Sharing Secrets - Presented by Secret Network

Episode 4 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Mike Dudas, Founder of The Block. Tor asks Mike: What brought him to the blockchain space, and what secrets did he learn along the way? What makes building a media company in the blockchain space particularly challenging? Will decentralized finance play a pivotal role in mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies? And how has the mainstream world already become more like the blockchain space - including the gamification of markets?

The Block: https://theblockcrypto.com

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Sharing Secrets - a new series from the Secret Foundation - explores the biggest secrets of the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Featuring everything from interviews, to monologues, to special guests, to technical explainers, to surprises, and beyond.

The Secret Foundation is a key organization in the Secret Network ecosystem. It is dedicated to building, researching, and scaling adoption of open-source, privacy-centric technologies and networks. Its guiding values are Usability, Sustainability, Impact, and Empowerment.

Secret Network is the first blockchain to allow privacy-preserving smart contracts. That means applications built on Secret can utilize encrypted data without revealing it to anyone, even the nodes in the network. Using groundbreaking privacy technologies (such as trusted execution environments), Secret Network allows developers to build new types of powerful, permissionless, privacy-preserving applications - Secret Apps.

Join our communities and help us build!

Homepage: scrt.network

Official Chat: chat.scrt.network

Community Telegram: t.me/scrtcommunity

Official Twitter: twitter.com/secretnetwork

Episode 3 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Zaki Manian, cofounder of Iqlusion, formerly of Tendermint Labs. Tor asks Zaki: What brought him to the blockchain space, and what secrets did he learn along the way? What's the best way to develop products and processes in a decentralized ecosystem? How is DeFi on Cosmos manifesting with IBC and beyond? And importantly, what kind of role can Secret Network and privacy play in building more sustainable and more usable open economies?

Iqlusion: https://www.iqlusion.io

IBC: https://cosmos.network/ibc

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Sharing Secrets - a new series from the Secret Foundation - explores the biggest secrets of the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Featuring everything from interviews, to monologues, to special guests, to technical explainers, to surprises, and beyond.

The Secret Foundation is a key organization in the Secret Network ecosystem. It is dedicated to building, researching, and scaling adoption of open-source, privacy-centric technologies and networks. Its guiding values are Usability, Sustainability, Impact, and Empowerment.

Secret Network is the first blockchain to allow privacy-preserving smart contracts. That means applications built on Secret can utilize encrypted data without revealing it to anyone, even the nodes in the network. Using groundbreaking privacy technologies (such as trusted execution environments), Secret Network allows developers to build new types of powerful, permissionless, privacy-preserving applications - Secret Apps.

Join our communities and help us build!

Homepage: https://scrt.network

Official Chat: https://chat.scrt.network

Community Telegram: https://t.me/scrtcommunity

Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/secretnetwork

Episode 2 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Ed Moncada, cofounder of Blockfolio, now with FTX after a $150M acquisition.. Tor asks Ed: What’s the biggest secret you learned while at Blockfolio? When did you know you had a hit? How does he feel about his transition to FTX and the opportunity to work with Sam Bankman-Fried? What's the future of DEXes and CEXes? And what is Ed excited to build next?

Blockfolio: www.blockfolio.com

FTX: www.ftx.com

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Sharing Secrets - a new series from the Secret Foundation - explores the biggest secrets of the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Featuring everything from interviews, to monologues, to special guests, to technical explainers, to surprises, and beyond.

The Secret Foundation is a key organization in the Secret Network ecosystem. It is dedicated to building, researching, and scaling adoption of open-source, privacy-centric technologies and networks. Its guiding values are Usability, Sustainability, Impact, and Empowerment.

Secret Network is the first blockchain to allow privacy-preserving smart contracts. That means applications built on Secret can utilize encrypted data without revealing it to anyone, even the nodes in the network. Using groundbreaking privacy technologies (such as trusted execution environments), Secret Network allows developers to build new types of powerful, permissionless, privacy-preserving applications - Secret Apps.

Join our communities and help us build!

