recent history of public perception on privacy, how to balance the trade offs between technology’s benefits and its use for mass surveillance, and how Nym is building infrastructure that protects our privacy rights by default.","date_published":"2020-02-13T10:30:00.000+01:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/ba58d77c-c027-40c4-a09f-622ca28e2086.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":35846778,"duration_in_seconds":2560}]},{"id":"32aeca2a-5afe-4f7b-9698-04a10fd0755b","title":"Designing Universal Basic Income and Trusted Execution Environments","url":"https://relaychain.fm/13-designing-universal-basic-income","content_text":"How do you design an effective universal basic income scheme on the blockchain? What are trusted execution environments, and how can they be used to enhance privacy?\n\nIn this episode, host Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) speaks with Alain Brenzikofer of encointer, a blockchain-based universal basic income (UBI) system, and Supercomputing Systems, which is developing the SubstraTEE trusted execution environment (TEE) framework. \n\nWith encointer, Brenzikofer came up with a novel way for personhood to be established so that people can’t game the UBI scheme: time-synchronized meetups called ceremonies. Encointer is also potentially the first cryptocurrency project innovating local, geographically-based currencies. With SubstraTEE, Brenzikofer is working to improve the privacy, scalability and interoperability of Substrate-based blockchains by off-loading state updates into TEEs.\n\nHighlights:\n00:57 - What is encointer?\n04:00 - How to model a UBI system\n06:37 - Proportional transaction fees\n08:05 - How encointer ceremonies work\n10:37 - Innovating local cryptocurrencies\n14:50 - Privacy and trusted execution environments\n22:52 - SubstraTEE\n30:27 - SubstraTEE target user base\n38:35 - Current state of SubstraTEE and roadmap\n\nLinks:\nhttps://encointer.org/\nhttps://github.com/encointer\nhttps://github.com/brenzi/substraTEE\n\nKey Quotes:\n“One thing special about encointer is that I’m not intending to have transaction-based fees. I want to have proportional fees. That means there is no issue with micropayments in developing countries for example. Because if you look at the transaction fees of bitcoin and ether as well, the transaction fees can be as high as a day’s income or even worse.”Special Guest: Alain Brenzikofer.","content_html":"How do you design an effective universal basic income scheme on the blockchain? What are trusted execution environments, and how can they be used to enhance privacy?
\n\nIn this episode, host Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) speaks with Alain Brenzikofer of encointer, a blockchain-based universal basic income (UBI) system, and Supercomputing Systems, which is developing the SubstraTEE trusted execution environment (TEE) framework.
\n\nWith encointer, Brenzikofer came up with a novel way for personhood to be established so that people can’t game the UBI scheme: time-synchronized meetups called ceremonies. Encointer is also potentially the first cryptocurrency project innovating local, geographically-based currencies. With SubstraTEE, Brenzikofer is working to improve the privacy, scalability and interoperability of Substrate-based blockchains by off-loading state updates into TEEs.
\n\nHighlights:
\n00:57 - What is encointer?
\n04:00 - How to model a UBI system
\n06:37 - Proportional transaction fees
\n08:05 - How encointer ceremonies work
\n10:37 - Innovating local cryptocurrencies
\n14:50 - Privacy and trusted execution environments
\n22:52 - SubstraTEE
\n30:27 - SubstraTEE target user base
\n38:35 - Current state of SubstraTEE and roadmap
Links:
\nhttps://encointer.org/
\nhttps://github.com/encointer
\nhttps://github.com/brenzi/substraTEE
Key Quotes:
\n“One thing special about encointer is that I’m not intending to have transaction-based fees. I want to have proportional fees. That means there is no issue with micropayments in developing countries for example. Because if you look at the transaction fees of bitcoin and ether as well, the transaction fees can be as high as a day’s income or even worse.”
Special Guest: Alain Brenzikofer.
","summary":"How do you design an effective universal basic income scheme on the blockchain? What are trusted execution environments, and how can they be used to enhance privacy?\r\n\r\nIn this episode, host Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) speaks with Alain Brenzikofer of encointer, a blockchain-based universal basic income (UBI) system, and Supercomputing Systems, which is developing the SubstraTEE trusted execution environment (TEE) framework. ","date_published":"2020-01-30T14:00:00.000+01:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/32aeca2a-5afe-4f7b-9698-04a10fd0755b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":35003993,"duration_in_seconds":2500}]},{"id":"55b60b7f-c2f6-4d5c-8c11-85cbfee898c7","title":"Ethereum: Past, Present, and Future with Parity Core-Developer Wei Tang","url":"https://relaychain.fm/12-ethereum-past-present-and-future","content_text":"In this episode, hosts Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) and Phil Lucsok (Product Communications Manager, Parity) speak with Wei Tang (Core Developer, Parity) about his work on several Ethereum- and Substrate-related projects. They discuss Tang’s experience working on Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, and Substrate, including innovative proposals for account versioning, backwards compatibility, and bridging and merging different Ethereum chains, as well as the future of ETH 2.0 and the broader Ethereum community.\n\nTang is known amongst his peers as an exceptionally gifted and prolific developer, having built the SputnikVM Rust implementation of Ethereum from scratch just by reading the Ethereum yellow paper (without looking at other clients), and having created the Substrate EVM implementation in just a few days. \n\nHighlights:\n00:57 - Why open source and Rust\n03:30 - Building an Ethereum VM implementation from scratch\n05:53 - SputnikVM and ETC\n08:22 - Ethereum account versioning & backwards compatibility\n15:10 - EIP 2225: bridging and merging different Ethereum chains \n20:00 - Multi-client transaction validation for Ethereum\n25:00 - Contentious EIPs and improving governance\n26:52 - Shasper and implementing Ethereum 2.0 on Substrate\n31:57 - ETH 2.0 challenges and roadblocks\n34:07 - Substrate EVM\n37:19 - Solri and Kulupu: Substrate meets proof-of-work\n\nLinks:\nWei Tang on Twitter\nWei Tang on Github\n\nKey Quotes:\n\n“I really like working for open source because you are essentially building a community.”\n\nOn EIP 2225: “Currently it’s really easy to create a chain split…you just disagree on something and it just forks. But if the disagreement disappears, if the community decides to come together again, there’s currently no way to merge those blockchains together again. You can split but you can’t merge. I just think that’s a bad thing.”\n\n“Currently we rely too much on the people factor for governance. Everything is a human procedure….What I always want to propose is that we should add more automated processes into this.”Special Guest: Wei Tang.","content_html":"In this episode, hosts Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) and Phil Lucsok (Product Communications Manager, Parity) speak with Wei Tang (Core Developer, Parity) about his work on several Ethereum- and Substrate-related projects. They discuss Tang’s experience working on Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, and Substrate, including innovative proposals for account versioning, backwards compatibility, and bridging and merging different Ethereum chains, as well as the future of ETH 2.0 and the broader Ethereum community.
