This is my conversation with Molly Mackinlay, Head of Engineering, Product, and Research Development at Protocol Labs, and CEO at FilOz.

Timestamps:

- 00:00:00 intro

- 00:01:59 sponsor: Privy

- 00:03:15 motivation

- 00:09:30 exabytes of network capacity

- 00:12:11 edge computing, bringing compute to data

- 00:14:26 the history of IPFS, libp2p, IPLD, Filecoin, FVM, L2s and IPC

- 00:20:08 designing incentives in Filecoin

- 00:25:11 designing the block rewards curve

- 00:27:28 progress through time

- 00:31:19 learnings from building production systems,

- 00:34:15 EVM-compatibility, future-proofing and network upgrades

- 00:43:51 sponsor: Optimism

- 00:44:56 IPC, L2 scaling on Filecoin

- 00:48:55 architecting applications on subnets

- 00:54:12 business models on subnets

- 00:57:27 the interface between a subnet and the internet

- 01:04:41 FilOz as a public goods amplifier

- 01:07:10 opening up the Protocol Labs network

- 01:12:23 Edge Esmeralda, field building, neurotech, and education

- 01:21:04 outro

Links:
Molly Mackinlay - https://x.com/momack28
Protocol Labs - https://protocol.ai
Filecoin - https://filecoin.io
FilOz - https://www.filoz.org

InterPlanetary Consensus - https://www.ipc.space/

Textile Basin - https://basin.textile.io/

web3.storage - https://web3.storage/

Filecoin Virtual Machine - https://fvm.filecoin.io/

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:

Optimism - https://optimism.io

Privy - https://privy.io

Into the Bytecode:

Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab

Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab

Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com

Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

This is my conversation with Rish, cofounder of Neynar, building infrastructure for Farcaster.

Timestamps:

- 00:00:00 intro

- 00:01:51 sponsor: Optimism

- 00:03:01 the idea maze for Neynar

- 00:12:46 exit, building blocks, and monetization models

- 00:17:20 how Neynar is architected

- 00:21:52 handling Frames Friday

- 00:25:04 scaling infrastructure by mapping requests to resources

- 00:35:05 sponsor: Privy

- 00:36:25 taking good risks as a startup

- 00:41:55 iteration and planning ahead, breadth vs depth-first search

- 00:45:36 the channel protocol spec

- 00:51:26 why build Frame Studio

- 00:56:55 companies become extensions of their founders

- 01:05:53 working on the Base team

- 01:10:28 having a tight feedback loop with users

- 01:15:18 cofounder relationship with Manan

- 01:19:25 outro

Links:

Rish - https://warpcast.com/rish

Neynar - https://neynar.com

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:

Optimism - https://optimism.io

Privy - https://privy.io

Into the Bytecode:

Twitter - / sinahab

Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab

Other episodes - 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 my conversation with Sreeram Kannan, founder at EigenLayer.

Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 intro
- 00:01:21 sponsor: Optimism
- 00:02:42 the AVS economy
- 00:05:24 blockchains separate trust and innovation
- 00:16:53 sponsor: Optimism
- 00:18:02 specialized services and SaaS on EigenLayer
- 00:24:50 rollups are open verifiable web servers
- 00:41:35 rollup economics and business models
- 01:55:14 the transition from academic to builder/operator
- 01:06:38 impact per unit action
- 01:10:26 outro

Links:
Sreeram Kannan: https://twitter.com/sreeramkannan
EigenLayer: https://twitter.com/eigenlayer

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.io

Into the Bytecode:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
Other episodes - 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 my conversation with Doug Petkanics and Eric Tang, cofounders of Livepeer.

Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 intro
- 00:01:45 sponsor: Optimism
- 00:03:55 Livepeer origin story
- 00:11:54 FFmpeg and the video infrastructure stack
- 00:17:07 compute capacity and cost in open vs closed systems
- 00:22:59 GPUs as the supply side, working at NVIDIA
- 00:40:27 finding latent demand
- 00:46:10 sponsor: Privy
- 00:47:30 learnings on go-to-market, Livepeer Studio, AI video processing
- 01:00:54 AI subnets in the Livepeer network
- 01:07:51 doing whatever it takes to get it done
- 01:13:19 interacting with the market
- 01:18:51 the inner game
- 01:24:30 outro

Links:
Doug Petkanics - https://twitter.com/petkanics
Eric Tang - https://twitter.com/ericxtang
Livepeer - https://twitter.com/livepeer
Livepeer Studio - https://twitter.com/livepeerstudio

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.io

Into the Bytecode:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
Other episodes - 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 my conversation with Martin Köppelmann, cofounder of Gnosis.

Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 intro
- 00:01:47 sponsor: Privy
- 00:03:08 Gnosis Pay as an onchain bank account
- 00:13:49 security, passkeys and recovery
- 00:21:19 privacy, Tornado Cash
- 00:28:25 sponsor: Optimism
- 00:29:35 AI agents as a new form of life
- 00:36:43 training with prediction markets as RLHF
- 00:46:00 agents and prediction markets as interconnected concepts
- 00:56:21 why now for prediction markets
- 01:09:08 outro

Show notes:
- Martin Köppelmann: https://twitter.com/koeppelmann
- Prediction Prophet, an agent by Polywrap in collaboration with Autonolas and Gnosis: https://predictionprophet.ai/

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.io

Into the Bytecode:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
Other episodes - 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 my conversation with Varun Srinivasan - cofounder of Merkle Manufactory, the company building the Farcaster protocol and the Warpcast client.

Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 intro
- 00:01:34 sponsor: Optimism
- 00:02:44 Farcaster origins
- 00:05:59 sufficient decentralization, namespaces, hubs and CRDTs
- 00:16:02 type 1 vs type 2 decisions
- 00:21:23 the protocol, channels, clients, spam
- 00:30:13 direct messaging and end-to-end encryption
- 00:36:38 a turing complete social protocol
- 00:41:58 sponsor: Privy
- 00:43:19 why frames
- 00:52:14 Facebook, Twitter, Farcaster
- 01:03:25 backstory, growing up in India, Microsoft, YC
- 01:08:11 learnings from Coinbase
- 01:15:13 building a company
- 01:18:53 doing the one thing that matters
- 01:28:07 outro

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.io

Into the Bytecode:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
Other episodes - 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 my conversation with Rebecca Rettig and Michael Mosier. Rebecca is the Chief Legal and Policy Officer at Polygon Labs. Michael is cofounder of Arktouros and partner at Ex Ante.

Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 intro
- 00:01:38 sponsor: Privy
- 0:02:59 Rebecca's background, the Silk Road case, Aave, Polygon
- 00:07:22 Michael's background, Department of Justice, FinCEN, Espresso Systems, the White House, ex/ante
- 00:15:12 the current regulatory regime, Bank Secrecy Act, sanctions laws, miners/validators
- 00:29:30 sponsor: Optimism
- 00:30:40 genuine DeFi vs onchain CeFi, critical infrastructure
- 00:44:54 Uniswap contracts, app vs protocol, wallet risk scoring, OFAC, Lazarus Group
- 00:54:19 the Security Alliance (SEAL), white hats, working with the FBI
- 01:08:04 why do this work, the ability to innovate in the US is a freedom
- 01:12:13 crypto policy bootcamp
- 01:14:00 outro

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.io

Into the Bytecode:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
Other episodes - 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 my conversation with Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum.

00:00:00 intro
00:01:07 sponsor: Optimism
00:02:17 micro prediction markets, community notes, AIs as participants
00:14:13 decentralized social networks, zk identity, Dark Forest, and Frogcrypto
00:25:54 the dense jungle
00:30:08 sponsor: Privy
00:31:29 political instability, technology
00:34:16 coordination and technology in climate
00:36:13 AI, debugging and drawing, agency, security
00:44:02 timeline for the singularity
00:52:36 living to a 1000 years old
00:54:00 brain-computer interfaces
01:02:15 Lojban

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.io

Into the Bytecode:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
Other episodes - 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.