Santiago Balaguer (https://twitter.com/SantiBalaguer) joins us to give us a tour of the Polkadot ecosystem, with Kusama, Parachains, Canary networks, Substrate and more. This is the episode to listen to if you've been curious about Polkadot but never really understood what it is. In our opinion, it is one of the smartest implementations of blockchain technology, and we hope you will enjoy learning about it.
We speak to Julien Niset of Argent about crypto wallets, how they work, and how Argent has designed theirs around the concept of Account Abstraction, which we unpack in some detail during the show. We also talk about EIP-4337 which makes Account Abstraction a more established concept in the Ethereum Community We also talk about Zk Proofs, Zk Sync and Starkware, and, of course, NFTs on Argent. To subscribe to the excellent Argent Newsletter, head to https://newsletter.argent.xyz/
In this episode we talk to Erika Knierim of Nomic Consulting, a legal "engineer" who is advising artists as well as institutions, galleries, and collectors on the how to be legally compliant when releasing, purchasing or collecting NFT artwork, We discussed securities (and why she thinks NFTs should all be considered as such), regulatory frameworks in the US and Europe, KYC, digital identity, and more. Some of the links we mentionned https://ubirch.com/ https://kyax.com/ https://www.kali.gg/
A conversation with Maria-Paula (MP) and Trent from JPG.space, the OG curatorial platform for NFTs. We discuss the principles that drive JPG, their new "Canon" concept, derived from the older Token Curated Registry (TCR) primitive, and of course what curation means in general and in the NFT space in particular.
Aubrey Anderson has had a unique career in the software development and creative fields. Working for Sun, and Apple, co-founding the Barbarian Group and other businesses, he now focuses on https://ncc.la/. He develops tools for creatives with a strong focus on music. He is also the first person we have spoken to who is developing mainly on the Algorand blockchain, and he explains why. We dive into music NFTs, the reasons for building now more than ever, the democratization of access, royalties, and the need to pay attention to what big corporations don't want us to do and double down on it. We also discussed why its better for artists to not completely get rid of intermediaries, and why traditional artists should explore blockchain-based approaches.