BlockChannel

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie continues his conversation series with members from the Connext/Ethereum adjacent commmunities. Steven has a conversation with Francisco Renzi, to discuss monetary streaming protocols for subscriptions, payments, salaries, vesting and more. Superfluid is making it easy for crypto native firms to enable a new way to do traditional payouts from the legacy world, but with the added advantages of innovations that have emerged from Ethereum the last few years. This episode will prime you more for the next stage in DeFi's evolution. Show Link(s): SuperFluid: https://www.superfluid.finance/ Intro/Outro Music "I BEEN UP!" by Aaron Childs: https://soundcloud.com/aaronchilds17/i-been-up Show Supporter(s): Amentum: https://Amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie continues his journey of solo hosting and brings back an old favorite on the show, Cameron Hejazi of the Cent Network. Cent has been a pioneer in the Ethereum ecosystem since 2017 with the launch of their micropayments focused social network. Since their inception, they were one of the first to introduce NFTs into a social platform; even introducing the ability to turn tweets into NFTs (famously used by Jack Dorsey to sell his first tweet for $2.9mill). As we ramp up for the next stage of innovation in crypto, Cameron is back to give us insights into what comes next. Show Link(s): Cent Network: https://www.cent.co Intro/Outro Music “Sunlight” by Grady: https://soundcloud.com/whoinvitedgrady/sunlight Show Supporter(s): Amentum: http://Amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology. BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie sits down with Auryn Macmillan from Gnosis who's been spearheading publicly the Zodiac suite of contracts that enable a comprehensive and composable stack for DAO governance tools. Creating a DAO can be complex, and with the tooling and contracts necessary to run one efficiently are still becoming best standardized with best practices. Show Link(s): Zodiac Github: https://github.com/gnosis/zodiac Intro/Outro Music "Rebuke" by Amine: https://soundcloud.com/heyamine/rebuke Show Supporter(s): Amentum: http://Amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology. BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie sits down solo with Mark Anstead and Daigaro Cota of Fuji Finance. Mark and Daigaro are veterans in the Ethereum development space, and they see the vision for decentralized liquidity networks. Building on top of the multi-chain asset routing network Connext is building, Fuji is experimenting with money markets. Welcome back to the show, and enjoy a casual conversation not on Twitter spaces. Show Link(s): Fuji Finance: https://fuji.finance Connext: http://connext.academy Intro/Outro Music "Say The Word" by Matz: https://soundcloud.com/mleotacom210/say-the-word-matz Show Supporter(s): Amentum: https://Amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie has a discussion with Mike Carson, one of the project developers behind Impervious. Impervious is a developer outfit trying to merge the bitcoin cypherpunk development ethos more deeply into the Handshake community. By supporting the adoption of Handshake through Beacon Browser, the Impervious Registry, and funding core development, Mike has done a lot for the community. We give him and the Impervious team the love they deserve, and discuss Mike's perspective on the HNS community. Show Link(s): Impervious Registry: http://registry.impervious.com Beacon Browser: http://impervious.com/beacon Intro/Outro Music "NAPKINS" by Riz La Vie: https://soundcloud.com/thankyouriz/napkins Show Supporter(s): Amentum: https://Amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie heads down to Texas to talk to Nole Oppermann, right from the comfort of his downstairs office. With Handshake growing in popularity in various regions of the world, it would only make sense for Texas to have its own unique TLD. And, Nole is the proud owner/manager of .TX, and one of the main pioneers for Handshake in the Austin region. He gives us insights into building his community from scratch, and what he thinks about the greater HNS ecosystem. Show Link(s): .TX Domains: https://heytx.io/ Intro/Outro Music "Balance" by PineappleCiti: https://soundcloud.com/pineappleciti/balance Show Supporter(s): Amentum: Amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie is joined by Zach Brown, the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Shake. The Shake has become one of the most crucial repositories in the Handshake community for current network statistics, news, and educational resources. Zach lays down why he started The Shake, and we go in-depth on what's he's excited about in the greater Handshake community.  