Homepage: https://scrt.network

Official Chat: https://chat.scrt.network

Community Telegram: https://t.me/scrtcommunity

Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/secretnetwork

Episode 1 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Guy Zyskind, CEO of Enigma. Tor asks Guy: Why is privacy important to him? What has he learned in the past few years of developing secret contracts? How does he feel now that they're finally launching to mainnet? What does he think of DeFi? And where does he see Secret Network playing a huge role in both our present and our future?

Sharing Secrets - a new series from the Secret Foundation - explores the biggest secrets of the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Featuring everything from interviews, to monologues, to special guests, to technical explainers, to surprises, and beyond.

The Secret Foundation is a key organization in the Secret Network ecosystem. It is dedicated to building, researching, and scaling adoption of open-source, privacy-centric technologies and networks. Its guiding values are Usability, Sustainability, Impact, and Empowerment.

Secret Network is the first blockchain to allow privacy-preserving smart contracts. That means applications built on Secret can utilize encrypted data without revealing it to anyone, even the nodes in the network. Using groundbreaking privacy technologies (such as trusted execution environments), Secret Network allows developers to build new types of powerful, permissionless, privacy-preserving applications - Secret Apps.

Join our communities and help us build!

Homepage: https://scrt.network

Official Chat: https://chat.scrt.network

Community Telegram: https://t.me/scrtcommunity

Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/secretnetwork

Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our thirty-third episode features John Wolpert.

John currently works at Consensys on the Web3Studio team, helping drive adoption of the decentralized web by identifying and building solutions using decentralized technologies. John has decades of entrepreneurial experience and previously co-founded IBM's blockchain business unit as well as Hyperledger Fabric. He also currently helps lead the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance's Mainnet Working Group, where Enigma is a contributing member.

On this episode, John talks about why the world needs a single "mainnet", how to "embrace the boring" with blockchain, the new relationship between public and private blockchains, the importance of protecting sensitive data and business logic, and why everyone should get on board the "Magic Bus".

Enigma's podcast "Decentralize This!" features guests from all over the decentralization space: developers, investors, entrepreneurs, researchers, writers, artists, people in government and enterprise - all individuals who care deeply about building a more decentralized and sustainable world. How can all these people with different perspectives collaborate to create and scale the technologies we need to shape a better future?

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Relevant links:

John's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jwolpert

Consensys: https://www.consensys.net

EEA: https://www.entethalliance.org

Enigma: https://www.enigma.co


Enigma Blog: https://blog.enigma.co


Enigma Twitter: www.twitter.com/enigmampc

Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our thirty-second episode features Roneil Rumburg.

Roneil is the co-founder and CEO of Audius, a decentralized music streaming and hosting platform that’s hoping to disrupt the music industry for the benefit of artists. Audius allows artists to freely share their work or work-in-progress with a dedicated community. The platform already features a bunch of high profile DJs and artists, including deadmau5 and Zed’s Dead. Audius also recently raised a new funding round to support and scale their vision.

On this episode, Roneil talks about what problems Audius solves for musicians and the music industry, why artists are so excited about the potential of blockchain, and how music could be the killer use case for getting decentralized technologies into the hands of millions of users.

Enigma's podcast "Decentralize This!" features guests from all over the decentralization space: developers, investors, entrepreneurs, researchers, writers, artists, people in government and enterprise - all individuals who care deeply about building a more decentralized and sustainable world. How can all these people with different perspectives collaborate to create and scale the technologies we need to shape a better future?

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Relevant links:

Audius: www.audius.co

Audius in TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/24/audius-music/

Enigma: www.enigma.co


Enigma Blog: blog.enigma.co


Enigma Twitter: www.twitter.com/enigmampc

Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our thirtieth episode features Andreas M. Antonopoulos.

Andreas is a best-selling author, speaker, educator, and one of the world’s foremost bitcoin and open blockchain experts. In 2014, he wrote the one of the foundational books of the blockchain space, Mastering Bitcoin. He is also the author of The Internet of Money as well as his most recent book, Mastering Ethereum. He is widely respected in the blockchain space for not only his knowledge and ceaseless curiosity about decentralized technologies, but also for his extreme generosity in teaching others.

