Zero Knowledge
Where we talk about zero knowledge research and the decentralised web
We found 6 episodes of Zero Knowledge with the tag “polkadot”.
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Episode 104: Exploring Kusama, the Canary Chaos Network
November 20th, 2019 | 57 mins 41 secs
blockchain governance, canary network, decentralised network, kusama, polkadot, testnet
In this week’s episode, Anna chats with Fredrik and Nicole Zhu, Developer at Parity Technologies, about the experimental Polkadot Canary Network they call Kusama. We cover how Kusama was developed, the goals of this format and what launching a Chaos Canary Network is all about.
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Episode 91: Near Protocol's focus on UX
August 21st, 2019 | 59 mins 58 secs
blockchain development, blockchain ux, ethereum, near protocol, polkadot
In this episode, we sit down with Alexander Skidanov and Illia Polosukhin from Near Protocol to find out about their work. We discuss what brought them to develop Near Protocol, how they used their whiteboard sessions to learn from the best people in the space, the challenge of blockchain UX, and what has motivated them to become one of the fastest moving projects around.
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Episode 83: From Warp Sync to SPREE with Polkadot's Rob Habermeier
June 26th, 2019 | 1 hr 8 mins
cryptography, engineering, ethereum, lightclients, parity technology, polkadot, warp sync
In this episode, Anna chats with Robert Habermeier, one of the co-founders of Polkadot and an engineer at Parity, about his early experience with Rust and cryptography, as well as the work he did at Parity on Warp Sync and Lightclients, how this helped inspire some of the development of the Polkadot architecture and some of the exciting technical concepts that he has discovered along the way.
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Episode 80: On the Frontiers of Validation with Bison Trails
June 5th, 2019 | 1 hr 3 mins
bison trails, blockchain infrastructure, blockchain validation, cosmos, delegators, polkadot, pos, proof-of-stake, tezos, validation, validators
In this week's episode, Anna sits down with Joe Lallouz and Aaron Henshaw from Bison Trails - a validator infrastructure company based in NYC. Recorded during the NYC blockchain week, we chatted about the latest PoS systems to launch, what it means to be a validator, how the incentive structures can impact the ecosystem development and potential futures for this uncharted validator landscape.
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Episode 46: Gavin Wood on Polkadot, Sharding and Substrate
October 10th, 2018 | 1 hr 5 mins
blockchain, polkadot, sharding, substrate, web3
We finally sit down with Gavin to go through a bit of what Parity has been working on with Polkadot and Substrate. We talk about Polkadot early history and who was involved and where the idea spawned, up to coding practices and where Substrate became a thing.
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Episode 35: Testnets with Ethan from Tendermint
July 25th, 2018 | 47 mins 2 secs
blockchain, cosmos, kovan, polkadot, rinkeby, ropsten, testnet
In this episode, we sit down with Ethan (Bucky) Buchman, co-founder & CTO of Tendermint, to talk about testnets. We look into what they are, what purpose they serve and cover examples from Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cosmos and Polkadot.