Show Link(s): The Shake: http://theshake.xyz Intro/Outro Music "Beauty Rains" by DWLLRS: https://soundcloud.com/user-362825310/beauty-rains Show Supporter(s): Amentum: http://Amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie sits down with Kiba Gateaux, another Handshake OG, developer, and longtime supporter. Kiba has worked on cross-chain initiatives, and was one of the first in the community to spearhead such efforts. Various aspects of the Handshake community are discussed, and we get a more personal understanding of who Kiba from the HNS community really is. Show Link(s): Handshake: https://Handshake.org Intro/Outro Music "Grateful" by Stevie Ray: https://soundcloud.com/connorpricemusic/grateful-callmestevieray-connor-price Show Supporter:(s): Amentum: https://Amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie is back for his first ever solo show. With Demetrick and Petty busier than ever with their families, work, and other commitments, Steven is taking the reins over completely (they'll be back from time to time, though). Steven takes a seat with Clay Collins of crypto data providing platform Nomics, and the owner of the .C domain name. We discuss his firm, Handshake, and what his views are on the decentralized web. Show Link(s): Nomics: http://nomics.com Intro/Outro Music "Self Love (Freestyle)" by Kingsley:: https://soundcloud.com/kingsley_feddi/selflove-insecure-freestyle Show Supporter(s): Amentum: http://Amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie and Dee are ditching the hand sanitizer and masks, and shaking hands again with our guest, Jordan Koch. Jordan is a self-taught IRC developer turned crypto-preneur works on HNSChat. HNSChat is a Handshake-native chat applications that allows TLD and SLD owner to join digital chat communities; enabling the ability to send HNS payments and engage directly with other owners of Handshake TLDs across the globe. Listen as the BlockChannel hosts dig out the full story from Jordan, and how you can join in on the conversation. Show Link(s): HNSChat: https://HNS.Chat On HNS: http://HNSChat/ Intro/Outro Music "Third Man" by Breax II: https://soundcloud.com/prodbybreaux/third-man Show Supporter(s): Amentum: http://Amentum.org

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty are back, even though this episode was filmed in December before Christmas. We finally go in-depth with HandyOSS, the all-in-one suite for building on a cohesive DWeb enable stack. Alex Smith breaks down the HandyOSS teams motivations for building HandyHost (of which Steven McKie is also a part of), and details how and why these abstractions were necessary to bridge crypto to the future. Alex Smith is an ex-NASA/JPL engineer, "computational physicist", and all around brilliant polymath who is ensnared by the ethos of equality and self-soverignty. They also discuss future plans for building systems that will hybridize the emerging decentralized web with permaculture and food sustainablity. Show Link(s): HandyHost: https://HandyHost.Computer HandyOSS Twitter: https://twitter.com/HNSOSS Intro/Outro Music "Back From the Grave" by Mowgli Morris: https://soundcloud.com/lilmo2407/back-from-the-grave-prod-by-chxse-bank Show Supporter(s): Amentum: Amentum.org

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie and Dee return after almost an entire years hiatus. Life happens, but so does crypto. We return to our story with a hero and heroine by the names of Matthew Prewitt and Divya Siddarth, respectfully. They are policy and ethics researchers and practitioners working to implement democracy expanding technologies at scale with the help of crypto. Seemingly humanists at heart, these two explain their work at RadXChange, and some of their focuses while advising at Amentum Capital. Show Link(s): RadicalXChange: https://www.radicalxchange.org Divya Siddarth's Twitter: http://twitter.com/divyasiddarth Matt Prewitt's Twitter: http://twitter.com/m_t_prewitt Intro/Outro Music “Ingenuity” by Brockbeats: https://soundcloud.com/brock1112/ingenuity Show Supporters(s): Amentum: https://Amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie and Dee invite back Olaoluwa Osuntokun, CTO of Lightning Labs, and technical advisor to Amentum Capital. Their team recently scaled bitcoin payments in a huge way, and have released the Lightning Pool, and a decentralized money market for Bitcoin to find a real-time lending rate. The Lightning Pool combines a myriad of technologies the Lightning engineering team and community have worked on, and allows Lightning to be more friendly for mainstream usage. Try to keep up as Olaoluwa breaks down exactly how it all works. You'll need to watch this episode twice... Show Link(s): Lightning Website: http://lightning.engineering Lightning Pool Announcement: https://lightning.engineering/posts/2020-11-02-lightning-pool/ Intro/Outro Music “Mom's Whiskey” by Marlon Craft: