The Third Web

The Third Web episodes:

• 01.20.2022

  Understanding ICP Staking and Neurons in Simple English w/ John & Diego

  Principal Engineer, John Wiegley joins Diego Pratts in this episode to reduce the practice of staking ICP to common English. We discuss ICP economics, burning & staking, the importance of governance on the IC and a whole lot more along...

  
• 01.14.2022

  The Third Web #18 - Concordium

  Concordium is a "compliant by design" open proof of stake blockchain that has achieved fame among Rust developers as a friendly place to develop. Community representative Beni Issembert Joins to discuss the origins and ambitions of the project.

  
• 12.03.2021

  What Does it mean to be "Web Speed" with Manu & Diego

  "Web" can be used as a performance descriptor to represent the expectations of contemporary users. Does the IC achieve this? Where does it hit and where does it miss. In this episode, we explore the nuance of this term and...

  
• 11.17.2021

  ICDevs & the Drive Toward Community Developed Infrastructure

  The Internet Computer requires a large amount of tooling to support web & enterprise developers. Austin Fatheree believes that should be developed by the community. Grants are already active for significant tooling, creating an independent alternative to the...

  
• 11.17.2021

  Today New York, Tomorrow, the World

  Andrew and Evan of The Internet Computer Report join to discuss the state of the community, events in New York, and global opportunities for IC-based products. cycledao.xyz

  
• 11.17.2021

  OpenChat Deep Dive

  From the early days of entrepreneurship to the deep inner workings of the Internet Computer, Matt Grogan discusses his history working with Dominic Williams. We then deep dive on OpenChat, application design patterns, and the SNS.

  
• 10.20.2021

  Decentralised Frontends, Upgrading Canisters, & the Mysteries of Boundary Nodes

  Community Manager Moritz Fuller explains his decision to build a Liquity front end on the Internet Computer. From here we discuss the challenges of hosting DeFi products on the IC, upgrading canisters, and the mysterious role of boundary nodes. Waterslide Announcement: https://blog.waterslide.app/waterslide-the-first-defi-frontend-on-dfinitys-internet-computer/ cycledao.xyz

  
• 10.11.2021

  The No Code Revolution Comes to the IC with ICME

  The Internet Computer native website builder, ICME, is the brainchild of Houman Shadab & Wyatt Benno, a lawyer/no code enthusiast and startup builder respectively. The website builder is the first step on their path to democratise application building on the...

  
• 09.14.2021

  Toniq Labs NFT Art Deep Dive

  Bob Bodily, Chief Product Officer of Toniq Labs dives deep on NFTs and Toniq Labs' plans to expand their offerings. https://toniqlabs.com/ cycledao.xyz https://entrepot.app/

  
• 09.07.2021

  Knowledge Blast: Inter-Subnet Communication, the DKG, and Chainkey

  Manu Drijvers drops a knowledge bomb in this session, answering your questions about the inner workings of the IC. cycledao.xyz

  
• 08.26.2021

  Norton Wang & the cycle_dao

  Norton Wang discusses the future of governance on the IC. The Axon neuron manager, cycle_dao, ICRocks, combine to form a Voltronic image of application & IC governance and code verification. cycledao.xyz axon.ooo ic.rocks

  
• 08.26.2021

  IC Games, the Metaverse, an NFT Marketplace: Toniq Labs Has it All

  Building an Internet Computer-hosted board game has led the team at Toniq Labs toward a complete metaverse infrastructure. Following the runaway success of their NFT marketplace which sold $350,000 worth of Chronic NFTs, we discuss a universal gaming currency, Stoic...

  
• 08.26.2021

  InfinitySwap: The IC's Uniswap

  InfinitySwap aims to provide an AMM to establish liquidity pools for DeFi products and fundraising on the IC. https://infinityswap.one/ cycledao.xyz

  
• 08.26.2021

  Origyn & the Emergence of Pan Industry Platforms

  From a background in traditional systems to the forefront of decentralisation in traditional industry, Mike Shwartz has seen a lot. His project, Origyn, is an effort to make robust NTFs, or digital twins, of real-world objects. This extends to something...

  
• 08.26.2021

  The First of the Accelerators: DeFiStarter

  Singapore-based decentralised finance-oriented accelerator, DeFiStarter, is gunning for the Internet Computer financial ecosystem. By onboarding Ethereum-based teams and mirroring their applications on the Internet Computer, DeFiStarter gains access to both communities and, once IC Ethereum integration is complete, the benefits of...

  
• 08.26.2021

  Token Standards On the Internet Computer

  Hazel is back to discuss token standards on the IC. We dive deep on the HZLD token, canister upgradability, NFTs and Micropayments. After this interview was recorded, Hazel launched an NFT experiment, the background of which is described here. @suddenlyhazel cycledao.xyz

  
• 07.05.2021

  Experiments In Tokens and a Decentralised Patreon

  To those who saw the HZLD token experiment on Twitter, Hazel will be a familiar figure. HZLD was actually a component in a much larger experiment: Hazels decentralised Patreon challenger Bunchd. In this chat, we discuss Hazel's reasons for...

