Strange Water Podcast

Guest: Will Griffiths (Twitter: @mrwillgriffiths)

Host: Rex (Twitter: @LogarithmicRex)

Today's episode features Will Griffiths, General Manager of Animoca Brands' Motorverse. Learn how Animoca Brands is pioneering digital property rights for gamers with their innovative car-centric gaming ecosystem. We discuss the Motorverse's key pillars, including meaningful ownership and true interoperability, and explore the future...

Guest: Alex Pruden (Twitter: @apruden08)

Host: Rex (Twitter: @LogarithmicRex)

Join us as we chat with Alex Pruden, Executive Director of the Aleo Foundation, about Aleo's innovative, privacy-focused Layer 1 blockchain. We explore the transformative power of Zero-Knowledge cryptography, which enables private interactions on the blockchain while maintaining permissionlessness and verifiability. Discover the implications of Aleo&...

Guest: Alejo Pinto

Host: Rex (Twitter: LogarithmicRex)

Today’s guest is Alejo Pinto, Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer of Pontem Network. Based in Aptos, Pontem collaborates closely with the Aptos Foundation, developing innovative products like Liquidswap and Pontem Wallet. Gain insights into the Aptos ecosystem and explore the future of the L1 blockchain landscape, the key players in crypto, and the evolving role of Bitcoin...

Guests: Harrison Hines (Twitter: @harris0nhines) and Parsa Ghadimi (Twitter: @ParsaIsBack)

Host: Rex (Twitter: @LogarithmicRex)

Dive into the world of edge networks on today's episode of Strange Water Podcast. Learn how edge networks optimize web content delivery by leveraging geographically distributed servers, reducing latency for users worldwide. Explore the evolution of CDNs into edge networks and discover Fleek Network...

Guest: Rushi Manche (Twitter: @rushimanche)

Host: Rex (Twitter: @LogarithmicRex)

Dive into the turbulent world of cryptocurrency's first major bubble as we explore the rise and fall of Facebook's ambitious Libra project, now known as Diem. Despite its demise, it left behind a valuable legacy in the form of the Move smart contract language, heralding a new era of security in blockchain development. Join us as Movement Labs ...

Guest: McDavid Stoddard (Twitter: @RobMcStodda) Host: LogarithmicRex (Twitter: @LogarithmicRex) Throughout the history of modern finance, the investment landscape has often been marked by periods of "irrational exuberance" and significant greed, with the cryptocurrency sector exemplifying these traits on a grander scale. This has led to unusually large and rapid investment bubbles and notable instances of fraud. High-profile figur...

Guest: Prabal Banerjee (Twitter: @prabalbanerjee) Host: Rex (Twitter: @LogarithmicRex)

In this episode, we delve into the critical question of how participants in a blockchain network can ensure the availability of data in newly proposed blocks. Without this assurance, malicious transactions could go undetected, posing significant risks to the network's integrity. Our guest, Prabal Banerjee, Co-Founder of the Avail Project...

Guest: Christine Kim (Twitter: @christine_dkim)

Host: Rex (Twitter: @LogarithmicRex)

I believe that Ethereum is the pinnacle achievement of the open source movement, describing it as an intricate, globally-built, and continuously evolved system through voluntary contributions. Christine Kim plays a crucial role in this ecosystem, attending All Core Developers calls, documenting them, and making the insights accessible to the p...

Guest: Austin King (Twitter: @0xASK)

Host: Rex (Twitter: @LogarithmicRex)

This episode begins with the emergence of rollups as isolated spaces that, while offering quicker and cheaper transactions, risk fragmenting this shared ecosystem, potentially diminishing Ethereum's value. The question then shifts to address concerns about the proliferation of rollups, with forecasts suggesting the deployment of at least 10,000 by th...