https://soundcloud.com/mcraftmusic/moms-whiskey-feat-kota-the Show Sponsor(s): Vanmoof: http://Vanmoof.com Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie and Petty go in deeper on the decentralized web with one of the storage related subject matter experts that started it all, David Vorick. If Juan Benet of Filecoin is Microsoft, then David is Steve Jobs to the Siacoin/Skynet ecosystem. Building a decentralized storage protocol can be done in a few ways; David’s team went the route of building their vision iteratively, in hopes the adoption would come. Their vision is now coming into fruition, and we explore how he got here, and where Siacoin/Skynet is going. Show Link(s): Siacoin Website: https://sia.tech Skynet P2P Storage: https://siasky.net Intro/Outro Music “Winterfalls” by Terrell Morris: https://soundcloud.com/terrellmorris/winterfalls-1 Show Sponsor(s): Vanmoof: http://Vanmoof.com Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie and Dee have a sit-down with McKie's trading/fund mentor Kevin Zhou of Galois Capital. We catch up on what's new an DeFi, what sort of wins Kevin's team has been making in the markets, and some general insights you'll definitely find useful. A repeat guest, Kevin is always full of fresh knowledge to help you grow on your trading journey. Show Link(s): Galois Capital: http://galois.capital Intro/Outro Music “Field Test” by Terrell Morris: https://soundcloud.com/terrellmorris/field-test-wayside-prod-by-losh-weatherstone Show Sponsor(s): Vanmoof: http://Vanmoof.com Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of Blockchannel, Mckie and Dr. Petty finally have another discussion about NFTs, it's been a couple of years...and finally that narrative has reached maturity. We take this resurgence in the non-fungible narrative to speak to Kayvon and Matt from the Foundation team. They're building a "cultural stock exchange of value", and if that sounds obscure and futuristic, that's because it is. And, we think it's the future, after this, you may too. Show Link(s): Foundation Exchange: https://foundation.app Intro/Outro Music “Peace of Mind” by BrockBeats: Brock1112 – Pajamas Show Sponsor(s): Vanmoof: Vanmoof.com Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of Blockchannel, Mckie and Dr. Petty begin the new season with some legal disclaimers and warnings on how to best think about DeFi, with crypto lawyer Alexander Lindgren. We go over some common cases and assumptions/misconceptions on the legality of custody, and other common red flags to avoid when building a project that's built around composability and potential asset risk. Show Link(s): LLOY Law: http://lloylaw.com Intro/Outro Music “Pajamas” by BrockBeats: https://soundcloud.com/brock1112/pajamas Show Sponsor(s): Vanmoof: http://Vanmoof.com Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dee get the lowdown on how mature crypto markets have become from Kyle Davies of Three Arrows Capital. Kyle is a veteran hedge fund manager with prior experience in the forex markets before making his big break into crypto a few years ago. His insights provide us a clearer lens into how to scale our mental model of emerging derivatives and option markets surrounding the launch of professional trading platforms such as Deribit. We also make fun of traditional hedge fund conferences; seriously they're the worst. Show Link(s): Three Arrows Capital: https://www.threearrowscap.com/ Kyle Davies: https://twitter.com/kyled116 Intro/Outro Music “Fuck 2020” by Avenue Beat: https://soundcloud.com/user-101229740-530861633/fuck-2020-avenue-beat Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: https://Amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty have an astute conversation with Nic Carter, GP of Castle Island Ventures and Twitter renowned Bitcoin enthusiast. We like the way Nic thinks about dollarization, governance, and how they coincide with certain aspects of bitcoin, such as its distribution, to better understand its tech and where its going in the future. This episode is a tad longer than usual, but we think you'll enjoy the lack of brevity in this one.  Show Link(s): Castle Island Ventures: https://www.castleisland.vc Intro/Outro Music "Borderline" by Baby Rose: https://soundcloud.com/babyrosemusic/borderline-5 Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: https://Amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty finally get a chance to sit with one of their favorite members of the Ethereum Foundation, Hudson Jameson. As one of the main managers of the EIP process as an active DevOps manager at the Ethereum Foundation, Hudson has a very high-touch role in managing and interpreting the emergence of developer consensus around the Ethereum protocol. Governance can be a complex topic, and one that is often misunderstood since decentralized protocols are self-sustaining systems -- but it's incredibly important to understand how decisions and improvements are made in these trust-less ecosystems. Come dive in with us and learn more about how Ethereum get its updates from Hudson himself. Show Link(s): Ethereum Foundation: https://ethereum.org Intro/Outro Music “Proud of Me” by MAYZiN: https://soundcloud.com/immayzin/mayzin-x-danyal-proud-of-me-featjlarry Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://Amentum.org