\n\nTang is known amongst his peers as an exceptionally gifted and prolific developer, having built the SputnikVM Rust implementation of Ethereum from scratch just by reading the Ethereum yellow paper (without looking at other clients), and having created the Substrate EVM implementation in just a few days.
\n\nHighlights:
\n00:57 - Why open source and Rust
\n03:30 - Building an Ethereum VM implementation from scratch
\n05:53 - SputnikVM and ETC
\n08:22 - Ethereum account versioning & backwards compatibility
\n15:10 - EIP 2225: bridging and merging different Ethereum chains
\n20:00 - Multi-client transaction validation for Ethereum
\n25:00 - Contentious EIPs and improving governance
\n26:52 - Shasper and implementing Ethereum 2.0 on Substrate
\n31:57 - ETH 2.0 challenges and roadblocks
\n34:07 - Substrate EVM
\n37:19 - Solri and Kulupu: Substrate meets proof-of-work
Links:
\nWei Tang on Twitter
\nWei Tang on Github
Key Quotes:
\n\n“I really like working for open source because you are essentially building a community.”
\n\nOn EIP 2225: “Currently it’s really easy to create a chain split…you just disagree on something and it just forks. But if the disagreement disappears, if the community decides to come together again, there’s currently no way to merge those blockchains together again. You can split but you can’t merge. I just think that’s a bad thing.”
\n\n“Currently we rely too much on the people factor for governance. Everything is a human procedure….What I always want to propose is that we should add more automated processes into this.”
Special Guest: Wei Tang.
","summary":"In this episode, hosts Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) and Phil Lucsok (Product Communications Manager, Parity) speak with Wei Tang (Core Developer, Parity) about his work on several Ethereum- and Substrate-related projects. They discuss Tang’s experience working on Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, and Substrate, including innovative proposals for account versioning, backwards compatibility, and bridging and merging different Ethereum chains, as well as the future of ETH 2.0 and the broader Ethereum community.\r\n\r\nTang is known among his peers as an exceptionally gifted and prolific developer, having built the SputnikVM Rust implementation of Ethereum from scratch just by reading the Ethereum yellow paper (without looking at other clients), and having created the Substrate EVM implementation in just a few days. ","date_published":"2020-01-16T12:00:00.000+01:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/55b60b7f-c2f6-4d5c-8c11-85cbfee898c7.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":36826438,"duration_in_seconds":2630}]},{"id":"61fc6947-d9bf-4ba4-9212-286feeccb67b","title":"Democratizing Access to Wealth Creation: Tokenized Securities on Polymesh","url":"https://relaychain.fm/11-tokenized-securities-on-polymesh","content_text":"What are the benefits of tokenizing regulated assets, and how might it revolutionize the world of finance?\n\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research, Parity) is joined by Adam Dossa, Head of Blockchain at Polymath, a security token platform currently building a custom blockchain on Substrate called Polymesh. They discuss the world of tokenized securities and the promise this area of decentralized finance holds for democratizing global wealth creation. Dossa also explains Polymath’s reasoning for moving from Ethereum to Substrate, including the unique benefits of the blockchain building framework.\n\nHighlights:\n01:35 - Benefits of tokenizing securities\n07:51 - How to verify the underlying asset\n12:52 - ERC-20 vs Polymath’s ERC-1400 token standard\n16:44 - Limitations of Ethereum\n18:14 - Polymath’s white label solutions\n19:57 - Operating in multiple jurisdictions/Polymath modules\n23:39 - Moving from Ethereum to a custom Substrate blockchain\n26:48 - Benefits of Substrate’s GRANDPA consensus mechanism\n28:55 - Benefits of Substrate’s forkless upgrades\n31:00 - Users and use cases Polymesh\n42:51 - Interaction between modules and smart contracts\n47:00 - Progress status of Polymesh\n\nLinks:\nPolymath website\nLearn more about Polymesh\nPolymath on Github\nPolymath on Twitter\n\nKey Quotes:\n\n“Financial infrastructure should be transparent and accessible. It should be more like a public good than siloed, private infrastructure.”\n\n“Whilst Ethereum is great, there’s a saying: ‘You can please some of the people all of the time or all of the people some of the time.’ Ethereum is a general purpose blockchain, it’s not optimized for any specific use case. In our particular domain of regulated securities, there are some choices which are not optimal.”\n\n“You have this huge, trillion-dollar regulated securities market globally. If you can bring those assets into DeFi, that’s like DeFi times a hundred. You have all these interesting, varied asset classes and you can start to use those as collateral. Instead of using Ether as collateral, you can take your Apple shares, your Tesla shares, or some basket of shares and use those as collateral.”Special Guest: Adam Dossa.","content_html":"What are the benefits of tokenizing regulated assets, and how might it revolutionize the world of finance?
\n\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research, Parity) is joined by Adam Dossa, Head of Blockchain at Polymath, a security token platform currently building a custom blockchain on Substrate called Polymesh. They discuss the world of tokenized securities and the promise this area of decentralized finance holds for democratizing global wealth creation. Dossa also explains Polymath’s reasoning for moving from Ethereum to Substrate, including the unique benefits of the blockchain building framework.
