In this episode, we spoke with Alan Szepieniec, co-founder of Neptune Cash. Main topics we discussed:

- The journey from cryptography to peer-to-peer digital money

- Neptune design principles, tradeoffs and parameter selection

- The road to launch and the war stories post launch

- Using ZK-STARKs at L1

- Mutator sets

- A lightweight smart contract system

- The roadmap towards full decentralization

Neptune's Twitter/X: https://x.com/seagodcrypto

Neptune Core: https://github.com/Neptune-Crypto/neptune-core/

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