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Tiero of Ark Labs joins me on the show to discuss the latest with Ark. We get into:
How Ark has changed since initial proposal
clARK - covenant-less ARK
Trade offs to make clARK happen
Which covenants would help vs what is ideal for Ark
Ark on Liquid
Capital requirements and costs
Fiatcoins
Nostr
Timestamps:
(00:00) - Intro
(01:37) - What is Ark? ELI5 version
(05:42) - Tradeoffs of scaling payments
(07:41) - Interchangeably using LN & Ark under the hood
(10:52) - Updates on Ark
(13:57) - What are out-of-round payments?
(17:48) - Trade Offs of out-of-round payments
(19:45) - The fee structure in Ark
(21:39) - Sponsors
(24:15) - Who runs the ASPs?
(28:55) - ‘Congestion control’ with Ark
(33:06) - The role of covenants with Ark
(39:44) - Ark on Liquid
(41:20) - Sponsors
(43:49) - The ideal covenant & its impact on Ark
(48:00) - Thoughts on extreme conservatism on Bitcoin
(52:55) - Way forward with Ark Labs
(56:18) - Opportunities & threats of stablecoins on Ark?
(1:02:39) - NIP46 & building Nostr Connect
(1:06:40) - Summary & closing thoughts
Links:
https://twitter.com/tierotiero
https://arklabs.to/
Sponsors:
Swan.com (code LIVERA)
CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
Mempool.space
Nomadcapitalist.com/apply
Stephan Livera links:
Follow me on X: @stephanlivera
Subscribe to the podcast
Subscribe to Substack
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Tiero of Ark Labs joins me on the show to discuss the latest with Ark. We get into:
How Ark has changed since initial proposal
clARK - covenant-less ARK
Trade offs to make clARK happen
Which covenants would help vs what is ideal for Ark
Ark on Liquid
Capital requirements and costs
Fiatcoins
Nostr
Timestamps:
(00:00) - Intro
(01:37) - What is Ark? ELI5 version
(05:42) - Tradeoffs of scaling payments
(07:41) - Interchangeably using LN & Ark under the hood
(10:52) - Updates on Ark
(13:57) - What are out-of-round payments?
(17:48) - Trade Offs of out-of-round payments
(19:45) - The fee structure in Ark
(21:39) - Sponsors
(24:15) - Who runs the ASPs?
(28:55) - ‘Congestion control’ with Ark
(33:06) - The role of covenants with Ark
(39:44) - Ark on Liquid
(41:20) - Sponsors
(43:49) - The ideal covenant & its impact on Ark
(48:00) - Thoughts on extreme conservatism on Bitcoin
(52:55) - Way forward with Ark Labs
(56:18) - Opportunities & threats of stablecoins on Ark?
(1:02:39) - NIP46 & building Nostr Connect
(1:06:40) - Summary & closing thoughts
Links:
https://twitter.com/tierotiero
https://arklabs.to/
Sponsors:
Swan.com (code LIVERA)
CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
Mempool.space
Nomadcapitalist.com/apply
Stephan Livera links:
Follow me on X: @stephanlivera
Subscribe to the podcast
Subscribe to Substack

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