\n\nHighlights:
\n01:35 - Benefits of tokenizing securities
\n07:51 - How to verify the underlying asset
\n12:52 - ERC-20 vs Polymath’s ERC-1400 token standard
\n16:44 - Limitations of Ethereum
\n18:14 - Polymath’s white label solutions
\n19:57 - Operating in multiple jurisdictions/Polymath modules
\n23:39 - Moving from Ethereum to a custom Substrate blockchain
\n26:48 - Benefits of Substrate’s GRANDPA consensus mechanism
\n28:55 - Benefits of Substrate’s forkless upgrades
\n31:00 - Users and use cases Polymesh
\n42:51 - Interaction between modules and smart contracts
\n47:00 - Progress status of Polymesh
Links:
\nPolymath website
\nLearn more about Polymesh
\nPolymath on Github
\nPolymath on Twitter
Key Quotes:
\n\n“Financial infrastructure should be transparent and accessible. It should be more like a public good than siloed, private infrastructure.”
\n\n“Whilst Ethereum is great, there’s a saying: ‘You can please some of the people all of the time or all of the people some of the time.’ Ethereum is a general purpose blockchain, it’s not optimized for any specific use case. In our particular domain of regulated securities, there are some choices which are not optimal.”
\n\n“You have this huge, trillion-dollar regulated securities market globally. If you can bring those assets into DeFi, that’s like DeFi times a hundred. You have all these interesting, varied asset classes and you can start to use those as collateral. Instead of using Ether as collateral, you can take your Apple shares, your Tesla shares, or some basket of shares and use those as collateral.”
Special Guest: Adam Dossa.
","summary":"What are the benefits of tokenizing regulated assets, and how might it revolutionize the world of finance?\r\n\r\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research, Parity) is joined by Adam Dossa, Head of Blockchain at Polymath, a security token platform currently building a custom blockchain on Substrate called Polymesh. They discuss the world of tokenized securities and the promise this area of decentralized finance holds for democratizing global wealth creation. Dossa also explains Polymath’s reasoning for moving from Ethereum to the Substrate blockchain building framework.","date_published":"2019-12-19T15:00:00.000+01:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/61fc6947-d9bf-4ba4-9212-286feeccb67b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":41870008,"duration_in_seconds":2990}]},{"id":"3347489f-c69a-4f2c-84c3-33599bf8fc7d","title":"Building a Custom Blockchain with Substrate","url":"https://relaychain.fm/10-building-a-custom-blockchain-with-substrate","content_text":"What is it like to develop on the Substrate blockchain building framework, and what resources are available to developers? How different is it from developing Ethereum smart contracts?\n\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research, Parity) is joined by Shawn Tabrizi and Joshy Orndorff from the Developer Experience team at Parity Technologies, where they help developers building or interested in building on Substrate, regardless of experience level. \n\nHighlights:\n01:12 - What is Substrate?\n02:18 - Substrate Seminar open collaborative learning call\n07:08 - Substrate Off-Chain Workers\n16:29 - Substrate Developer Hub\n17:17 - Developing for Ethereum vs. Substrate\n25:15 - Substrate Kitties\n27:35 - Substrate maintenance/upgrades\n33:13 - Current developer experience\n\nLinks:\nSubstrate Developer Hub\nSubstrate Seminar\nSubstrate Technical Riot Chat\nSubstrate Stack Overflow\n\nKey Quotes:\n\n“If you want to build a blockchain and you don’t want to build every single piece from the ground up… then you can use Substrate and you can take all of the common parts from our standard implementations, and the only thing that you have to code is the part that’s unique to your blockchain.”\n\n“If you’re part of Substrate Seminar, you can actually get access to the latest features right as they come out of the gate.”\n\n“Substrate is an ecosystem.”\n\n“Smart contracts aren’t the only way to get your logic on a blockchain.”\n\n“We want to make Substrate the best platform for blockchain innovators.”Special Guests: Joshy Orndorff and Shawn Tabrizi.","content_html":"What is it like to develop on the Substrate blockchain building framework, and what resources are available to developers? How different is it from developing Ethereum smart contracts?
\n\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research, Parity) is joined by Shawn Tabrizi and Joshy Orndorff from the Developer Experience team at Parity Technologies, where they help developers building or interested in building on Substrate, regardless of experience level.
\n\nHighlights:
\n01:12 - What is Substrate?
\n02:18 - Substrate Seminar open collaborative learning call
\n07:08 - Substrate Off-Chain Workers
\n16:29 - Substrate Developer Hub
\n17:17 - Developing for Ethereum vs. Substrate
\n25:15 - Substrate Kitties
\n27:35 - Substrate maintenance/upgrades
\n33:13 - Current developer experience
Links:
\nSubstrate Developer Hub
\nSubstrate Seminar
\nSubstrate Technical Riot Chat
\nSubstrate Stack Overflow
Key Quotes:
\n\n“If you want to build a blockchain and you don’t want to build every single piece from the ground up… then you can use Substrate and you can take all of the common parts from our standard implementations, and the only thing that you have to code is the part that’s unique to your blockchain.”
\n\n“If you’re part of Substrate Seminar, you can actually get access to the latest features right as they come out of the gate.”
\n\n“Substrate is an ecosystem.”
\n\n“Smart contracts aren’t the only way to get your logic on a blockchain.”
\n\n“We want to make Substrate the best platform for blockchain innovators.”
Special Guests: Joshy Orndorff and Shawn Tabrizi.
