Composable: Recent Episodes
Grady Wells and Emory Siedell
Two thinkbois digest their tech Twitter algorithms, throw memes against the wall and attempt to script the future.
Sergey Gorbunov is the co-founder of Axelar Network. With the rise of alternate L1s, the crypto landscape and DeFi assets are more fragmented. Axelar's stack provides a decentralized network, protocols, tools, and APIs that allow for simple cross-chain communication.
Sergey received his PhD from MIT in Computer Science. Way back in 2013, he was a crypto researcher for IBM before going on to join the founding team at Algorand. In addition to co-founding Axelar, he is an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo.
We dive into why interoperability is a buzzword, how the current bridging ecosystem could be a black swan for crypto, the shortcomings of interoperable blockchains that only do a few things and how Axelar could be the "Border Gateway Protocol" moment for Crypto.
Sergey's Twitter: https://twitter.com/sergey_nog?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Axelar's Twitter: https://twitter.com/axelarcore
Sergey's Website: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~sgorbuno/ Alexlar's Whitepaper: https://axelar.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/axelar_whitepaper.pdf
Ben Scharfstein and Aman Dhesi are the co-founders of Nifkey. A Nifkey is an NFT that can only be held by the wallet that controls a given Twitter account. It’s proof that you own your wallet.
We discuss what makes up one's online identity, the differences web2 and web3 and how developers can make dApps more human
Nifkey Twitter: https://twitter.com/nifkey_xyz
Nifkey Website: https://www.nifkey.xyz/
Sid Kalla is the co-founder and CTO of Roll. Roll is a blockchain infrastructure for social money.
The Roll network mints branded digital tokens unique to someone’s online presence, allowing them to own, control and coordinate the value a creator makes across platforms
Sid’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/sidkal?s=21
Roll’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/tryrollhq?s=21
DeGen Data builds analytical tools for NFT investors and traders to evaluate individual projects and the entire NFT market
Pat Doyle is a smart contract data scientist and the co-founder of GenesisVolatility - Crypto option analytics. While also building Genesis, Pat and the team spun up DeGen Data to meet the analytical demands of NFTs traders - a new type of trading for degens.
DeGen Data Twitter: https://twitter.com/degendata?s=21
Pat Doyle’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/doyle126?s=21
GenesisVolatility Twitter: https://twitter.com/genesisvol?s=21
We explore Endaoment’s involvement with ConstitutionDAO, Tim Ferriss’ Foundation and how to bring legacy foundations into the on-chain future
Endaoment is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity providing a wide range of philanthropic financial services
As the philanthropic institution of the future, Endaoment’s on-chain infrastructure and financial services make a faster, more transparent giving experience
Donate your crypto, help the world, get a tax break
Endaoment’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/endaomentdotorg?s=21
Endaoment’s Website: https://endaoment.org
Zach’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/zendaoment?s=
Rally is a platform for creators and their communities to build their own independent digital economies
Creators can launch their own social token, enabling transactions, access, and more creative solutions for your economy
Follow Stephanie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/happeness?s=21
Check on Rally’s Website: https://rally.io/
Follow Rally on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rally_io?s=21
Decentralized Identity is major hurdle in the world of web3. In an on-chain world where users exchange goods under pseudonyms, how can know ensure we are interacting w/ the real person?
At SpruceID, Gregory Rocco and Wayne Chang are building an ecosystem of open source tools to enable user-controlled identity anywhere.
Spruce ID’s website: https://www.spruceid.com/
Nir Kabessa is the co-founder and CEO of Yup, a Web3 social network for curators that rewards and recognizes taste 🤝
Nir’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/nir_iii?s=21
Yup Website: https://yup.io/
Gaby Goldberg Mirror Post: https://gaby.mirror.xyz/qvnNJhylZz-w6t4ubZzHfxd5gP17zDAXa6ruwOyO7sc?utm_source=Reading+List&utm_campaign=83dd590708-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_9_13_2020_12_27_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_325454c9ab-83dd590708-513860122
Ahren Posthumus is the Founder and CEO of Momint: a NFT social platform for creators and collectors (based in Cape Town, South Africa).
Follow Momint’s Startup Journey on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xxQwnRPt4h0
Download the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/momint-nfts-meet-social-media/id1565954820
Kevin Nielsen is the founder and CEO of Boardroom - an integrated governance platform improving distributed decision-making access DAOs
Boardroom Website: https://www.boardroom.info/
Boardroom Substack: https://governance.substack.com
Kevin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevinknielsen?s=21
0xLucas is the Editor @ Bankless, a daily newsletter, podcast and community providing subscribers with insights and tactics to grow personal wealth using crypto assets like Ethereum, Bitcoin and DeFi.
He is also a Genesis Squad member & Ops guy @ Bankless DAO. A decentralized community with one mission: to help the world go bankless.
Lucas’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/0x_Lucas
Bankless HQ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ
Bankless DAO Wiki: https://www.notion.so/bankless/BanklessDAO-Wiki-82ba81e7da1c42adb7c4ab67a4f22e8f
After graduating college in May 2021, Justin turned down job offers he once coveted to scratch an itch he couldn’t get rid of - learning to code. We talk about the inputs that shaped that decision and his reflections on the decision itself.
Justin is also writing about his learning to code journey on Substack (he’s pretty good at writing also).
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JustinFineberg
Substack: https://justinfineberg.substack.com/
Web 2.0 : followers / subscribers
Web 3.0 : members / owners
Link to Tweet: https://twitter.com/patrickxrivera/status/1427330975227330565?s=20
Illiquid jpeg traders and clout
5:00-8:00 - Packy is the Drake of Crypto
11:00-15:00 - Social Capital and Proof of Work
17:00-20:00 - NFTs are the market making instrument for social capital
22:00-25:00 - Digital Wallet as a Digital Resume
25:00-28:00 - REDISTRIBUTE THE CLOUT
30:00-36:00 - Lindy Lisa, Lindy Punk
48:00 - 51:00 - Grady uses his stimulus check on Prof. G’s class, now must live with it forever
50:00-52:00 - Jeffery Epstein didn’t kill himself (obviously)
56:00 - 1:02 - Crypto as a solution for principal-agent conflict
1:07 - 1:16 - Charlie breaks down Tezos vs. ETH