Into the Bytecode

Aya Miyaguchi: reflections on Ethereum and the Ethereum Foundation

This is my conversation with Aya Miyaguchi, Executive Director at the Ethereum Foundation.Timestamps:(00:00:00) - intro(00:01:20) - sponsor: Optimism (optimism.io)(00:02:32) - reflecting on early days of Ethereum(00:08:54) - Ethereum as an Infinite Garden(00:19:08) - books and ideas that influenced Aya(00:24:48) - the insignificance of titles(00:31:56) - what does “Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation” mean?(00:40:27) - the “teacher” mindset and how it applies to management(00:47:18) - the importance of diversity(00:51:35) - sponsor: Privy (privy.io)(00:52:57) - the idea of subtraction and how it plays out in practice(01:05:46) - funding in a non-profit context(01:08:42) - why it’s difficult to describe the potential of Ethereum (01:16:40) - embracing imperfection(01:20:37) - learning from (un)natural disasters(01:33:14) - what the 'next billion' means for Ethereum(01:42:53) - Ethereum in emerging economies(01:49:03) - outroLinks:Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_and_Infinite_GamesAya on Executing with Subtraction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noXPewi5qOkEthereum Foundation - https://ethereum.org/en/foundation/Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:Optimism - https://optimism.ioPrivy - https://privy.ioInto 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. 

Dan Romero: Farcaster, building a decentralized social network

This is my conversation with Dan Romero about Farcaster - a decentralized social network being developed as an open protocol.We talked about how product decisions in social networks have ripple effects on society, Farcaster’s strategy in the highly competitive world of social products, and Dan's personal philosophies around hiring and team building.Timestamps:(00:00:00) - intro(00:02:08) - why this problem?(00:12:54) - both product and protocol(00:23:41) - the algorithmic feed(00:29:40) - Farcaster’s strategy for competing with Twitter(01:00:52) - approach to team building(01:14:41) - how to use social networks, and meme’ingLinks:Dan Romero - https://twitter.com/dwrFarcaster - https://www.farcaster.xyz/Farcaster docs - https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocolVarun - https://twitter.com/varunsrinKeybase - https://keybase.io/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. 

Jango & Nnnnicholas: Juicebox, programming internet-native organizations

This is my conversation with Jango and Nnnnicholas from Juicebox Protocol. Juicebox is a playful but ambitious project: the DAO operates as a full-stack instantiation of the protocol it's building, and fully reconceptualizes the relationship between contributors and shareholders. It has powered projects like SharkDAO, ConstitutionDAO, and AssangeDAO in the past.Timestamps:(00:00:00) - intro(00:01:37) - an alternative to traditional org structures(00:09:53) - philosophical alignment(00:27:30) - the key mechanisms of the Juicebox Protocol(00:35:51) - fundraising mechanics and the extensibility of Juicebox v2(00:46:05) - a DAOs’s origins shape its culture(00:54:46) - guiding principles for compensation(01:02:06) - working backwards from the future(01:12:11) - the subtraction philosophy and Ethereum as the Big Bang(01:31:25) - StudioDAO and models for permissionless DAOsLinks:Jango - https://twitter.com/me_jangoNnnnicolas - https://twitter.com/nnnnicholasJuicebox - https://juicebox.money/Nouns - https://nouns.wtf/StudioDAO - https://www.studiodao.xyz/Juicecast podcast about StudioDAO - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-9-kenny-from-studiodao/id1623504302?i=1000576149672Into 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. 

Nadia Asparouhova: on public goods & peer production

Nadia Asparouhova is an independent researcher. She previously wrote about her research on open-source communities in "Working in Public", and more recently, has been researching the history of and approaches to philanthropy - which she defines with this phrase “if venture capital is risk capital for private goods, philanthropy is risk capital for public goods”.In this conversation, we talked about public goods from this broader perspective. We talked about how previous generations have thought about this question, and how the tech ecosystem outside of crypto are grappling with this today. We talked about the second-order effects of wealth booms which have happened in both tech and crypto, how peer production happens, and the role that intrinsic versus extrinsic rewards might play in the development of crypto protocols.Timestamps:(00:00:00) - intro(00:02:01) - working as an independent researcher(00:06:09) - understanding wealth booms in tech and crypto(00:13:01) - the unique perspectives of each successive community(00:25:46) - the right (and wrong) question to ask(00:34:41) - the landscape of public goods provisioning(00:39:22) - innovative philanthropic funding models(00:45:35) - the first wave of open source communities and crypto (00:54:42) - different classes of stakeholders(01:05:00) - research methodology and tools for thoughtLinks:Nadia Asparouhova - https://twitter.com/nayafiaNadia’s website - https://nadia.xyz/“Working in Public” - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578675862/Gitcoin - https://gitcoin.co/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. 

Julien Niset: Argent, building on StarkNet, and a primer on account abstraction

Julien Niset is the cofounder and Chief Science Officer at Argent, a crypto wallet that's used and loved by many people in the crypto ecosystem.In this conversation, we talk about how Argent has evolved to get to where it is today. How Julien sees user experience evolving broadly in the ecosystem, and what the flow of a new person interacting with a crypto application for the first time might look like in the future.Another topic we get into deeply is L2s, how Julien and Argent have thought about the topic of EVM equivalence and compatibility, and why they ultimately chose to build on ZK Rollups like ZkSync and StarkNet.And lastly, we dive into what has been like to build on StarkNet, what the early community feels like today, what it's been like to write code in Cairo, and as a bit of a snapshot into this experience we do a deep dive into what account abstraction looks like on StarkNet.Timestamps:(00:00:00) - intro(00:01:56) - leaning into zk rollups and account abstraction (00:07:29) - scaling the self-custody experience  (00:13:20) - what onboarding users to crypto will look like in 3 years (00:20:24) - some of the friction points that still need to be abstracted(00:33:52) - L2s and the trade-offs between different rollups(00:39:45) - is breaking EVM-equivalency worth it? (00:48:01) - Julien’s experience in the StarkNet ecosystem(00:58:24) - a technical primer on account abstraction  (01:15:38) - session keys  (01:28:17) - starting a sensible wallet set up from scratchLinks:Julien Niset - https://twitter.com/jnisetArgent - https://www.argent.xyz/StarkNet - https://starkware.co/starknet/zkSync - https://zksync.io/Topology - https://www.topology.gg/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.