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Into the Bytecode

Into the Bytecode

Sina Habibian

Into the Bytecode is a podcast about building the future. Check out these links for more: - Twitter: twitter.com/sinahab - Website: intothebytecode.com - Newsletter for updates: bytecode.substack.com
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This is my conversation with Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum.

Timestamps:
(00:00:00) - intro
(00:00:33) - the crypto lens on political philosophy
(00:15:12) - the transition from the 20th to the 21st century
(00:24:29) - sponsor: Splits
(00:25:12) - the dimensions of uncertainty
(00:46:14) - the duality between being idealistic and effective
(00:58:46) - outro

Links:
Vitalik Buterin on X - https://x.com/VitalikButerin
Vitalik Buterin on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/vitalik.eth
Vitalik Buterin on making sense in a changing world - https://www.intothebytecode.com/26-vitalik
Vitalik Buterin on retroactive public goods funding - https://www.intothebytecode.com/1-vitalik-buterin-karl-floersch-retroactive-public-goods-funding

Thank you to our sponsor for making this podcast possible:
Splits - https://splits.org

Into the Bytecode:
Sina Habibian on X - https://twitter.com/sinahab
Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
Into the Bytecode - https://intothebytecode.com

Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

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This is my conversation with Markus Haas, the CEO of Freedom Factory and cocreator of the dGEN1.

Timestamps:
(00:00:00) - intro
(00:00:28) - ethOS origin story
(00:07:54) - the vision and values
(00:09:56) - the need for an alternative to iOS and Android
(00:15:30) - sponsor: Splits
(00:16:14) - building on GrapheneOS
(00:28:32) - dGEN1, an everyday carry device
(00:37:05) - what's next for ethOS?
(00:43:02) - the company, funding, profitability
(00:49:00) - outro

Links:
- Markus on X: https://x.com/mhaas_eth
- ethOS on X: https://x.com/EthereumPhone
- GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.org/
- Freedom Factory website: https://www.freedomfactory.io/

Thank you to our sponsor for making this podcast possible:
- Splits: https://splits.org

Into the Bytecode:
- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab
- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.com

Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

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Into the Bytecode - #32 – Rish: building infrastructure with Neynar
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05/17/24 • 79 min

This is my conversation with Rish, cofounder of Neynar, building infrastructure for Farcaster.

Timestamps:
(00:00:00) - intro
(00:01:51) - sponsor: Optimism
(00:03:01) - the idea maze for Neynar
(00:12:46) - exit, building blocks, and monetization models
(00:17:20) - how Neynar is architected
(00:21:52) - handling Frames Friday
(00:25:04) - scaling infrastructure by mapping requests to resources
(00:35:05) - sponsor: Privy
(00:36:25) - taking good risks as a startup
(00:41:55) - iteration and planning ahead, breadth vs depth-first search
(00:45:36) - the channel protocol spec
(00:51:26) - why build Frame Studio
(00:56:55) - companies become extensions of their founders
(01:05:53) - working on the Base team
(01:10:28) - having a tight feedback loop with users
(01:15:18) - cofounder relationship with Manan
(01:19:25) - outro

Links:
Rish - https://warpcast.com/rish
Neynar - https://neynar.com

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.io

Into the Bytecode:
- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab
- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.com

Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

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This is my conversation with Hart Lambur. We talk about Hart's path in building UMA (an oracle using schelling points to bring data onchain), Across (an intents-based bridge connecting ETH/L2s), and now Oval (MEV capture for oracle price updates).

Timestamps:
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:01:29) - Sponsor: Privy (privy.io)
(00:02:50) - The idea maze, Goldman Sachs, RFQ systems, legal vs smart contracts
(00:11:03) - UMA, schelling point and optimistic oracle
(00:16:41) - Raising the seed round
(00:19:38) - Across, intent-based bridging architecture
(00:30:42) - Sponsor: Optimism (optimism.io)
(00:31:52) - Oval
(00:46:15) - MEV capture for protocols
(01:01:22) - Outro

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.io

Into the Bytecode:
- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab
- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.com

Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

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Here is my conversation with Josh Stark.

Josh has a long history in the Ethereum ecosystem going back to the early days of the community. He cofounded one of the first L2 scaling protocols with Counterfactual. He also cofounded ETHGlobal which is a much-loved series of hackathons/events that brings the community together and which acts as an entry point into the ecosystem for many people. And nowadays and most relevant to our conversation, he works in a leadership capacity at the Ethereum Foundation.

In this conversation, we talked about two topics: one being the Ethereum Foundation, and two being the question of why blockchain is matter — this being something that Josh has spent a lot of time thinking about and which he's written about in a long form piece titled Atoms Institutions Blockchains.

Timestamps:
(00:00:00) - intro
(00:03:50) - subtraction
(00:07:22) - creating a self-sufficient crypto ecosystem
(00:12:33) - the property of ‘hardness’ for blockchains
(00:17:47) - understanding decentralization
(00:23:11) - Atoms, Institutions, Blockchains
(00:26:00) - blind men and an elephant
(00:33:06) - our civilization’s infrastructure
(00:43:33) - digitally-native hardness
(00:59:38) - how the EF operates
(01:06:21) - challenges with decentralized coordination
(01:12:08) - infinite players have nothing but their names

Links:
Atoms, Institutions, Blockchains: https://stark.mirror.xyz/n2UpRqwdf7yjuiPKVICPpGoUNeDhlWxGqjulrlpyYi0

Into the Bytecode:
- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab
- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.com

Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

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Julien Niset is the cofounder and Chief Science Officer at Argent, a crypto wallet that's used and loved by many people in the crypto ecosystem.
In this conversation, we talk about how Argent has evolved to get to where it is today. How Julien sees user experience evolving broadly in the ecosystem, and what the flow of a new person interacting with a crypto application for the first time might look like in the future.

