Over Abstraction

James (emo.eth) is a smart contract developer working on Seaport. On this episode we talk:

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Timecodes

0:00 Intro

1:59 James’ background

3:31 Why Seaport

5:16 What is the architecture of Seaport

7:48 Sufficient decentralization

11:39 Protocol constraints and zones

17:41 NFT standards

19:05 Harberger taxes

21:17 Royalties

23:26 Orbs

25:17 Enforcing fees

28:48 The issue of testing

30:39 Constraint satisfaction Problems (CSPs)

34:11 Rust

36:51 Shipyard

38:54 The importance of developer experience in crypto

40:18 What experiments James would like to see

42:13 Underrated dev tools

43:32 Follow James

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

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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

Richard Meissner is a co-founder of Safe. In this episode, we discuss:

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0:00 Intro

1:56 Welcome Richard

2:46 Richard’s background

5:21 How Safe has evolved

8:02 Overview of current standards and EIPs

15:53 Fragmentation, vendor lock in and security

21:47 Overview of Safe Protocol

27:44 Complexity of modules

35:03 Incentivizing the ecosystem

41:36 The future of cross chain account abstraction

45:47 How far along are we?

50:53 Tools that developers should check out

52:06 Follow Richard

52:43 Outro

Horsefacts.eth is an independent smart contract engineer. In this episode, we discuss:

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Links to Horsefacts’ recommended tools:

Certora - https://www.certora.com/

Halmos - https://github.com/a16z/halmos

Foundry - https://github.com/foundry-rs/foundry

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Timecodes

0:00 Intro

1:39 Welcome Horsefacts

2:09 Horsefacts’ background

8:33 Smart contract design in DeFi compared to consumer applications

12:11 Intro to Farcaster

13:06 Farcaster Hubs

13:53 Sufficient decentralization on Farcaster

16:13 When to use standards

20:10 FIDs

22:40 Comparing Farcaster with other web3 social apps

24:00 EdDSA vs. ECDSA

25:13 Migrating data to new contracts on Farcaster

28:12 Tradeoffs between L1s and L2s

29:33 Testing on an L2 vs. an L1

30:57 Benefits of working in the EVM

33:37 Approaches to testing

38:20 Formal verification

39:49 Tools worth checking out

41:45 Follow Horsefacts

42:33 Outro

Andrew is currently building at Dune. In this episode, we discuss:

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

1:16 Welcome Andrew

1:49 Andrew’s background

3:27 Life as a data scientist at Mirror.xyz

4:58 Optimization of infrastructure

6:50 Learnings from optimistic signing architecture

11:33 Brief overview of Dune

13:04 Deeper dive into Dune

15:38 Why teams use Dune

16:49 Coming soon: data privacy on Dune

18:42 New types of data moving forward on Dune

22:42 Thoughts on the Safe Protocol whitepaper

28:04 Privacy specific ZKPs

30:11 Privacy and accountability

31:59 The intersection of onchain analytics and AI

42:31 Advice for technical builders creating for non-technical consumers

45:16 The most interesting Dune Dashboards

45:49 The most cursed Dune Dashboard

46:36 Surprising Solana Analytics

48:51 Tools other devs should be using

49:47 Follow Andrew

50:15 Outro

DISCLAIMER: The information in this video is the opinion of the speaker(s) only and is for informational purposes only. You should not construe it as investment advice, tax advice, or legal advice, and it does not represent any entity's opinion but those of the speaker(s). For investment or legal advice, please seek a duly licensed professional.

On this episode, we highlight best practices and patterns for contract development as told by 6 leaders in protocol design:

2. Santiago Palladino from Aztec

3. DCBuilder from Worldcoin

4. Steve Klebanoff from PartyDAO

5. Jenny Pollack from DappHub

6. Wilson Cusack from Coinbase

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Timecodes

(00:56) Breaking into crypto as a developer (DC Builder)

(04:00) Getting started with a smart contract project (Wilson Cusack)

(05:46) Learning zero knowledge proofs (Santiago Palladino)

(08:43) Designing modular systems and protocols (Steve Klebanoff)

(12:52) Legal Design Principles for Smart Contract Developers (Ross Campbell)

