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Today, I'm joined by Vivian Phung. Viv is the 23 year old solo founder of Snowball, a Web3 dev tools provider focused on mobile apps and webapps. Snowball's first product, Igloo, will give developers a simple solution for SSO authentication, AA smart wallet, and onramping in one SDK. Igloo is currently in private alpha on testnet. Prior to starting Snowball, Viv was co-founder of Dora, a m...

Today, I'm joined by Gami. Gami is a crypto creator and the founder of GnarsDAO, the skateboarding-centric nounish community. Gami is one of a small number of practitioners in an emerging discipline that I call "crypto production." Gami led the creation of several onchain happenings, including GnarsDAO, a DAO dedicated to onboarding skaters to Web3, Forgeries, a nounish open edition...

Today's episode is all about  EIP-7212 . To understand EIP-7212, first we need to talk about Passkeys. Passkeys are a new authentication standard designed to replace passwords. With passkeys, when you sign into an app or website, a passkey is generated on your device, and saved either locally, to a passkey manager, or to a hardware device like a Yubikey. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla a...

My guest today is Henri Stern , CEO of Privy . Privy is an authentication and embedded wallet SDK. With Privy, dapp developers can allow their users to sign in with their existing wallet, or generate an embedded wallet associated with an email, SMS, or SSO provider such as AppleID or Gmail. Privy's embedded wallet powers friend.tech, the breakout social dapp launched in August 2023. With Privy...

My guests today are John C. Palmer , Steve Klebanoff , and Danny Aranda , founding members of PartyDAO , creators of the Party Protocol . Party is a dapp for onchain group coordination. With Party, a small group of friends or a large group of strangers can come together to raise funds and buy an NFT, trade tokens, or complete any other onchain activity together. Party is a group wallet with onchai...

My guest today is Paul Razvan Berg . Paul is a longtime Solidity developer whose open source tools , including prb-math and prb-proxy, are integrated into many Ethereum contracts and protocols. Paul is also the co-founder and lead developer of Sablier, the token streaming protocol which launchced its v2 in July 2023. On this episode, Paul and I go in-depth on three topics. First, we discuss a hand...

My guest today is Tom S. Lehman, who goes by Middlemarch on Twitter. Tom is the creator of Ethscriptions, an NFT standard for inscribing base64 encoded URIs in the data field of EVM transactions. Prior to Ethscriptions, Tom was co-founder and CEO of popular lyrics site and content company Genius. Ethscriptions are inspired both by Bitcion Inscriptions and the Ethereum practice of appending hex enc...

My guest today is Decent co-founder and CTO Will Kantaros. Decent is an NFT service provider that has helped over a thousand creators deploy NFT projects to Polygon and other EVMs. According to Will, hundreds of thousands of collectors have minted over six million NFTs on Decent's contracts. Their new product The Box is a web checkout SDK that lets users pay for Mints and other transactions on...

My guest today is Christian Montoya , Senior Project Manager of Metamask Snaps . Metamask Snaps is a major upgrade to Metamask slated for September 2023. Snaps transforms Metamask into a programmable platform, roughly akin to an App Store. Snaps is an execution environment where third party developeres can, if granted permission by the user, run sandboxed Secure ECMAScript as a user prepares to ma...

My guest today is Reservoir founder Peter Watts . Reservoir is an NFT API provider that makes it easy to build cross-chain NFT interactivity into any app. On this episode, Peter shares how he got his start building music and streaming apps and how music NFTs led him to starting Reservoir with a co-founder he had never met in person. We discuss Reservoir's demand driven approach to development...

Ethereum's Roadmap with Domothy My guest today is Dom, who goes by Domothy online. Dom works on the Research Team at the Ethereum Foundation. He is passionate about Ethereum development and tries to keep tabs on all parts of the roadmap, and communicates these details between the many teams at the EF. This conversation comes in three parts. In the introduction, Dom and I discuss how he found h...

0xmons is my guest on this episode. 0xmons (aka Owen) is a blockchain artist and the founder of sudoswap , which just launched its v2. In this conversation, Owen and I cover the big questions: Why does the world need an NFT AMM? What's new in v2? Why the reverse course on honoring ERC-2981 royalties? We also roleplay LPing on sudoswap and walk through how LPs might choose the parameters of the...