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dee have a conversation on the history of creating a P2P bitcoin merchant exchange with Chris Maurice. He's been boots on the group helping to establish bitcoin dominance in Africa with his firm YellowCard. He breaks down what it takes to build a crypto business in Africa as a humble man from Alabama, his thoughts on growing Handshake in Africa, and how his firm helps to aid in crypto adoption.  Show Link(s): YellowCard Website: http://Yellowcard.io Intro/Outro Music "On The Way" by Al Hostile: https://soundcloud.com/al-hostile/free-my-album-prod-steezyzo-madbliss Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: Amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dr. Petty and Dee finally may have found someone who can bring crypto + music & audio to the masses. We're joined by Roneil Rumburg, CEO of Audius, and an all around incredibly nice guy. He's sharp: he understands Ethereum; he built on Bitcoin back in the day; and is familiar with the music industry. His team realizes the barriers that stand between Audius, and mass adoption - and we think he just might succeed. We discuss the platform, his vision for the future, and have some laughs along the way.  Show Link(s): Audius Website: https://audius.co Intro/Outro Music "On The Way" by OvaEastMeech: https://soundcloud.com/ovaeastmeech/im-on-the-way-1 Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dr. Petty and Dee are back with a new season, with fresh new faces and guests. To start off this season, we spoke to Paul Berg, CEO and Co-Founder of Sablier Finance. Many have sought to scale Ethereum transactions off-chain, with the use of Roll-ups/Plasma/State Channels, but Paul's team took a different approach. They're building an on-chain protocol for real-time payments; one that's lean, extendable, and a great PoC into how the future of real-time finance will work going forward. Join this enlightening discussion into his design decisions, and why he thinks Sablier is going to revolutionize payments by allowing you to stream digitized value of any form. Show Link(s): Sablier Website: https://www.sablier.finance Sablier Github: https://github.com/sablierhq/sablier Intro/Outro Music "Rosethroat" by YTK: https://soundcloud.com/yungtrvpkid/rosethroat Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty become journalists, for just this one time, as we interview a journalist from the industry who's quickly made a name for herself, Leigh Cuen. Leigh is a reporter from Coindesk and with a colorful past as a journalist with a broad range of focuses. She walks us through her process on how she seeks to provide objective truth and value into her reporting; as well as sharing valuable insights into how you should frame your perspective with crypto media. Sit down and enjoy this one, you'll definitely appreciate the struggles of objective media by the end of it. Show Link(s): Leigh Cuen: https://twitter.com/la__cuen Intro/Outro Music "Down" by XamVolo: https://soundcloud.com/xamvolo/down Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty join the founders Cameron Robertson (CEO) and Paul Gerhardt (CTO) to discuss what we believe is an innovation in bridging digital money with physical, secure digital hardware. They present us Kong, their digital cash equivalent: possessing the ability to act as a fungible representation of digital money, with a secure element and programmatic expiry which enables extraction of the funds at a future date. It's a very futuristic idea, and we're here for it. Come have a listen. Show Link(s): Kong Cash: http://kong.cash Intro/Outro Music “Touche” by Armani White: https://soundcloud.com/legendbound/touche1 Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty have a friendly chat with your favorite neighborhood developer, Austin Griffith. Creator of the burner wallet, Austin is one of the leading developers focused on usability and creating the "aha!" moments necessary to bridge traditional software developers and consumers, over into the bright and bountiful world of crypto. This is of course a technical, and a human-oriented task, and Austin has the chops to speak to developers/users in fun and exciting ways - and his passion for Ethereum is contagious. Come learn what it takes to create new product engineers, as we discuss how Austin plans to tackle that problem on the journey to a million+ Ethereum