The Smartest Contract
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
27 episodes of The Smartest Contract since the first episode, which aired on April 26th, 2018.
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Episode 27: Zach Williamson - Confidential transactions on Ethereum via range proofs
December 6th, 2018 | 26 mins 40 secs
blockchain, developer, ethereum, solidity, web3
Zach explains how to use AZTEC Protocol to create confidential Ethereum transactions and goes over the basics on range proofs
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Episode 26: Martin Lundfall - Practical Formal Verification
November 23rd, 2018 | 27 mins 48 secs
blockchain, developer, ethereum, solidity, web3
Martin explains the day to day of the decentralized organization Dapphub and how they're making advances in the formal verification space.
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Episode 25: Qiao Wang - Curating Truth
November 15th, 2018 | 25 mins 16 secs
blockchain, developer, ethereum, solidity, web3
Qiao talks about Messari and how false information is harming the crypto ecosystem.
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Episode 24: Kevin Owocki - The first business in the decentralized world
November 9th, 2018 | 24 mins 24 secs
blockchain, developer, ethereum, solidity, web3
Kevin talks about UX issues of on-boarding the first real blockchain customers.
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Episode 23: Felix Feng - Barriers to decentralized ETFs
October 25th, 2018 | 21 mins 11 secs
blockchain, developer, ethereum, solidity, web3
Felix talks about decentralized finance and troubles he's come across while working on Set protocol.
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Episode 22: Arthur Gervais - A decentralized exchange with Liquidity Network
October 11th, 2018 | 20 mins 46 secs
blockchain, developer, ethereum, solidity, web3
Arthur talks about Liquidity network's layer 2 scaling solution.
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Episode 21: Raul Jordan - Ethereum 2.0 Demystified
October 4th, 2018 | 26 mins 9 secs
2.0, blockchain, developer, ethereum, solidity, web3
A deep dive into Ethereum 2.0 and all it's components. Proof of Stake, sharding, eWASM.
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Episode 20: Arjun Bhuptani - Production ready State Channel network released
September 27th, 2018 | 26 mins 14 secs
blockchain, developer, ethereum, solidity, web3
Arjun talks about where the real difficulties of using a state channel network lies.
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Episode 19: Austin Griffith - How to make gasless transactions
September 20th, 2018 | 24 mins 46 secs
blockchain, developer, ethereum, solidity, web3
Austin talks about meta-transactions and how they can improve Ethereum user experience.
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Episode 18: Frank Cheng - A New User's POV on Ethereum
September 6th, 2018 | 17 mins 36 secs
blockchain, developer, ethereum, solidity, web3
This is an experimental episode where I listen to a new user's thoughts on the Ethereum ecosystem.
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Episode 17: Derek Chiang - Tenfold a practical layer 2 solution
August 30th, 2018 | 29 mins 54 secs
blockchain, developer, ethereum, solidity, web3
Derek explains a new layer 2 solution named Tenfold protocol. He explains why Tenfold is different and its various advantages.
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Episode 16: Michael Egorov - Proxy Re-encryption and Homomorphic Encryption
August 16th, 2018 | 27 mins 13 secs
blockchain, developer, ethereum, solidity, web3
Michael gives a quick overview of NuCypher and its various use cases. He then talks about some of the more exciting research being done by NuCypher.
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Episode 15: JP Smith - Trail of Bit's Outlook on Security
August 9th, 2018 | 26 mins 24 secs
blockchain, developer, ethereum, solidity, web3
JP Smith talks about various security tools at Trail of Bits and their auditing process.
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Episode 14: Nadav Hollander - Dharma's Path to Unsecured Loans
August 2nd, 2018 | 28 mins 59 secs
blockchain, developer, ethereum, solidity, web3
Nadav talks about the current state of Dharma and it's path to unsecured loans.
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Episode 13: Andy Tudhope - EthPrize, an interview with the Ethereum ecosystem
July 26th, 2018 | 34 mins 18 secs
blockchain, developer, ethereum, solidity, web3
Andy goes over the main learning from the EthPrize interviews
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Episode 12: Dan Finlay - MetaMask Announces New Project
July 19th, 2018 | 21 mins 8 secs
blockchain, developer, ethereum, solidity, web3
Dan talks about the life-cycle of a transaction going through MetaMask and all the new changes coming up. He also talks about a very innovative low key project in the works.