Venture Alpha Podcast Mike Grantis

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I'm excited to share with you my conversation with Elias Tazartes founder at Kakarot. Kakarot is a zero knowledge, Ethereum Virtual Machine implementation built on the Cairo coding language. It's designed to work out of the box with all developer tools and wallets built on Ethereum, and they've been open source since day one and will soon be implemented on Starknet Layer 2 and Layer 3.

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Hey, everyone. I'm excited to share with you my conversation with Sassha, the founder and CEO of Polemos. Polemos is an all in one platform for gamers looking to enter the blockchain gaming space. They are an information and education provider as well as an asset rental platform and a community of gamers voyaging into the world of blockchain games. Polemos is very much a top of the funnel resource for anyone from experts all the way down to those new to blockchain games.

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Hey, everyone. I'm excited to share with you my conversation with Veronica Buron and Grant Gerber of Eclipse. Eclipse is a customizable roll up provider for developers building decentralized applications. Their unique architecture allows developers unmatched customization, superior speeds and security when deploying their applications. Their testnet is already live and has over 30 applications building on top of it. At time of recording, they're also in the process of rolling out their self-service toolkit, which allows developers the ability to spin up and deploy Eclipse rollups in a fully self-sufficient way.

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I'm excited to share with you my conversation with Xin Yan founder and CEO at EthSign. It's projects like this that make me extremely bullish about the evolution of Web3 in our everyday lives. They're building critical infrastructure that feels like a logical leap forward for our online identities and our online ownership. EthSignis an all in one contract signing platform for Web3.

Think DocuSign meets Carta but on-chain the product allows anyone to create, encrypt and distribute contracts with a simple to use U.I., and it allows signers to sign contracts from multiple wallets across multiple chains using their own private keys. They're also building a cap table management software called Token Table. This infrastructure makes it easy to deploy tokens, manage distributions, vesting contracts and much more.

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 I'm excited to share with you my conversation with Amrit Kumar, Chief Operating Officer at AltLayer. AltLayer is a roll up as a service or RAAS provider. You might have heard of SAAS software as a service. This is roll up as a service and it's allowing teams to build and scale powerful web3 applications at a fraction of the cost.

Their flexible deployment solutions allow for fast, secure and decentralized roll up deployment with Multichain support. In this episode, you'll learn what a roll up as a service is, how roll ups differ from app chains, the benefits and tradeoffs you'll have when making and deploying a roll up on Alt Layer. What a flash layer is and why it's important, what an L2 sequencer is, and why it's important to have a decentralized network of L2 sequencers.

You'll also learn what alt layer has in store over the next 12 months and when mainnet listen to the end and you'll find answers to all of the above. 

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Hey, everyone. I'm excited to share with you my conversation with Simon Harman, founder and CEO at ChainFlip. Chain Flip is building a cross-chain decentralized exchange using just-in-time liquidity to facilitate native cross-chain swaps. The chain flip protocol maximizes capital efficiency to enable trades at an extremely competitive price with low slippage through their decentralized and permissionless network. Their mission is to displace centralized exchanges by creating a user-friendly capital-efficient environment to swap isolated assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, DOT, Solana, and more.

Chain Flip has made vital improvements to the original Cross-Chain Liquidity Protocol Thorchain and has managed to secure backing from high-profile pieces like Blockchain Capital Framework, Pantera, Coinbase Ventures, Delphi, Digital, RFID, and many more. The protocol is already live on Testnet and will release on MainNet sometime later this summer. So with that in mind, here is my conversation with Simon Harmon from ChainFlip.