","summary":"What is it like to develop on the Substrate blockchain building framework, and what resources are available to developers? How different is it from developing Ethereum smart contracts?\r\n\r\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research, Parity) is joined by Shawn Tabrizi and Joshy Orndorff from the Developer Experience team at Parity Technologies, where they help developers building or interested in building on Substrate, regardless of experience level. ","date_published":"2019-12-05T09:00:00.000+01:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/3347489f-c69a-4f2c-84c3-33599bf8fc7d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":31614238,"duration_in_seconds":2258}]},{"id":"9ecb9795-4dc1-49ca-93e9-adc6b55754f6","title":"On-Chain Trust with KILT Protocol","url":"https://relaychain.fm/9-on-chain-trust-with-kilt-protocol","content_text":"How do trust and identity work in decentralized systems, and how can we help ensure our data isn't abused by centralized authorities?\n\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) is joined by Ingo Rübe (Founder and CEO, BOTlabs) and Timo Welde (Product Owner and Technical Lead, KILT Protocol) of KILT Protocol, a built-on-Substrate project providing credentialing and authentication for web 3.0. Learn the difference between identity and attribution, and how KILT is building the future of decentralized trust. \n\nHighlights:\n02:35 - Why KILT is bigger than identity\n07:50 - Problems with web 2.0 authentication\n11:30 - Attack vectors and KILT security\n17:00 - KILT developer experience\n19:35 - How roles work in KILT\n23:00 - Attestation use cases\n28:30 - Substrate and the KILT stack\n31:40 - Possible Polkadot integration\n35:45 - Regulation and the future of KILT\n\nLinks:\nKILT website\nKILT github\n\nKey Quotes:\n\n“Identity should not be solved at the protocol level…. There are many things that you shouldn’t solve at the protocol level.”\n\n“What we wanted to deliver is something so easy to use that a normal web developer could be successful in building applications on top of it.”\n\n“Trust is generated outside the system, it’s just transported into the system.”\n\n“Building your own network of validators is a pain in the ass.”Special Guests: Ingo Rübe and Timo Welde.","content_html":"How do trust and identity work in decentralized systems, and how can we help ensure our data isn't abused by centralized authorities?
\n\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) is joined by Ingo Rübe (Founder and CEO, BOTlabs) and Timo Welde (Product Owner and Technical Lead, KILT Protocol) of KILT Protocol, a built-on-Substrate project providing credentialing and authentication for web 3.0. Learn the difference between identity and attribution, and how KILT is building the future of decentralized trust.
\n\nHighlights:
\n02:35 - Why KILT is bigger than identity
\n07:50 - Problems with web 2.0 authentication
\n11:30 - Attack vectors and KILT security
\n17:00 - KILT developer experience
\n19:35 - How roles work in KILT
\n23:00 - Attestation use cases
\n28:30 - Substrate and the KILT stack
\n31:40 - Possible Polkadot integration
\n35:45 - Regulation and the future of KILT
Links:
\nKILT website
\nKILT github
Key Quotes:
\n\n“Identity should not be solved at the protocol level…. There are many things that you shouldn’t solve at the protocol level.”
\n\n“What we wanted to deliver is something so easy to use that a normal web developer could be successful in building applications on top of it.”
\n\n“Trust is generated outside the system, it’s just transported into the system.”
\n\n“Building your own network of validators is a pain in the ass.”
Special Guests: Ingo Rübe and Timo Welde.
","summary":"How do trust and identity work in decentralized systems, and how can we help ensure our data isn't abused by centralized authorities?\r\n\r\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski is joined by Ingo Rübe (Founder and CEO, BOTlabs) and Timo Welde (Product Owner and Technical Lead, KILT Protocol) of KILT Protocol, a built-on-Substrate project providing credentialing and authentication for web 3.0. Learn the difference between identity and attribution, and how KILT is building the future of decentralized trust. ","date_published":"2019-11-21T11:00:00.000+01:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/9ecb9795-4dc1-49ca-93e9-adc6b55754f6.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":38420393,"duration_in_seconds":2744}]},{"id":"d6185da0-46c1-4b55-a4e5-064122d72b88","title":"Jillian York: Censorship, Human Rights, and Activism in the Digital Age","url":"https://relaychain.fm/8-censorship-human-rights-activism","content_text":"Where should digital platforms draw the line between content moderation and censorship? How do company policies shape our culture, and how can we make technology a force for good?\n\nIn this episode, writer and activist Jillian York (Director for International Freedom of Expression, Electronic Frontier Foundation) joins Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) to discuss freedom of expression, censorship and surveillance by digital platforms, and the role of internet activism in global social movements.\n\nHighlights:\n\n0:45 - What is freedom of expression?\n2:41 - What is authority in relation to free speech?\n4:05 - Facebook \n8:40 - Content moderation vs censorship\n22:38 - Governments asking platforms to censor content\n25:15 - Algorithmic moderation\n29:12 - Is technology a force for democracy?\n34:18 - Using platforms for political organization\n50:45 - Anonymity, privacy, and safety\n58:10 - Hope and optimism for the future\n\nLinks:\nhttps://twitter.com/jilliancyork\n\nKey Quotes:\n\n\"Censorship always backfires.\"\n\n\"A lot of people think that technology is this ultimate force for democracy. It doesn't pan out that way though.\"\n\n\"I'm not sure that I believe in tech as a force for democracy. I believe in tech as a tool in the same way books are a tool\"\n\n\"In San Francisco, you have all of these incredibly talented engineers and technologists who, instead of building toilets for the homeless population, which is desparately needed there, are trying to save the world with an app.... It's about making money and white savior complexes rather than about looking locally.\"\n\n\"Liberal society means you need to have a thick skin.\"Special Guest: Jillian York.","content_html":"Where should digital platforms draw the line between content moderation and censorship? How do company policies shape our culture, and how can we make technology a force for good?
\n\nIn this episode, writer and activist Jillian York (Director for International Freedom of Expression, Electronic Frontier Foundation) joins Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) to discuss freedom of expression, censorship and surveillance by digital platforms, and the role of internet activism in global social movements.
\n\nHighlights:
\n\n0:45 - What is freedom of expression?
\n2:41 - What is authority in relation to free speech?
