Over Abstraction

Tim Beiko runs the all core dev calls at the Ethereum Foundation. In this episode we discuss:

-the Ethereum roadmap

-the impact of protocol upgrades

-blobs

-summer of protocols

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0:00 Intro

2:05 Tim’s background

7:13 Tim’s experience running all core dev calls at the EF

11:37 Ethereum implementations that are top of mind

14:23 The Ethereum roadmap

17:35 Spinning up a client in “stateless mode”

19:43 Setting priorities in all core dev calls

22:41 Blobs

31:08 How impactful is this protocol upgrade?

34:43 Protocol guild

41:02 Summer of Protocols

44:24 Spiciest Summer of Protocols take

53:14 Follow Tim

Nader is the head of Developer Relations at Avara. On this episode, we discuss:

- decentralized social

- web3 gaming

- DevRel at Avara

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0:00 Intro

4:00 Nader’s background

7:45 Avara

9:22 Lens

12:06 The fetaverse

12:36 Decentralized social

17:07 What can be on-chain and off-chain in decentralized social

18:15 How Lens works

21:10 Helping devs choose an infrastructure to build on

25:57 What does sufficient decentralization mean to you?

30:46 Decentralization and web3 gaming

33:55 The latency issue with web3 gaming

36:37 Intents

39:12 Data migration

40:57 Axie Infinity

43:09 The Avara acquisition of Family

45:54 Advice for devs entering web3

49:20 Nader’s GitHub

51:10 Follow Nader

51:29 Outro

Hudson is a VP at Polygon Labs, he previously ran the Ethereum all devs calls at the EF.

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0:00 Intro

2:49 Hudson’s background

8:04 EIP 1

11:43 Learnings from running all core dev calls at EF

17:13 How all dev core dev calls have evolved over time

22:46 Looking to the future of Ethereum

30:25 Pros and cons of enshrining things to the protocol

35:17 Being VP of community at Polygon

40:24 How Ethereum has evolved over time

45:50 Follow Hudson!

46:12 Hudson’s cats and Outro

Preston is an Ethereum Core Dev and co-founder at Prysm Labs.

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0:00 Intro

2:26 Preston’s journey

9:49 Prysm’s beginnings

13:01 The turning point for Prysm

15:16 Prysm V1

18:09 Ethereum speck history

27:05 Client Diversity

32:33 Post merge

37:36 Offchain Labs acquires Prysm

42:10 Preston’s learnings and advice

44:47 How devs can contribute to the space

47:24 Follow Preston

47:53 Outro

Alberto is the co-founder and tech lead of Yield Protocol. In this episode, we talk:

Check out Alberto's article: https://hackernoon.com/borrowing-on-ethereum-comparing-architecture-evolution-of-makerdao-yield-aave-compound-and-euler

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0:00 Intro

3:05 Alberto’s background

7:39 DeFi lending lanscape from a high level

13:15 Over collateralization

14:29 DeFi’s target user

17:01 Introduction of the money market concept in 2018

19:32 Compound V2

26:42 Pooled liquidity on Aave V1

31:38 Single and multi collateral Dai

36:20 DeFi summer

39:40 Yield V2 and Aave V2

42:41 Collateral as a token

46:49 Follow Alberto

47:40 Outro

Kevin and Zakk from Gitcoin join the show to discuss:

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0:00 Intro

2:05 Kevin’s background

3:09 Zakk’s background

6:13 Under the hood of Allo

8:24 Learnings from building Allo

9:43 Difference between singleton and factory pattern

11:21 Benefits of using singleton pattern

15:04 Open contribution and Gitcoin’s evolution

19:18 Configuration vs. convention

22:28 The future of Allo

25:04 Allo’s structure for community contribution

28:22 When code becomes governable

34:11 Modularity within the Gitcoin ecosystem

37:30 Underrated tools

38:19 Zakk’s spicy takes

39:03 Kevin’s cooler takes

41:45 Follow Zakk, Kevin, Allo and Gitcoin

42:43 Outro

Miguel is the tech lead at Diva and CEO at Shamir Labs (the organization building Diva). In this episode, we discuss:

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Timecodes

0:00 Intro

2:47 Miguel’s background

4:47 What problem in Diva solving?

6:51 Today’s liquid staking landscape

9:24 The dangers of increasing centralized staked eth

11:06 Distributed validator technology (DVT)

11:59 Diva

13:52 Cost to run a diva node

17:30 Specifics of how Diva works

25:07 Distributed key generation

26:35 Choosing a cryptographic standard

30:38 Side effects and benefits to working on Diva

32:53 Incentivizing operators

34:30 Diva tokens

35:30 Rebasing alternative

37:40 Closing thoughts

42:38 Follow Miguel and Diva

43:26 Outro

Asta is the co-founder and CTO of Privy. In this episode, we discuss:

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0:00 Intro

2:48 Privy overview

3:39 Asta’s Background

4:16 Embedded wallets

5:39 How Privy works

9:15 Privy as the bridge between web2 and web3

11:14 How key generation happens within Privy

16:41 Privy experience across devices

21:17 Different levels of security for different apps

23:51 friend.tech security

26:17 Attack concerns

28:52 Attacks on embedded wallets

32:50 Interoperability

38:56 The future of wallets

43:06 Building wallets vs. building autonomous vehicles

45:30 Follow Asta

45:50 Outro

In this episode, Kevin and Chase dive into Vitalik’s article: Should Ethereum be okay with enshrining more things in the protocol?

We discuss:

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0:00 Intro

1:44 Enshrinement at a high level

3:21 Protocol minimalism

4:48 Tradeoffs with introducing these standards at the protocol level

7:38 Why enshrinement is cost beneficial

10:31 Community response and responsibility

11:58 Hard forking

14:29 Benefits of enshrinement

17:57 When enshrinement could backfire

19:30 Closing Thoughts

22:03 Outro

Vitalik’s Blog Post: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/09/30/enshrinement.html

This episode is a re-run with Santiago Palladino, who is an engineer at Aztec Network. In this episode, we discuss:

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Timecodes

(00:00) - Episode Highlight

(00:35) - Intro

(00:46) - What to expect from this episode

(01:28) - Meet Santiago Palladino from Aztec Network

(05:22) - Creating standards at Open Zeppelin

(09:12) - Upgradable contracts and standardization

(10:26) - Building Aztec

(14:54) - Paradigm shifts in zero knowledge proofs

(19:38) - Unconstrained development

(23:39) - UX of public and private transactions

(28:08) - Exciting use cases of zero knowledge proofs

(30:36) - Building an ecosystem to enable zero knowledge proofs

(34:33) - Trade-offs when building Noir

(36:13) - Learning curve for Noir

(38:25) - Future vision for zero knowledge

(42:20) - What data should be public vs private?

(46:45) - Start building ZKP applications

(50:31) - Development war stories

(56:01) - Connect with Santiago online

(56:33) - Ending