Another topic we get into deeply is L2s, how Julien and Argent have thought about the topic of EVM equivalence and compatibility, and why they ultimately chose to build on ZK Rollups like ZkSync and StarkNet.

And lastly, we dive into what has been like to build on StarkNet, what the early community feels like today, what it's been like to write code in Cairo, and as a bit of a snapshot into this experience we do a deep dive into what account abstraction looks like on StarkNet.

Timestamps:
(00:00:00) - intro
(00:01:56) - leaning into zk rollups and account abstraction
(00:07:29) - scaling the self-custody experience
(00:13:20) - what onboarding users to crypto will look like in 3 years
(00:20:24) - some of the friction points that still need to be abstracted
(00:33:52) - L2s and the trade-offs between different rollups
(00:39:45) - is breaking EVM-equivalency worth it?
(00:48:01) - Julien’s experience in the StarkNet ecosystem
(00:58:24) - a technical primer on account abstraction
(01:15:38) - session keys
(01:28:17) - starting a sensible wallet set up from scratch

Links:
Julien Niset - https://twitter.com/jniset
Argent - https://www.argent.xyz/
StarkNet - https://starkware.co/starknet/
zkSync - https://zksync.io/
Topology - https://www.topology.gg/

Into the Bytecode:
- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab
- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.com

Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

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Mike Sall and Blake West are the founders of Goldfinch, a decentralized protocol facilitating uncollateralized credit.

“One of the borrowers is a company based in Uganda. They provide rent-to-own loans for motorcycle taxis to thousands of customers. They've borrowed $5m to expand their operations."

Thousands of people in countries like Uganda, India, and Brazil have been financed by Goldfinch loans through local lenders, largely without realizing crypto is the source of funds.

These local lenders are largely innovative fintechs in the global south, and have historically fallen into an uncanny valley — they need too much capital for what is available in their local financial markets, and too little capital to navigate foreign institutional markets.

Timestamps:
(00:03:09) - The 'lightbulb' moment
(00:08:20) - The financing gap for emerging-market borrowers
(00:13:04) - Borrower profiles; Tugende, DiviBank, and Greenway
(00:15:43) - Interfacing with Goldfinch
(00:20:37) - Crypto-native KYC and how UID works
(00:23:18) - Bottlenecks for the global adoption of crypto
(00:34:40) - Compliance requirements for Goldfinch in the United States
(00:45:25) - Compliance requirements for borrowers in emerging markets
(00:50:56) - Demographics of ‘Backers’
(00:52:43) - Incentive alignment and fraud-prevention
(01:03:53) - Learnings from shipping a production smart contract system
(01:15:01) - Launching GFI token and governance of the protocol
(01:26:04) - The macro point of view

Into the Bytecode:
- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab
- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.com

Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

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Into the Bytecode - Justin Glibert: Ember, and building onchain games.
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12/24/21 • 34 min

The conversation on publishing today is the very first one I recorded for the podcast about six months ago. It's a conversation with Justin Glibert about patterns he's uncovered while building Ember (an onchain game) and Lattice (the engine behind the game) — patterns related to inflation and zero sum resources, spacial constraints, and user impersonation. I hope you enjoy.

Into the Bytecode:
- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab
- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.com

Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

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Charles St.Louis is the COO at Element Finance, a protocol for fixed and variable rate yield markets and previously the governance architect at MakerDAO. In this conversation, we talked about Element’s governance system - with a particular focus on voting vaults, a powerful new primitive that decouple the relationship between capital and voting power and allow much more expressiveness in how users are given a governance voice in the ecosystem.

Timestamps:
(00:02:54) - MakerDAO’s arc of decentralization
(00:07:51) - how Maker influenced Element’s design
(00:10:22) - the Governance Steering Council
(00:21:25) - voting vaults
(00:29:10) - L1 and L2 for governance
(00:33:23) - qualitative evaluation for contributions
(00:37:50) - the ElFiverse and NFTs in the Element community
(00:42:24) - on being a protocol delegate

Links:
The Governance Steering Council - https://medium.com/element-finance/the-governance-steering-council-63aea7732262
Voting Vaults - https://docs.element.fi/governance-council/council-protocol-smart-contracts/voting-vaults
The Elfiverse - https://elfiverse.element.fi/

Into the Bytecode:
- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab
- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.com

Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

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Into the Bytecode - #36 – Justin Glibert: from Economicus to Ludens
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07/16/24 • 89 min

This is my conversation with Justin Glibert, CEO of Lattice and cofounder of 0xPARC.

Timestamps:
(00:00:00) - intro
(00:00:44) - digital physics
(00:06:27) - changing physics + capitalism = theme parks
(00:16:12) - objective functions are political
(00:22:53) - sponsor: Optimism
(00:23:58) - individual agency
(00:27:25) - violence on the internet
(00:39:17) - monoliths
(00:47:24) - sponsor: Privy
(00:48:40) - value systems
(00:58:34) - homo economicus and homo ludens
(01:10:50) - Emissary’s guide to worlding
(01:16:55) - reading weird books
(01:28:49) - outro

Links:
Justin Glibert - https://x.com/justinglibert
Lattice - https://lattice.xyz/
0xPARC - https://0xparc.org/

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.io

Into the Bytecode:
- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab
- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.com

Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

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Into the Bytecode currently has 47 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Nft, Defi, Ethereum, Podcasts, Technology and Business.

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The episode title '#37 – Colin Armstrong: Paragraph, writing onchain' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Into the Bytecode is 75 minutes.

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Episodes of Into the Bytecode are typically released every 12 days, 21 hours.

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The first episode of Into the Bytecode was released on Sep 10, 2021.

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