  
• 06.29.2021

  From Linkedup to Distrikt - Professional Social Networking on the Internet Computer

  Distrikt is a decentralised professional social media platform that began its life inside the DFINITY Foundation as Linkedup. Co-founder Andra Georgescu describes Distrikt's ambitions and her vision for decentralised social media. distrikt.io cycledao.xyz

  
• 06.17.2021

  Misconceptions & Open Questions with Jordan Last

  Between the Internet Identity System and application scaling, there are a large number of subjects that the Internet Computer community is still coming to understand. Especially in the context of the prior described vision of the IC. Jordan Last addresses...

  
• 06.16.2021

  DSCVR the Decentralised Reddit

  DSCVR is in essence a decentralised Reddit - or news aggregator - hosted on the Internet Computer. Rick Porter, formerly BCG, began building DSCVR in 2020 on a hunch that a decentralised news aggregator might be a significantly impactful app....

  
• 06.10.2021

  Jordan Last & The Sudograph Odyssey

  Longtime DFINITY Community member, Jordan Last takes us on a journey from his love of technology as a youth to his discovery of the Internet Computer. We discuss Sudograph, Jordan's open-source implementation of the GraphQL database for the Internet...

  
• 06.07.2021

  Harrison Hines On Infrastructure And IC DAOs Mixdown

  Harrison Hines is back with an insightful discussion into the future of infrastructure funding and an examination of DAOs as infrastructure builders

  
• 06.01.2021

  The Internet Computer Weekly - Decentralised Web On Fleek

  Harrison Hines of Fleek discusses the challenges faced by the current generation of decentralised applications. Namely, the lack of decentralised frontend hosting. Enter the decentralised web, also known as Web 3. Fleek is a provider of decentralised web tooling. visit...

  
• 05.27.2021

  The Internet Computer Weekly - Chain Keys and Ethereum Interoperation with Dominic Williams

  In this session, Dominic Williams, Founder of DFINITY, creator of the Internet Computer, and all-round good dude explains how the internet computer interoperates with Ethereum. Subscribe @ cycledao.xyz

  
• 05.25.2021

  The Internet Computer Weekly #2 - Tacen

  This episode of the Internet Computer Weekly features hybrid decentralised exchange Tacen, which enables users to settle trades atomically, matching trades using a centralised service but storing the orderbook and settlement information in user run oracles living on the Internet...

  
• 05.19.2021

  The Internet Computer Weekly #1 - Capsule

  Nadim Kobeissi of the Capsule decentralised social media project describes the need for an alternative to the existing big-tech offerings and the reason the Internet Computer was chosen as a hosting layer. capsule.social CycleDAO.xyz

  
• 04.13.2020

  Understanding Urbit #7 - Tlon Operations Community

  Tlon COO Erik Newton and Community Manager Kenny Rowe join this session to provide some additional background to Tlon and the Urbit Community. Erik Newton begins by explaining the relationship between the Tlon corporation and the Urbit project. We also...

  
• 04.13.2020

  Understanding Urbit #6 - Built to Last

  The recurrent theme of calm computing is explored more deeply in this discussion with Logan Allen whose focus is infrastructure and product at Tlon. Logan sees the attention economy, with all it’s popups and news feed clickbait as a result of...

  
• 04.13.2020

  Understanding Urbit #5 - Urbit & Bitcoin

  Christian Langalis is the resident bitcoin ambassador to the Urbit team. His motto is sound money requires sound computing and this well describes his role is to develop Bitcoin infrastructure for the Urbit ecosystem. Christian’s interest in Urbit derives from...

  
• 04.13.2020

  Understanding Urbit #4 - Urbit ID & the Network

  As Ted indicated in episode 2, The Urbit ID public key infrastructure and the Urbit network are core to the way individual Urbits communicate and maintain self-sovereignty. In this episode we hear from three members of the Tlon team, each...

  
• 04.13.2020

  Understanding Urbit #3 - Technology & Freedom

  The effect technology has on individual freedom is a recurring theme in lunchtime discussions in the Tlon office. Chief Product Officer, Anthony Arroyo has a background in linguistics and the philosophy of technology. This positions him well to explain the...

  
• 04.13.2020

  Understanding Urbit #2 - Under the Hood of the Urbit OS

  Engineer Ted Blackman works on the Urbit OS kernel. Like many Tlon employees, Ted initially came to the project as an open source contributor. In this discussion Ted breaks the operating system down into its components and explains its relationship...

  
• 04.13.2020

  Understanding Urbit #1 - Introducing the Personal Server

  Few software projects today share either the contemporary relevance or fringe mystique of the Urbit Operating and Identity System. As a highly secure personal server, Urbit aims to deliver on many of the ideas pioneered by the Cypherpunks, and, after...

  
• 05.09.2019

  The Third Web #17 - Arthur Brock, Holochain

  Holochain has been a project simminging in the background of the blockchain space for several years now. The promise has been a panaceaic solution to the performance and scalability issues facing decentralised hosting platforms. It’s an oft heard claim, but,...

