Today’s guest is with 0xBeans - a smart contract engineer who worked at Coinbase in the early days and now does work across the space as a solidity engineer.

Beans is the creator of the IAmTheOptimizer challenge, which took off earlier this year and saw the industry’s most high profile devs taking a crack at it.

In this episode, we discuss gas optimization, MEV, and building secure smart contracts. Beans is definitely a crypto native, and if you are too, I think you’ll like this episode. 

00:00 Intro
4:01 how beans got into crypto 
6:30 working at Coinbase & early projects
11:50 NFTs and smart contract security
16:55 how to get started w security/more security thoughts
20:33 IAmTheOptimizer
26:03 MEV
33:19 Designing with MEV in mind
37:22 Blind Vickery Auctions
44:17 What other developments is Beans excited about?
48:06 How Beans gets better as a dev
52:06 What does Beans want to learn next? Huff, Zk, Rust, Sway
58:02 What does Beans hope that the industry looks like in 10 years?

0xBeans on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0x_Beans