developers. Show Link(s): ETH Build: http://eth.build Intro/Outro Music "In Love and War" by XamVolo: https://soundcloud.com/xamvolo/in-love-and-war Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty sit down with Zak Cole, CEO and blockchain-literate extraordinaire of WhiteBlock. They're working on the testing and implementation of cryptographically assured blockchain-based protocols; all built with their in-house designed open source testing suite. Their tools allow blockchain architects and developers the means to test their public chains in a more stringent real-world like environment so you they can quantify the fault tolerance, latency, and stability of p2p blockchain systems more easily. This allows for improved sustainable data availability for public chains, and a more mature methodology for testing chains at scale. We also have some discussions around ETH 2.0, and Zak's experiences building in a chain agnostic manner. Show Link(s): WhiteBlock: http://whiteblock.io FLP Impossibility: https://www.the-paper-trail.org/post/2008-08-13-a-brief-tour-of-flp-impossibility/ Intro/Outro Music "Motivation" by Alec King: https://soundcloud.com/alecking13/motivation Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: https://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee, and Dr. Petty have a well-rounded chat with Ayo Akinyele of Bolt Labs. His firm is pioneering greater privacy for layer 2 technology (think Lightning) but with a support for multiple different public chains. He imagines an interoperable future of interconnectivity, with a privacy first mindset. We go in-depth on his background and how he got here, and how he sees layer 2 technology to evolve, while building a sustainable business outside of academia. Come check it out, there’s plenty to learn. Show Link(s): Bolt Labs: https://boltlabs.tech/ Intro/Outro Music “Voodoo” by OvaEast Meech: https://soundcloud.com/ovaeastmeech/voodoo Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty have a nice long discussion on the future of humanity with Vinay Gupta, CEO and Co-Founder of Mattereum. His firm (after having successfully assisting in launching Ethereum) is building a way to merge legal, real-world contracts, with on-chain smart contracts on Ethereum. His belief is that the digitization of tangible resources will be pivotal in solving some of humanity's hardest problems - especially those in relation to climate change and resource scarcity. This one is a tad longer than usual, but we couldn't just tell Vinay to stop talking, his words were too important. It's a very educational episode -- grab a coffee. Show Links: Mattereum: http://Mattereum.com Intro/Outro Music “Triple Double” by Phay: https://soundcloud.com/phayweather/triple-double-prod-by-3am Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Petty sit down with Petty's fellow co-worker, Dean Eigenmann, from Status. He's working on building an improved messaging protocol for Status, and is also working on the side on a Swift implementation of the ETH 2.0 Beacon chain. We learn more about Dean, as we go in deep to understand the mind of a real thot leader. Show Links: Yeeth Website: https://yeeth.af Intro/Outro Music “Badu” by Phay: https://soundcloud.com/phayweather/badu-prod-by-3am Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dee have a chat with Pedro Gomez, the Founder and developer behind WalletConnect. As Ethereum based accounts and wallets proliferate, standards surrounding how they're accessed, and extended interoperability becomes ever more important. Pedro's effort are to simplify this process for developers of Ethereum wallet's and services, in order to improve the UX across dApps in the ecosystem.  Show Links: WalletConnect: https://walletconnect.org WalletConnect Github: https://github.com/WalletConnect Intro/Outro Music "SonShine" by Phay: https://soundcloud.com/phayweather/sonshine Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty sit down with the crypto twitter famous, Ari Paul. Ari is the head honcho at BlockTower capital, and comes from a background of endowment management at the University of Chicago; Ari is a traditional finance nerd turned crypto nerds. We have a solid discussion on some of his perspectives on investing, and Petty and McKie pick his brain for some new insights you might not have heard elsewhere. Show Links: BlockTower Site: https://www.blocktower.com Intro/Outro Music "Learnt Some Jazz Today" by Tesselated: https://soundcloud.com/tessellated/jazz Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dr. Petty and Dee sit down with Aidan Hyman and Gregory Markou, the CEO and VP of Engineering from Chainsafe. Chainsafe builds tooling, implementations, and infrastructure to help maintain and interoperate major public blockchains. They aim to, overtime, make it much easier to build and deploy DApps on a variety