Press and podcasts

TEEs, SGX and the Graphene project on Zero Knowledge: In this episode hosts chat with two of the people behind the Graphene project, Chia-Che Tsai of Texas A&M University and Golem developer Lukasz Glen, about TEEs, Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX), and the way the Graphene project aims to make it easier for devs to interact with these hardware enclaves. Graphene started as a research project at Stony Brook University, led by Chia-Che Tsai and Don Porter, about emerging hardware platforms. In 2015, Intel Labs recognized the potential for Graphene to be an open-source compatibility layer for Intel® SGX, and has contributed to Graphene development since. With Golem and Invisible Things Lab (ITL), the Graphene project has also been now used within a decentralised blockchain context. The security around TEEs is a hotly debated topic and they delve into the questions around these with the guests.

Coin Metrics: Understanding the Value and Use of Crypto Networks on Into the Ether: Jacob Franek and Antoine Le Calvez of Coin Metrics join Into the Ether to talk about blockchain data and the trends they are seeing in the space. Coin Metrics is a provider of crypto asset market and network data which helps people better understand the value and use of crypto networks. They start with the demand for crypto data and how it can be productized. They then dive deep into certain subjects like data manipulation, comparing different chains, measuring dapp usage, concerns around base chain privacy for data and much more.

EthHub Weekly #68: Eth2.0 Phase 0 spec freeze, dYdX and 0x team up, multi-collateral DAI updates, PoolTogether launched and much more!

Market Protocol: Bring Any Market to Ethereum Using Synthetic Assets — with Seth Rubin, Co-Founder, and CEO on WyreTalks.

Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need custody to secure price exposure to a given asset. In fact, the launch of a new crypto product allows you to pair a reference asset like Bitcoin with a collateral token like DAI to gain synthetic exposure to Bitcoin, without having to buy or store any BTC. These so-called position tokens open up a world of possibilities for accessing exposure to cross-chain and traditional assets — or creating brand new ones.

Seth Rubin is the cofounder and CEO of MARKET Protocol, a framework for creating synthetic assets represented as tokens that allows users to gain exposure to a variety of assets without leaving the Ethereum network.He joins the podcast to discuss the launch of the MARKET Protocol Exchange (MPX) and minting platform, explaining the role of the MKT token in onboarding and educating new users. Seth shares the benefit to putting a cap on risk and the UX tradeoffs associated with this unique approach Seth also weighs in on why his team has written their own oracle for initial implementation and how time to resolution impacts the user experience. Listen in to understand how Seth’s team is educating users around the pricing and trading of market position tokens and learn how asset exposure, a defined downside and accessible leverage differentiate MARKET Protocol from its competitors.

New In Flight podcast by Aragon One: In Flight by Aragon One touches the topics of governance, empowering individual freedom and avoiding global dystopia. The hosts, Luis Cuende and Jorge Izquierdo, are the cofounders of the Aragon project, which creates tools to run organizations that are fully sovereign, global and transparent. The podcast tries to go far away from a serious, planned conversation, and instead focuses on the sporadic, genuine nature of a casual conversation. Check out first episodes!

Episode 9: Humanity DAO with Rich McAteer on Wizard of Dapps.

PegaSys — Enterprise-Grade Ethereum Protocol Engineering on Epicenter

They’re joined by Rob Dawson, Head of Product at PegaSys. PegaSys is the protocol engineering spoke of ConsenSys, and the team building Pantheon, a Java implementation of the Ethereum client. The Pantheon client was built from the ground up as both a mainnet, and consortium chain client. Written in Java with an Apache 2.0 license, it benefits from being easily accessible to enterprises, who predominantly use that language. The PegaSys team has built additional features into the Pantheon client like privacy, permissioning, and the ability to deploy chains on IBFT, a consensus algorithm better suited for consortium networks of up to 40 validators. Working closely with other protocol teams (Geth and Parity), and being a founding member of the Ethereum Enterprise Alliance, PegaSys is also working towards Ethereum 2.0.

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