0age is the Head of Protocol Development at OpenSea, and this was a conversation about Seaport, the new marketplace protocol for buying and selling NFTs.0age takes us through a tour of the Seaport protocol, talking about how it's architected; how conduits and zones work; and we even get into the low level gas optimization work they've done on the contracts. I hope this can be a helpful resource for anyone looking to understand the Seaport protocol or anyone who's building with NFTs more broadly. I also consider 0age to be a true veteran of the space, and hearing him talk through the design of the protocol can be an educational experience in its own rights.Timestamps:(00:01:42) - why build Seaport(00:10:20) - the Seaport architecture(00:12:44) - EIP712 signatures(00:14:17) - the global concept of a nonce(00:16:02) - EIP1271 and bulk listings(00:17:18) - the Executor and conduits(00:25:08) - zones, additional rules that can be applied on top of an order(00:29:47) - implementing English auctions via zones(00:32:17) - layers of the stack(00:36:05) - fulfillment(00:40:42) - gas optimizations and understanding the low-level behavior of the EVM(00:58:40) - the interaction between OpenSea the product and Seaport the protocol(01:07:06) - criteria based items, and partial fills(01:17:50) - ideas to build on top of SeaportInto the Bytecode:- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.comDisclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. 

Charles St.Louis is the COO at Element Finance, a protocol for fixed and variable rate yield markets and previously the governance architect at MakerDAO. In this conversation, we talked about Element’s governance system - with a particular focus on voting vaults, a powerful new primitive that decouple the relationship between capital and voting power and allow much more expressiveness in how users are given a governance voice in the ecosystem.Timestamps:(00:02:54) - MakerDAO’s arc of decentralization(00:07:51) - how Maker influenced Element’s design(00:10:22) - the Governance Steering Council(00:21:25) - voting vaults(00:29:10) - L1 and L2 for governance(00:33:23) - qualitative evaluation for contributions(00:37:50) - the ElFiverse and NFTs in the Element community(00:42:24) - on being a protocol delegateLinks: The Governance Steering Council - https://medium.com/element-finance/the-governance-steering-council-63aea7732262 Voting Vaults - https://docs.element.fi/governance-council/council-protocol-smart-contracts/voting-vaults The Elfiverse - https://elfiverse.element.fi/Into the Bytecode:- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.comDisclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. 

Here is my conversation with Henri Stern who is building Privy.Henri was previously a research scientist at Protocol Labs and worked on Filecoin’s consensus protocol. And after many years of thinking through problems related to data privacy and security, he recently co-founded a new company called Privy where they provide a suite of API tools to store and manage user data off chain.In this conversation, we talked through a set of topics that Henri has a unique point of view on — starting with the question around the seeming trade-off between privacy/security on the one hand and UX/convenience on the other. We talked about principles he has in mind in designing an off-chain data system; how privy does encryption and key management; how they do permissioning; and how they think about data storage.Timestamps:(00:02:30) - designing the product/protocol roadmap(00:10:30) - privacy/security vs. convenience(00:19:27) - building an web3 application(00:23:20) - decentralizing Privy(00:32:09) - key management architecture(00:46:11) - verifiability, transparency as a disinfectant(00:59:02) - building a product with private data(01:07:08) - cofounder relationshipInto the Bytecode:- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.comDisclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. 

Matthew Chaim is building a laboratory experimenting at the edges of music and web3.It's called Songcamp, and right now they're running their third immersive experience. They're coming together with a group of musicians, visual designers, developers, and at the end of this process, will be releasing new music under the moniker of a single headless artist called Chaos.I've been personally completely nerdsniped by Songcamp and think it’s one of the most beautiful corners of our web3 ecosystem.Timestamps:(00:01:08) - Songcamp a web3 laboratory(00:03:27) - songwriting camps(00:06:30) - imaginative language and lore(00:11:12) - incentive alignment(00:20:55) - selection and curation(00:30:31) - immersive digital theatre(00:36:18) - having fun(00:38:03) - the power of IRL(00:43:01) - what’s next(00:51:37) - economic models for internet-native collectivesInto the Bytecode:- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.comDisclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. 

Here is my conversation with Simon de la Rouviere.Simon’s exploration of creative mechanism design through the years is documented on his blog. His contributions to the space range from seeding the idea of bonding curves and curation markets, to building one of the first creator platforms with Ujo, to writing a full length novel experimenting with different publishing models, to now working on bottom-up storytelling with Untitled Frontier.In this conversation, we talked about cc0, designing NFT economies to welcome derivative works, bottom-up storytelling, and much more.Timestamps:(00:01:29) - How Simon got into the craft of storytelling(00:06:25) - The lonely process of long-form content creation(00:09:53) - Kishōtenketsu(00:14:26) - Top-down vs. bottom-up storytelling(00:21:52) - “The medium is the message.”(00:27:17) - CC0, derivatives, Jenkins the Valet(00:34:43) - Harberger Taxes and mechanism design(00:39:51) - NFTs vs ERC20s for ownership and governance(00:44:06) - New power structuresInto the Bytecode:- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.com Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. 

