Sam Blackshear and Evan Cheng join us to discuss how the Move programming paradigm will accelerate blockchain development. Sam and Evan are the founders of Sui, a global state L1 that leverages the novel Move programming language (created by Sam while at Facebook). This episode covers Sui's technical specs, the power of Move, Sui's validator requirements and scaling technique, state growth and storage, Sui's go-to-market and more!

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(00:00) Introduction

(01:05) Sui’s Origin Story

(03:58) Move: A New Programming Paradigm

(14:32) Sui: A Technical Deep Dive

(27:36) DAS London Plug

(28:33) Validator Requirements

(31:31) Optimistic vs Pessimistic Parallel Execution

(33:28) State Growth and Storage

(39:16) Move’s Security Benefits

(44:55) Economic Security

(48:27) Atomic Composability, Scalability & Validator Sustainability

(58:01) Sui’s Beachhead: Gaming and Commerce

(59:40) Sui vs Aptos and Looking Ahead

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Resources

Sui

https://twitter.com/SuiNetwork

https://sui.io/

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