\n4:05 - Facebook
\n8:40 - Content moderation vs censorship
\n22:38 - Governments asking platforms to censor content
\n25:15 - Algorithmic moderation
\n29:12 - Is technology a force for democracy?
\n34:18 - Using platforms for political organization
\n50:45 - Anonymity, privacy, and safety
\n58:10 - Hope and optimism for the future
Links:
\nhttps://twitter.com/jilliancyork
Key Quotes:
\n\n"Censorship always backfires."
\n\n"A lot of people think that technology is this ultimate force for democracy. It doesn't pan out that way though."
\n\n"I'm not sure that I believe in tech as a force for democracy. I believe in tech as a tool in the same way books are a tool"
\n\n"In San Francisco, you have all of these incredibly talented engineers and technologists who, instead of building toilets for the homeless population, which is desparately needed there, are trying to save the world with an app.... It's about making money and white savior complexes rather than about looking locally."
\n\n"Liberal society means you need to have a thick skin."
Special Guest: Jillian York.
","summary":"Where should digital platforms draw the line between content moderation and censorship? How do company policies shape our culture, and how can we make technology a force for good?\r\n\r\nIn this episode, writer and activist Jillian York (Director for International Freedom of Expression, Electronic Frontier Foundation) joins Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity Technologies) to discuss freedom of expression, censorship and surveillance by digital platforms, and the role of internet activism in global social movements.","date_published":"2019-11-07T19:15:00.000+01:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/d6185da0-46c1-4b55-a4e5-064122d72b88.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":53528473,"duration_in_seconds":3823}]},{"id":"63e9ea92-17c9-4fc8-8242-bf2c646fb234","title":"Mentorship and Values in Open-Source Development","url":"https://relaychain.fm/7-mentorship-values-open-source","content_text":"How do you create meaningful change with open source software and what role does mentorship play?\n\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks to Ben Kampmann (Core Developer, Parity) about the role of mentorship, learning, and values in the open-source community. They also discuss Open Tech School, a non-profit organization Ben created for open source education, as well as recent Substrate developments, including Substrate LFS (Large File Storage).\n\nFor more info on Ben Kampmann and his work, check out his recent People of Parity showcase on the Parity Technologies blog: https://www.parity.io/people-of-parity-benjamin-kampmann/\n\nHighlights:\n01:28 - The vast potential impact of these technologies\n02:00 - Building for startups vs established teams, how to promote positive change\n06:18 - Importance of economic considerations and incentives in blockchain engineering\n09:09 - Role and importance of mentorship\n15:00 - Dealing with constructive criticism vs negative criticism\n18:10 - Importance of not trying to learn too much too fast\n22:00 - Open Tech School\n26:35 - Most important skills for quick pivoting\n29:55 - Substrate and its value for developers\n33:30 - Sustainable open source business models and the role of money\n40:47 - Status of Polkadot and Substrate\n43:37 - Substrate LFS\n46:00 - Hacktoberfest\n\nLinks:\nHacktoberfest\nBen on Github\nBen on Twitter\n\nKey Quotes:\n\n“Learning itself is a very hard job. You’re asking your brain to rewire itself.” \n\n“Don’t believe that you can’t program because you don’t know logic or math. I didn’t study any of this either. And don’t give up.”\n\n“You need to be willing to throw away what you know in order to learn.”Special Guest: Ben Kampmann.","content_html":"How do you create meaningful change with open source software and what role does mentorship play?
\n\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks to Ben Kampmann (Core Developer, Parity) about the role of mentorship, learning, and values in the open-source community. They also discuss Open Tech School, a non-profit organization Ben created for open source education, as well as recent Substrate developments, including Substrate LFS (Large File Storage).
\n\nFor more info on Ben Kampmann and his work, check out his recent People of Parity showcase on the Parity Technologies blog: https://www.parity.io/people-of-parity-benjamin-kampmann/
\n\nHighlights:
\n01:28 - The vast potential impact of these technologies
\n02:00 - Building for startups vs established teams, how to promote positive change
\n06:18 - Importance of economic considerations and incentives in blockchain engineering
\n09:09 - Role and importance of mentorship
\n15:00 - Dealing with constructive criticism vs negative criticism
\n18:10 - Importance of not trying to learn too much too fast
\n22:00 - Open Tech School
\n26:35 - Most important skills for quick pivoting
\n29:55 - Substrate and its value for developers
\n33:30 - Sustainable open source business models and the role of money
\n40:47 - Status of Polkadot and Substrate
\n43:37 - Substrate LFS
\n46:00 - Hacktoberfest
Links:
\nHacktoberfest
\nBen on Github
\nBen on Twitter
Key Quotes:
\n\n“Learning itself is a very hard job. You’re asking your brain to rewire itself.”
\n\n“Don’t believe that you can’t program because you don’t know logic or math. I didn’t study any of this either. And don’t give up.”
\n\n“You need to be willing to throw away what you know in order to learn.”
Special Guest: Ben Kampmann.