Here is my conversation with David Greenstein, Matt Masurka (Gigamesh), & Vignesh Hirudayakanth, the cofounders at Sound.xyz.Sound is a platform that helps musicians host listening parties and engage with their fans. It's a suite of tools that will grow over time to help musicians make a living using NFTs and other web3-native primitives.I was particularly looking forward to this conversation since David, Matt, and Vignesh participated in Zeitgeist Season One and we got to work pretty closely together. They're moving fast and are working towards a beautiful vision of the world.Timestamps:(00:03:42) - Redefining engagement between artists and fans(00:07:23) - MySpace, HypeMachine, Optimism, and Friends With Benefits(00:12:50) - Using Discord DMs for recruiting(00:16:53) - NFTs as the perfect medium for music patronage(00:20:34) - Fair-play incentive structures for music(00:26:25) - Differentiating the first fan and the millionth fan(00:32:03) - The technical architecture underpinning Sound(00:34:33) - Getting to market and building in public(00:39:45) - Oshi breaks the website(00:41:37) - The Daniel Allan EP(00:42:14) - RAC and deploying to mainnet(00:44:12) - Zeitgeist’s impactInto the Bytecode:- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.comDisclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. 

Mike Sall and Blake West are the founders of Goldfinch, a decentralized protocol facilitating uncollateralized credit.“One of the borrowers is a company based in Uganda. They provide rent-to-own loans for motorcycle taxis to thousands of customers. They've borrowed $5m to expand their operations."Thousands of people in countries like Uganda, India, and Brazil have been financed by Goldfinch loans through local lenders, largely without realizing crypto is the source of funds.These local lenders are largely innovative fintechs in the global south, and have historically fallen into an uncanny valley — they need too much capital for what is available in their local financial markets, and too little capital to navigate foreign institutional markets.Timestamps: (00:03:09) - The 'lightbulb' moment(00:08:20) - The financing gap for emerging-market borrowers(00:13:04) - Borrower profiles; Tugende, DiviBank, and Greenway(00:15:43) - Interfacing with Goldfinch(00:20:37) - Crypto-native KYC and how UID works(00:23:18) - Bottlenecks for the global adoption of crypto(00:34:40) - Compliance requirements for Goldfinch in the United States(00:45:25) - Compliance requirements for borrowers in emerging markets(00:50:56) - Demographics of ‘Backers’(00:52:43) - Incentive alignment and fraud-prevention(01:03:53) - Learnings from shipping a production smart contract system(01:15:01) - Launching GFI token and governance of the protocol(01:26:04) - The macro point of viewInto the Bytecode:- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.comDisclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. 

The conversation on publishing today is the very first one I recorded for the podcast about six months ago. It's a conversation with Justin Glibert about patterns he's uncovered while building Ember (an onchain game) and Lattice (the engine behind the game) — patterns related to inflation and zero sum resources, spacial constraints, and user impersonation. I hope you enjoy.Into the Bytecode:- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.com Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. 

This is a conversation with Phillip Wang and Nate Foss two of the co-founders of Gather.Gather is a video chat platform that puts you and the people you're communicating with in a virtual space - and gives you the ability to move around and interact with them based on your locations in that space, just like in real life. It's had a ton of traction over the last year and is being used by millions of people around the world. It's one of the coolest products I've personally used in recent memory.As you will hear in this conversation, Phillip and Nate are two incredibly thoughtful and mission-oriented people — and they plan to build Gather into a progressively open and decentralized system. So in this conversation, we went deep on what this could actually look like. We talked about how Gather is architected under the hood and how they think about decentralizing the game engine and the tech stack. We talked about identity, login, and social graphs. We talked about business models. And lastly, we talked about the metaverse and the path dependence of how the future unfolds from here.I hope you enjoy the conversation.Links:Gather's Websocket API - https://gathertown.notion.site/Gather-Websocket-API-bf2d5d4526db412590c3579c36141063Into the Bytecode:- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.comDisclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. 

This is a conversation with Tracheopteryx about the evolution of Yearn, Coordinape, and pseudonymity.Tracheopteryx has been a key leader in the Yearn Finance community since its legendary genesis event. In this conversation, we talk about key moments in Yearn's evolution with an eye towards takeaways that might be useful for other projects. We talk about the introduction of the multisig; the mint — a complex governance proposal where the community eventually chose to dilute themselves in order to reward core contributors; and constrained delegation - the governance framework that Trach helped design and which is operating in Yearn today.The other big area we get into is Coordinape. Coordinape is a protocol for decentralizing compensation. It was designed and incubated inside of Yearn, and is now being built as an independent project.Towards the end of the conversation, Trach tells the story behind his name and shares a perspective on becoming pseudonymous that has stayed with me since.I hope you enjoy the conversation.Into the Bytecode:- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.comDisclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.