Sharing Secrets - Presented by Secret Network

Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-seventh episode features Angela Walch. Angela is a Professor of Law at St. Mary's University School of Law. Her research focuses on money and the law, cryptocurrencies, blockchain technologies, and financial stability. She is a self-described skeptic of blockchain technology, and she's considered one of the leading legal experts on many of the complexities being created by decentralized technologies. Angela has presented her work at Harvard Law School, Stanford University, the Federal Reserve, and the London School of Economics, among others.

On this episode Angela talks about the difficulty in defining terms like "decentralization" and "trustless", who makes the ultimate determination on whether something is decentralized, what are the weaknesses she sees in blockchain governance, and how despite her overall skepticism, some of these new technologies might actually hold real promise.

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 Angela: www.angelawalch.com

Twitter: www.twitter.com/angela_walch

Deconstructing Decentralization: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3326244

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-sixth episode features Jake Brukhman. Jake is the founder of CoinFund, a cryptoasset-focused investment and research firm founded in 2015. CoinFund directly engages with decentralized networks and contributes support to companies designing blockchain protocols and applications - something they've referred to as "generalized mining." Jake himself has a technical background, previously studying mathematics and computer science and working as a technical product lead at Amazon.

On this episode Jake talks about the vision he had for CoinFund in 2015, why he embraces the term "generalized mining" (and how he defines it), the future of decentralized finance on Ethereum, and why 2019 might be the year of decentralized governance.

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:

CoinFund: https://coinfund.io

Grassfed Network: https://grassfed.network

Jake's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jbrukh

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-fifth episode features Kyle Samani. Kyle is a managing partner at Multicoin Capital, a cryptoasset fund whose stated mission is “to accelerate the transition from the centralized institutions of the Industrial Age to the decentralized institutions of the Internet Age.” Kyle is a serial entrepreneur in the tech world, having previously founded a company in the cutting-edge field of augmented reality before it was acquired. He also frequently writes about his work at Multicoin and his personal perspectives on technology — including the crypto space.

On this episode Kyle talks about how smart contracts could supplant our financial system, the underrated importance of key management solutions, the weird relationship between crypto and leverage, and what he looks for when he’s trying to answer the question: “What comes next?”

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:


Multicoin Capital: https://multicoin.capital


Kyle’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/kylesamani


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-fourth episode features Alexis Gauba.

Alexis is the cofounder of Mechanism Labs, an open-source research lab focused on studying consensus, scalability, usability, and other aspects of decentralized systems. She is also the cofounder and executive director of SHE256, a non-profit focused on increasing diversity and breaking down barriers to entry for the blockchain and decentralization space. Alexis is currently a student at UC Berkeley working on a degree in computer science, and she’s been very active in getting student communities more engaged with blockchain.

On this episode Alexis talks about diversity of builders and users in the blockchain space, how mentorship and education can contribute to a more sustainable and open ecosystem, and the role of design and design thinking in creating products that get adopted by millions of users worldwide.

Enigma's new 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:

Mechanism Labs: https://mechanismlabs.io

SHE256: https://she256.io

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-third episode features Fabian Vogelsteller.

Fabian is the co-founder and CTO of LUKSO, an open blockchain ecosystem for the fashion and lifestyle industry. Fabian has been a mainstay in the Ethereum ecosystem, having previously worked at the Ethereum Foundation and having built foundational products and libraries such as the Mist Browser, Ethereum Wallet, and web3js. In 2015 he proposed the ERC-20 token standard, which became the foundation for the "token economy" boom.

On this episode Fabian talks about the importance of open standards, how to create digital ownership and identity, and how LUKSO is bridging the digital and physical worlds to create real use cases - and adoption - for decentralized technologies, starting with the ubiquitous world of fashion.

Enigma's new 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:


LUKSO: https://www.lukso.network

ERC725 Alliance: https://erc725alliance.org/

Fabian’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/feindura

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-second episode features Loi Luu. Loi is the CEO and co-founder of Kyber Network, an on-chain liquidity network for inter-token transactions. Kyber is focused on providing and creating liquidity across the entire decentralized finance ecosystem, and they've integrated with dozens of projects to facilitate use cases from token-based payments to portfolio rebalancing. Loi previously earned his PhD in Computer Science at the National University of Singapore and wrote his thesis on blockchain security.

