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My guest today is Itai Turbahn , co-founder and CEO of Dynamic . Dynamic is a Web3 login provider that offers embedded wallets, account management, and webhooks. In this episode, Itai and I talk about the present and future of wallets, authentication, multichain, passkeys, AA smart accounts, and more. It was nice getting to learn more about Itai's journey building Dynamic. I hope you enjoy the...

My guest today is Hilmar Maximilian Orth , founder of Gelato Network and Arrakis Finance. Gelato is a service provider that helps protocol developers automate smart contract and rollup maintenance. Gelato's network of nodes automate and relay EVM transactions to many EVMs. Gelato also supplies rollup as a service tools to help new rollups launch with the necessary infrastructure to attract thi...

My guest today is Eito Miyamura , co-creator of ZK Microphone. ZK Microphone is an EthGlobal Paris hackathon project that prototypes generating hardware signed audio recordings, which uniquely link a file of captured audio to the device that recorded it. This application is enabled by hardware security modules, also known as trusted execution environments and secure enclaves. In this conversation,...

My guest today is Ryan Smith, founder of Index Supply . Index Supply is a company dedicated to open source indexing the EVM. Index Supply builds on Ryan's years of experience building backends and indexing services at Heroku, Chain, and Mint.fun, and through consulting with Zora, Reservoir, and more. On this episode we discuss Shovel, Index Supply's open source indexer that transcribes eve...

My guest today is Nazar Ilamanov , Solidity and Web3 dev and creator of Monobase. Monobase is a collection of tools for reading smart contracts. It includes a universal frontend for contract interactions, a scheme for creating onchain HTML interfaces, and a forthcoming VSCode extension for writing contract interactions in Solidity. It was fun getting to chat with Nazar about his experimentation ar...

My guests today are Nick Hollins and Ivano Salonia , co-founders of UFO . UFO is an onchain radio network and a spiritual offspring of indie radio. In this episode, Nick, Ivano, and I discuss the work of creating podcasts that grow onchain brands and build community. We consider how Web3 communities make use of Web2, how NFT drops create momentum, and how media consumption habits have changed in t...

My guests today are Bryce Ferguson and Jack Kearney , CEO and CTO of Turnkey . Turnkey is a private key as a service provider designed to let app devs and enterprise customers create, manage, and use private keys with a simple API. Turnkey leverages Amazon Nitro, a Trusted Execution Environment as a service, to give customers of all sizes a Secure Enclave in the cloud. This is particularly useful...

My guest today is Bunny, aka @ConejoCapital , CEO of Dora . Dora is a user friendly block explorer and blockchain search engine. On this episode, Bunny and I discuss multichain block explorers, unified blockchain interaction interfaces, and the challenges of blockchain indexing. We discuss Dora's search product and it's data product, and it's adventures beyond the EVM. It was fun getti...

My guest today is Derek Chiang, CEO of ZeroDev. ZeroDev is a smart account provider whose SDK makes it easy for app devs to integrate social authentication, Passkey signers, paymaster gas sponsorships, transaction bundling, and third party plugins. In this conversation, Derek and I discuss 4337 in depth from the perspective of the app dev. We talk about the difference between wallet signer provide...

Subscribe at web3galaxybrain.com Today's episode is a roundtable discussion about EIP-3074: AUTH and AUTHCALL and EIP-4337: Account Abstraction Using Alt Mempool , two very different approaches to enabling smart contract accounts. To discuss the past, present, and future of 3074 and 4337, I'm joined by Matt Garnett, aka lightclients, developer contributor working on Go Ethereum, Gregory Ma...

My guest today is Biconomy co-founder and CEO Ahmed Al-Balaghi . Since 2019, Biconomy has executed over 40 million metatransactions to help devs make crypto UX easier for their users. Today, Biconomy is one of the top Account Abstraction service providers, boasting significant markeshare across popular EVM chains. In this episode, Ahmed and I sit down to discuss Biconomy's ERC-4337 smart accou...

Web3 Galaxy Brain on Gitcoin My guests today are Jacob Frantz and Zak Salmon , founders of FirstMate . FirstMate lets Creators build and host their own secondary NFT marketplaces. Creator-owned marketplaces can display all of an artist or team's collections across minting platforms, enforce royalties, and source liquidity from the most popular marketplaces thanks to Reservoir. In its initial v...

My guest today is Nitya Subramanian , founder of Capsule . Capsule is an embedded wallet SDK that leverages Passkeys, MPC, and AA Smart Accounts to simplify the user experience around wallet creation and transaction signing. Apps that integrate Capsule's embedded wallet SDK authenticate users by their email address. Capsule creates a Passkey for each user, which is configured as a signer on a...

