Hashing It Out Corey Petty, Dee Ferguson, Jessie Santiago, Christian Noguera

In this episode, we interview Cloudhead from the Radicle.xyz project, discussing the intricacies of maintaining a peer-to-peer code collaboration platform. Cloudhead explains the challenges and innovations of developing Radicle, emphasizing its offline functionality, lack of requirement for a user account, and the complexities involved in building a decentralized platform. Key difficulties include engineering novel solutions due to the scarcity of peer-to-peer models and ensuring a user-friendly experience amidst peer-to-peer limitations. He describes radical as a peer-to-peer, sovereign code forge aiming to improve open-source development workflows, inviting developers, and users to contribute, provide feedback, and engage with the community.

Dee, Corey, and Jessie host an insightful interview with Jason Delabay and Dr. Morten Dahl from Zama, focusing on fully homomorphic encryption.

Delabay, with a background in web development and crypto, delves into his journey into cryptography after meeting Zama's CEO, exploring the potential of FHE in blockchain technology. Dr. Dahl, with expertise in secure computation, discusses the application of his cryptography background at Zama.

The team elaborates on Zama's mission to make FHE easily accessible and scalable for developers, highlighting the difference between FHE and other cryptographic techniques like zero-knowledge proofs. They also discuss the challenges and future prospects of integrating FHE into blockchain, aiming to enhance privacy without compromising on trust and security.

In Mattereum Part 2, Vinay Gupta - CEO of Mattereum, discussed the complexities of establishing legal ownership and property rights for physical and digital assets, emphasizing the societal and legal constructs surrounding property.

He highlighted the work Mattereum does to tokenize real-world assets like gold bars and houses, by ensuring that ownership can be legally verified and transferred through NFTs and smart contracts. The conversation also touched on unconventional forms of property like in-game items, which may be owned by companies rather than players, suggesting the need for clarification and potential insurance mechanisms.

Vinay Gupta is a cryptographic applications developer and part of the original Ethereum team. In this episode, he introduces his company Mattereum, which focuses on securitizing physical assets on the Ethereum blockchain.

Corey, Dee, and Jessie talk to Gupta about Mattereum's goal to provide a scalable and legally-regulated way to conduct transactions involving physical assets, envisioning a system where blockchain functions as a namespace registry, while transactions happen on more efficient and ephemeral layers.

In this episode, Paul Sztorc discusses his vision for drive chains, a concept he believes could advance Bitcoin by allowing for permissionless innovation and competition among developers, leading to a diverse array of L2 applications that work in tandem with Bitcoin's L1.

Corey Petty chats with Danny Ryan - Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation - about the massive task of coordinating async work and the Ethereum 2.0 rollout.

They also discuss how to get started in the crypto and blockchain community, as well as, how much you can learn by stepping in to do small tasks as part of the bigger picture.