Web3 Galaxy Brain 🌌🧠

My guest today goes simply by the name Martin . Martin is an EVM and Web3 Developer most famous for creating the Higher memecoin on Farcaster. Over the past few weeks, Martin has thrown himself into building one of the most creative and exciting Social Media Agents, Aether. Aether is a semi-autonomous Agent who communicates with the public through Faracster. Followers can prompt Aether for a respo...

My guest today is Proxy , founder of ProxyStudio and ProxySwap . In this interview, recorded in late June, 2024, Proxy shares how his writing practice and enabled him to grow a token-gated crypto research community amongst fellow Farcasters. By leveraging Farcaster connections, HyperSub and the then-new Degen Chain L3, ProxyStudio launched a Uni V3 fork and began experimenting with the concept of...

My guest today is Jason Zhao , co-founder of Story Protocol . Story Protocol has raised $140 million venture dollars to build an onchain protocol for intellectual property licensing. In this episode, Jason explains what's wrong with IP licensing today, and how putting licenses onchain will enable more people to create derivative works without tedious and often infeasible paperwork, and flow re...

My guest today is Stephane Gosselin . Stephane co-founded the MEV pirate dev collective Flashbots, which he left in late 2022. His new project, OneBalance, is a framework that substantially reimagines how blockchain accounts are created and managed. In this episode, Stephane and I dive into the lifecycle of an Ethereum transaction today, and the growing number of paths a user's intentions may...

My guest today is Kosuke Hata aka July , founder of Faust. Faust is a nascent hardware startup working at the intersection of distributed sensing, blockchains, and self driving. The team is composed of engineers from automotive and machine learning engineering projects at Google, Apple, and Tesla. On this episode, July shares background about the self-driving and robotics industry gleaned from his...

My guest today is Cassandra Heart , founder of Quilibrium and part-time contributor at Merkle Manufactory, creators of Farcaster. On today's episode, Cassie and I dive into Quilibrium, a decentralized platform as a service protocol that aims to enable developers to store data and run uncensorable apps. We discuss Cassie's extensive background building cryptography products, and how this ex...

My guests today is Jong-Kai Yang, founder of HackMD. HackMD is a multiplayer plain text editor on the web. People use HackMD to collaborate on text notes, share read-only documentation, and collect feedback from commenters. HackMD plays especially nicely with markdown and other common markup languages, making the documents one produces in HackMD highly portable. On this episode, Jong-Kai explains...

My guest today is Luke Miles , creator of rug.fun, meme.market, mint.fun, and context.app. On this episode, Luke and I run through the history of applications he's created on Ethereum and the EVM. We discuss the recent sale of mint.fun to zora, and go in depth on his two latest memecoin related projects, meme.market and rug.fun. It was a pleasure catching up with Luke who is shipping thought p...

My guests today are 0xTranqui aka Max and Salief Lewis, two of the four co-founders of Lifeworld, the startup that's creating River. River is a blockchain media protocol. In its launch configuration, users can sign in with Privy, register accounts on a smart contract on Optimism, and post references to IPFS-hosted media as calldata to a smart contract on Arbitrum Nova. The team's first-par...

My guest today is Pete Horne, founder of 4th Energy. Pete is a veteran programmer who thinks deeply about the EVM and computation. With 4th.energy, Pete is exploring how the EVM can be used to serve applications directly from the blockchain. In this vision, application data is verifiably stored on one or multiple of the EVMs connected to L1 Ethereum. With this technology, programmers and users wou...

My guest today is Alex Masmej , founder of Drakula , Showtime, and $ALEX token. Alex's new app, Drakula, is a so-called SocialFi mixture of TikTok, friend.tech, Farcaster, and $DEGEN. On this episode, Alex and I discuss consumer crypto product iteration methodology, team composition, how to sustain setbacks including departing co-founders, the bear market, owing the tax man, and US work visas....

My guest today is Partha Ramanujam , co-founder of Etherspot . Etherspot is a 4337 Account Abstraction service provider. On this episode, Partha and I discuss the Pillar personal data locker, and how it led them to account abstraction and founding Etherspot. We get into the details of their AA Bundler, React library, and embedded wallet services. We also discuss the exciting new p2p bundler they&#...

My guest today is Cameron Robertson , founder of Arx . Arx is an NFC chip with a ECDSA private key. On this episode, Cameron and I dive into the devices and protocols at the intersection of NFC and blockchain. We discuss tamper resistance, signing APIs, and the interaction patterns available in today's mobile device ecosystem. It was great learning more about Arx from Cameron. This episode was...

