Steven Goldfeder is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Offchain Labs, the team building Arbitrum. In this episode we discuss: 

• Steven's academic background, and his work at Princeton University. 
• BlockSci, an early blockchain forensics/search product that Steven co-founded. 
• The evolution of MPC custody and the exciting developments in that category. 
• The Flash Boys 2.0 paper and the current state of MEV. 
• Steven's views on the evolution of L1 smart contract platforms and how L2 scaling is shaping up. 
• The design choices and considerations that went into the choice of optimistic vs. zero-knowledge rollups on Arbitrum. 
• The future of ZK systems on blockchains. 

  To learn more about Arbitrum and follow Steven visit www.offchainlabs.com