Chainlinked Podcast: Recent Episodes
Andy Boyan
Chainlinked is a pocket-sized podcast series looking at the many applications of Chainlink blockchain oracles across global enterprise, the blockchain industry, and emerging tech projects.
Charting the course for the next phase of Chainlinked, plus UREEQA’s Rakan Aown in a discussion with Andy Boyan about the recording industry and how NFTs, Web3, and UREEQA are clarifying artist compensation in music.
UREEQA: https://www.ureeqa.com/
Rakan Aown: https://twitter.com/rakanaown
Chainlink Labs: chainlinklabs.com
Chainlink Today: twitter.com/ChainlinkToday
Andy Boyan: twitter.com/andyboyan
Illuvium Co-Founder Kieran Warwick and Chainlink Labs’ Andy Boyan have a spirited discussion from the DeFi Live virtual conference about the state of building in the metaverse, and how Illuvium approaches building blockchain games that compete with the existing AAA game development industry.
Illuvium: illuvium.io
Kieran Warwick: twitter.com/KieranWarwick
Chainlink Labs: chainlinklabs.com
Chainlink Today: twitter.com/ChainlinkToday
Andy Boyan: twitter.com/andyboyan
Injective Protocol’s Eric Chen joins to explain how Injective’s custom layer-2 solution uses Chainlink Price Feeds. We discuss how systems evolve toward decentralization and how Injective uses Chainlink Off-Chain Reporting (OCR) for decentralized and inexpensive updates.
Injective: hub.injective.network
Eric Chen: twitter.com/ericinjective
Chainlink Labs: chainlinklabs.com
Chainlink Today: twitter.com/ChainlinkToday
Andy Boyan: twitter.com/andyboyan
Become a blockchain developer with the freeCodeCamp smart contract and Solidity tutorial on freeCodeCamp. Tutorial creator Patrick Collins from Chainlink Labs joins to explain why this is the internet’s best resource for learning Solidity coding and smart contract development.
freeCodeCamp Tutorial: https://bit.ly/3vOgTSO
Patrick Collins: https://twitter.com/PatrickAlphaC
Chainlink Labs: https://chainlinklabs.com/
Chainlink Today: https://twitter.com/ChainlinkToday
Andy Boyan: https://twitter.com/andyboyan
This episode explores NFTs through the lens of one of the industry’s biggest conferences, NFT.NYC. Nick Casares from Polyient Labs joins me to talk about NFTs, gaming, and how a broader understanding of the metaverse is being informed by web3, NFTs, and on-chain digital property rights.
Nick Casares: https://twitter.com/nickcasares
PolyientX: https://twitter.com/PolyientX
Chainlink Labs: https://chainlinklabs.com/
Chainlink Today: https://twitter.com/ChainlinkToday
Andy Boyan: https://twitter.com/andyboyan
Chainlink Labs’ Mike Ferrer joins to teach us about the growing Web3 community of startups, developers, and enthusiasts in the Southeast Asia (SEA) region. We discuss how Axie Infinity and other NFT and DeFi games and applications are helping people virtually cross borders and gain financial opportunities.
Mike Ferrer: https://twitter.com/blitzio
Chainlink Labs: https://chainlinklabs.com/
Chainlink Today: https://twitter.com/ChainlinkToday
Andy Boyan: https://twitter.com/andyboyan
Karl Floersch and Ben Jones delve into Optimism PBC’s EVM Equivalence, the metaverse, retroactive public goods funding, and what that means for developers, end-users, and the broader Ethereum ecosystem. Plus, we have some fun and talk a little gaming, music, and more.
Optimism PBC: https://www.optimism.io/
Karl Floersch: https://karl.tech/
Ben Jones: https://twitter.com/ben_chain
Chainlink Today: https://twitter.com/ChainlinkToday
Andy Boyan: https://twitter.com/andyboyan
The Internet Economy Foundation Director (IEF), Clark Parsons, joins for a deep discussion about a recent paper, co-authored by the IEF and Chainlink, which outlines a recommendation for a CBDC Digital Euro that supports a hybrid monetary policy. This approach gives central banks more tools to manage increasingly complex macroeconomic conditions.