","summary":"How do you create meaningful change with open-source software and what role does mentorship play?\r\n\r\nIn this episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks to Ben Kampmann (Core Developer, Parity) about the role of mentorship, learning, and values in the open-source community. They also discuss Open Tech School, a non-profit organization Ben created for open source education, as well as recent Substrate developments, including Substrate LFS (Large File Storage).","date_published":"2019-10-25T12:00:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/63e9ea92-17c9-4fc8-8242-bf2c646fb234.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":40348288,"duration_in_seconds":2881}]},{"id":"53c6ac08-6645-4099-8966-65b2cf5e3427","title":"Mona El Isa and how Melon Protocol is disrupting asset management","url":"https://relaychain.fm/6-mona-el-isa-melon-protocol","content_text":"Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks to Mona El Isa (Co-Founder Melonport, MAMA) about using Melon Protocol to reduce the barriers in setting up and managing funds. Mona discusses delivering on a two-year roadmap, IRL Melon experiments, and educating the next generation of financial industry disruptors. \n\nNote: Mona has launched a new project called Avantgarde Finance. Avantgarde Finance positions itself as a company devoted towards creating value on the Melon protocol. The longer term Avantgarde vision is to create a better everyday experience for asset managers and their investors by giving them easy access to a new financial infrastructure.\n\n00:27 Mona El Isa’s journey to Melonport\n03:19 Why Melon Protocol\n06:19 The advantages of tokenizing assets \n08:54 Delivering on a two-year roadmap\n09:47 Liquidating Melonport\n10:14 The Melon Council\n12:43 What the Melon protocol allows you to do\n17:52 IRL Melon experiments\n20:01 Scaling Melon\n26:31 MAMA, the Multichain Asset Managers Association\n28:08 Engaging with regulators, law makers, and institutions\n30:48 Regulatory victories\n35:25 Madeeba\n38:22 Raising Melon awareness on a global basis\n\nLinks: \nhttps://melonprotocol.com/\nhttps://medium.com/melonprotocol\nhttps://twitter.com/melonprotocolSpecial Guest: Mona El Isa.","content_html":"Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks to Mona El Isa (Co-Founder Melonport, MAMA) about using Melon Protocol to reduce the barriers in setting up and managing funds. Mona discusses delivering on a two-year roadmap, IRL Melon experiments, and educating the next generation of financial industry disruptors.
\n\nNote: Mona has launched a new project called Avantgarde Finance. Avantgarde Finance positions itself as a company devoted towards creating value on the Melon protocol. The longer term Avantgarde vision is to create a better everyday experience for asset managers and their investors by giving them easy access to a new financial infrastructure.
\n\n00:27 Mona El Isa’s journey to Melonport
\n03:19 Why Melon Protocol
\n06:19 The advantages of tokenizing assets
\n08:54 Delivering on a two-year roadmap
\n09:47 Liquidating Melonport
\n10:14 The Melon Council
\n12:43 What the Melon protocol allows you to do
\n17:52 IRL Melon experiments
\n20:01 Scaling Melon
\n26:31 MAMA, the Multichain Asset Managers Association
\n28:08 Engaging with regulators, law makers, and institutions
\n30:48 Regulatory victories
\n35:25 Madeeba
\n38:22 Raising Melon awareness on a global basis
Links:
\nhttps://melonprotocol.com/
\nhttps://medium.com/melonprotocol
\nhttps://twitter.com/melonprotocol
Special Guest: Mona El Isa.
","summary":"Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks to Mona El Isa (Co-Founder Melonport, MAMA) about using Melon Protocol to reduce the barriers in setting up and managing funds. Mona discusses delivering on a two-year roadmap, IRL Melon experiments, and educating the next generation of financial industry disruptors. ","date_published":"2019-10-11T23:00:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/53c6ac08-6645-4099-8966-65b2cf5e3427.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":30679904,"duration_in_seconds":2556}]},{"id":"e6b52fe9-e50f-4fb0-a82c-66d6d6efe3f1","title":"Exploring a Multi-Chain Universe with Polkascan","url":"https://relaychain.fm/5-polkascan-open-source-block-explorer","content_text":"In our fifth episode, Nicole Zhu and Joe Petrowski talk to Emiel Sebastiaan, WEB3SCAN CEO, about Polkascan, an open-source block explorer that allows any Substrate-based blockchain project to have a block explorer. They discuss the Polkadot multi-chain explorer, how a DAO could fund block explorer services, Polkascan vs. Polkadot UI, and the nitty-gritty of how one actually goes about extracting data from a blockchain.\n\nLinks:\nhttps://www.web3scan.com\nhttps://polkascan.io\nhttps://medium.com/polkascan\nhttps://github.com/polkascan\nhttps://twitter.com/polkascan\n\nHighlights:\n01:32 - How Emiel got into block explorers\n04:38 - Block explorer use cases\n06:26 - Getting meaningful data out of Substrate vs. Bitcoin and Ethereum\n08:54 - Specialized and upgradable runtimes with Substrate\n13:01 - Out-of-the-box block explorer support for parachains\n16:00 - Polkascan PRE and Polkascan MC\n19:38 - How Polkascan uses archive nodes\n21:51 - Tools Polkascan uses\n26:40 - Performance benchmarks for block explorers\n31:40 - Scalability, roadmap, and managing 10-terabyte databases\n37:58 - The roadmap to paid services\n45:34 - DAOs as customers\n52:18 - Polkascan vs. Polkadot UI\n57:34 - A multi-chain universeSpecial Guest: Emiel Sebastiaan.","content_html":"In our fifth episode, Nicole Zhu and Joe Petrowski talk to Emiel Sebastiaan, WEB3SCAN CEO, about Polkascan, an open-source block explorer that allows any Substrate-based blockchain project to have a block explorer. They discuss the Polkadot multi-chain explorer, how a DAO could fund block explorer services, Polkascan vs. Polkadot UI, and the nitty-gritty of how one actually goes about extracting data from a blockchain.
\n\nLinks:
\nhttps://www.web3scan.com
\nhttps://polkascan.io
\nhttps://medium.com/polkascan
\nhttps://github.com/polkascan
\nhttps://twitter.com/polkascan
Highlights:
\n01:32 - How Emiel got into block explorers
\n04:38 - Block explorer use cases
\n06:26 - Getting meaningful data out of Substrate vs. Bitcoin and Ethereum
\n08:54 - Specialized and upgradable runtimes with Substrate
\n13:01 - Out-of-the-box block explorer support for parachains
\n16:00 - Polkascan PRE and Polkascan MC
\n19:38 - How Polkascan uses archive nodes
\n21:51 - Tools Polkascan uses
\n26:40 - Performance benchmarks for block explorers
\n31:40 - Scalability, roadmap, and managing 10-terabyte databases
\n37:58 - The roadmap to paid services
\n45:34 - DAOs as customers
\n52:18 - Polkascan vs. Polkadot UI
\n57:34 - A multi-chain universe
Special Guest: Emiel Sebastiaan.
