#32 – Rish: building infrastructure with Neynar

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.

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

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

Previous Episode

#31 – Sreeram Kannan: building the verifiable cloud

This is my conversation with Sreeram Kannan, founder at EigenLayer.

Timestamps:
(00:00:00) - intro
(00:01:21) - sponsor: Optimism
(00:02:42) - the AVS economy
(00:05:24) - blockchains separate trust and innovation
(00:16:53) - sponsor: Optimism
(00:18:02) - specialized services and SaaS on EigenLayer
(00:24:50) - rollups are open verifiable web servers
(00:41:35) - rollup economics and business models
(01:55:14) - the transition from academic to builder/operator
(01:06:38) - impact per unit action
(01:10:26) - outro

Links:
Sreeram Kannan - https://twitter.com/sreeramkannan
EigenLayer - https://twitter.com/eigenlayer

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

Next Episode

#33 – Molly Mackinlay: building Filecoin

This is my conversation with Molly Mackinlay, Head of Engineering, Product, and Research Development at Protocol Labs, and CEO at FilOz.

Timestamps:
(00:00:00) - intro
(00:01:59) - sponsor: Privy
(00:03:15) - motivation
(00:09:30) - exabytes of network capacity
(00:12:11) - edge computing, bringing compute to data
(00:14:26) - the history of IPFS, libp2p, IPLD, Filecoin, FVM, L2s and IPC
(00:20:08) - designing incentives in Filecoin
(00:25:11) - designing the block rewards curve
(00:27:28) - progress through time
(00:31:19) - learnings from building production systems,
(00:34:15) - EVM-compatibility, future-proofing and network upgrades
(00:43:51) - sponsor: Optimism
(00:44:56) - IPC, L2 scaling on Filecoin
(00:48:55) - architecting applications on subnets
(00:54:12) - business models on subnets
(00:57:27) - the interface between a subnet and the internet
(01:04:41) - FilOz as a public goods amplifier
(01:07:10) - opening up the Protocol Labs network
(01:12:23) - Edge Esmeralda, field building, neurotech, and education
(01:21:04) - outro

Links:
Molly Mackinlay - https://x.com/momack28
Protocol Labs - https://protocol.ai
Filecoin - https://filecoin.io
FilOz - https://www.filoz.org
InterPlanetary Consensus - https://www.ipc.space/
Textile Basin - https://basin.textile.io/
web3.storage - https://web3.storage/
Filecoin Virtual Machine - https://fvm.filecoin.io/

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.