In this episode Bo Du, co-founder of Polymer Labs, and I discuss his journey from Web 2, with a focus on database systems, to building in crypto. We discuss his time in Cosmos, the past and future of IBC, and building on Ethereum. The conversation progresses towards Polymer's approach to interop, rollup clusters, high performance infra, the best use cases for on chain liquidity, and leveraging tokens to incentive coordination. We finish by discussing Bo's time working on based sequencing (Ethereum) in Chiang Mai and his personal journey through leadership at Polymer.  

Chapters

(00:00) - Introduction 
(02:58) - DB systems to crypto
(07:00) - Cosmos
(09:03) - IBC
(16:24) - Building on Ethereum 
(20:43) - State Proving 
(28:37) - Polymer as Kafka
(36:00) - Rollup clusters
(41:04) - High performance infra
(46:50) - Latency
(52:25) - Building on chain
(1:00:25) - Token-Protocol seperation
(1:10:56) - Ethereum community
(1:22:00) - Leadership Journey

Disclaimer
Nothing in this episode should be interpreted as financial, technical, or legal advice. The host does contract work for Heliax, a public goods laboratory, focusing on Anoma.