My guest today is Furqan Rydhan , co-founder of Thirdweb . Thirdweb is a popular web3 toolkit for app developers. Thirdweb is used by big brands and indie developers to drop NFTs, enable log-in, and power decentralized games. By the numbers, in September 2023, Thirdweb had 50,000 active developers and 5 million active end-users interacting with products built atop its tools. In this conversation,...

My guests today are DC Posch and Nalin Bhardwaj, co-founders of Daimo. Daimo is a stablecoin focused iOS wallet built with Passkeys and AA Smart Accounts. On this episode, DC, Nalin, and I discuss their new p256Verifier contract, which is an audited Solidity implementation of p256r1 verification. We discuss the ins-and-outs of gas optimized onchain p256 verification, compare their contract to the...

My guest today is Pedro Gomes , better known as @pedrouid on twitter. Pedro is the founder of WalletConnect , the most important software for connecting wallets to dapps. On this episode, Pedro joins the show to discuss WalletConnect's origins and the architectural changes introduced in WalletConnect v2. We also go in-depth on the recently finalized EIP-6963: Multi Injected Provider Discovery,...

My guest today is Konrad Kopp , co-founder of Rhinestone. Rhinestone is an exciting project that's researching and developing smart account modules atop the ERC-4337 Account Abstraction standard. AA modules promise to allow smart contract account owners to safely add new functionality and permissions to their accounts, without having to upgrade to new smart contracts. The module pattern descri...

Smart contract wallets are gaining traction amongst devs, because they offer several advantages over traditional EOA accounts. ERC-4337, the Account Abstraction EIP, proposes a standard for creating smart contract accounts that can have interchangeable signers and authentication schemes, allow for gas to be paid by third parties, and create a new mempool of transactions that can be bundled and put...

My guest today is artist, Rhea Myers . Rhea is a programmer, essayist, researcher, thinker, and art practitioner who has been working in the medium of blockchains for over a decade. In this conversation, Rhea takes us through some of the works and writing in her 2011-2021 retrospective, Proof of Work , which is a gorgeous book in the print edition. I've been wanting to interview Rhea for some...

My guests today are James McComish and Peter Ferguson , co-founders of Forum . Forum is an iPhone app where every groupDM has its own shared wallet. James and Peter are among the most knowledgeable builders working with WebAuthn and Passkeys that I've encountered. On this episode, we discuss the ins-and-outs of WebAuthn in production, including largeBlob, cross origin domains, session keys, an...

The Consumer Crypto Stack lets devs make crypto apps regular people can enjoy. In this talk, I explain the 100x UX improvement enabled by Passkeys, Smart Contract Wallets, L2s, and Gasless interaction design. X.com Video YouTube Zora NFT PDF Slides Today's special episode is the audio version of a research tech talk that I published on October 5, 2023, entitled The Consumer Crypto Stack: The 1...

My guest today is Sam Hart . Sam is a developer, artist, and biochemist. He is Head of Product & Strategy at Skip Protocol and co-founder at Timewave Labs . He has contributed to the Cosmos ecosystem for years, and is also co-founder of Folia , a blockchain art collective. On September 1, 2023, Sam wrote a long and detailed post to the MakerDAO forums pitching Cosmos as an interesting option f...

My guest today is Scott Sunarto . Scott is the founder of Argus Labs , a decentralized gaming company. He was contributor to Dark Forest. On this episode, Scott joins me to discuss his Cookie Clicker Rollup, a toy L2 he built to better understand and demonstrate the architecture of optimistic rollups. We discuss optimistic and zk rollups, censorship resistance, offchain execution, sovereignty, the...

My guest today is Jose Aguinaga . Jose is Head of Digital Custody Services at SEBA Bank in Switzerland. He was previously Head of Engineering at HOPR. Jose is also the creator of passkeys.is and mpc.is, two valuable educational resources that describe and demonstrate passkeys and multi-party computation, respectively. On this episode, Jose and I go deep on elliptic curve cryptography, ECDSA, passk...

My guests today are Himanshu Retarekar and Jebu Ittiachen , two of three co-founders of Obvious . Obvious is a smart wallet company with three products. The Obvious Wallet is a multi-chain 4337 account abstraction smart wallet that was among the earliest full featured AA consumer products on the market. Obvious Embed is an AA wallet that third-party devs can integrate into their own dapps. Obvious...