My guest today is Haseeb Awan , founder of Efani . Efani is a telephone service provider for people and companies that are concerned about SIM swapping. On this episode, Haseeb and I dive into his history founding the original Bitcoin ATM network as a computer science student in Canada, going to YC, and becoming an American citizen. We dive into the details of Efani, his new company, which provide...

My guest today is Andrew Huang , founder of Conduit . Conduit is a rollup as a service provider, which lets anyone deploy their own rollup in only a few clicks. Conduit operates Zora, Aevo, Mode, Frame, Public Goods Network, and several other rollups, and each of these ships with a suite of helpful infrastructure like robust RPCs, block explorers. On this episode, Andrew and I discuss the ins-and-...

My guest today is Jango , co-founder of Juicebox Protocol , Revnets , Defifa , and Bananpus . Launched in 2021, Juicebox is a programmable fundraising protocol that has processed more than $180 million of contributions to over 1000 projects, from culture DAOs to open source projects. Most recently, Juicebox Protocol facilitated over 300 ETH in donations to the legal defense fund for Tornado Cash d...

My guest today is Vidy Thatte , co-founder of Trace . Trace is a website that lets you build SwiftUI components with LLM text prompts, screenshots, and drawings on a canvas. In short, Trace lets you build iPhone apps with AI. On this episode, Vidy and I take a walk down memory lane, chronicling his illustrious history of app development projects and startups that led him to where he is today. We d...

My guest today is Nick Dodson, co-founder and CEO of Fuel. Fuel is a moduler execution layer that's designed to facilitate performant L2 rollups. On this episode, Nick and I discuss the history of rollup design, the scaling challenges facing the EVM, and how his years of experience writing Solidity, EVM Assembly, and participating in the EIP process contributed to Fuel's design. We dive in...

My guests today are Draper and Facu, co-founders of Smol and contributors to Yearn and Ajna. Smol is a set of practical EVM tools born out of Draper and Facu's experience building frontends and marketing material for Yearn Finance. On this episode, Facu and Draper walk us through the variety of tools and projects they've worked on together, and give us insights into how DeFi protocols do s...

Farcaster Frames are an exciting new feature of the Farcaster protocol that let developers quickly build mini apps with a few lines of code. Frames extend the OpenGraph meta tags, which are typically used to serve rich media embeds when pasting a link. Frames add interactive buttons which, when clicked inside of a compatible Farcaster client like Warpcast or Supercast, let the server know which Fa...

My guests today are David Sneider and Chris Cassano, co-founders of Lit Protocol. Lit is a distributed key management network. Lit leverages multi-party computation and threshold signature schemes, spreading private key shares are across a network of Lit node operators so users can sign and encrypt data, without any one machine ever holding the entire the entire private key. On this episode, David...

My guest today is Brian Weickmann , co-founder of ZKP2P . ZKP2P is a trustless fiat-to-crypto P2P onramp powered by ZK proofs. On this episode, Brian explains how ZKP2P leverages ZK proofs to translate DKIM signatures in Venmo and HDFC transaction confirmation emails to unlock onchain assets like ETH and USDC. ZKP2P lets depositors charge a fee, creating a financial incentive to draw liquidity int...

My guest today is Kristof Gazso , founder of Pimlico . Pimlico is an ERC-4337 smart account infrastructure provider. Pimlico offers a handful of services, including Alto, the most popular bundler by total executed user operations, a paymaster transaction sponsorship solution, and permissionless.js a new platform agnostic typescript library built on top of viem, that helps devs wire dapps up to sma...

My guests today are Ulas and Dogan, founder and founding engineer at Clave . Clave is a stablecoin wallet powered by passkeys and zkSync smart accounts. On this episode, Ulas and Dogan dive into the origins of Clave on Optimism, the UX advantages of account abstraction, and Rollup Improvement Proposal 7212, which aims to bring secp256r1 passkey elliptic curve verification to L2s. We also discuss t...

My guests today are Chris Chang and George Datskos , founders of GhostLogs . GhostLogs is a new platform that allows developers to fork contracts on various EVMs, inject their own custom events and view functions, and then interact with them via RPC, Dune Analytics, or Flipside. In this episode, Chris and George explain how their journey doing MEV on Binance Smart Chain and building NFT loan aggre...