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My guests today are Nick Hollins and Ivano Salonia, co-founders of UFO. UFO is an onchain radio network and a spiritual offspring of indie radio. In this episode, Nick, Ivano, and I discuss the work of creating podcasts that grow onchain brands and build community. We consider how Web3 communities make use of Web2, how NFT drops create momentum, and how media consumption habits have changed in the last few years. It was great getting to know Nick and Ivano who are exploring what's possible at the intersection of indie subcultures and the Ethereum ecosystem. 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 Ivano Salonia Nick Hollins UFO FM UFO Mirror Based Management FM Tour 2023 UFO on Interface Casino on Mars Pew Research on teen internet behavior Variant - New signs of life for NFTs on Ethereum & L2s

My guests today are Bryce Ferguson and Jack Kearney, CEO and CTO of Turnkey. Turnkey is a private key as a service provider designed to let app devs and enterprise customers create, manage, and use private keys with a simple API. Turnkey leverages Amazon Nitro, a Trusted Execution Environment as a service, to give customers of all sizes a Secure Enclave in the cloud. This is particularly useful for companies that need to programmatically manage a large volume of private keys. On this episode, Bryce and Jack explain Turnkey's QuorumOS, a deterministic OS for secure execution of apps like their Policy Engine, Signer, and EVM Parser. We also discuss the provisioning process for initializing apps securely, and discuss the risk profile of Hardware Security Modules and HSM cloud providers like Amazon. It was a pleasure chatting with Bryce and Jack and learning more about the wonderful world of cryptography in the cloud. 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 @nnnnicholas Turnkey Goldfinch demo AWS Nitro Enclaves

My guest today is Bunny, aka @ConejoCapital, CEO of Dora. Dora is a user friendly block explorer and blockchain search engine. On this episode, Bunny and I discuss multichain block explorers, unified blockchain interaction interfaces, and the challenges of blockchain indexing. We discuss Dora's search product and it's data product, and it's adventures beyond the EVM. It was fun getting to know Bunny and learn about Dora's journey making blockchain transaction auditing easier for consumers. 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 nnnnicholas @ConejoCapital Dora SimpleHash Goldsky Numia Celestia Modular Cloud BlockScout Codeslaw ContractReader

My guest today is Derek Chiang, CEO of ZeroDev. ZeroDev is a smart account provider whose SDK makes it easy for app devs to integrate social authentication, Passkey signers, paymaster gas sponsorships, transaction bundling, and third party plugins. In this conversation, Derek and I discuss 4337 in depth from the perspective of the app dev. We talk about the difference between wallet signer providers and smart contract account providers, how to choose between the many smart account implementations, and which transactions to sponsor. Derek also shares some alpha about an upcoming product that will synchronize smart account state across chains. It was a pleasure talking to Derek in this wide ranging and detailed conversation about 4337 in practice. 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 @nnnnicholas Derek Chiang ZeroDev Docs and Blog ZeroDev's Passkey Demo Kernel Github ZeroDev's EF Grant 62% of deployed smart accounts (Sept 23) BundleBear AA adoption stats Web3Auth Eternal, Derek's last startup Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:01:11) Distributed systems (00:06:20) Twitch clip NFTs and Eternal (00:09:40) ZeroDev's origins (00:15:30) UX Advantages of AA (00:21:30) ZeroDev's Kernel 4337 account implementation (00:23:30) ZeroDev adoption (00:26:00) ZeroDev and Privy and other signers (00:30:15) CTO Taek Lee (00:32:30) How should app devs choose a smart account provider? (00:35:50) EIP-3074 vs EIP-4337 (00:38:55) Adoption and applications (00:42:55) Social signers (00:46:50) Passkeys cross-app (00:49:10) Account Central (00:53:55) EIP-7212 (00:57:20) Gas sponsorship (01:01:09) Multichain Smart Accounts (01:04:30) Address consistency across chains (01:09:36) Pricing (01:13:35) Session Keys (01:17:15) Plugins (01:21:00) Outro

Subscribe at web3galaxybrain.com Today's episode is a roundtable discussion about EIP-3074: AUTH and AUTHCALL and EIP-4337: Account Abstraction Using Alt Mempool, two very different approaches to enabling smart contract accounts. To discuss the past, present, and future of 3074 and 4337, I'm joined by Matt Garnett, aka lightclients, developer contributor working on Go Ethereum, Gregory Markou, aka @gregthegreek, CTO at ChainSafe, and Joseph Delong, CTO at Astaria and former CTO at Sushi. It was fantastic getting these three talented and opinionated developers to the table to discuss the social and technical processes it takes to improve the EVM. My thanks to Pedro Gomes for helping bring this episode together. I hope you enjoy the show. Links Hosted by @nnnnicholas gregthegreek, ChainSafe @lightclients, Go Ethereum @josephdelong, Astaria EIP-2938 EIP-3074 EIP-4337 and Eth Magicians On Abstractions - Vitalik Buterin Getting rid of WETH using 3074 by axic EIP-1153 EIP-2535 Diamonds EIP-5492 EIP-7212 Shadow owners of Gnosis Safes lightclient's history of AA Link Tree Is the secp256r1 curve compromised? Podcast Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:01:42) Interview start: Matt Garnett, Joseph Delong, and Greg Markou introduce themselves (00:06:57) How EIP-2938 led to EIP-3074 (00:10:05) What EIP-3074 proposes: AUTH and AUTHCALL (00:13:50) How 3074 improves ERC-20 approvals (00:18:20) Why has 3074 not been adopted? (00:20:04) What ERC-4337 proposes (00:22:30) 3074 and 4337 are not comparable (00:23:50) Design philosophies: 3074 vs 4337 (00:28:30) 3074 makes every account a smart contract account (00:31:45) 3074 + 4337 (00:35:50) Enshrinement (00:41:40) NEAR’s native Account Abstraction (00:43:50) 4337: Enables centralized operators(00:45:45) Is secp256r1 compromised? (00:51:23) Are Optimistic rollups legit? (01:01:00) 3074 can get rid of WETH (01:02:30) Recovery with 3074 (01:04:00) 3074 does not solve key rotation (01:05:00) 3074 vs 4337: State bloat (01:10:30) 3074 vs 4337: Nonces (01:13:05) Nested execution (01:14:45) Can 3074 and 4337 be compatible (01:16:00) Diamond Pattern vs Safe style (01:18:40) 3074 rallying cry (01:20:45) Outro