","summary":"In our fifth episode, Nicole Zhu and Joe Petrowski talk to Emiel Sebastiaan, WEB3SCAN CEO, about Polkascan, an open-source block explorer that allows any Substrate-based blockchain project to have a block explorer. They discuss the Polkadot multi-chain explorer, how a DAO could fund block explorer services, Polkascan vs. Polkadot UI, and the nitty-gritty of how one actually goes about extracting data from a blockchain.","date_published":"2019-09-27T18:00:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/e6b52fe9-e50f-4fb0-a82c-66d6d6efe3f1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":51782313,"duration_in_seconds":3698}]},{"id":"e871c041-430e-42fd-adbd-36edbc2a26a6","title":"Zcash’s Anna and Deirdre on Zebra and quantum-resistant cryptography","url":"https://relaychain.fm/4-zcash-zebra","content_text":"In this episode, Joe talks to Deirdre Connolly and Anna Kaplan from Zcash Foundation on the state of the Rust Zcash client, “Zebra,” originally developed by Parity Technologies and now maintained by Zcash Foundation. They also discuss integrating cryptography into our day-to-day lives, quantum-resistant cryptography, and what baby zebras are called. \n\nHighlights\n00:28 - How Anna and Deirdre got to the Zcash Foundation\n02:08 - Why have multiple Zcash clients?\n06:54 - The state of Zebra now and future plans. \n11:38 - Build-test-deploy benchmark pipeline\n20:53 - Blossom features\n22:03 - Integrating cryptography into our day-to-day lives\n33:33 - Quantum security\n\nLinks\nZebra repo\nParity’s Zebra release announcement\nDeirdre Connolly on Twitter\nAnna Kaplan on Twitter\nZcash Rocket Chat\nZcash Community dev room\nZcash Wizards chat\n\n\nSubscribe and follow us at @relaychain to stay tuned for more episodes. Special Guests: Anna Kaplan and Deirdre Connolly.","content_html":"In this episode, Joe talks to Deirdre Connolly and Anna Kaplan from Zcash Foundation on the state of the Rust Zcash client, “Zebra,” originally developed by Parity Technologies and now maintained by Zcash Foundation. They also discuss integrating cryptography into our day-to-day lives, quantum-resistant cryptography, and what baby zebras are called.
\n\nHighlights
\n00:28 - How Anna and Deirdre got to the Zcash Foundation
\n02:08 - Why have multiple Zcash clients?
\n06:54 - The state of Zebra now and future plans.
\n11:38 - Build-test-deploy benchmark pipeline
\n20:53 - Blossom features
\n22:03 - Integrating cryptography into our day-to-day lives
\n33:33 - Quantum security
Links
\nZebra repo
\nParity’s Zebra release announcement
\nDeirdre Connolly on Twitter
\nAnna Kaplan on Twitter
\nZcash Rocket Chat
\nZcash Community dev room
\nZcash Wizards chat
\n
Subscribe and follow us at @relaychain to stay tuned for more episodes.
Special Guests: Anna Kaplan and Deirdre Connolly.
","summary":"In this episode, Joe talks to Deirdre Connolly and Anna Kaplan from Zcash Foundation on the state of the Rust Zcash client, “Zebra,” originally developed by Parity Technologies and now maintained by Zcash Foundation. They also discuss integrating cryptography into our day-to-day lives, quantum-resistant cryptography, and what baby zebras are called. ","date_published":"2019-09-13T10:00:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/e871c041-430e-42fd-adbd-36edbc2a26a6.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":40672078,"duration_in_seconds":2905}]},{"id":"491add9f-91f4-47dd-a1e8-2bb5bc2c8499","title":"Staking and Validating on Kusama and Polkadot","url":"https://relaychain.fm/3-staking-validating-kusama-polkadot","content_text":"Gautam Dhameja (Solutions Architect, Parity) talks to Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) about staking, validating, and nominating on Kusama and Polkadot. If you want to learn more about how Kusama's and Polkadot's nominated proof-of-stake system works, or if you're interested in staking or validating, this episode is a great place to start. \n\nTo get more information on staking, validating, and validator setup on Kusama, check out the Kusama network guide at https://guide.kusama.network/.\n\nHighlights:\n01:43 - What is consensus?\n02:48 - Polkadot and Kusama’s block production and finalization algorithms, BABE and GRANDPA\n06:35 - Polkadot’s two types of accounts: stash and controller\n09:11 - Session keys\n15:41 - Key management\n20:19 - Understanding nominated proof-of-stake\n23:50 - How to nominate\n25:30 - Rewards\n28:35 - Slashing\n36:05 - Validator setup\n41:40 - Step-by-step validator process review\n44:30 - How to upgrade/maintain\n47:40 - Common misconceptions\n49:18 - Validator DOs and DON’Ts\n\nNOTE: At 8:00, Joe mistakenly mentions that the controller account can be used to vote on governance proposals. Actually, the stash account can set a proxy account to vote on its behalf. It could be the same as the controller but does not have to be.Special Guest: Gautam Dhameja.","content_html":"Gautam Dhameja (Solutions Architect, Parity) talks to Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) about staking, validating, and nominating on Kusama and Polkadot. If you want to learn more about how Kusama's and Polkadot's nominated proof-of-stake system works, or if you're interested in staking or validating, this episode is a great place to start.
\n\nTo get more information on staking, validating, and validator setup on Kusama, check out the Kusama network guide at https://guide.kusama.network/.
\n\nHighlights:
\n01:43 - What is consensus?
\n02:48 - Polkadot and Kusama’s block production and finalization algorithms, BABE and GRANDPA
\n06:35 - Polkadot’s two types of accounts: stash and controller
\n09:11 - Session keys
\n15:41 - Key management
\n20:19 - Understanding nominated proof-of-stake
\n23:50 - How to nominate
\n25:30 - Rewards
\n28:35 - Slashing
\n36:05 - Validator setup
\n41:40 - Step-by-step validator process review
\n44:30 - How to upgrade/maintain
\n47:40 - Common misconceptions
\n49:18 - Validator DOs and DON’Ts
NOTE: At 8:00, Joe mistakenly mentions that the controller account can be used to vote on governance proposals. Actually, the stash account can set a proxy account to vote on its behalf. It could be the same as the controller but does not have to be.
