Honest Majority by Common Prefix

Common Prefix

Honest Majority by Common Prefix explores the people and ideas shaping trust technology. Guests share their journey into the space, the technical problems they are solving, and where they see the next five years of secure, scalable, and interoperable distributed systems headed.

Episodes

  1. Yannis Smaragdakis - How Does Static Analysis Secure Smart Contracts?

    23/12/2025

    Yannis Smaragdakis - How Does Static Analysis Secure Smart Contracts?

    Timestamps: (00:39) What is Dedaub? (01:50) Entry into the space (04:50) Why is static analysis important in Web3? (07:25) How do vulnerability metrics differ between academia and industry? (09:39) Deep dive on Dedaub's Decompiler (15:11) What are the solidity level challenges? (18:35) How does static analysis work? (21:15) Upcoming product launches from Dedaub (24:47) What about security? (27:12) Outlook for 2026 and beyond Description: In the second episode of Honest Majority, we speak with Yannis Smaragdakis about compilers, program analysis, and why software foundations matter for blockchain security. We discuss how compiler theory and static analysis translate into practical tooling, where today’s smart-contract tooling still falls short, and what it would take to make correctness and security guarantees part of the default developer workflow. The conversation explores the gap between academic techniques and production systems, and why closing it is critical for the next generation of blockchain infrastructure.

    30 min
  2. Alex Evans - Can Data Availability be Zero Knowledge?

    11/12/2025

    Alex Evans - Can Data Availability be Zero Knowledge?

    Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (00:45) First steps in the space (04:34) Bain Capital: Origin Story (06:10) Is New York the new Crypto Capital? (07:43) Exciting research: ZK DA (12:06) Technical deep dive (21:16) Outlook for 2026 and beyond (26:55) Outro Papers mentioned: 1. Fraud and Data Availability Proofs: Maximising Light Client Security and Scaling Blockchains with Dishonest Majorities 2. ZODA: Zero-Overhead Data Availability

    27 min
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Honest Majority by Common Prefix explores the people and ideas shaping trust technology. Guests share their journey into the space, the technical problems they are solving, and where they see the next five years of secure, scalable, and interoperable distributed systems headed.

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