of chains and services, in order to greatly lower the barrier to entry for new developers in crypto. Chainsafe considers themselves a chain agnostic developer tooling house (that loves TypeScript and Go) that's doing their part to ignore developer tribalism, and build robust tooling that aids in scaling the ecosystem (such as ETH 2.0). A must listen for crypto-related developers who also consider themselves chain-agnostic. Show Links: Chainsafe Site: https://chainsafe.io Chainsafe Github: https://github.com/ChainSafe Intro/Outro Music "Better" by Kelechi: https://soundcloud.com/oddwin/as-long-as-we-are-1 Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty sit down with Kyle Thomas, the CEO from Provide. Provide builds client libraries and APIs to simplify the management of deploying blockchain-based nodes to be used in production and for development. Their firm also has a new arm, called Provide Payments, where they are working on low-cost settlement using Ethereum and state channels. We discuss building for enterprises and gaining their adoption, and what it'll take for us to get there. Show Links: Provide Services: http://provide.services Provide Payments: http://providepayments.com Intro/Outro Music "As Long As We Are" by Oddwin: https://soundcloud.com/oddwin/as-long-as-we-are-1 Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty are on a mission to get their heads wrapped around what ProgPow is attempting to accomplish as Kristy Minehan assists us in understanding her teams motivations and goals to retrofit Ethereum's hashing algorithm to deter the usage of ASICs, in an attempt to make mining more egalitarian and less reliant on large scale purpose-built hardware. This is a complex subject, and its important we didn't shy away from the hard details. Hopefully this balanced discussion serves as a means to educate the community on any ulterior motives or conflicts of interest to reduce any social contention in the greater community. The audio was left mostly unedited for full transparency. Show Links: Ethereum ProgPow EIP: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-1057.md Intro/Outro Music "Garden" by Grady: https://soundcloud.com/whoinvitedgrady/garden Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty get to talk to Marcus Martin, CEO of Anchor Digital. His firm is focused keenly on compliance; having worked for a bulk of his career in investment banking, he's seeking to get crypto up to code for regulators and adoption. His platform makes it easy to track your portfolio, exchange trades, tax obligations, and puts it front and center in their Compass dashboard. He breaks down what his vision is, and what they're planning to release following their fundraising. A very insightful look into the regulatory side of things. Show Links: Anchor Digital: http://anchordigital.io Intro/Outro Music "Only One" by Grady: https://soundcloud.com/thisisgrady/only-one-prod-by-whethan-roget-chahayed-3 Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty get to talk to speak to a member of the original Handshake team, Hans Schoenburg. Hans is currently the one managing and building the Handshake faucet that will distribute HNS coins to the open source developers that applied on the platform; he also helped manage and research some of the important topics that pertain to the launch of Handshake's mainnet. We talk about some of the challenges Handshake dealt with, what he learned along the way, the vision for Handshake going forward, and much more. If you've been following the story of Handshake, this is a chapter you don't want to skip! Show Link(s): Handshake: http://handshake.org Intro/Outro Music "Super God Mode" by Angelo Mota: https://soundcloud.com/immaculate-taste/super-god-mode-prod-angelo-mota-1 Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie and Dr. Petty sit down with Brian Soule, the CEO of HNSimple (ENSToolkit). His team got their start by building tools to make building atop of ENS (the "Ethereum Name Service"), and now with the looming launch of the Handshake mainnet, his team has changed focuses for a bit to help prepare for the launch by building a native mobile client. Come relax with us and get another valuable peek into the mind of another developer building on Handshake, there's much to learn. Show Link(s): HNSimple: http://ENSToolkit.org Intro/Outro Music "Don't Fuck It Up" by Kelechi: https://soundcloud.com/kelechief/dont-fuck-it-up Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie and Dee sit down with Sean Kilgarriff, the CEO of Urkel.io. With the impending launch of the Handshake public blockchain, Sean's team has been building the essential tooling and infrastructure the HNS community and developers will need at launch. After launching a block explorer, and the HNS Alliance, they'll soon add API services, desktop wallets, and other open