Blackbox Podcast

Technology EN ↓ 7 episodes

The Blackbox Podcast is where builders of the future come to talk shop — no fluff, no hype, just real technical insight. Whether you’re a solo creator, startup innovator, or enterprise architect, we want your perspective on the systems shaping confidential computing and SAFE AGI.Each episode dives into the architectures that matter — from TEE CPU/GPU deployments (SGX, TDX, SEV, etc.) to Zero Trust frameworks and privacy-first design principles. We’re here to explore how these technologies actually work in practice, and to spotlight the visions driving them forward.

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E07 — Peyman Momeni: Confidential Intents & DeFi’s Trust Layer 14.11.2025 1:18:09

In E07 — Peyman Momeni: Confidential Intents & DeFi’s Trust Layer , Dylan sits down with Peyman Momeni , CEO & Founder of Fairblock , to ask what happens if crypto doesn’t have to be an open book. Today’s stablecoins leak salaries, treasury moves, and trading strategies to anyone watching the chain. Peyman explains how Fairblock uses confidential stablecoins and confidential intents so amo...

E06 with Jens Groth: Scaling Zero-Knowledge Proofs with Instruction Sorting 25.10.2025 1:12:25

In this episode, Dylan sat down with Jens Groth (pronounced “Yens”)—Chief Scientist at Nexus , creator of the Groth16 SNARK—to map how verifiable computation reaches internet scale. We unpack Nexus’s zkVM (RISC-V), its distributed prover network (orchestrator + workers) for low-latency proving, and why proofs-of-proofs are the practical path to tiny, fast-verifying artifacts. Jens explains the com...

E05 with Blormmy: Private AI Agent for Finance 10.10.2025 55:32

In this episode of Black Box, the discussion centers on Blormmy, an AI-powered wallet system that merges artificial intelligence, crypto infrastructure, and confidential computing. The conversation explores how Blormmy enables users to perform on-chain actions simply by expressing intent—transforming the wallet from a manual interface into an autonomous agent that acts securely on behalf of the us...

E04 with Andrew Miller: "Your Al is Weak, Until You Add Zero Trust." 22.09.2025 1:55:51

This is the Blackbox Podcast — where we peel back the hidden layers of technology, society, and the human psyche to unravel the forces shaping confidential AI. In this episode, host Dylan Kawalec sits down with researcher and entrepreneur Andrew Miller for a deep dive into confidential computing, trusted execution environments (TEEs), and the future of private AI. Andrew has been at the forefron...

E03 with zkVerify: Proving the Prover 10.09.2025 1:17:38

In this deep-dive episode, our host Dylan Kawalec sits down with Arman Aurobindo from zkVerify to explore the cutting-edge intersection of zero-knowledge proofs and trusted execution environments (TEEs).zkVerify handles verification for all major proof types (Groth16, RISC Zero, SP1) while eliminating the expensive 20-30% proof wrapping overhead and reducing verification costs by over 90% compared...

E02 with Spout Finance: Coprocessing RWAs 28.08.2025 1:13:39

In this episode of the Black Box Podcast, we dive into the architecture of private rails for real-world assets. Paul Mierlo, co-founder of Spout Finance, explains how corporate bond ETFs like LQD are mirrored on Ethereum as permissioned ERC-3643 tokens backed by on-chain identities. We explore the full pipeline: identity verification, eligibility minting, permissioned tokens, encrypted order flow,...

E01 with Gaia: Building Privacy and Trust in AI 19.08.2025 41:35

In this episode, we dive into the architecture of decentralized AI systems and what it takes to build privacy-preserving infrastructure at scale. Harish Kotra, Head of Developer Relations at Gaia Network, walks us through the technical pieces behind training safe AI—from vector databases and inference nodes to tool-calling and domain design. We explore why centralization creates risks for privacy,...