Jayden Windle and Benny Giang of NFT studio Future Primitive join me on this episode to discuss ERC-6551: Non-fungible Token Bound Accounts, which they co-authored. ERC-6551 is a draft EIP that proposes a CREATE2 based proxy contract scheme to give every ERC-721 its own address on Ethereum, and other EVM chains. In short, this EIP turns every NFT into a smart contract wallet, which can hold NFTs a...

On today’s episode I sit down with David Horvath for an epic dive into the world of character IP. Since the late 90s, David and his wife and business partner Sun-Min Kim have been creating character brands in the US and Korea. Their two most famous creations are Uglydoll, which started as a handmade designer toy at Giant Robot, and Bossy Bear, which began life as a children’s book. David shares co...

My guests today are Ed Fornieles , Sam Spike , and Jake Allen, three of the four cofounders of Finiliar . Finiliar is an NFT collection of cute 3D characters whose mood and animations are driven by price action of popular cryptocurrencies. Ed Fornieles created the project first as a gallery exhibited artwork, and it has since grown into a character brand and software company. On this episode we di...

On today’s episode I’m joined by Paul Seidler and Sam Hart. Paul Seidler is an artist and design researcher. He is co-founder of terra0, an art project, DAO, and EVM framework for automated ecosystem management and simulation. He has worked at research groups including Hybrid Platform and Design Research Lab and has created onchain NFT artworks including Straylight Protocol, which explores multipl...

On today’s episode I’m joined by Julien Genestoux, founder of Unlock Protocol. Unlock is a protocol for memberships as time-bound NFTs. Creators can monetize their work with Unlock by deploying sovereign membership contracts that allow for trials, partial refunds, and membership trading, in addition to the various superpowers granted by the ERC721 ecosystem, such as airdrops, token gating, and gov...

On today’s episode, I’m joined by Sepana co-founder and CEO Daniel J. Keyes . Sepana is a decentralized search infrastructure provider. Developers can create Sepana engines, which are able to index data on any decentralized protocol to create Search APIs, or feed data into other Sepana engines. The community has built engines enabling users to search Mirror articles on L1, Optimism, and Arweave, L...

Today, I’m joined by Chris Carella , Osama , Bill Zh , Phil Mohun , Kmac , and Alex Paden to discuss Purple, a DAO dedicated to proliferating the Farcaster protocol and its ecosystem. Farcaster is a progressively decentralizing open-source social network protocol. Its account system is built on top of Ethereum. User identities are managed on L1, while Farcaster’s increasingly decentralized network...

On today’s show, I’m joined by María Paula, Trent Elmore, and Sam Spike to discuss JPG. JPG, or Juried Protocol Galleries, is an evolving set of experiments that seeks to bring curatorial memory to the NFT art scene. Often contrasting themselves with the highly financialized speculative art market for which NFTs are well known, the JPG team is dedicated to bringing art appreciation and long term c...

0xGioMedici is the founder of Abacus, a nascent NFT lending protocol experimenting with new ways to value and borrow against NFTs. On this episode, GioMedici joins me for a wide-ranging conversation about the latest developments in machine learning, new opportunities in blockchain design, and his own project, which recently soft launched on Ethereum mainnet. In the first part of this conversation,...

On today’s episode I’m joined by and Jorge Izquierdo and Alejandro Perezpayá .   Jorge Izquierdo is the co-founder of Aragon , the first full featured on-chain DAO governance system. On this episode, Jorge and Alejandro Perezpayá join me to discuss the history of Aragon and their new startup Firm . First, Jorge tells the story of how he and Luis Cuende pivoted from a building a startup to fight pa...

On today’s episode, I’m joined by Juan Fran Blanco. Juan is the creator of “Solidity”, the most popular Solidity-oriented VSCode extension in the world. The extension provides hundreds of thousands of Solidity developers daily access to syntax highlighting, autocomplete, and much more. Juan’s main focus is Nethereum, a .NET framework for interacting with EVM blockchains. Nethereum is useful for in...

On today’s episode I’m joined by Stelo Labs co-founders Ben Scharfstein and Aman Dhesi. Stelo Labs first product is Stelo, a browser extension that simulates transactions and provides clarifying contextual information and a risk assessment in a pop-up before the transaction request propagates to user’s wallet. They also provide an API that gives developers access to the transaction simulation and...

On today’s show, I’m joined by Munam Wasi, COO at Delegate Cash. Delegate Cash’s first product is an immutable NFT delegation registry. Users can delegate access rights to NFTs in their possession to other public addresses on the various EVM chains where Delegate Cash is deployed. Future airdrops and offchain token gating software can integrate delegate cash’s contracts, to allow people to interac...