source tools; they're poised to help Handshake get the jumpstart it needs. Come learn how his team plans to position itself to be a huge value add to the HNS community. Show Link(s): Urkel: http://Urkel.io HNS Alliance: http://HNSAlliance.org Intro/Outro Music "Long Distance" by Alec King: https://soundcloud.com/alecking13/longdistance Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie, Dee and Dr. Petty finally get a chance to sit down with Preethi Kasireddy. Preethi, a crypto-native and CEO and Founder of TruStory (and former Coinbase/a16Z employee), sits down to fill us in on her storied background while watching crypto mature over the years. She also breaks down her technical and architectural decisions as to why she opted to build atop of Cosmos; come enjoy while we listen to her wax poetic on her next big project in the opener of Season Freedom. Show Link(s): TruStory: http://trustory.io Intro/Outro Music "Keep it Real" by Alec King: https://soundcloud.com/alecking13/keepitreal Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie, Dee and Dr. Petty have the pleasure of hanging out and chatting with Greg McCubbin, founder and host of DApp University. DApp University is his educational resource and video series where Greg goes in-depth with developers upcoming projects, as well as provides lessons on developing the Ethereum-focused smart contract language, Solidity. Come hang out as we wax poetic a bit on the struggles and pleasures of educational content creation, while giving you insights on how to build your own self-education pipeline. Show Link(s): DApp University: http://dappuniversity.com DApp University YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY0xL8V6NzzFcwzHCgB8orQ Intro/Outro Music "Freak U" by Kelechi: https://soundcloud.com/kelechief/freak-u Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie and Dee sit down with Amentum advisor, and mentor to Steven McKie, Kevin Zhou of Galois Capital. Kevin has been in the crypto space for many years, having worked as the Head of Trading at Kraken, and early employee of the exchange Buttercoin back in the day, Kevin has a new firm called Galois Capital. We sit back as he schools us on what it takes to get a crypto business up and running, and some lessons he's learned along the way. Show Link(s): Galois Capital: http://galois.capital Galois Twitter: http://twitter.com/galois_capital Intro/Outro Music "Malt Liquor" by Lewis Del Mar: https://soundcloud.com/lewis-del-mar/malt-liquor-2?in=lewis-del-mar/sets/live-at-the-el-rey Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie and Dee get to talk to their first ever Presidential candidate, Andrew Yang. They discuss his platform running as a Democratic candidate for the U.S. 2020 Presidential election, Universal Basic Income (UBI), and his vision to help America and how it aligns with crypto. This is a very patriotic episode, so go ahead and do your duty and have a listen - Uncle Sam is watching. Show Link(s): Andrew Yang 2020: https://www.yang2020.com Campaign Contributions: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/one-for-humanity Intro/Outro Music "Deep End" by Ro: https://soundcloud.com/romarss/deep-end Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee, and Dr. Petty get to have an exclusive discussion with the Co-Founder of the upcoming exchange and naming service built on the Handshake(HNS) blockchain, Namebase.io. Namebase leverages the decentralized root DNS that HNS provides with its unique naming based (think domain names), blockchain. Learn more on how Namebase is jumping head-first to take be a first-mover with the launch of Handshake. Show Links: Namebase: http://Namebase.io Handshake: http://Handshake.org Intro/Outro Music "Knockoffs" by Ro: https://soundcloud.com/romarss/knockoffs Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Petty are back for a new season with Viktor Radchenko of Trust Wallet. Fresh off the back of an acquisition by Binance (those guys are on fire), he's taking his vision for a decentralized dApp browser to the next level with the backing of Binance's vast resources. Come learn about Viktor, his background, and his vision for Trust Wallet going forward in the future post-acquisition. Show Link(s): Trust Wallet: http://trustwalletapp.com Intro/Outro Music "Money Boat" by JTM:https://soundcloud.com/jamesthemormon/money-boat Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dee sit down with Ryan King, co-founder of the geo-spatial mapping and proof of location project, FOAM. Ryan explains to us his diverse background and skills and how the original idea of FOAM formulated, and what his vision is for their company over the next few years. Ryan shows us his expansive knowledge-base and we toy around with ideas on how his project could be used -- we think he's on to something. Show Links: FOAM Project: https://www.foam.space Intro/Outro Music "Bag" by Kelechi: https://soundcloud.com/kelechief/bag-ft-phay?in=kelechief/sets/spring-breakup Show Sponsor(s): MakerDAO: http://makerdao.com Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie, Dee and Dr. Petty sit down with Blake Richardson and Luke Bateman from the upcoming Ethereum-based gaming platform, CryptoPets. CryptoPets takes some of the long-standing gaming mechanics that we've grown to love, and married them happily with the scarcity and extendability of non-fungible assets (ERC-721, etc). We sit down to discuss their vision for building a truly sticky game, one that users will enjoy playing - and because CryptoPets are digitally owned and appended thanks to Ethereum, the game can grow with you. Show Links: CryptoPets: http://cryptopets.co Game Beta: http://beta.cryptopets.co Intro/Outro Music "I Ain't Shit" by Kelech: https://soundcloud.com/kelechief/i-aint-shit?in=kelechief/sets/spring-breakup Show Sponsor(s): MakerDAO: http://makerdao.com Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty sit down with Josh Cincinatti of the ZCash Foundation. At the ZCash Foundation his job is to steward their open source development projects, evangelize privacy and educating developers of its importance, and helping to aid in building a positive culture/community that promotes sound governance. Josh is a wealth of knowledge filling us in on the Powers of Tau ceremony, upcoming changes to the ZCash protocol, and his vision for the ZCash Foundation. Show Links: ZCash Foundation: http://z.cash.foundation ZCon0 Conference Sign-up: https://z.cash.foundation//zcon/ ZCash Company: http://zcash.co Intro/Outro Music "Back and Forth" by Jay Vinchi: https://soundcloud.com/jayvinchi/back-and-forth Show Sponsor(s): MakerDAO: http://makerdao.com Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dr. Petty, and Erica Amatori sit down with Arjun Bhuptani, CEO and Co-Founder of Connext. Connext builds and maintains scalability solutions for crypto payments. One of their first major PoCs for the tech they're working on is called "MoneyShot". It's a service to quickly send micro-payments on the Ethereum network by utilizing what are called "state channels". We discuss the implications of this tech for developers, and lessons Arjun's team has picked up finding the right tools devs need to scale their DApps. Show Links: Connext: http://connext.network MoneyShot: http://moneyshot.ethcalate.network MoneyShot Explainer: https://medium.com/connext/try-v0-of-the-ethcalate-platform-with-moneyshot-p2p-micropayment-dapp-eab14a438ef2 Intro/Outro Music "Mercy" by Jacob Banks: https://soundcloud.com/mrjacobbanks/mercy-1?in=mrjacobbanks/sets/jacob-banks-into-the-wild Show Sponsor(s): MakerDAO: http://makerdao.com/ Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie, Dee, and Dr. Petty sit down with Buck Perley, one of the core developers for Bcoin, the node.js fullnode implementation of Bitcoin. Their team has been hard at work on new modular components and plugins that make interacting with the bitcoin blockchain, and building applications atop of bitcoin, more seamless. Their newest project, bPanel, is the first ever Blockchain Management System (BMS) that takes advantage of bcoin, to allow developers to create their own unique configurations and services with their fullnode. We also discuss the importance of hackathons and their crypto hackathon for developers in the Bay Area. If you’re a developer you’ll want to check this one out and keep pace with what’s new to power your next bitcoin project. Show Links: Bcoin: http://bcoin.io bPanel: http://bcoin.io/bpanel-docs/docs/bpanel-overview.html Intro/Outro Music “Tango” by Meech:https://soundcloud.com/ovaeastmeech/tango-prod-by-mic-lee Show Sponsor(s): MakerDAO:https://makerdao.com/ Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Erica, and Dee sit down (literally) with Mason Borda of TokenSoft. TokenSoft is a compliance-focused, white-label platform that assists companies/engineers bring their ICO to fruition in a legally compliant manner. As we’ve see the recent crackdown from regulators on ICOs in many jurisdictions, we’ve reached a point where you have to do things by the book (especially if you’re raising pre-functionality of your protocol/ecosystem). Mason is one of the individuals helping to write that figurative book, so we got him on the show to tell us what he’s been building while dropping some compliance knowledge on us. If you’re thinking about ICOing, make sure you check this out first to get a lay of the land on what’s presently permissible legally before you begin. Show Links: TokenSoft: http://tokensoft.io Intro/Outro Music ‘Saved” by Meech: https://soundcloud.com/ovaeastmeech/saved-prod-by-mic-lee Show Sponsor(s): Bitcoin Cash: http://bitcoincash.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.