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The Third Web

by Arthur Falls

Podcast by Arthur Falls

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  1. Understanding ICP Staking and Neurons in Simple English w/ John & Diego

    Principal Engineer, John Wiegley joins Diego Pratts in this episode to reduce the practice of staking ICP to common English. We discuss ICP economics, burning & staking, the importance of governance on the IC and a whole lot more along the way. John Wiegley's community conversation on the subject...

  2. The Third Web #18 - Concordium

    Concordium is a "compliant by design" open proof of stake blockchain that has achieved fame among Rust developers as a friendly place to develop. Community representative Beni Issembert Joins to discuss the origins and ambitions of the project.

  3. What Does it mean to be "Web Speed" with Manu & Diego

    "Web" can be used as a performance descriptor to represent the expectations of contemporary users. Does the IC achieve this? Where does it hit and where does it miss. In this episode, we explore the nuance of this term and gain a deeper grasp of the Internet Computer as a product. cycledao.xyz

  4. ICDevs & the Drive Toward Community Developed Infrastructure

    The Internet Computer requires a large amount of tooling to support web & enterprise developers. Austin Fatheree believes that should be developed by the community. Grants are already active for significant tooling, creating an independent alternative to the DFINITY Developer Grants program....

  5. Today New York, Tomorrow, the World

    Andrew and Evan of The Internet Computer Report join to discuss the state of the community, events in New York, and global opportunities for IC-based products. cycledao.xyz

  6. OpenChat Deep Dive

    From the early days of entrepreneurship to the deep inner workings of the Internet Computer, Matt Grogan discusses his history working with Dominic Williams. We then deep dive on OpenChat, application design patterns, and the SNS.

  7. Decentralised Frontends, Upgrading Canisters, & the Mysteries of Boundary Nodes

    Community Manager Moritz Fuller explains his decision to build a Liquity front end on the Internet Computer. From here we discuss the challenges of hosting DeFi products on the IC, upgrading canisters, and the mysterious role of boundary nodes. Waterslide Announcement:...

  8. The No Code Revolution Comes to the IC with ICME

    The Internet Computer native website builder, ICME, is the brainchild of Houman Shadab & Wyatt Benno, a lawyer/no code enthusiast and startup builder respectively. The website builder is the first step on their path to democratise application building on the IC. icme.io cycledao.xyz

  9. Toniq Labs NFT Art Deep Dive

    Bob Bodily, Chief Product Officer of Toniq Labs dives deep on NFTs and Toniq Labs' plans to expand their offerings. https://toniqlabs.com/ cycledao.xyz https://entrepot.app/

  10. Knowledge Blast: Inter-Subnet Communication, the DKG, and Chainkey

    Manu Drijvers drops a knowledge bomb in this session, answering your questions about the inner workings of the IC. cycledao.xyz

  11. Norton Wang & the cycle_dao

    Norton Wang discusses the future of governance on the IC. The Axon neuron manager, cycle_dao, ICRocks, combine to form a Voltronic image of application & IC governance and code verification. cycledao.xyz axon.ooo ic.rocks

  12. IC Games, the Metaverse, an NFT Marketplace: Toniq Labs Has it All

    Building an Internet Computer-hosted board game has led the team at Toniq Labs toward a complete metaverse infrastructure. Following the runaway success of their NFT marketplace which sold $350,000 worth of Chronic NFTs, we discuss a universal gaming currency, Stoic wallet, and the future of the...

  13. InfinitySwap: The IC's Uniswap

    InfinitySwap aims to provide an AMM to establish liquidity pools for DeFi products and fundraising on the IC. https://infinityswap.one/ cycledao.xyz

  14. Origyn & the Emergence of Pan Industry Platforms

    From a background in traditional systems to the forefront of decentralisation in traditional industry, Mike Shwartz has seen a lot. His project, Origyn, is an effort to make robust NTFs, or digital twins, of real-world objects. This extends to something he calls a "Plan Industry Platform" - an...

  15. The First of the Accelerators: DeFiStarter

    Singapore-based decentralised finance-oriented accelerator, DeFiStarter, is gunning for the Internet Computer financial ecosystem. By onboarding Ethereum-based teams and mirroring their applications on the Internet Computer, DeFiStarter gains access to both communities and, once IC Ethereum...

  16. Token Standards On the Internet Computer

    Hazel is back to discuss token standards on the IC. We dive deep on the HZLD token, canister upgradability, NFTs and Micropayments. After this interview was recorded, Hazel launched an NFT experiment, the background of which is described here. @suddenlyhazel cycledao.xyz

  17. Experiments In Tokens and a Decentralised Patreon

    To those who saw the HZLD token experiment on Twitter, Hazel will be a familiar figure. HZLD was actually a component in a much larger experiment: Hazels decentralised Patreon challenger Bunchd. In this chat, we discuss Hazel's reasons for building on DFINITY and her vision for Bunchd....