Establishing a Digital Euro Full Study: https://www.ie.foundation/content/4-publications/studie-establishing-a-digital-euro.pdf
IEF Blockchain Panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6gVoRJztzs
Internet Economy Foundation: https://www.ie.foundation/
Chainlink Today: https://twitter.com/ChainlinkToday
Andy Boyan: https://twitter.com/andyboyan
Kwenta Core Contributor Andrew Trudel delves into the relationships between the Synthetix protocol, community, and Kwenta’s no-slippage DeFi platform on Optimism Layer 2. We chat about the role of different collateral types and how they present different models for liquidity across layer 2 environments.
Kwenta: https://kwenta.io/
Andrew Trudel: https://twitter.com/Andotlas
Synthetix: https://synthetix.io/
Chainlink Today: https://twitter.com/ChainlinkToday
Andy Boyan: https://twitter.com/andyboyan
Chainlink Labs’ Melodi Kaya previews the upcoming Chainlink Fall Hackathon. We cover the range of prizes, major sponsors, technical and educational workshops, and what to expect from the growing Chainlink developer community in the largest Chainlink hackathon yet.
Chainlink Fall 2021 Hackathon: https://chain.link/hackathon
Melodi Kaya: https://twitter.com/melodikaya
Tesla Chainlink External Adapter: https://blog.chain.link/create-tesla-smart-contract-rental/
Chainlink Today: https://twitter.com/ChainlinkToday
Andy Boyan: https://twitter.com/andyboyan
Gemini’s Matthew Werner joins to discuss the cryptocurrency exchange’s recent integration of Chainlink Proof of Reserve for Gemini’s wrapped Filecoin, EFIL. We dive into decentralization, transparency, and get to know Matthew’s penchant for using IoT devices to add programmable utility to his everyday life.
Gemini: https://www.gemini.com/
Chainlink Proof of Reserve: https://chain.link/solutions/proof-of-reserve
Chainlink Today: https://twitter.com/ChainlinkToday
Andy Boyan: https://twitter.com/andyboyan
Binance Smart Chain’s Samy Karim talks about the growth of gamefi and gaming dapps on BSC, how BSC kickstarted a dapp ecosystem, and his professional success in the web3 industry.
Binance Smart Chain: https://twitter.com/BinanceChain
Chainlink Today: https://twitter.com/ChainlinkToday
Andy Boyan: https://twitter.com/andyboyan
Chainlink Labs Community Manager Marc Romero talks about his path to working in web3 and about the LatAm builders working on smart contracts. Plus, Erica Kang from KryptoSeoul shares insight into the growth of blockchain and web3 in Korea.
Chainlink Twitter en Espanõl: https://twitter.com/ChainlinkSpain
Marc Romero: https://twitter.com/marcromerona
FreeCodeCamp Course: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-solidity-blockchain-and-smart-contracts-in-a-free/
Erica Kang: https://twitter.com/ekang426
Chainlink Today: https://twitter.com/ChainlinkToday
Andy Boyan: https://twitter.com/andyboyan
Chainlink Keepers are a decentralized way to automate smart contracts. The Chainlink Labs product team joins me on a deep dive Chainlinked episode to explore the uses cases for Chainlink Keepers, and how its features utilize the strengths of Chainlink decentralized oracle networks to create more secure and reliable DevOps infrastructure for smart contract developers.
Chainlink Keepers: https://chain.link/solutions/keepers
Chainlink Keepers Technical Docs: https://docs.chain.link/docs/chainlink-keepers/introduction/
Chainlink Today: https://twitter.com/ChainlinkToday
Andy Boyan: https://twitter.com/andyboyan
Harmony Founder Stephen Tse discusses empathy in building trustless systems, how Chainlink oracles are helping the Harmony testnet grow, and how the NFT space will need scalable solutions.
Baseline Co-founder John Wolpert explains the Baseledger L2 testnet release featuring Chainlink oracles, and dives into the problems enterprise IT are solving using blockchains.
