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Frontiers Of Coordination #17 - Powerful Draw of Ethereum & The Protocol Guild w/ Trent Vane Epps

Dec 13, 2023
55:25

In this episode, we dive in with Trent Van Epps, a non-technical core contributor to Ethereum and the founder of Protocol Guild. Trent shares his journey from studying to be an architect to working at the Ethereum Foundation & founding the Protocol Guild.

Currently serving on the Protocol Support team, overseeing network upgrades & maintenance; Trent highlights the need for non-technical people to make it all gel. He also outlines the decentralized governance & compensation mechanics of the Protocol Guild as well as the criticism he’s faced about it.

"Time weighting is one of the most important aspects because we're able to sidestep a lot of the... things that members are responsible for managing."

Overall, peth & Trent cover everything from the original Mist demo back in 2016 that got them both excited about Ethereum, all the way to the time-weighted compensation inside the Protocol Guild, contributor retention, decentralized protocol development funding, public goods, their favourite applications of Ethereum & their long term hopes for it.

"I think there's still something to build, there's still a lot of work to do to shape this blockchain substrate that we're all constructing together."


Key Topics:

  • Mist Demo 2016

  • Architecture to Blockchain Transition

  • Protocol Guild Initiative

  • Decentralized Applications & Usecases

  • Evolving Blockchain Design

  • Protocol Guild Origins

  • Funding Model

Resources:

  1. Mist Demo
  2. Ethereum Foundation
  3. Protocol Guild Documentation
  4. EAS (Ethereum Attestation Service)
  5. Protocol Guild Website
  6. Trent Van Epps on Twitter
  7. Optimism Research Forum
  8. SourceCred

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