Web3 Galaxy Brain 🌌🧠

My guests today are David Sneider and Chris Cassano, co-founders of Lit Protocol.

Lit is a distributed key management network. Lit leverages multi-party computation and threshold signature schemes, spreading private key shares are across a network of Lit node operators so users can sign and encrypt data, without any one machine ever holding the entire the entire private key.

On this episode, David and Chris explain how Lit was born from their understanding of the crypto's pain points, after many years in the industry. We dive into the Lit nodes software, distributed key generation and signing, Lit DAO governance, Lit's intersection with rollups and offchain data, and much more.

It was great getting to know more about Lit from David and Chris. 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.

Links

My guest today is Brian Weickmann, co-founder of ZKP2P.

ZKP2P is a trustless fiat-to-crypto P2P onramp powered by ZK proofs.

On this episode, Brian explains how ZKP2P leverages ZK proofs to translate DKIM signatures in Venmo and HDFC transaction confirmation emails to unlock onchain assets like ETH and USDC. ZKP2P lets depositors charge a fee, creating a financial incentive to draw liquidity into the protocol.

It was great learning more about ZKP2P from Brian, as this is one of the most exciting and tangible applications of ZK that is live today. 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 Kristof Gazso, founder of Pimlico.

Pimlico is an ERC-4337 smart account infrastructure provider. Pimlico offers a handful of services, including Alto, the most popular bundler by total executed user operations, a paymaster transaction sponsorship solution, and permissionless.js a new platform agnostic typescript library built on top of viem, that helps devs wire dapps up to smart accounts.

On this episode, Kristof and I chat about the design of 4337, the most recent updates to the spec, and their recent seed round fundraise.

It was great getting a chance to talk to Kristof about his journey building Pimlico. 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 guests today are Ulas and Dogan, founder and founding engineer at Clave.

Clave is a stablecoin wallet powered by passkeys and zkSync smart accounts. On this episode, Ulas and Dogan dive into the origins of Clave on Optimism, the UX advantages of account abstraction, and Rollup Improvement Proposal 7212, which aims to bring secp256r1 passkey elliptic curve verification to L2s. We also discuss their partnership with ZkSync, and some of the very slick onboarding flows they have to bring new to crypto users onchain.

It was fantastic getting to know Ulas and Dogan better. I hope you enjoy the show.

This episode is brought to you by ContractReader.io - the best way to read and understand smart contracts on the EVM. With ContractReader you can read smart contracts on Mainnet, testnets, and L2s with text-highlighting and live onchain values, viewed right inline with the code.

With their new Audit Toolbox, create public solidity gists or make them private by adding collaborators. Share the link to add comments and conduct audits in a native solidity flow. Give it a try today at contractreader.io

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.

Links

My guests today are Chris Chang and George Datskos, founders of GhostLogs.

GhostLogs is a new platform that allows developers to fork contracts on various EVMs, inject their own custom events and view functions, and then interact with them via RPC, Dune Analytics, or Flipside.

In this episode, Chris and George explain how their journey doing MEV on Binance Smart Chain and building NFT loan aggregator Snow Genesis led them to build GhostLogs. We also discuss EIP-7571, another potentially compatible approach to moving event logs out of transaction execution.

It was great getting to talk to Chris and George about the emerging trend separating events from transaction execution. 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 Itai Turbahn, co-founder and CEO of Dynamic.

Dynamic is a Web3 login provider that offers embedded wallets, account management, and webhooks. In this episode, Itai and I talk about the present and future of wallets, authentication, multichain, passkeys, AA smart accounts, and more.

It was nice getting to learn more about Itai's journey building Dynamic. 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.

Links

My guest today is Hilmar Maximilian Orth, founder of Gelato Network and Arrakis Finance.

Gelato is a service provider that helps protocol developers automate smart contract and rollup maintenance. Gelato's network of nodes automate and relay EVM transactions to many EVMs. Gelato also supplies rollup as a service tools to help new rollups launch with the necessary infrastructure to attract third party devs.

It was great getting to chat with Hilmar about his journey building Gelato, how the company's products fit together, and what's next for the EVM ecosystem. 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.

Links

My guest today is Eito Miyamura, co-creator of ZK Microphone.

ZK Microphone is an EthGlobal Paris hackathon project that prototypes generating hardware signed audio recordings, which uniquely link a file of captured audio to the device that recorded it. This application is enabled by hardware security modules, also known as trusted execution environments and secure enclaves.

In this conversation, Eito explains how hardware attested recording devices work, and how his team used zero knowledge provable computation techniques to go beyond and enable editors to mutate hardware attested audio files while maintaining a cryptographically provable link to the original recording.

It was great getting to know more about Eito, hardware attestation, and the HomeDAO hacker community in Oxford that brought together the ZK Microphone team. 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.

Links

My guest today is Ryan Smith, founder of Index Supply.

Index Supply is a company dedicated to open source indexing the EVM. Index Supply builds on Ryan's years of experience building backends and indexing services at Heroku, Chain, and Mint.fun, and through consulting with Zora, Reservoir, and more.

On this episode we discuss Shovel, Index Supply's open source indexer that transcribes every event emitted in an EVM node to an OLTP postgres database. We discuss the ins-and-outs of indexing, Index Supply's companion Block API, and the company's unconventional approach to funding open source software development for long term sustainability.

It was a pleasure catching up with Ryan who is generous with his knowledge and opinionated in his indexing. 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.

Links

My guest today is Nazar Ilamanov, Solidity and Web3 dev and creator of Monobase.

Monobase is a collection of tools for reading smart contracts. It includes a universal frontend for contract interactions, a scheme for creating onchain HTML interfaces, and a forthcoming VSCode extension for writing contract interactions in Solidity.

It was fun getting to chat with Nazar about his experimentation around 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.