On this episode Loi talks about how and why Kyber's vision has expanded since its early days, how they've become leaders on collaboration within the decentralized finance space, and how he thinks young people see Ethereum and cryptoassets differently from older generations - and what it means for future adoption.

Enigma's new 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:


Kyber Network: https://kyber.network

Wrapped Bitcoin: https://wbtc.network

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-first episode features Josh Cincinnati. Josh is the executive director of the Zcash Foundation, a non-profit focused on financial privacy and in particular serving users of the Zcash protocol. Zcash itself is a digital currency that provides enhanced privacy for users. Neither the foundation or the currency is to be confused with Zcash the company, which recently rebranded itself as the Electric Coin Company (but not quite in time for this podcast recording!). All of this can be a little confusing — but fortunately, Josh helps break down these definitions and relationships, as well as the mission of the Zcash Foundation, on this podcast. 

On this episode Josh talks about the purpose of foundations (and Zcash Foundation in particular), how he thinks about privacy for individuals, how to get millions of people actually using Zcash, and why we should still have trust in blockchain technology — even if Bruce Schneier is a skeptic.

Enigma's new 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:

Zcash Foundation: https://www.zfnd.org

Zcash: https://z.cash

Bruce Schneier’s WIRED article: https://www.wired.com/story/theres-no-good-reason-to-trust-blockchain-technology/

Bruce Schneier on Decentralize This!: https://blog.enigma.co/decentralize-this-special-episode-1-bruce-schneier-8f8546da8b82


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 twentieth episode features Tony Sheng. Tony is currently leading product at Decentraland, an open virtual world running on Ethereum. He's also a prolific writer in the decentralization space, and he publishes weekly on topics ranging from in-game economies and growth models to investment valuations, governance, and censorship. Previously Tony worked on products at companies like Google and AltspaceVR, and he remains very interested in virtual reality.

On this episode Tony talks about what he's currently reading and writing, what important metrics are for early-stage projects, how replacement cost can be used as a valuation model, and how growth, ownership, and games are all interconnected.

Enigma's new 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:

Tony's website: www.tonysheng.com

Decentraland: www.decentraland.org

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 nineteenth episode features Max Brody. Max is the co-founder and CEO of Cent, a social network built on Ethereum that aims to get creators paid directly for sharing their work and wisdom. Cent is another example of a “hybrid dApp”, where parts of the product are decentralized (and other parts centralized) for the ultimate benefit of users. Max himself is an experienced designer as well as a musician and writer, so he understands how to build products that can work for a mainstream audience of creators, not just developers.

On this episode Max talks with Tor about why he started Cent, how his team has chosen what parts of the product to decentralize, why he believes art and artists will proliferate on the Cent platform, and whether he sees Facebook as a competitor — or as a danger to society.

Enigma's new 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:

Cent: www.cent.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 eighteenth episode features Jameson Lopp. Jameson is an experienced engineer who has been working full-time in the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency space since 2015, contributing to a number of different projects. He is currently the CTO of Casa, which builds best-in-class key management solutions as well as Casa Node, a Bitcoin and Lightning node that can be used in your home. He is also the creator of Statoshi, a fork of Bitcoin Core aiming to analyze statistics of Bitcoin nodes. Jameson writes frequently on Bitcoin, personal privacy, security, and much more.

On this episode Jameson talks with Tor about what it means to be a "cypherpunk", how his own extreme experiences have shaped his perspective on privacy and security, how individuals can be incentivized to solve systemic issues, and how Casa in particular is empowering users and enabling a more decentralized ecosystem.

Enigma's new 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:

Jameson's Webpage: https://lopp.net/

Casa: https://keys.casa

Enigma: www.enigma.co


Enigma Blog: blog.enigma.co


Enigma Twitter: www.twitter.com/enigmampc