  18. From Linkedup to Distrikt - Professional Social Networking on the Internet Computer

    Distrikt is a decentralised professional social media platform that began its life inside the DFINITY Foundation as Linkedup. Co-founder Andra Georgescu describes Distrikt's ambitions and her vision for decentralised social media. distrikt.io cycledao.xyz

  19. Misconceptions & Open Questions with Jordan Last

    Between the Internet Identity System and application scaling, there are a large number of subjects that the Internet Computer community is still coming to understand. Especially in the context of the prior described vision of the IC. Jordan Last addresses misconceptions and reformulates…

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  20. DSCVR the Decentralised Reddit

    DSCVR is in essence a decentralised Reddit - or news aggregator - hosted on the Internet Computer. Rick Porter, formerly BCG, began building DSCVR in 2020 on a hunch that a decentralised news aggregator might be a significantly impactful app. The project has taken him on a journey through token...

  21. Jordan Last & The Sudograph Odyssey

    Longtime DFINITY Community member, Jordan Last takes us on a journey from his love of technology as a youth to his discovery of the Internet Computer. We discuss Sudograph, Jordan's open-source implementation of the GraphQL database for the Internet Computer, and some of his other numerous...

  22. Harrison Hines On Infrastructure And IC DAOs Mixdown

    Harrison Hines is back with an insightful discussion into the future of infrastructure funding and an examination of DAOs as infrastructure builders

  23. The Internet Computer Weekly - Decentralised Web On Fleek

    Harrison Hines of Fleek discusses the challenges faced by the current generation of decentralised applications. Namely, the lack of decentralised frontend hosting. Enter the decentralised web, also known as Web 3. Fleek is a provider of decentralised web tooling. visit at Fleek.co or follow on...

  24. The Internet Computer Weekly - Chain Keys and Ethereum Interoperation with Dominic Williams

    In this session, Dominic Williams, Founder of DFINITY, creator of the Internet Computer, and all-round good dude explains how the internet computer interoperates with Ethereum. Subscribe @ cycledao.xyz

  25. The Internet Computer Weekly #2 - Tacen

    This episode of the Internet Computer Weekly features hybrid decentralised exchange Tacen, which enables users to settle trades atomically, matching trades using a centralised service but storing the orderbook and settlement information in user run oracles living on the Internet Computer. This...

  26. The Internet Computer Weekly #1 - Capsule

    Nadim Kobeissi of the Capsule decentralised social media project describes the need for an alternative to the existing big-tech offerings and the reason the Internet Computer was chosen as a hosting layer. capsule.social CycleDAO.xyz

  27. Understanding Urbit #7 - Tlon Operations Community

    Tlon COO Erik Newton and Community Manager Kenny Rowe join this session to provide some additional background to Tlon and the Urbit Community. Erik Newton begins by explaining the relationship between the Tlon corporation and the Urbit project. We also discuss the reason behind the valuation of…

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  28. Understanding Urbit #6 - Built to Last

    The recurrent theme of calm computing is explored more deeply in this discussion with Logan Allen whose focus is infrastructure and product at Tlon. Logan sees the attention economy, with all it’s popups and news feed clickbait as a result of the way startups are organised and funded. In between...

  29. Understanding Urbit #5 - Urbit & Bitcoin

    Christian Langalis is the resident bitcoin ambassador to the Urbit team. His motto is sound money requires sound computing and this well describes his role is to develop Bitcoin infrastructure for the Urbit ecosystem. Christian’s interest in Urbit derives from a desire for a sound foundation on...

  30. Understanding Urbit #4 - Urbit ID & the Network

    As Ted indicated in episode 2, The Urbit ID public key infrastructure and the Urbit network are core to the way individual Urbits communicate and maintain self-sovereignty. In this episode we hear from three members of the Tlon team, each explaining the part of the system they are most familiar...

  31. Understanding Urbit #3 - Technology & Freedom

    The effect technology has on individual freedom is a recurring theme in lunchtime discussions in the Tlon office. Chief Product Officer, Anthony Arroyo has a background in linguistics and the philosophy of technology. This positions him well to explain the nature of this relationship and how…

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  32. Understanding Urbit #2 - Under the Hood of the Urbit OS

    Engineer Ted Blackman works on the Urbit OS kernel. Like many Tlon employees, Ted initially came to the project as an open source contributor. In this discussion Ted breaks the operating system down into its components and explains its relationship to Urbit ID which we will cover in-depth in...

