Solidity Galaxy Brain 🌌🧠

nnnnicholas

Conversations with Solidity developers about the contracts they've written and the contracts they admire.

Episodes

  1. 28/07/2022

    AGLD and Syndicate with Will Papper

    We dive into the Adventure Gold contract, and Will shares the story of writing $AGLD in four hours while stuck at an airport. We discuss his aspirations for the project, the mechanisms he included in the code, and what he might do differently with what he's learned since then. We also discuss Will's main project, Syndicate, the crypto investment club tech that's already been used to launch thousands of daos since it launched only a few months ago. Will explains the lessons he and his team have learned about smart contract upgradeability patterns, and what makes managing solidity engineering teams different from their Web2 equivalents. I had a great time chatting with Will as always. This conversation was an inspiring reminder that blockchains give superpowers to optimistic devs willing to make new discoveries through playful experimentation. I hope you enjoy the show. Welcome to Solidity Galaxy Brain. My guest today is Will Papper. Will is a Solidity developer, co-founder of Syndicate, a platform for creating crypto investment clubs, and the creator of Adventure Gold, better known as $AGLD. In this episode, we discuss Will's background researching mesh networks prior to getting involved in crypto, and how he came to learn about community management through a side project running Minecraft game servers. AGLD Helium mesh network FireChat used in Hong Kong MIT Media Lab Running Minecraft and TF2 servers Bitcoin White Paper and Ethereum Yellow Paper David Silverman of Lens Protocol Loot contract Syndicate Data Separation vs Delegate Call upgradeability (Trail of Bits) ERC721ATM.sol by @remnynt JokeDAO disposable cross-chain governance tokens

    1h 25m
  2. 19/07/2022

    Genesis Loot with Treppers

    My guest today is Treppers, developer of the Genesis Loot contracts, Genesis Mana and Genesis Adventurers.  In today's episode we discuss Treppers background in startups, and how he fell down the crypto rabbit hole. First, Treppers and I discuss the core mechanisms in Dom Hoffman's Loot (for Adventurers) contract, and how onchain composability enables permissionless collaboration on the blockchain. Treppers then walks me through the many contracts that make up the Genesis Loot ecosystem. We discuss Genesis Mana and Genesis Adventurers, which were Treppers' very first Solidity contracts deployed to mainnet, and how each of these made reference to and expanded upon the data in the original Loot contract. We also discuss Adventure Time (or $ATIME), the Genesis Loot ERC-20 token, and its present utility. We chat about two lesser known Genseis Loot contracts, Loot Classification, and Loot Stats, which are onchain utilities that expose data from the original Loot contract that was previously unavailable for composition. Finally we discuss bottle.to, an onchain SVG NFT messaging dapp that emerged to fill a need amongst Genesis Mana traders seeking to communicate with anon Loot and Mana holders on Ethereum. I had a wonderful time chatting with Treppers about his approach and the lessons he's learned along the way. By coincidence, Treppers and I spoke while he attended a Divine DAO builders meetup, and I can't think of a better example of the collaborative energy surrounding Treppers work and the Lootverse that he's so deeply involved in. Genesis Loot is one of the coolest onchain composable games, where NFT trading, cross-contract composability, and lorebuiling are the game. It was great getting to know Treppers better. I hope you enjoy the show. Topics Discussed Treppers' background in Silicon Valley DivineDAO Loot (for Adventurers) Genesis Loot Github bottle.to (etherscan) Genesis Mana $ATIME Adventure Time loot classification loot-stats

    1h 22m
  3. 03/05/2022

    Puzzles, Games, and Onchain SVG with CyberBrokers Developer Ben Heidorn

    My guest today is Ben Heidorn, better known as @cybourgeoisie on Twitter. Ben is a Solidity developer who has been building crypto puzzles and games for several years. He is the CTO at crypto game studio Blockade Games, developers of Neon District, and principal developer on Josie Bellini's CyberBrokers, a massively on-chain SVG NFT collection that has been in the works for over two years. In this episode, Ben and I chat about many of the projects he's worked on over the years, including Torched Hearts, Plasma Bears, Tokens of Infection, F473, The Ledger of Szabo, and more. If you're excited to hear the details on how Ben stored more than 1400 SVG layers in over 2000 contracts on Ethereum L1 for CyberBrokers, make sure to stick around for the last third of this episode. It was a pleasure chatting with Ben about the early days of puzzling and cross-chain experimentation, and his more recent experience building sophisticated onchain NFT projects. I hope you enjoy the show. Interview by @nnnnicholas. Produced by @0xRavel. Topics discussed: COIN ARTIST and the invention of crypto puzzles Rhea Myers @Zd3N puzzle artist @Zd3N's Litecoin puzzle Torched Hearts Tokens of Infection (September 2019) (Etherscan) CryptoKitties Diego Rodriguez lead artist at Neon District David Hoover, founder of Red Squirrel technologies) wrote the original Neon District trophy contract (January 2018) Pineapple Arcade Plasma Bears (March 2019) (article, OpenSea) XCOPY plasma bear Loom Network, now-defunct alt-L1 EVM. Axie Infinity Loom DM: "We're shutting down tomorrow." The Ledger of Szabo (Aug 2019), cross chain Ethereum-Lightning puzzle game (team) (Etherscan) Die Kitty Dai (Feb 2020), demo (team picture), Etherscan JTobcat creator of the first NFT airdrop F473 (Fate) (2021) documentation, a href="https://twitter

    1h 29m

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Conversations with Solidity developers about the contracts they've written and the contracts they admire.