Guest: Spadaboom (Twitter: @Spadaboom1)

Host: Rex (Twitter: @LogarithmicRex)

The conversation aims to sift through the noise surrounding DAOs by telling the story of BadgerDAO. BadgerDAO, co-founded by Spadaboom in 2020, aims to facilitate the use of Bitcoin as collateral on other blockchains, thereby accelerating its integration into decentralized finance (DeFi). The discussion will cover BadgerDAO's history, its contribution...

Guest: Kevin Simback (Twitter: @KSimback)

Host: Rex (Twitter: @LogarithmicRex)

Kevin Simback, COO of Delphi Labs, shared insights on the diverse range of professional services crucial for web3 companies, including law firms, accounting, and marketing agencies. Joining an accelerator program can streamline the process of identifying and accessing these services, saving time and resources for founders. This conversation highligh...

Guest: Kubi Mensah (Twitter: @kubimensah)

Host: Rex (Twitter: @LogarithmicRex)

Ethereum was not built to address the value extraction that quickly became rampant. Flashbots, introduced in 2020, addressed issues of front-running and value extraction in Ethereum transactions by redirecting value towards network participants. This sparked a crisis within the Ethereum community, leading to a transformation of its roadmap and the c...

Guest: Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh (Twitter:@Ismael_H_R)

Host: Rex (Twitter: @LogarithmicRex)

I am a strong advocate of the modular blockchain thesis, recognizes the power of scaling blockchains by removing the non-critical parts of blockchain computing out of the scare space that is the blockchain’s virtual machine. Up until today, modular blockchain basically refers to rollups and data availability, but we are entering a new er...

Guest: Gil Binder (Twitter: @xgilxgil)

Host: Rex (Twitter: @LogarithmicRex)

A blockchain computer is a network of physical computers running the same virtual machine, ensuring synchronization through constant communication and a crypto-economic system like proof of stake. Users interact with the blockchain by accessing their local copy of the virtual machine, making changes that are synced across the network. While ideally all...

Guest: Bobafetador (Twitter: @Bobafetador)

Host: Rex (Twitter: @LogarithmicRex)

Imagine: two founders of a decentralized exchange (DEX) experience a successful launch with over $1 billion in deposited assets, only to later discover a major security breach where 60% of their Total Value Locked (TVL) is withdrawn in a single transaction. Reflecting on their oversight, they realize the necessity of a rapid response system to iden...

Guest: Jason Zhao (Twitter: @jasonjzhao)

Host: Rex (Twitter: @LogarithmicRex)

Today's conversation delves into the intersection of intellectual property law and the digital age, highlighting the challenges of enforcing outdated regulations in an online and international context. While existing legal frameworks struggle to adapt to modern mediums and platforms, there's a glimmer of hope in leveraging blockchain technolo...

Guest: Brendan Farmer (Twitter: @_bfarmer)

Host: Rex (Twitter: @LogarithmicRex)

In 2022, Vitalik discussed the transformative impact of zkEVMs on crypto, highlighting their evolution from theoretical concepts to tangible scaling solutions for Ethereum. A year later, multiple zkEVM implementations had reached mainnet, rendering zkEVMs less of a novelty and shifting the focus of discussions to practical scalability challenges. B...

Guest: Amrit Kumar (Twitter: @maqstik)

Host: Rex (Twitter: @LogarithmicRex)

In the crypto community, "modular blockchain" has become a common buzzword, but its precise definition is often overlooked. Unlike traditional monolithic blockchains like Ethereum, which rely on a decentralized network for computation, modular blockchains aim to scale by distributing tasks to specialized environments, reducing costs and incre...

Guests: Anna George (Twitter: @AnnaMSGeorge) and Andrea Canidio (Twitter: @AndreaCanidio)

Host: Rex (Twitter: @LogarithmicRex)

Today’s guests are Anna George, CEO and Co-Founder and Senior Research Economist Andrea Canidio of CoW Swap. CoW Swap is a platform addressing the challenge of coordinating complex exchanges among individuals with diverse needs. Using an acronym for "coincidence of wants" (CoW), the platform enab...