  33. Understanding Urbit #1 - Introducing the Personal Server

    Few software projects today share either the contemporary relevance or fringe mystique of the Urbit Operating and Identity System. As a highly secure personal server, Urbit aims to deliver on many of the ideas pioneered by the Cypherpunks, and, after nearly 20 years in development the platform…

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  34. The Third Web #17 - Arthur Brock, Holochain

    Holochain has been a project simminging in the background of the blockchain space for several years now. The promise has been a panaceaic solution to the performance and scalability issues facing decentralised hosting platforms. It’s an oft heard claim, but, as founder Arthur Brock expounds in…

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  35. The Third Web #16 - Urbit, Your New Server

    The range of third-web platforms in development today is greater than ever. From data-centric blockchain based approaches to agent-centric designs like Secure Scuttlebut, the potential futures of the third web are rapidly expanding. Today we look at another approach with the Urbit platform. Like...

  36. The Third Web #15 - Edgeware & Parity, Infrastructure on Top of Infrastructure

    What is Edgeware Edgeware being developed by an entity called Commonwealth Labs Built on Parity’s Substrate Grandpa finality tool On-chain governance Scripting built in. Using Web Assembly (Wasm) Building on Substrate People used to build their own web servers, now they use the cloud. People used...

  37. The Third Web #14 - Dawn Of An Ecosystem: Substrate & Polkadot

    Care of DFINITY I was privileged to attend the Web 3 Summit in Berlin last year. While there I interviewed Aeron Buchanan, the Executive Vice President of the Web 3 Foundation and Gavin Wood, Founder of Ethereum, Parity, and the Web 3 Foundation. These guys are two of the individuals that…

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  38. The Third Web #13 - Consensus Primer with Aparna Krishnan

    Aparna Krishnan is head of education at Blockchain at Berkeley and co-founder of Mechanism Labs, an open source blockchain research lab. Earlier this year, Aparna was awarded a scholarship by the DFINITY Foundation for Mechanism Labs’ research into consensus mechanisms. This episode is…

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  39. The Third Web #12 - The Actor Model

    Subodh Sharma is a professor of computer science at IIT Delhi, one of the most prestigious universities in India. While he’s not teaching, Subodh conducts research into the formal verification of distributed systems, and his work on the automated formal verification of smart contacts has drawn...

  40. The Third Web #11 - Scuttlebutt & Cypherspace

    Dominic Tarr is a hacker who resides on a sailboat, usually found in New Zealand's beautiful Hauraki Gulf. In recent years he has risen to fame as the creator of the Secure Scuttlebutt protocol, Scuttlebutt for short. Scuttlebutt is comprised of a standardized message format and a subjective…

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  41. The Ether Review #6 - Devcon 1 Debrief

    Today we have a panel of Devcon attendees. Alex Amsel, Hudson Jameson and Jack du Rose.We discuss the Ethereum community, the development state of the consensus process, storage solutions, Free My Vunk, Slock, Oraclize and much more. Alex Amsel: http://newretro.org/ Hudson Jameson:...

  42. The Ether Review #5 - Colony, Jack Du Rose

    Today Jack Du Rose explains his social collaboration platform colony and his old job designing the most expensive work of art ever sold.

  43. The Ether Review #4 - Augur

    The Ether Review #4 - Augur by Arthur Falls

  44. The Ether Review #3 - Roman Mandeleil

    Roman Mandeleil, builder of the Ethercamp blockchain explorer and the java implimentation of Ethereum discusses among other things, what it is like to be a longtime developer in the Ethereum community.

  45. The Ether Review #2 - Vlad Zamfir

    The Ether Review #2 - Vlad Zamfir by Arthur Falls

  46. The Ether Review #1 - Joseph Lubin

    Arthur speaks with Joseph Lubin, one of the founders of the Ethereum project and also Consensys, a constellation of Ethereum focused companies. This is the first episode of a weekly show featuring interviews with the people building the Ethereum ecosystem. Content: Joseph Lubin, Arthur Falls...

  47. Beyond Bitcoin - 27th And Final - An Architecture For The Internet Of Money

    todays episode is my favourite of all, not to diminish all of the wonderful interviews and guests I've been lucky enough to have on the show. Sorry Adam, I forgot to thank you for getting me into this. The mark of a great catalyst is that he's taken for granted :-) Enjoy. I know I sure did....

  48. Beyond Bitcoin - 26 - Darkcoin

    All about Darkcoin. Having sworn my allegiance to the 2.0 space long ago I was blown away to see how deeply innovative a single token tracking platform could be. Darkcoin is a project I will watch closely following this fascinating discussion.Thanks to Fernando for introducing me to Evan and...

  49. Beyond Bitcoin - 25 - Considering Identity Systems With Chris Mountford

    Chris Mountford is a developer at Atlassian, a software company based in Australia and has been interested in digital currency for over twenty years. In this episode we discuss reputation and personal information management systems. Chris' ability to identify the issues and dangers of various...

  50. Beyond Bitcoin - 24 - The Second To Last - A Nu Approach

    In this, the second to last episode of Beyond Bitcoin We Look at Nubits, the value controlled digital currency that has emerged from the Peercoin/Peershares team. discus.nubits.com nubits.com docs.nubits.com The Internet of Money, Meher Roychoudhury:...

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