Token Talks – Interviews with the Best Projects in Crypto

Izaak Meckler and Evan Shapiro, cofounders of Coda, join Zack to discuss accessible blockchain verification.

Key takeaways:

In most blockchains there is a real tradeoff between scaling and decentralization.

Coda is a new cryptocurrency protocol that reduces the size of the blockchain.

The Coda network uses zk-SNARKs to compress the entire blockchain into a tiny snapshot and then sends that snapshot instead. No matter how big the blockchain gets, Coda remains accessible to everyone.

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Robert Leshner, founder of Compound, talks crypto money markets. Key takeaways: Crypto assets are awesome because they're programmable, liquid, and offer control. Every currency that exists today will eventually exist in cryptographic form. Compound is an easy to use and secure money market. Instead of requiring borrowers and suppliers to negotiate terms directly, the Compound protocol algorithmically optimizes interest rates based on supply and demand.

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Axel Ericsson from Vest talks about staking protocols.

Key takeaways:

The future will be defined by staking protocols

Proof-of-stake remains a challenge, but

It promises a democratization of blockchain technology

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Alan Curtis from Radar Relay talks about decentralized exchanges.

Key takeaways:

Decentralized exchanges are an important part of the ecosystem

Unlike a centralized exchange, a decentralized exchange doesn’t know who their customers are

Radar Relay is the market leader DEX in terms of volume

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Joshua Stein from Harbor talks about tokenized securities.

Key takeaways:

Compliance-focused tokenized securities are the future

Build decentralized platforms to capture a greater market, and

Low-friction transactions are always a great sell

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Kendrick Nguyen from Republic talks about crypto crowdfunding.

Key takeaways:

Republic hopes to become the Amazon of crypto fundraising

Republic provides rigorous vetting of companies, and

Republic wants more people to learn about cryptocurrencies

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Nadav Hollander from Dharma chats about tokenized debt agreements.

Key takeaways:

Dharma aims to be like Ethereum, in a way

There are a lot of amazing financial primitives being worked on, and

Dharma’s focusing on the technology first, value capture second

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Robbie Bent from Truebit talks about decentralized, scalable computation for blockchains.

Key takeaways:

Blockchains need to be able to meet massive computational needs

Truebit brings cost-effective and secure decentralized computational power to blockchains, and

New blockchain tech needs to deliver on their white papers

Links:

twitter.com/Truebitprotocol

https://twitter.com/robbiebent1

https://github.com/TrueBitFoundation

https://medium.com/truebit

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MacLane Wilkison from NuCypher talks about infrastructure-level privacy in public blockchains.

Key takeaways:

Blockchains are transparent ledgers that will require data privacy tools to scale

NuCypher is an infrastructure-level protocol designed to help decentralized applications manage and protect important data sets

Data privacy is critical to the growth of the industry, and

End-users won't see NuCypher under the hood, but seen by blockchain developers

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Richard Ma and Don Ho from Quantstamp joined Zach DeWitt to discuss scalable smart contract security auditing.

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Key takeaways:

Most blockchains are secure, but smart contracts are not;

Ethereum and other smart contract platforms are also growing exponentially;

The potential cost of smart contract failure is also growing, and

Security and reliability are crucial for the crypto ecosystem to continue growing

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