Discussing Biconomy's innovative ERC-4337 smart accounts, Paymasters, and Bundlers for seamless crypto UX. Exploring session keys, Passkey signers, EIP-7212, and multichain permissions. Collaborating with Rhinestone on ERC-6900 AA Module for Module Store launch in Q1 2024.

Web3 Galaxy Brain on Gitcoin My guests today are Jacob Frantz and Zak Salmon, founders of FirstMate. FirstMate lets Creators build and host their own secondary NFT marketplaces. Creator-owned marketplaces can display all of an artist or team's collections across minting platforms, enforce royalties, and source liquidity from the most popular marketplaces thanks to Reservoir. In its initial version, FirstMate is served as an app within the Manifold app store, and it will become its own website soon. On this episode, Jacob, Zak and I discuss the evolving NFT landscape, what it's like running the most popular Reddit Collectible Avatars secondary marketplace, and how FirstMate works under the hood. If you're interested in the art and business of NFTs, this episode is for you. It was a pleasure chatting with Jacob and Zak who are insightful, kind, and persistent. 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 @nnnnicholas (Telegram) Firstmate FirstMate's Twitter Jacob Frantz and Zak Salmon Sound Market "Every artist deserves to own their marketplace." XCopy's site Reddit Collectible Avatars (Dune) (r/CollectibleAvatars) (FirstMate's Marketplace) Noble Gallery Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:01:42) Interview start (00:03:00) Every Artist Deserves To Own Their Marketplace (00:11:00) The New FirstMate Manifold app (00:16:00) Creators and NFTs (00:22:30) Creator Insights (00:24:15) Reservoir vs FirstMate (00:25:33) Having everyone in one place (00:33:00) Reddit Collectible Avatars (00:40:00) Indexing Shared Contracts (00:44:00) Creator Owned Primary Storefronts (00:44:30) Creator Storefronts Are For Communication (00:45:00) Background at Instagram and Walmart (00:47:40) Metrics (00:57:00) The Royalty Wars (01:11:00) Sound’s secondary market (01:13:15) 90cc’s secondary market (01:18:00) Bankless’s secondary market (01:24:00) How FirstMate is built (01:36:00) NFTs Enable Niche Creator Monetization (01:41:00) What comes after NFTs? (01:47:30) New-To-Crypto Creators (01:55:00) Scarcity (01:56:15) Outro

Nitya Subramanian, Founder of Capsule, discusses the embedded wallet SDK that simplifies user experience. They touch on topics such as authentication, forthcoming features, cross-app smart account access, and secure measures. They also explore the evolution of crypto interest, programmable ecosystems, advantages for app developers, k1 curve benefits, key refresh in multi-party computation, trade-offs between security and convenience, and cross domain support for accounts.

My guest today is Furqan Rydhan, co-founder of Thirdweb. Thirdweb is a popular web3 toolkit for app developers. Thirdweb is used by big brands and indie developers to drop NFTs, enable log-in, and power decentralized games. By the numbers, in September 2023, Thirdweb had 50,000 active developers and 5 million active end-users interacting with products built atop its tools. In this conversation, Furqan and I discuss Thirdweb's focus on app developers, and how that differentiates it from its peers. We dive into how he thinks about organizing its vast set of product offerings, and what he's learned after many years building and exiting unicorns like Bebo and AppLovin. We also talk about working with Thirdweb co-founder Steven Bartlett, and the content marketing approach he brought to the project. Finally, we touch on Furqan's venture studio, Founders Inc. It was a pleasure chatting with Furqan whose years of experience lend him a mature perspective on startup cycles and the development of web infrastructure. 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 @nnnnicholas (Telegram) Thirdweb Furqan's Website Thirdweb Market Dominance - Dune Analytics Electric Capital Releases 2022 Crypto Developer Report - PR Newswire Web3 Warriors Account Abstraction Steven Bartlett - Twitter F.inc Website

DC Posch and Nalin Bhardwaj, founders of Daimo, discuss their new p256Verifier contract, EIP-7212, and propose progressive precompiles to optimize blockchain transactions. They explore WebAuthn cryptography, gas optimization, and enhancements in security with account abstraction and secure enclaves. The podcast delves into iCloud Keychain security, elliptic curve signatures, and developing a stablecoin-centric wallet for easy access to stablecoins in regions with high inflation.