My guest today is Alex Masmej, founder of Drakula, Showtime, and $ALEX token. Alex's new app, Drakula, is a so-called SocialFi mixture of TikTok, friend.tech, Farcaster, and $DEGEN. On this episode, Alex and I discuss consumer crypto product iteration methodology, team composition, how to sustain setbacks including departing co-founders, the bear market, owing the tax man, and US work visas. We also get into the power of taste, long term vision, and community in building crypto products. It was fantastic chatting with Alex who is a dynamic and unique voice at the intersection of crypto and consumer. I hope you enjoy the show. As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions. Links Hosted by @nicholas Alex Masmej Drakula

Parthasarathy Ramanujam, Co-Founder & CTO of Etherspot, discusses the journey of Etherspot from Pillar to account abstraction. They talk about their AA Bundler, React library, embedded wallet services, and a new p2p bundler. The podcast explores challenges with gas prices, upcoming launch of decentralized bundler system, and evolution of project vision and product market fit. Navigating EVM complexity for bundlers, exploring modular smart accounts, and Etherspot's full-stack solution for developers are also highlighted.

My guest today is Cameron Robertson, founder of Arx. Arx is an NFC chip with a ECDSA private key. On this episode, Cameron and I dive into the devices and protocols at the intersection of NFC and blockchain. We discuss tamper resistance, signing APIs, and the interaction patterns available in today's mobile device ecosystem. It was great learning more about Arx from Cameron. This episode was recorded in person at EthDenver. I hope you enjoy the show. As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions. Links Hosted by @nicholas Arx

My guest today is Haseeb Awan, founder of Efani. Efani is a telephone service provider for people and companies that are concerned about SIM swapping. On this episode, Haseeb and I dive into his history founding the original Bitcoin ATM network as a computer science student in Canada, going to YC, and becoming an American citizen. We dive into the details of Efani, his new company, which provides $99 a month US eSIM phone plans with an 11-factor process for SIM swapping that makes it very difficult to SIM jack their customers. It was great learning more about Haseeb's journey and how Efani is able to provide more secure SIM cards for its customers. As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions. Links Hosted by @nicholas Efani

In this conversation with Andrew Huang, founder of Conduit, learn about the revolutionary rollup as a service that simplifies deploying custom rollups. He discusses the ins-and-outs of one-click Layer 2 and Layer 3 deployments, costs of running Superchain rollups, and data availability options like L1 and Celestia. Andrew shares his journey from backend engineer to leading a complex service, revealing critical insights into the evolving blockchain landscape and the importance of infrastructure and crypto economics.

My guest today is Jango, co-founder of Juicebox Protocol, Revnets, Defifa, and Bananpus. Launched in 2021, Juicebox is a programmable fundraising protocol that has processed more than $180 million of contributions to over 1000 projects, from culture DAOs to open source projects. Most recently, Juicebox Protocol facilitated over 300 ETH in donations to the legal defense fund for Tornado Cash developers Alexey Pertsev and Roman Storm. Juicebox's core mechanic issues receipt tokens for each contribution to a given project, which can be redeemed at a later date for a portion of the remaining treasury. Issuance schedules can be defined onchain up-front, making possible trustless token launches and clear onchain relationships between project founders and contributors. On today's episode, Jango joins me to discuss a bunch of new projects that have emerged from the Juicebox ecosystem. Bananapus, Juicebox's much anticipated cross-chain evolution, will enable contributing funds to a project on any L2, while maintaing Juicebox's trustless receipt token mechanics. Revnets, a fully automated form of Juicebox project, will replace DAO governance with predefined and immutable token issuance rules, simplifying project diligence and ongoing maintenance for project creators and contributors. Finally Bannyverse, a new NFT project, will bring Juicebox's beloved Banny the banana mascot onchain with a plethora of customizable accessories, with unique wearables for each L2 chain. It was fantastic catching up with Jango about all of the exciting projects he's been working on over the past year. I hope you enjoy the show. This episode of Web3 Galaxy Brain is sponsored by Zapper. Zapper is a smart block explorer that allows you to view the chain in a simple and human-readable way. Track your NFT and DeFi portfolio, search any Ethereum address, discover new opportunities, and trade, all from one place. Try Zapper on the web at zapper.xyz, or download the Zapper mobile app from the Apple App Store and Google Play! See you onchain! My thanks to Zapper for supporting Web3 Galaxy Brain. As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions. Links Hosted by @nicholas Revnets (link 2) Bannyverse Bananapus Juicebox

My guest today is Vidy Thatte, co-founder of Trace. Trace is a website that lets you build SwiftUI components with LLM text prompts, screenshots, and drawings on a canvas. In short, Trace lets you build iPhone apps with AI. On this episode, Vidy and I take a walk down memory lane, chronicling his illustrious history of app development projects and startups that led him to where he is today. We discuss the technical details of how the current version of Trace uses GPT-4 and a code database to create smooth feeling UIs, and how powerful Trace may become in the future. It was excellent getting a chance to meet Vidy, whose journey I've been following online for years. I hope you enjoy the show. As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions. Links Hosted by @nicholas Trace AI Trace's log Vidy's blog

My guest today is Nick Dodson, co-founder and CEO of Fuel. Fuel is a moduler execution layer that's designed to facilitate performant L2 rollups. On this episode, Nick and I discuss the history of rollup design, the scaling challenges facing the EVM, and how his years of experience writing Solidity, EVM Assembly, and participating in the EIP process contributed to Fuel's design. We dive into Fuel's underlying UTXOs model, which allows Fuel nodes to validate transactions in parallel across multiple cores simultaneously. Finally we discuss Predicates, which are stateless conditions that can be attached to Fuel transactions, allowing users to pay for gas in ERC20s, SOL, or other coins, and to sign transactions with different eliptic curves like BLS, p256, or EDDSA. It was great learning more about the exciting technology Fuel has been cooking up for the past few years. I hope you enjoy the show. As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions. Links Hosted by @nicholas Fuel Docs Fuel Passkeys demo

My guests today are Draper and Facu, co-founders of Smol and contributors to Yearn and Ajna. Smol is a set of practical EVM tools born out of Draper and Facu's experience building frontends and marketing material for Yearn Finance. On this episode, Facu and Draper walk us through the variety of tools and projects they've worked on together, and give us insights into how DeFi protocols do successful go to market. We also get a sneak peek at upcoming projects like Smol v2, and a new interface to Yearn Finance. It was great learning about dapp development and GTM from Facu and Draper, and to hear more about their unique collaborative relationship. I hope you enjoy the show. This episode is brought to you by Speedrun Ethereum. Speedrun Ethereum is a hands-on crash course in Web3 development that’ll teach you how to build an NFT contract, a DEX, a multisig wallet, and more, all through hands-on step-by-step project based learning. If you’ve always wanted to get more technical, or to expand beyond your comfort zone in Web3 dev, Speedrun Ethereum is the place to go. Get started at speedrunethereum.com As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions. Links Hosted by @nicholas Sponsored by Speedrun Ethereum Smol Yearn Ajna

Explore the innovative Farcaster Frames, allowing developers to create interactive mini-apps with minimal code. Hear from developers Cassie Heart, Christopher Wallace, and Jacopo Ranalli on technical mechanisms and product possibilities. Discover how Frames can be used to build polls, NFT claims, airdrop slot machines, games, and more. Dive into discussions on consumer crypto UX, open web standards, and social software design.