XDC is a layer-1 hybrid blockchain, with a greater focus towards trade finance. In this episode, we interview Billy Sebell, Executive Director at XDC Foundation, to take a closer look at the workings of the protocol, the XDC ecosystem and the approach to interoperability.

Guest – Billy Sebell – Executive Director, XDC Foundation
Website – https://xdc.org/

In this episode, we welcome back Rob Viglione, to take a closer look at Horizen’s Zendoo protocol, its new EVM compatible smart-contracting platform – EON and interoperability approaches. Also, we discuss the evolution of enterprise use cases for blockchain technology and the path forward.

Guest – Rob Viglione – CEO, Horizen Labs
Website – https://www.horizen.io/

In this episode, we interview Alex Chiocchi, Chief Product Officer at Pagoda, to take a closer look at the NEAR protocol. NEAR is a layer-1 blockchain, that seeks to become a Blockchain Operating System for the open web.

Guest – Alex Chiocchi – Chief Product Officer, Pagoda

Websites
NEAR – https://near.org/
Pagoda- https://www.pagoda.co/

In this episode, we interview Alexandra DaCosta (CEO) and David Yi (CCO) from Aspen Creek Digital Corporation (ACDC). Founded in 2022, ACDC is a Bitcoin mining company looking to decarbonize power generation by creating the world’s leading fleet of renewably powered data centers.

Guests – Alexandra DaCosta, CEO ACDC and David Yi, CCO ACDC
Website – https://acdigitalcorp.com/

In this episode, we interview Kyle Rojas, Head of Global Business Development and Partnerships at Edge and Node, to take a deep dive into The Graph protocol. The Graph is an indexing protocol that queries networks like Ethereum and IPFS and organizes the data, making it easily accessible for various applications.

Guest – Kyle Rojas – Head of Global Business Development and Partnerships, Edge and Node
Website – https://thegraph.com/en/
Discord: https://discord.gg/graphprotocol
Telegram: https://t.me/GraphProtocol
Edge and Node: https://edgeandnode.com/

In this episode, we interview John Woods, CTO Algorand Foundation and Benedetto Biondi, CEO Folks Finance, which is the leading defi protocol built on Algorand. We take a deep dive into the workings of the main Algorand protocol, Verifiable Random Function (VRF), Algorand Virtual Machine (AVM) and the TEAL language. We also discuss the working of Folks Finance, Algo Liquid Governance and the path forward for Defi.

Guest – John Woods, CTO Algorand Foundation
Website – https://www.algorand.foundation/

Guest – Benedetto Biondi, CEO Folks Finance
Website – https://folks.finance/

In this episode, we interview Aaron Buchwald, Staff Software Engineer at Ava Labs to take a deep dive into the Avalanche protocol. Avalanche is a layer-1 blockchain that provides developers with a framework to build their own blockchains while being more decentralized, more scalable and interoperable compared to other blockchains in the market today.

Guest – Aaron Buchwald – Staff Software Engineer, Ava Labs
Website – https://www.avalabs.org/

In this episode, we look at some of the key events from 2022 in the crypto and blockchain industry. Also, we discuss some of the key developments and trends to look forward to in 2023.

In this episode, we interview Chad Barraford, the Technical Lead at THORChain. THORChain is working to solve one of the biggest problems facing the cryptocurrency industry, by enabling multi-chain decentralized exchange of cryptocurrencies in a truly decentralized manner.

Guest – Chad Barraford – Technical Lead, THORChain
Website – https://thorchain.org/

In this episode, we interview Boris Mann, Co-founder and CEO of Fission. Fission is a company that is looking to provide developers with a decentralized backend-as-a-service platform to build and deploy distributed apps with end to end encryption and user controlled data.

Guest – Boris Mann – Co-founder and CEO, Fission
Website – https://fission.codes/

Show notes:

1. Webnative – A true local first, edge computing stack – https://webnative.dev/

2. Webnative SDK Demo – https://webnative-template.fission.app/

3. ProtoSchool – Interactive tutorials on decentralized web protocols – https://proto.school/

4. Fission Github – https://github.com/fission-codes/