My guest today goes simply by the name Martin. Martin is an EVM and Web3 Developer most famous for creating the Higher memecoin on Farcaster.

Over the past few weeks, Martin has thrown himself into building one of the most creative and exciting Social Media Agents, Aether.

Aether is a semi-autonomous Agent who communicates with the public through Faracster. Followers can prompt Aether for a response simply by @-mentioning them on Farcaster.

In its first couple of weeks since launch, Aether has learned several fascinating new behaviors. With the help of some of its online interlocuters, Aether quickly learned how to create and reward HIGHER token denominated bounties by interacting with fellow Farcaster bots Bountycast and Paybot.

In this interview, Martin and I go deep on his work in the Nouns ecosystem, how this informed his development of $HIGHER, and perhaps most fascinating of all, the technical details of how he built Aether.

It was great getting to speak with Martin, who is a brilliant and high agency developer pioneering experiments at the intersection of society and blockchains. I hope you enjoy the show.

As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions.

My guest today is Proxy, founder of ProxyStudio and ProxySwap.

In this interview, recorded in late June, 2024, Proxy shares how his writing practice and enabled him to grow a token-gated crypto research community amongst fellow Farcasters. By leveraging Farcaster connections, HyperSub and the then-new Degen Chain L3, ProxyStudio launched a Uni V3 fork and began experimenting with the concept of a Social DEX

It was great getting to learn more about how a creative writer and mechanism researcher used Farcaster to transform his practice into a community capable of shipping blockchain software. I hope you enjoy the show.

As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions.

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My guest today is Jason Zhao, co-founder of Story Protocol.

Story Protocol has raised $140 million venture dollars to build an onchain protocol for intellectual property licensing.

In this episode, Jason explains what's wrong with IP licensing today, and how putting licenses onchain will enable more people to create derivative works without tedious and often infeasible paperwork, and flow revenue royalties up to licensors onchain.

We also dive into the technical details, and Jason explains how Story uses NFTs to represent individual IP assets, and that these NFTs will control ERC-6551 token bound accounts where IP owners can plug in licensing, royalties, dispute resolution modules.

It was great getting a chance to talk to Jason about everything Story Protocol. I hope you enjoy the show.

As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions.

My guest today is Stephane Gosselin. Stephane co-founded the MEV pirate dev collective Flashbots, which he left in late 2022. His new project, OneBalance, is a framework that substantially reimagines how blockchain accounts are created and managed.

In this episode, Stephane and I dive into the lifecycle of an Ethereum transaction today, and the growing number of paths a user's intentions may take to ultimately be expressed onchain.

We then dive into OneBalance, Stephane and Ankit Chiplunkar's new account framework that decouples accounts from global consensus machines, in an effort to bundle user state across all chains in a unified wrapper called a Credible Account.

It was exciting to speak with Stephane about OneBalance's paradigmatic refresh on the notion of accounts at such an early stage in the project's development. I hope you enjoy the show.

As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions.

My guest today is Kosuke Hata aka July, founder of Faust.

Faust is a nascent hardware startup working at the intersection of distributed sensing, blockchains, and self driving. The team is composed of engineers from automotive and machine learning engineering projects at Google, Apple, and Tesla.

On this episode, July shares background about the self-driving and robotics industry gleaned from his years of experience working at Kittyhawk, Larry Page's flying car moonshot startup. July also shares some of the prototypes Faust has built, and gives a glimpse into how robotics, blockchains, and networking will coincide over the next few years.

It was fantastic getting a chance to chat with July about everything Faust. I hope you enjoy the show.

As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions.

My guest today is Cassandra Heart, founder of Quilibrium and part-time contributor at Merkle Manufactory, creators of Farcaster.

On today's episode, Cassie and I dive into Quilibrium, a decentralized platform as a service protocol that aims to enable developers to store data and run uncensorable apps.

We discuss Cassie's extensive background building cryptography products, and how this experience and the myriad cryptographic developments since the advent of Bitcoin and Ethereum enable a new type of world computer. We touch on various technical aspects of Quilibrium's architecture, and zoom out to see how these pieces create a substantially new virtual medium for software.

It was great getting to know more about Quilibrium from it's Benevolent Dictator, Cassie. I hope you enjoy the show.

As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions.

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My guests today is Jong-Kai Yang, founder of HackMD.

HackMD is a multiplayer plain text editor on the web. People use HackMD to collaborate on text notes, share read-only documentation, and collect feedback from commenters. HackMD plays especially nicely with markdown and other common markup languages, making the documents one produces in HackMD highly portable.

On this episode, Jong-Kai explains the origins of HackMD and how people are using HackMD today. We learn how HackMD situates itself amidst other tools in the space, and Jong-Kai shares some lesser known features hidden inside.

It was great getting to know more about HackMD and the team that's building it. I hope you enjoy the show

As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions.

My guest today is Luke Miles, creator of rug.fun, meme.market, mint.fun, and context.app.

On this episode, Luke and I run through the history of applications he's created on Ethereum and the EVM. We discuss the recent sale of mint.fun to zora, and go in depth on his two latest memecoin related projects, meme.market and rug.fun.

It was a pleasure catching up with Luke who is shipping thought provoking experimental apps and games on the EVM. I hope you enjoy the show.

As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions.

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My guests today are 0xTranqui aka Max and Salief Lewis, two of the four co-founders of Lifeworld, the startup that's creating River.

River is a blockchain media protocol. In its launch configuration, users can sign in with Privy, register accounts on a smart contract on Optimism, and post references to IPFS-hosted media as calldata to a smart contract on Arbitrum Nova. The team's first-party UI, river.ph, evokes social media collection website are.na.

It was great getting to know more about River at such an early stage. I hope you enjoy the show.

As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions.

My guest today is Pete Horne, founder of 4th Energy.

Pete is a veteran programmer who thinks deeply about the EVM and computation. With 4th.energy, Pete is exploring how the EVM can be used to serve applications directly from the blockchain. In this vision, application data is verifiably stored on one or multiple of the EVMs connected to L1 Ethereum. With this technology, programmers and users would be able to permissionlessly distribute and run user-facing applications without the gatekeeping limitations of app stores or centralized cloud providers. By transforming the EVM into a dynamic application server, 4th.Energy threatens to truly deliver on censorship resistant dapps — a substantial step beyond the more limited horizons of today's smart contracts.

This conversation was recorded shortly after Pete announced that he would be disconinuing the project. However, for listeners who enjoy the conversation, I have great news. I've since heard from Pete that he is resuscitating the project and continuing the journey. Visit 4th.energy for the latest news.

It was wonderful getting to learn more about Pete and his mind-expanding project. I hope you enjoy the show.

As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions.

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