(17:29) Upgradability Patterns and Versioning (Jenny Pollack)

(21:29) Maintaining objectivity for upgradability (Santiago Palladino)

(22:46) Account Abstractions and Intents (Jenny Pollack)

(33:33) Gas Optimization Tradeoffs (Ross Campbell)

(37:52) Learnings from protocol design (Wilson Cusack)

(41:12) Ending

Wilson is currently building at Coinbase. On this episode, we discuss:

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(0:00) - Episode Highlight

(0:42) - What to expect from this episode

(1:37) - Meet Wilson Cusack from Coinbase

(7:13) - Building projects for fun in the crypto ecosystem

(10:50) - Shipping solidity fast and breaking things

(12:38) - Influence of Squeeth on building Papr and Backed

(26:29) - Key learnings from solidity development and protocol design

(29:34) - On-Chain Infrastructure

(31:31) - Pushing boundaries of NFT lending

(34:18) - Building Noun 4 and voters.wtf

(36:37) - Contributing to DAOs as a developer

(37:43) - Design patterns for smart contracts

(39:44) - What solidity engineers can learn from chess

(40:43) - Connect with Wilson online

Steve Klebanoff is currently building at Party DAO. On this episode, we talk about a multitude of topics such as:

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Timecodes

(00:00) - Episode Highlight

(00:46) - Intro

(00:56) - What to expect from this episode

(01:39) - Meet Steve Klebanoff from PartyDAO

(13:45) - Designing smart contracts vs creative projects

(16:23) - Party DAO Overview

(23:46) - Building new primitives for PartyBid

(26:04) - Party Protocol Overview

(29:46) - Generalized smart contracts for niche use cases

(31:41) - Building using existing tools vs building in-house

(37:13) - Opinionated development

(45:41) - Designing modular systems

(50:03) - Upgradability within PartyDAO

(52:17) - Connect with Steve online

(53:12) - Ending

Jenny Pollack has worked as the Head of Product for AAVE, Security Researcher for Dapp Hub, and as a Software Engineer at Metamask. On this episode, we talk about a multitude of topics such as:

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Timecodes

(00:00) - Episode Highlight

(00:36) - Intro

(00:45) - What to expect from this episode

(01:30) - Meet Jenny Pollack

(04:50) - Dapp Hub overview

(08:13) - Upgradability and versioning patterns

(12:30) - Forking best practices

(16:02) - Evolution of the crypto ecosystem

(19:54) - Account Abstraction

(23:58) - Intents

(26:35) - Future of account abstraction

(31:06) - Applications vs Wallets

(34:23) - Creating standards at AAVE

(39:30) - Vertical Integration of Wallets

(44:12) - Dynamic between Account Abstraction and Intents

(49:12) - Exciting initiatives in crypto

(53:07) - Connect with Jenny online

(53:40) - Ending

DCbuild3r is a researcher and engineer at ⁠Worldcoin⁠. On this episode, we discuss:

Disclaimer: DCbuild3r does not speak on behalf of Worldcoin, only for himself. For more information on Worldcoin, visit https://whitepaper.worldcoin.org/.

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Timecodes

(00:00:00)-Episode Highlight

(00:01:01)-Intro

(00:01:10)-What to expect from this episode

(00:01:57)-Meet DC Builder from Worldcoin

(00:05:09)-Transitioning from research to development

(00:07:10)-Early experiences in crypto

(00:08:48)-Development design patterns

(00:12:01)-Hands on learning for devs

(00:18:14)-Overview of Worldcoin

(00:27:01)-Worldcoin App

(00:28:18)-End to end Worldcoin user flow and data handling

(00:34:09)-What Worldcoin does with your data

(00:36:50)-Improving the Worldcoin algorithm

(00:41:38)-Tradeoffs between privacy and user experience

(00:44:39)-Sources of trust in Worldcoin

(00:48:10)-Orb Tamper Mechanism

(00:49:27)-System for Auditing Worldcoin

(00:55:27)-Worldcoin token

(00:58:18)-Dealing with skepticism around crypto

(01:00:18)-Improving Worldcoins public perspective

(01:03:51)-Connect with DCBuilder online