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Hashing It Out #76- Namebase.io Tieshun Roquerre Oct 13, 2020

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Handshake is a decentralized, permissionless naming protocol where every peer is validating and in charge of managing the root DNS naming zone with the goal of creating an alternative to existing Certificate Authorities and naming systems. Names on the internet (top level domains, social networking handles, etc.) ultimately rely upon centralized actors with full control over a system which are relied upon to be honest, as they are vulnerable to hacking, censorship, and corruption. Handshake aims to experiment with new ways the internet can be more secure, resilient, and socially useful with a peer-to-peer system validated by the network’s participants.

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Hashing It Out #65 – Cypher Core – Jay Jie and Ken Trueba Oct 13, 2020

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This episode features Jay and Ken from Cypher Core. Cypher Core offers a staking as a service platform for Proof of Stake protocols. Primarily focused on Cosmos network, we talk with them about their experience implementing their system, incentive models involved with staking services, and the overall Cosmos community.

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– decentralization blog
– cyphercore.io
– Ken’s Twitter
– Jay’s Twitter

Hashing It Out #64 – Plasma – Kelvin Fichter Oct 13, 2020

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If you know the show, you know we are very keen to see Plasma implemented as a technology. To discuss the progress in the past year, we have the great pleasure of bringing on Kelvin Fichter, former Plasma researcher with OmiseGo and the Plasma Group. We talk about the advancements made, and how the specification is gradually coalescing into a singular vision. We also get into some more heady topics such as the nature of trust in society and the role language in trusting someone.

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– Kelvin’s Twitter

Hashing It Out #63 – Nano – Colin LeMahieu Oct 13, 2020

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Nano is providing a new approach to fee-less pure payments networks. We are privileged to speak with Colin LeMahieu, CEO of Nano to discuss their DAG voting-based consensus protocol, their accounts-blockchain model, and their NanoPoW for memory-hard PoW to replace fees in a network. Interesting stuff, and definitely a great conversation.

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https://nano.org/
https://twitter.com/nano
https://github.com/nanocurrency
https://docs.nano.org/
https://medium.com/nanocurrency

Hashing It Out #62 – Bolt Labs – Ayo Akinyele Oct 13, 2020

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This episode, Corey interviews Ayo Akinyele, a former security researcher turned CEO of Bolt Labs. Bolt Labs is a privacy solution for the Lightning Network which allows for an asymmetry of knowledge in the channel. While this is quite useful and interesting, we instead turn our focus on things such as attribute-based encryption, a security researcher’s view of blockchain systems, and much more. Join us for an awesome conversation of where we are as a community, and where we’re going!

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– Bolt Labs
– Ayo’s twitter
– openABE

Hashing It Out #61 – Solana – Anatoly Yakovenko Oct 13, 2020

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In today’s episode, Corey and Collin talk with Anatoly Yakovenko, the Co-Founder and CEO of Solana. Solana is a blockchain platform attempting to scale transactions without the need of sharding and we want to know how they plan to do it. Join us as we dive into their strategy, their current progress, and where they plan to go. We ask the right questions to get you to the right answers on how this technology works, so come listen and enjoy!

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– solana website
– Anatoly’s Twitter

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Hashing It Out #60 – Balance Research – Arthur Gervais & Dominik Harz Oct 13, 2020

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This episode Corey and Collin bring on the academics Arthur Gervais and Dominik Harz from Imperial College London. They discuss a new protocol that attempts to reduce the required financial deposits for various mechanisms in a way that does not reduce security. In other words, it is an attempt to help with over-collateralization, which could save investors a lot of money! As always, we get into the weeds to try and figure out exactly how it works, and where it is best used. Come listen and enjoy!

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https://balance-resear.ch/

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Hashing It Out #93 - Sigma Prime Mehdi Zerouali Oct 02, 2020

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Corey and John speak with Mahdi Zerouali of Sigma Prime on how ETH 2 is going to look like for users of Ethereum.

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Hashing It Out #92 - DefiSafety - Rex Hygate Sep 19, 2020

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Today, Corey and John talk with Rex Hygate, head of DefiSafety, a company seeking to perform process quality audits on Smart Contracts in the Ethereum Community. This novel process helps is an attempt to bridge the gap between security between the community and the projects they interact with.

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Hashing It Out #91-Paradigm Dan Robinson Aug 28, 2020

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Dan Robinson is a Research Partner at Paradigm.xyz, an investment fund active in the DeFi space. Reflecting his interests, our conversation covers a broad range of topics, including frontrunning and MEV (the mempool as a dark forest), Uniswap and building a defensible business on-chain, and Yield protocol a novel design for fixed rate on-chain lending using Automated Market Makers.

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