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Learn about SEDA Protocol aiming to decentralize oracles and provide permissionless data access. Topics include intent-based data layer, verifying data, privacy techniques, interoperability, and optimistic oracles. Discussion on Jasper's background, SEDA's vision, decentralized data transmission, DeFi liquidations, price feeds, and token migration.

Blockchains are, by default, public ledgers containing every transaction recorded by the network. While this ensures transparency, it also violates users’ privacy once an address is linked to an entity. Apart from creating additional risk for self-custody, institutions are also limited by what they can publicly share on a blockchain. As a result, there is great demand and utility for on-chain, compliant privacy, which still requires KYC (& KYT), but protects them through cryptographic constructs. Zero knowledge proofs attest computational integrity, allowing for transactions to be bundled together and their correctness verified, without revealing each individual interaction.We were joined by Anish Mohammed, co-founder & CTO of Panther Protocol, to discuss the importance of compliant privacy for on-chain transactions, powered by zero knowledge technology.Topics covered in this episode:Anish’s backgroundPanther’s value propositionUX & on-chain privacyPanther’s multi-asset shielded pool architectureKYC & KYTShielded zones and transactionsZone administratorAddress mappingRoadmap & Panther mainnetTarget audience & adoptionFee model & tokenomicsEpisode links:Anish Mohammed on TwitterPanther Protocol on TwitterSponsors:Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at - gnosis.ioChorus One: Chorus One is one of the largest node operators worldwide, supporting more than 100,000 delegators, across 45 networks. The recently launched OPUS allows staking up to 8,000 ETH in a single transaction. Enjoy the highest yields and institutional grade security at - chorus.oneThis episode is hosted by Meher Roy. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/537

Discussing the shift towards specialized blockchains, Lava Network aims to decentralize RPC services. Topics include a decentralized marketplace for RPC providers, quality of service comparison, pricing dynamics, and the importance of modularity in the multi-chain landscape.

Zhiming Yang, expert in crypto derivatives, discusses customised structured products to hedge risks and limited upside, applying TradFi expertise to crypto markets. Topics include FX derivatives, exotic options, custom solutions for miners, protocolising structured products, differences between TradFi and DeFi.

David Goldberg, co-founder of Founders Pledge, discusses the challenges of running a non-profit organization and maximizing social impact through data. Topics include building a great company culture, assessing non-profit organizations' efficiency, effective altruism, and the changes in philanthropy sector. The podcast also introduces Pledge Ventures, a venture capital fund supporting Founders Pledge.

Lefteris Karapetsas, early Ethereum contributor, discusses his journey from EthDev to founding Rotki. Topics include joining Slock.it, The DAO raise and hack, Ethereum classic hard fork, founding Rotki, crypto accounting privacy, challenges of building a local app, and hopes and fears for Ethereum's future.

David Minarsch, co-founder of Valory, discusses the Autonolas stack and its Open Autonomy framework for creating off-chain autonomous economic agents. The protocol is overseen by the Governatooorr, an AI-powered governor. Topics include agentic AI systems, multi-agent systems, collaborative agent economy, DAO optimization, and potential attack vectors.

Andreas Tsamados and Vijay Krishnavanshi, co-founders of Fileverse, discuss their decentralized file sharing solution to disrupt the centralization of Web2 file storage. They cover topics such as the advantages of P2P internet, Web2 vs. Web3 user experience, business models for data, decentralizing data, costs of data storage, managing file updates and permissions, use cases of Fileverse, their business model, improving UX, and their future roadmap.

Fully homomorphic encryption, also known as the Holy Grail of cryptography, allows for computation to be performed on encrypted data, without the need for prior decryption. Its blockchain applications would enable programmable, institutional-grade, compliant privacy. With the addition of fhEVM libraries, solidity developers don’t have to worry about the complex cryptography and only decide what layers of the UX should be private.We were joined by Guy Itzhaki & Guy Zyskind, to discuss fully homomorphic encryption and how Fhenix plans to leverage it to build an end-to-end encrypted Ethereum L2 with compliant privacy.Topics covered in this episode:Guy(s)’ backgrounds and why they chose FHEThe differences between TEE, MPC, ZK and FHEThreshold decryptionThe challenges with FHE. Hardware acceleration. Zama’s fhEVMFhenix architecturefhEVMUse cases for FHE & composabilityCompliant privacyFhenix roadmapEpisode links:Guy Zyskind on TwitterGuy Itzhaki on TwitterFhenix on TwitterEncryption Day @ ETH Denver (Feb. 28, 2024) registrationSponsors:Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at - gnosis.ioChorus One: Chorus One is one of the largest node operators worldwide, supporting more than 100,000 delegators, across 45 networks. The recently launched OPUS allows staking up to 8,000 ETH in a single transaction. Enjoy the highest yields and institutional grade security at - chorus.oneThis episode is hosted by Felix Lutsch. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/530

Illia Poloshukhin, founder of Near Protocol, discusses the journey from AI to high-throughput blockchain, the scalability of large language models, Near's abstraction of the blockchain for decentralized development, and the role of account aggregation and interoperability.