Tom and Jake are maintainers of wagmi, viem, and rivet. On this episode we talk:

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Timecodes [WIP]

0:00 Intro

2:12 Tom’s background

4:01 Jake’s background

5:38 How wagmi got started

9:18 Overview of wagmi

11:02 Benefits of wagmi

12:42 Overview of viem

18:03 Optimizing viem

19:24 RLP serialization

21:21 Strong typing in the Ethereum ecosystem

24:23 The drama with DHH

27:08 Rivet

32:17 Typescript and Rust

34:12 anviljs

36:11 Areas where web3 dev experience could be improved

39:05 Wagmi CLI

43:00 Shilling cool tools

47:46 Outro