The Fren Zone

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Jacob Phillips from Lombard Finance. Lombard Finance is on a mission to expand the digital economy by transforming Bitcoin’s utility from a store of value into a productive financial tool with LBTC.

Topics Discussed:

• Liquid staking for Bitcoin with LBTC
• Babylon integration for Bitcoin staking yield
• Secure bridge with Cubist key infrastructure
• Validator consor...

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Srinivasan Parthasarathy from Shardeum. Shardeum is an EVM Compatible L1 blockchain that uses dynamic state sharding to keep transaction fees low forever.

Topics Discussed:

• Dynamic state sharding with scalable architecture
• Leaderless consensus with rotating validators
• No block structure enables instant finality
• Decentralized node ops with low hardware needs
• Fu...

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Lyron Co Ting Keh from Seismic. Seismic is the encrypted blockchain. Seismic’s system lets developers encrypt apps to produce differentiated user experiences.

Topics Discussed:

• Encrypted global state for private app logic
• Protocol-level encryption enables new UX design space
• Dual-memory EVM supports selective data shielding
• Onchain market infrastructure with ...

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Dean Tribble from Agoric. Agoric is a blockchain platform that enables seamless multi-chain coordination through orchestration, allowing developers to create long-lived JavaScript smart contracts with native async execution, multi-block workflows, and automated cross-chain interactions.

Topics Discussed:

• JavaScript Smart Contracts for Web3 developers.
• Orche...

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Chandra and Manoj Duggirala from Portal to Bitcoin. Portal to Bitcoin is a trust-minimized, cross-chain DEX that enables secure, non-custodial atomic swaps between Bitcoin and other blockchains without relying on bridges or intermediaries..

Topics Discussed:

• Trustless swaps eliminate bridge and exchange risks
• HTLC security ensures swaps inherit Bitcoin’s tr...

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Fred Hsu from D3. D3 is the first authoritative network built for DomainFi that tokenizes domains as real-world assets for billions of users on the root layer of the internet.

Topics Discussed:

• Tokenizing domains on the DOMA Protocol
• On-chain DNS resolution for Web3 compatibility
• Automated escrow and smart contract trading
• Fractionalized ownership and liquidi...

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Dylan Zhang from Pond. Pond is a crypto-native AI model platform that enables developers to collaboratively create, own, and monetize blockchain-specific AI models by leveraging on-chain data.

Topics Discussed:

• Focusing on on-chain models for trading, risk assessment, and wallet profiling.
• Enabling developers to own, monetize, and improve hosted models usin...

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Dr K from Quai Network. Quai is transforming the world of blockchain with the first decentralized energy dollar, $Qi, designed to provide predictable value and facilitate seamless transactions on the only scalable and programmable Proof-of-work blockchain.

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Karel from Union. Union is a trustless, hyper-efficient zero-knowledge infrastructure layer enabling fast, secure interchain messaging and asset transfers using ZK cryptography and BLS signatures. 

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Bram from Chia Network. Chia's proprietary consensus mechanism Proof of Space and Time drastically reduces energy requirements of Proof of Work based blockchains like Bitcoin.


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This week, our host Mason sat down with Anurag from Avail and Misha from Symbiotic. Avail is the unification layer for Web3, allowing modular execution layers to scale and interoperate in a trust minimized way.

Avail’s recent partnership with Symbiotic is game changing for developers, with streamlined interoperability and shared security.

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Can from t1 Protocol.  t1 Protocol leverages Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and user signature verification to generate real-time proofs.

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Robert from Native, the first platform that enables Bitcoin programmability with zero trust architecture.

Topics:

–  ₿  Underserved Bitcoin community   
– 👨‍💻 Multi-party computation (MPC) to program Bitcoin transactions directly
– ✅ Combining the benefits of both L1 and L2 solutions 
– ⏱️ Aiming to achieve block times of...

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Rand from Zama. Zama is an open source cryptography protocol building state-of-the-art fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain and AI.

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Arjun from Everclear, the first clearing layer. Everclear coordinates the global settlement of liquidity between chains, solving fragmentation for modular blockchains.

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Stephanie and Sun of Veda, the first native yield layer for DeFi. Veda tokenizes the most complex DeFi interactions, granting protocols the power to embed yield for a superior UX.

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

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This week, our host Mason sat down with David of Alpen Labs. Alpen Labs is expanding global financial access & individual agency through ZK-enabled infrastructure on Bitcoin.

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Toby of OrdinalsBot. OrdinalsBot provides accessible tools and resources for inscriptions, token creation, digital collectibles, and more within the Bitcoin ecosystem.

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

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