Harmony: https://www.harmony.one/
Stephen Tse: https://twitter.com/stse
Baseline: https://www.baseline-protocol.org/
John Wolpert: https://twitter.com/jwolpert
Chainlink Today: https://twitter.com/ChainlinkToday
Andy Boyan: https://twitter.com/andyboyan
Polygon Co-founder Sandeep Nailwal explains the Hermez merger, $1 billion in initiatives to support Polygon’s strategic focus on ZK-based scaling solutions, and how Polygon Studios is playing a role in growing Polygon as a space for digital culture.
Aave’s Ajit Tripathi discusses how financial institutions are entering DeFi and what they’re looking for when considering joining the web3 industry.
Polygon: https://polygon.technology/
Sandeep Nailwal: https://twitter.com/sandeepnailwal
Aave: https://aave.com/
Ajit Tripathi: https://twitter.com/chainyoda
Chainlink Today: https://twitter.com/ChainlinkToday
Andy Boyan: https://twitter.com/andyboyan
The Fantom blockchain recently integrated native Chainlink oracles. Fantom CEO Michael Kong joins Chainlinked to talk about what this means for DeFi on Fantom and the broader DeFi and smart contract ecosystem.
Looking for a job in blockchain or web3? Ben Wu from Chainlink Labs joins to discuss the current state of the blockchain job market and how applicants can stand out to land a job building the web3 ecosystem.
Fantom: https://fantom.foundation/
Michael Kong: https://twitter.com/michaelfkong
Chainlink Labs Careers: https://chainlinklabs.com/careers
Ben Wu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bwu640/
Marc Romero: https://twitter.com/marcromerona
Chainlink Today: https://twitter.com/ChainlinkToday
Andy Boyan: https://twitter.com/andyboyan
Smart Contract Research Forum (SCRF) aims to bridge the gaps between academic and industry researchers, engineers, and protocol developers from a diverse set of disciplines. Co-founder Rich Brown joins Chainlinked to talk about the outsized impact that SCRF will have on long-term progress in blockchain and decentralized systems.
SmartCon emcees Mike Zacharski and Lauren Halstead join Chainlinked to discuss some of the many impactful moments from SmartCon #1 and give a backstage look at how an event like SmartCon comes to life.
SmartCon #1 Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVP9aGDn-X0RO9JXbc8ayQtIp_DyhlA9s
SCRF: https://www.smartcontractresearch.org/
Lauren Halstead: https://twitter.com/halsteady
Mike Zacharski: https://twitter.com/MichaelZski
Chainlink Today: https://twitter.com/ChainlinkToday
Andy Boyan: https://twitter.com/andyboyan
Recently, Chainlink Labs put on a Developer Bootcamp to get all types of developers with many levels of engineering experience started using Chainlink and web3 smart contracts. We brought Chainlink Labs' Harry Papacharissiou on to the podcast to talk about the event, and how it fits into a larger goal of making the world a better place with decentralized infrastructure. We also discuss Harry's path as a former winner of the Chainlink Hackathon with the Link My Ride submission.
Next, we talk to Ava Labs' Lead Smart Contracts Developer Connor Daly about the recent announcement that Chainlink Price Feeds are native and available on the Avalanche smart contracts platform. After a brief check-in on Connor's cats, we explore how many DeFi projects have been waiting for secure Chainlink oracles to jumpstart their products on Avalanche.
Did you attend the Developer Bootcamp? Are you using DeFi on Avalanche? Let me know via the Chainlink community channels or in the Twitter comments. I'd love to read some of your stories on the pod.
Link My Ride: https://blog.chain.link/create-tesla-smart-contract-rental/
Avalanche: https://www.avax.network/
Chainlink Today: https://twitter.com/ChainlinkToday
Andy Boyan: https://twitter.com/andyboyan
SmartCon 2021 is right around the corner. This episode brings you Keenan Olsen and Josh Simenhoff from the Chainlink Labs team.
Keenan discusses what goes into creating a massive event like SmartCon and how the Chainlink ecosystem has come together to participate in this event.
Josh tells us about the growing international community and how the Community Advocates program is helping to teach even more people about Chainlink, blockchain, and web3.
Links:
Chainlink
SmartCon 2021
Chainlink Advocates
Chainlink Today
Andy Boyan
Music by Boyan the Bard
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