On this wide-ranging episode, Andreas talks about how the public’s perception of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies has shifted in the last decade, how Libra and centralized digital currencies will affect open blockchains (as well as our human rights), and how people inside and outside the decentralization space can and should work together to fight these growing threats.

Enigma's podcast "Decentralize This!" features guests from all over the decentralization space: developers, investors, entrepreneurs, researchers, writers, artists, people in government and enterprise - all individuals who care deeply about building a more decentralized and sustainable world. How can all these people with different perspectives collaborate to create and scale the technologies we need to shape a better future?

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Relevant links:

Andreas' website: https://aantonop.com

Andreas' Twitter: https://twitter.com/aantonop

Mastering Bitcoin: https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook

Enigma: https://www.enigma.co


Enigma Blog: https://blog.enigma.co


Enigma Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/enigmampc

Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our thirtieth episode features Kevin Owocki.

Kevin is the founder and self-described chief janitor of Gitcoin, a blockchain-based incentivization layer for open-source software. Gitcoin helps connect developers eager to contribute to open source projects with projects offering bounties for development work. Kevin himself is an experienced developer and passionate about strengthening the foundations and expanding the impact of open-source software.

On this episode Kevin talks with Tor about the beginnings and future of Gitcoin, what sustainability means for open source and blockchain, and how to design for humans in a space that often abstracts them away.

Enigma's podcast "Decentralize This!" features guests from all over the decentralization space: developers, investors, entrepreneurs, researchers, writers, artists, people in government and enterprise - all individuals who care deeply about building a more decentralized and sustainable world. How can all these people with different perspectives collaborate to create and scale the technologies we need to shape a better future?

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Relevant links:

Kevin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/owocki


Gitcoin: https://www.gitcoin.co 


Enigma: www.enigma.co


Enigma Blog: blog.enigma.co


Enigma Twitter: www.twitter.com/enigmampc

Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-ninth episode features John Egan.

John is the cofounder and CEO of Editional, an application where you can create and discover limited edition digital art. John is an experienced product builder and leader - he previously led Facebook’s Workplace product and founded Caffeinated Mind, a YCombinator-funded startup. John and Editional are helping show how blockchain and NFTs can shape the future of the digital art world - and perhaps much more.

On this episode John talks with Tor about how Editional solves problems for artists and collectors, the importance of digital scarcity, and how the decentralized digital art stack is evolving, from originating to purchasing to displaying art.

Enigma's podcast "Decentralize This!" features guests from all over the decentralization space: developers, investors, entrepreneurs, researchers, writers, artists, people in government and enterprise - all individuals who care deeply about building a more decentralized and sustainable world. How can all these people with different perspectives collaborate to create and scale the technologies we need to shape a better future?

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Relevant links:

John's Twitter: https://twitter.com/john3gan

Editional: https://www.editional.com

Editional Twitter: https://twitter.com/editionalapp

Enigma: www.enigma.co


Enigma Blog: blog.enigma.co


Enigma Twitter: www.twitter.com/enigmampc

Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-eighth episode features Nathaniel Whittemore.

Nathaniel is a communications specialist in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, and he is the mastermind behind Long Reads Sunday, where he curates the best content in the blockchain and decentralization space. He is deeply interested in how narratives evolve in our industry and the way these stories shape what we build, what we use, and what we believe.

On this episode Nathaniel talks with me about the rapidly evolving narrative of privacy, how telling the right stories can drive mass adoption of new technologies, and how the gap is still widening between how the public sees blockchain and how the blockchain space sees itself.

Enigma's podcast "Decentralize This!" features guests from all over the decentralization space: developers, investors, entrepreneurs, researchers, writers, artists, people in government and enterprise - all individuals who care deeply about building a more decentralized and sustainable world. How can all these people with different perspectives collaborate to create and scale the technologies we need to shape a better future?

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Relevant links:

More about Nathaniel: www.whittemore.io


Twitter (and Long Reads Sunday): www.twitter.com/nlw

Narrative Watch: https://medium.com/@nlw/narrative-watch-spring-2019-edition-56d8eeadaa42

Enigma: www.enigma.co


Enigma Blog: blog.enigma.co


Enigma Twitter: www.twitter.com/enigmampc