  
• 03.18.2019

  The Third Web #16 - Urbit, Your New Server

  The range of third-web platforms in development today is greater than ever. From data-centric blockchain based approaches to agent-centric designs like Secure Scuttlebut, the potential futures of the third web are rapidly expanding. Today we look at another approach with...

  
• 03.03.2019

  The Third Web #15 - Edgeware & Parity, Infrastructure on Top of Infrastructure

  What is Edgeware Edgeware being developed by an entity called Commonwealth Labs Built on Parity’s Substrate Grandpa finality tool On-chain governance Scripting built in. Using Web Assembly (Wasm) Building on Substrate People used to build their own web servers, now they use the cloud. People used to build new...

  
• 01.30.2019

  The Third Web #14 - Dawn Of An Ecosystem: Substrate & Polkadot

  Care of DFINITY I was privileged to attend the Web 3 Summit in Berlin last year. While there I interviewed Aeron Buchanan, the Executive Vice President of the Web 3 Foundation and Gavin Wood, Founder of Ethereum, Parity, and the...

  
• 12.20.2018

  The Third Web #13 - Consensus Primer with Aparna Krishnan

  Aparna Krishnan is head of education at Blockchain at Berkeley and co-founder of Mechanism Labs, an open source blockchain research lab. Earlier this year, Aparna was awarded a scholarship by the DFINITY Foundation for Mechanism Labs’ research into consensus mechanisms....

  
• 12.12.2018

  The Third Web #12 - The Actor Model

  Subodh Sharma is a professor of computer science at IIT Delhi, one of the most prestigious universities in India. While he’s not teaching, Subodh conducts research into the formal verification of distributed systems, and his work on the automated formal...

  
• 11.20.2018

  The Third Web #11 - Scuttlebutt & Cypherspace

  Dominic Tarr is a hacker who resides on a sailboat, usually found in New Zealand's beautiful Hauraki Gulf. In recent years he has risen to fame as the creator of the Secure Scuttlebutt protocol, Scuttlebutt for short. Scuttlebutt is comprised...

  
• 11.06.2018

  The Third Web #10 - An Emerging India

  Recently I visited India representing the DFINITY Foundation. The trip was supported by upstart venture production and consulting group, Dunya Labs, and advocacy group, InCrypt. Those ten days altered my understanding of the way technology manifests products and the driving...

  
• 10.27.2018

  The Third Web #9 - Jack du Rose, Colony & Coase

  In 2015 I interviewed Jack du Rose about Colony - his autonomous platform that could track contribution to a common enterprse and reward tokens representing stake in said enterprise. Three years and two private betas on, we hear from Jack...

  
• 08.24.2018

  The Third Web #8 - Zilliqa & Singapore

  Zilliqa is a Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance based, public, programmable blockchain platform that uses Proof of Work as a syble resistance mechanism. Combining PBFT and PoW is a brilliant trick to bring the state finality required for scaling through network...

  
• 04.06.2018

  The Third Web #7 - Brian Behlendorf

  On this episode of Web 3.0, we hear from Brian Behlendorf, the head of the Hyperledger project at the Linux Foundation, and leading figure in the open-source software movement. Brian began developing open-source code during the mid-1990's and was also...

  
• 01.24.2018

  The Third Web #6 - DFINITY Consensus

  "The DFINITY project was formed to research ways of enabling public decentralized networks to host a virtual computer of unlimited capacity. This rests upon a new blockchain computer that is similar in concept to Ethereum but has vastly improved performance...

  
• 01.18.2018

  The Third Web #5 - SingularityNet

  Artificial Intelligence Researcher Ben Goertzal and Blockchain Solution Architect, Simone Vulpem discuss the SingularityNet artificial intelligence marketplace. Currently, the market for artificial intelligence is dominated by industry giants with huge monolithic offerings with features far beyond the often niche applications...

  
• 12.11.2017

  The Third Web #4 - SpankChain

  In today’s episode we look at spank chain, an adult industry cryptocurrency payment system built using Ethereum. Currently, financial intermediaries in the adult entertainment industry exploiting their position to impose arbitrary rules on content by refusing to serve participants...

  
• 11.21.2017

  The Third Web #3 - Quantifying Gaze

  Today we are taking a quick look at a range of problems and their solutions through the lens of a little known project known as Gazecoin. Under the gaze coin banner are a range of projects, among them, a virtual...

  
• 11.13.2017

  The Third Web #2 - The Props Project by YouNow

  Video, mobile first, open APIs, an existing two-sided market, and a userbase already transacting digitally. The YouNow live video platform is an ideal candidate for a monetary network-based business. YouNow’s Props project aims to achieve just this. Decentralized economies will reshape...

  
• 11.07.2017

  The Third Web #1 - Re - Examining The Legality Of ICOs

  Joshua Ashley Klayman, co-founded the blockchain and smart contracts working group at the law firm Morrison and Foerster and the WSBA’s Legal Working Group. We caught up in person at a Cafe in Central Park to discuss gender disparity in...