In the sixth episode of the Kiln Rendez-Vous podcast, Edgar Roth from Kiln and Ben Rodriguez from Coinbase Cloud engage with Jon Kol, the Co-founder and CEO of Hyperlane, about the Hyperlane AVS.

Hyperlane is the first permissionless interoperability layer, enabling anyone to connect any blockchain out-of-the-box. With Hyperlane, developers can build Interchain Applications—apps that abstract away the complexity of interchain interactions and serve users on any connected chain.

In the fifth episode of the Kiln Rendez-Vous podcast, Edgar Roth engages with Himanshu Tyagi, Co-founder, and CTO of Witness Chain. The conversation delves into Tyagi's background and the factors that led him to explore optimistic rollups.

Witness Chain specializes in providing watchtowers for rollups, DePIN, and AI Coprocessors. These programmable watchtowers enhance transaction validation on rollups by monitoring and addressing faulty transactions. The episode discusses key aspects such as an overview of Witness Chain, the significance of watchtowers in rollups, pricing and incentives for their watchtower service, insights into the future of Witness Chain and DePIN chains, and the potential for cross-chain applications.

In this fourth episode of the Kiln Rendez-Vous podcast, Edgar Roth and pwnh from Kiln engage with Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh, Founder and CEO, Lagrange Labs , exploring his background and what led him to explore zero-knowledge state proofs for optimistic rollups.

Ismael highlights Lagrange Labs' focus on enhancing blockchain capabilities through advanced computing paradigms, allowing for more complex and efficient on-chain activities. He shares insights into the differences between optimistic and ZK rollups, stressing the importance of both in the blockchain ecosystem for accommodating a wide range of applications with varying requirements.

In this third episode of the Kiln Rendez-Vous podcast, Edgar Roth and Sebastien Rannou from Kiln engage with Teddy Knox, Senior Researcher at EigenLabs, exploring his background and what led him to build a data availability layer.

EigenDA, EigenLayer’s data availability solution, is emerging as a leading AVS, setting standards with its inaugural launch. In this episode, you'll gain an overview of EigenDA, expected to drastically reduce costs for rollup data posting, aiming to offer a more cost-effective solution than alternatives like Celestia.

In their conversation, Edgar Roth, Protocol Specialist at Kiln interviews Amrit Kuma, COO at AltLayer. Amrit shares his journey into the field, starting first with computer science. They explore AltLayer's Rollup as a Service (RaaS) platform and its AVS offerings, focusing on decentralized sequencing, verification, and faster finality. Tune in to learn more about AltLayer value proposition and future of AVSs!

A Conversation with Sreeram from EigenLayer and Laszlo from Kiln

Kiln CEO Laszlo Szabo interviews EigenLayer CEO Sreeram Kannan about restaking and AVSes. Restaking allows leveraging an existing stake to support additional services on EigenLayer, referred to as Actively Validated Services (AVS). By opting for restaking, participants have the opportunity to accumulate extra rewards in addition to their current ones.

2:18 The importance of collaboration in crypto

8:18 What's an AVS?

24:47 EigenDA and launching an AVS

43:42 The future of the EigenLayer ecosystem

50:04 Difference between Bitcoin and Ethereum staking

Podcast Info

Restake your liquid staking token until Feb 9: