TezTalks Radio - Tezos Ecosystem Podcast

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Delivering news and updates across the Tezos Ecosystem. Join us for a conversation about Tezos and humanizing the people behind the Tezos Ecosystem

  1. 6d ago

    128: Preparing for the Quantum Era on Tezos with Yann Régis-Gianas

    Enjoyed our podcast? Shoot us a text and let us know—because great conversations never end at the last word! What happens to your crypto when quantum computers become powerful enough to challenge today's cryptography? This week on TezTalks Live, host Brandon Langston welcomes back Yann Régis-Gianas, Head of Core Engineering at Nomadic Labs, to explore Quantumnet, an experimental network bringing together several of Tezos' quantum-resistance efforts. Following earlier conversations about Tezos X and Ushuaia, we take a closer look at what it actually takes to prepare an existing blockchain for a future where today's cryptographic assumptions may no longer hold. From quantum-resistant accounts and new consensus signatures to changes in the Data Availability Layer, Yann walks us through the engineering decisions, technical challenges, and lessons emerging from Quantumnet. We also explore one of the biggest questions for everyday users: What happens to the tez sitting in wallets created years ago, and how might those assets eventually transition to quantum-resistant security? It's a conversation about preparing for threats before they arrive, testing difficult ideas in practice, and understanding what it will take to bring post-quantum security to Tezos.

  2. Oct 15

    127: How Ida Belle Is Building a New Tezos City for Artists

    Enjoyed our podcast? Shoot us a text and let us know—because great conversations never end at the last word! What happens when an art collector decides to build something for the artists she believes in? This week on TezTalks Live, Brandon welcomes Ida Belle, a Montreal-based collector, generative art enthusiast, and the creator of TezCity, a new social platform for Tezos artists and collectors. Ida's story begins long before TezCity, with a family tradition of collecting, a fascination with generative art, and years spent discovering and supporting artists across the Tezos ecosystem. Now she's bringing those experiences together through TezCity, where artists can connect with supporters, share exclusive content, and receive direct support through memberships and tez tips. We explore the inspiration behind TezCity, what it took to bring the platform to life, how artists are responding, and what Ida hopes this new space could become. It's a conversation about collecting, creativity, community, and what happens when someone decides to build something they wish existed.

    127: How Ida Belle Is Building a New Tezos City for Artists

  3. Sep 3

    126: TezTalks DeFi | Kitsune from Keystone Labs

    Enjoyed our podcast? Shoot us a text and let us know—because great conversations never end at the last word! We talk with Kitsune from Keystone Lab about Panora, a mobile app that captures real world conversations and turns them into transcripts you can search and chat with later. We dig into the product decisions behind mobile first capture, privacy focused processing, and how AI helped ship an MVP fast while distribution stays the hardest challenge.  • why unscheduled conversations carry the most valuable work context  • who Panora is for, from working professionals to lawyers, HR, and social workers  • the mobile first workflow, live transcript, and post recording processing  • on device transcription vs backend processing, with encryption and user control  • artifacts like topics, events, and decisions, plus chat based recall  • optional voice tagging to group recordings by person  • long term memory via indexing, recency, and lightweight semantic search  • how AI accelerates development, with multi model reviews and harnesses  • lessons learned, especially scope creep and shipping tradeoffs

  4. Aug 21

    125: Why Ryan G. Tanaka Keeps Building Differently on Tezos

    Enjoyed our podcast? Shoot us a text and let us know—because great conversations never end at the last word! This week on TezTalks Live, we welcome back musician and TEIA core team member Ryan G. Tanaka for a conversation about what years of creating, experimenting, and maintaining community-built infrastructure on Tezos have taught him. From putting everyday objects inside a grand piano at TezCon to building tools because of problems he encountered himself, Ryan shares the stories behind TEIA, teia.cafe, and the decisions that come with keeping open-source projects useful without losing what made them worth building in the first place. The conversation gets into the less visible side of community infrastructure too: changing your mind when new information emerges, cleaning up systems maintained by many people over many years, deciding when funding helps or hurts, and figuring out what should be preserved as a project grows. It is a look at Tezos from someone who has spent years not only using the ecosystem, but helping maintain the spaces where its culture lives.

  5. Jul 29

    124: TezTalks DeFi Series | Monarch Lets You Lend Directly Without Curators

    Enjoyed our podcast? Shoot us a text and let us know—because great conversations never end at the last word! The fastest way to lose money in DeFi is to outsource understanding. We sit down with Anton, founder of Monarch, to unpack a deceptively simple question: when you deposit into a “yield” product, do you actually know what you’re exposed to, and who can change it after you click deposit? We get concrete about Morpho lending markets, why vaults and curators can introduce hidden risk for suppliers, and how Monarch is built to offer permissionless direct access instead. Anton walks through Monarch’s Etherlink integration (Tezos EVM), what the live markets look like today, and how users can supply, track flows, and manage positions with better visibility than a single APY number on a button. From there, we dig into the tools that matter when conditions turn chaotic: smart rebalance across markets with the same loan asset, auto vaults that let you set your own exposure caps, and the bigger idea of agents that help you monitor and de-risk instead of “manage your whole wallet.” We also get into the details most interfaces hide, especially oracle assumptions, hard-coded paths, backup oracle designs, and why RWA and private credit assets can be harder to evaluate when part of the story lives off-chain. Anton shares a monitoring tool he likes for RWAs and stablecoins and how that kind of data could plug into safer DeFi UX. If you care about DeFi risk management, Morpho, on-chain lending, yield optimization, and the real tradeoffs behind vaults, this is a practical listen. Subscribe, share this with a friend who farms yield, and leave a review with the one risk metric you wish every app showed.

  6. Jun 9

    123: How Metals.io Is Bringing Real Assets Onchain

    Enjoyed our podcast? Shoot us a text and let us know—because great conversations never end at the last word! This week on TezTalks Radio, host Brandon Langston welcomes back Ben Elvidge to discuss the next evolution beyond Uranium.io: **Metals.io>. Last time, the conversation focused on uranium and the challenge of making a difficult physical commodity accessible through modern financial infrastructure. This time, the lens gets much wider. Metals.io expands that vision into a broader universe of materials including gold, uranium, strategic metals, and upcoming additions like cobalt, silver, palladium, and nickel.  At the heart of the discussion is a simple question: Why are some of the world's most important materials still so difficult for ordinary investors to access directly?

  7. May 20

    122: Inside TzEL and the Future of Private Payments on Tezos

    Enjoyed our podcast? Shoot us a text and let us know—because great conversations never end at the last word! This week on TezTalks Radio, we’re joined by Arthur Breitman, co-founder of Tezos, for a deep conversation about TzEL, an experimental project exploring private, post-quantum payments on Tezos testnet.  At the center of the discussion is a deceptively simple question: If blockchain data can remain public forever, what does privacy actually mean over time? Rather than treating privacy as a momentary concern, this episode looks at the long-term reality of encrypted transaction data that may still exist decades from now — and what happens if future cryptographic assumptions change. 🎙️ The conversation moves through private payments, post-quantum cryptography, rollups, the DAL, and the engineering realities of turning research ideas into working systems. 🔍 In this episode, we explore:  Why blockchain privacy has a “time problem”  What kinds of transaction data remain exposed long term  Why Arthur became interested in private post-quantum payments specifically  What TzEL is actually testing — and what it is not claiming yet  How Tezos’ long-term adaptability connects back to post-quantum design  The difference between a research prototype and production infrastructure  What had to be built to make TzEL function end to end  Why proof size becomes a major constraint for private systems  How the Tezos DAL changes what becomes practical  Why heavier cryptographic systems may naturally live in rollups  How viewing keys, detector keys, and selective disclosure work in practice  What this experiment reveals about the future design space for Tezos This is one of the clearest conversations yet on how Tezos infrastructure, rollups, governance, and long-term adaptability connect together underneath the surface.

  8. May 12

    121: How Ushuaia Prepares Tezos for Shared Applications

    Enjoyed our podcast? Shoot us a text and let us know—because great conversations never end at the last word! This week on TezTalks Radio, we’re joined by Yann Régis-Gianas to unpack Ushuaia, a new Tezos protocol proposal that sits directly in the path toward Tezos X.  From the outside, Tezos X promises something simple: a more unified Tezos experience where EVM and Michelson applications can interact more directly without the awkward fragmentation users are used to across chains, rollups, wallets, and app environments. Ushuaia is part of the infrastructure underneath that promise. This episode focuses on what Ushuaia actually unlocks, what becomes harder without it, and how the clean roadmap for Tezos X meets the reality of engineering constraints.

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