In this video I explain zkTLS. I first explain what zkTLS does at a high-level, then explain a bit about how it works in relation to TLS. Then I go over a bunch of use-cases.

In this video I talk about some major trends in crypto and AI, and why it is critically important that we have verifiable AI (through systems like EigenLayer). Without verifiability we risk building an unstoppable turn-key authoritarian system. But if we use crypto tools to build verifiable AI we can build something great.

In this video I explain why Ethereum, not Bitcoin, has the superior monetary policy. Blockchains have to choose between certainty of security and certainty of issuance. If they opt for certainty of issuance (capped supply) like Bitcoin, they sacrifice security and compromise the whole system. The correct engineering approach is the one taken by Ethereum. Security must be reliably funded, which means no absolute certainty of supply. Supply growth can then be offset by a fee burn, and if the system has sufficient usage, token inflation can be flat or negative. This is the way.

In this video I explain how smart contracts have limited access to data and how Brevis expands this access to include historical state, blockchain history, and even other chains. I also explain the 2 modes which Brevis has for this data access: a pure zk mode, and an optimistic mode.

In this video I explain 4844/protodanksharding, full danksharding, and EigenDA.

In this video I talk about the L2 landscape for Ethereum and why it's currently dominated by Optimistic roll-ups, but will likely evolve toward ZK roll-ups. I then break down some of the costs that roll-ups pay to Ethereum, specifically compute costs. Then we look at Aligned Layer and how it can reduce these compute costs for ZK roll-ups by allowing for "optimistic" ZK proof verification.

In this video I explain the limitations of smart contracts in terms of what data they can access, and then how Lagrange expands that access to a wider set of data including historical data.

In this video I talk about good & evil. I use some of the characters from Watchmen to illustrate the difference between deontological ethics and consequentialism. I talk about communism and the loss of religion in the West. I talk about Sam Harris' highest value being that of maximization of well-being, and why I think that's the wrong goal. Finally I talk about Nietzsche's position on all this, and why he would have disagreed with Sam Harris and with the Buddhists.

An explanation of what MEV, where it fundamentally comes from (including the two main categories of MEV), the mev-boost pipeline, trust assumptions, censorship, and future upgrades.

In this video I explain why I think EigenLayer represents the 4th major paradigm in cryptoeconomic capital efficiency.