Special Guest: Gautam Dhameja.
","summary":"Gautam Dhameja (Solutions Architect, Parity) talks to Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) about staking, validating, and nominating on Kusama and Polkadot. If you want to learn more about how Kusama's and Polkadot's nominated proof-of-stake system works, or if you're interested in staking or validating, this episode is a great place to start. To get more information on staking, validating, and validator setup on Kusama, check out the Kusama network guide at https://guide.kusama.network/.\r\n\r\nNOTE: At 8:00, Joe mistakenly mentions that the controller account can be used to vote on governance proposals. Actually, the stash account can set a proxy account to vote on its behalf. It could be the same as the controller but does not have to be.","date_published":"2019-08-29T14:00:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/491add9f-91f4-47dd-a1e8-2bb5bc2c8499.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":43100788,"duration_in_seconds":3078}]},{"id":"ef676086-a8ee-4405-9a33-dbf26278e7db","title":"Clovyr’s Amber Baldet and Patrick Nielsen on Building Simple Tools for a Wider Reach","url":"https://relaychain.fm/2-clovyr-amber-baldet-patrick-nielsen","content_text":"In Relay Chain’s second episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks to Amber Baldet and Patrick Nielsen from Clovyr. They discuss connecting app devs with tools to easily plug into blockchains, non-surveillance business models, why working for large corporations has its value, and more. Check it out and subscribe for more episodes of Relay Chain.\n\nHighlights: \n(00:22) How Clovyr is connecting application developers with tools to easily plug into blockchains. \n(05:44) Customizability versus ease of use.\n(11:16) The dream of the Internet as its own jurisdiction.\n(17:27) Non-surveillance business models.\n(23:49) Targeting developers who so far have not cared about blockchain.\n(25:33) Building APIs in a changing protocol landscape. \n(33:42) Decentralization as an ongoing process. \n(42:28) The value (and challenges) of working for a large corporation.Special Guests: Amber Baldet and Patrick Nielsen.","content_html":"In Relay Chain’s second episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks to Amber Baldet and Patrick Nielsen from Clovyr. They discuss connecting app devs with tools to easily plug into blockchains, non-surveillance business models, why working for large corporations has its value, and more. Check it out and subscribe for more episodes of Relay Chain.
\n\nHighlights:
\n(00:22) How Clovyr is connecting application developers with tools to easily plug into blockchains.
\n(05:44) Customizability versus ease of use.
\n(11:16) The dream of the Internet as its own jurisdiction.
\n(17:27) Non-surveillance business models.
\n(23:49) Targeting developers who so far have not cared about blockchain.
\n(25:33) Building APIs in a changing protocol landscape.
\n(33:42) Decentralization as an ongoing process.
\n(42:28) The value (and challenges) of working for a large corporation.
Special Guests: Amber Baldet and Patrick Nielsen.
","summary":"Amber Baldet and Patrick Nielsen from Clovyr discuss building simple, easy-to-use tools for a far wider reach, customizability vs. ease-of-use, non-surveillance business models, targeting developers who so far have not cared about blockchain, decentralization as an ongoing process, and why working for large corporations has its value. ","date_published":"2019-08-23T09:00:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/ef676086-a8ee-4405-9a33-dbf26278e7db.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":41708313,"duration_in_seconds":2979}]},{"id":"04f58c7d-7cf1-4fa3-b39f-79a530a627cf","title":"Gavin Wood: Building Tech That Protects Our Interests","url":"https://relaychain.fm/1-gavin-wood","content_text":"In Relay Chain’s inaugural episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks to Dr. Gavin Wood, Ethereum Cofounder and Founder Polkadot and Parity Technologies. They discuss nation states vs. protocols, building technology that fundamentally protects our interests, the most important skills for those looking to get into the blockchain industry, and more. \n\nTopics covered: \n(03:49) Web3 as a meta-platform\n(04:42) Nation states vs. protocols\n(08:27) Building technology that fundamentally protects our interests\n(16:06) Can we expect Web3 to be better than our current web?\n(16:27) Nation state law vs. blockchain law\n(22:07) Coin holder voting vs. on-chain governance\n(24:50) Governance in Polkadot\n(36:54) The most important skills for those looking to get into the blockchain industrySpecial Guest: Dr. Gavin Wood.","content_html":"In Relay Chain’s inaugural episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks to Dr. Gavin Wood, Ethereum Cofounder and Founder Polkadot and Parity Technologies. They discuss nation states vs. protocols, building technology that fundamentally protects our interests, the most important skills for those looking to get into the blockchain industry, and more.
\n\nTopics covered:
\n(03:49) Web3 as a meta-platform
\n(04:42) Nation states vs. protocols
\n(08:27) Building technology that fundamentally protects our interests
\n(16:06) Can we expect Web3 to be better than our current web?
\n(16:27) Nation state law vs. blockchain law
\n(22:07) Coin holder voting vs. on-chain governance
\n(24:50) Governance in Polkadot
\n(36:54) The most important skills for those looking to get into the blockchain industry
Special Guest: Dr. Gavin Wood.
","summary":"Dr. Gavin Wood, Ethereum Cofounder and Founder Polkadot & Parity Technologies, discusses nation states vs. protocols, building technology that fundamentally protects our interests, and the most important skills for those looking to get into the blockchain industry.","date_published":"2019-08-06T18:00:00.000+02:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d5b060aa-e9bf-4a5c-88ac-ccda4382716a/04f58c7d-7cf1-4fa3-b39f-79a530a627cf.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":34577673,"duration_in_seconds":2469}]}]}