Into the Bytecode Sina Habibian
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Into the Bytecode is a podcast about building the future.
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- Twitter: twitter.com/sinahab
- Website: intothebytecode.com
- Newsletter for updates: bytecode.substack.com
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#34 – Stephane Gosselin: OneBalance, credible accounts and credible commitments
This is my conversation with Stephane Gosselin, cofounder of Flashbots, Frontier Research, and OneBalance.
Timestamps:- 00:00:00 intro- 00:01:29 sponsor: Optimism- 00:02:34 my existential question about crypto- 00:07:13 global consensus is the problem- 00:14:27 architecting a new system- 00:21:56 OneBalance and Credible Accounts- 00:29:39 credible commitment machines- 00:34:20 sponsor: Privy- 00:35:35 the user issues permissions for solvers- 00:37:06 the trust model- 00:42:20 the CAKE framework and the Credible stack- 00:47:59 privacy- 00:54:54 global consensus blockchains and LLM foundation models- 00:58:55 a company is a mirror on your state of being- 01:08:26 having a strong why - 01:17:46 outro
Links:Stephane Gosselin: https://x.com/thegostepOneBalance: http://onebalance.ioFrontier Research: https://frontier.tech/
Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:Optimism - https://optimism.io Privy - https://privy.io
Into the Bytecode:Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com
Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. -
#33 – Molly Mackinlay: building Filecoin
This is my conversation with Molly Mackinlay, Head of Engineering, Product, and Research Development at Protocol Labs, and CEO at FilOz.
Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 intro
- 00:01:59 sponsor: Privy
- 00:03:15 motivation
- 00:09:30 exabytes of network capacity
- 00:12:11 edge computing, bringing compute to data
- 00:14:26 the history of IPFS, libp2p, IPLD, Filecoin, FVM, L2s and IPC
- 00:20:08 designing incentives in Filecoin
- 00:25:11 designing the block rewards curve
- 00:27:28 progress through time
- 00:31:19 learnings from building production systems,
- 00:34:15 EVM-compatibility, future-proofing and network upgrades
- 00:43:51 sponsor: Optimism
- 00:44:56 IPC, L2 scaling on Filecoin
- 00:48:55 architecting applications on subnets
- 00:54:12 business models on subnets
- 00:57:27 the interface between a subnet and the internet
- 01:04:41 FilOz as a public goods amplifier
- 01:07:10 opening up the Protocol Labs network
- 01:12:23 Edge Esmeralda, field building, neurotech, and education
- 01:21:04 outro
Links:Molly Mackinlay - https://x.com/momack28Protocol Labs - https://protocol.aiFilecoin - https://filecoin.ioFilOz - https://www.filoz.org
InterPlanetary Consensus - https://www.ipc.space/
Textile Basin - https://basin.textile.io/
web3.storage - https://web3.storage/
Filecoin Virtual Machine - https://fvm.filecoin.io/
Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.io
Into the Bytecode:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com
Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. -
#32 – Rish: building infrastructure with Neynar
This is my conversation with Rish, cofounder of Neynar, building infrastructure for Farcaster.
Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 intro
- 00:01:51 sponsor: Optimism
- 00:03:01 the idea maze for Neynar
- 00:12:46 exit, building blocks, and monetization models
- 00:17:20 how Neynar is architected
- 00:21:52 handling Frames Friday
- 00:25:04 scaling infrastructure by mapping requests to resources
- 00:35:05 sponsor: Privy
- 00:36:25 taking good risks as a startup
- 00:41:55 iteration and planning ahead, breadth vs depth-first search
- 00:45:36 the channel protocol spec
- 00:51:26 why build Frame Studio
- 00:56:55 companies become extensions of their founders
- 01:05:53 working on the Base team
- 01:10:28 having a tight feedback loop with users
- 01:15:18 cofounder relationship with Manan
- 01:19:25 outro
Links:
Rish - https://warpcast.com/rish
Neynar - https://neynar.com
Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.io
Into the Bytecode:
Twitter - / sinahab
Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com
Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. -
#31 – Sreeram Kannan: building the verifiable cloud
This is my conversation with Sreeram Kannan, founder at EigenLayer.
Timestamps:- 00:00:00 intro- 00:01:21 sponsor: Optimism- 00:02:42 the AVS economy- 00:05:24 blockchains separate trust and innovation- 00:16:53 sponsor: Optimism- 00:18:02 specialized services and SaaS on EigenLayer- 00:24:50 rollups are open verifiable web servers- 00:41:35 rollup economics and business models- 01:55:14 the transition from academic to builder/operator- 01:06:38 impact per unit action- 01:10:26 outro
Links:Sreeram Kannan: https://twitter.com/sreeramkannanEigenLayer: https://twitter.com/eigenlayer
Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:Optimism - https://optimism.ioPrivy - https://privy.io
Into the Bytecode:Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahabFarcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahabOther episodes - https://intothebytecode.com
Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. -
#30 – Doug Petkanics & Eric Tang: open video infrastructure
This is my conversation with Doug Petkanics and Eric Tang, cofounders of Livepeer.
Timestamps:- 00:00:00 intro- 00:01:45 sponsor: Optimism- 00:03:55 Livepeer origin story- 00:11:54 FFmpeg and the video infrastructure stack- 00:17:07 compute capacity and cost in open vs closed systems- 00:22:59 GPUs as the supply side, working at NVIDIA- 00:40:27 finding latent demand- 00:46:10 sponsor: Privy- 00:47:30 learnings on go-to-market, Livepeer Studio, AI video processing- 01:00:54 AI subnets in the Livepeer network- 01:07:51 doing whatever it takes to get it done- 01:13:19 interacting with the market- 01:18:51 the inner game- 01:24:30 outro
Links:Doug Petkanics - https://twitter.com/petkanicsEric Tang - https://twitter.com/ericxtangLivepeer - https://twitter.com/livepeerLivepeer Studio - https://twitter.com/livepeerstudio
Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:Optimism - https://optimism.ioPrivy - https://privy.io
Into the Bytecode:Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahabFarcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahabOther episodes - https://intothebytecode.com
Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. -
#29 – Martin Köppelmann: AI agents as onchain actors
This is my conversation with Martin Köppelmann, cofounder of Gnosis.
Timestamps:- 00:00:00 intro- 00:01:47 sponsor: Privy- 00:03:08 Gnosis Pay as an onchain bank account- 00:13:49 security, passkeys and recovery- 00:21:19 privacy, Tornado Cash- 00:28:25 sponsor: Optimism- 00:29:35 AI agents as a new form of life- 00:36:43 training with prediction markets as RLHF- 00:46:00 agents and prediction markets as interconnected concepts- 00:56:21 why now for prediction markets- 01:09:08 outro
Show notes:- Martin Köppelmann: https://twitter.com/koeppelmann- Prediction Prophet, an agent by Polywrap in collaboration with Autonolas and Gnosis: https://predictionprophet.ai/
Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:Optimism - https://optimism.ioPrivy - https://privy.io
Into the Bytecode:Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahabFarcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahabOther episodes - https://intothebytecode.com
Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.