On The Other Side

Paul Dylan Ennis is an author and professor. We talk the history of the cypherpunk movement, how Ethereum culture has evolved, and answering the million dollar question: what is Ethereum for? - - Follow Paul: https://twitter.com/post_polar_ Follow Chase: https://twitter.com/chaserchapman Follow On the Other Side: https://twitter.com/ontheOSpod Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3

Niraj is the co-founder of Ritual. We talk the convergence of crypto and AI, how onchain apps can leverage AI, why compute needs to be decentralized, and whether decentralized AI will cause the downfall of human society (not to be dramatic). - - Follow Niraj: https://twitter.com/niraj Follow Chase: https://twitter.com/chaserchapman Follow On the Other Side: https://twitter.com/onth

Brian Flynn is the founder of Boost (formerly RabbitHole). We talk hyperfinancialization, crypto as a universal language, how AI agents might play a role in building toward a better future, and shifting from idealism to realism. - - Follow Brian: https://twitter.com/Flynnjamm Follow Chase: https://twitter.com/chaserchapman Mint on Zora: https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x71b0f07308b68b

Dan Romero is a co-founder of Farcaster and Jesse Pollak is the leader behind Base. We talk frames, the power of distribution networks, contextualizing onchain activity, and why everything might one day be a Farcaster client. - - Follow Dan: https://twitter.com/dwr Follow Jesse: https://twitter.com/jessepollak Follow Chase: https://twitter.com/chaserchapman Collect this episode on

Nitya is the founder of Capsule. We talk embedded wallets and how they might dovetail into account abstraction, whether BYOW (bring your own wallet) is dead, the transaction as the atomic unit of the onchain world, and new mental models for wallets. - - Follow Nitya: https://twitter.com/_nityas Follow Chase: https://twitter.com/chaserchapman Follow On the Other Side: https://twitte

Dee is the co-founder of Zora. We talk minting as a medium, why the economics of the internet should mirror human behavior, the limits of modeling collecting behavior, and why focusing on financial motivations is not the answer for empowering creators. - - Mint On the Other Side: https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x71b0f07308b68bf0276efa3ccc5955ed3eadf59c Follow Dee: https://twitter.com

This is a special episode, drawing on ChatGPT's knowledge. We talk the paradox of choice, composability as a double-edged sword, when choice matters, and how maturity of consumer technologies impact end-user orientation around choice. - - Follow Chase: https://twitter.com/chaserchapman Follow On the Other Side: https://twitter.com/ontheOSpod Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3pJ

Mike is a co-founder at Rainbow. We talk building for newbies vs. crypto natives, why crypto has primarily been desktop-first, WeChat-style wallets vs. embedded wallets, maintaining a beginner's mindset, consumer adoption, and why consumer crypto has become such a meme. - - (00:00) Intro (01:00) What is Rainbow? (02:28) Building for Crypto Natives vs. Newbies (05:24) Mobile vs. Des

Andrew is the Headmaster at Dune Analytics. We talk the modular stack ‒ Andrew gives an accessible overview of account abstraction and intents, the potential for intents as protocol moats, where censorship and centralization might become a risk, and what the future of interacting onchain might look like. - - (00:00) Intro (02:07) Modular Stack (04:00) What is account abstraction?

Long time friends of the pod — Jess and Josh from Seed Club — join to talk Seed Club Cohort 6, trends in consumer crypto, why onchain experiences aren't built for pure consumption, and what the future for onchain consumer apps might look like. - - Follow Jess: https://twitter.com/thattallguy Follow Josh: https://twitter.com/joshcrnls Follow Chase: https://twitter.com/chaserchap