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  • This week, we speak with Claudia Richoux, the CEO of Banyan. Our conversation focuses on Banyan's innovative distributed file system, which aims to provide secure, affordable, and decentralized data storage solutions.

    Claudia explains the concept of a "data wallet" and outlines how Banyan's technology integrates with decentralized networks to improve data handling, security, and cost-effectiveness compared to traditional cloud services.

    Banyan: https://twitter.com/BanyanComputer

    Develop on Kinode: https://book.kinode.org

    Project Lead Basile: https://twitter.com/basileSportif

    Lead Dev Doria: https://twitter.com/m_e_doria

    Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/guqKRnPup7

  • This week, we discuss how Kinode simplifies blockchain application development by abstracting away infrastructure setup, allowing developers to focus on core application logic. We highlight Goldfinger's zk-Rollup template and chess game as an example, noting how Kinode's architecture facilitates better UX and seamless composition of on-chain logic and off-chain interactions in a multi-rollup future.

    Links

    Develop on Kinode: https://book.kinode.org

    Project Lead Basile: https://twitter.com/basileSportif

    Lead Dev Doria: https://twitter.com/m_e_doria

    Developer Goldfinger: https://twitter.com/golfinger_kino

    Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/guqKRnPup7

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  • This week we discuss Barter, an LLM-powered NFT negotiator app built on Kinode. We discuss the app's functionality, creative "prompt hacking" possibilities, and broader implications. Barter allows users to set up a Telegram bot to automatically negotiate NFT sales based on customizable parameters. The discussion touches on the potential for AI to engage in financial transactions, the need for extensive testing around prompt injection risks, and the power of Kinode's permissionless and iterative development environment.

    Links

    Develop on Kinode: https://book.kinode.org

    Project Lead Basile: https://twitter.com/basileSportif

    Lead Dev Doria: https://twitter.com/m_e_doria

    Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/guqKRnPup7

  • In this week's Kinode Office Hours, we're joined by Trent from Holium to discuss their new project MemeDeck, a platform for AI-powered meme generation and curation. The conversation explores the nuances of building decentralized applications, and how Kinode's modular architecture allows developers to choose which components should be centralized versus decentralized for optimal user experience and scalability. Trent shares insights into Meme Deck's architecture, which leverages Kinode for user data storage and identity while relying on centralized services for compute-intensive tasks like meme generation and search. The team also dives into Holium's vision for a decentralized AI infrastructure, where users can contribute their GPU power to train models and execute tasks, earning rewards in the process. Basile and Doria emphasize the importance of ergonomics and the "build another app" principle in designing developer-friendly systems that can compete with centralized platforms. Tune in for a fascinating discussion on the future of decentralized AI, the power of memes, and the role of Kinode in enabling a new wave of Web3 applications.

    Develop on Kinode: https://book.kinode.org

    Holium Corp: https://twitter.com/holiumcorp

    MemeDeck: https://twitter.com/MemeDeckApp

    Project Lead Basile: https://twitter.com/basileSportif

    Lead Dev Doria: https://twitter.com/m_e_doria

    Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/guqKRnPup7

  • In this week's Kinode Office Hours, we dive into the philosophy and rationale behind Kinode's 0.6 release, a major milestone on the path to the highly-anticipated 1.0 version. We discuss the importance of achieving a stable, backwards-compatible API as early as possible in the development process. Drawing parallels to Ethereum's unwavering commitment to backwards compatibility, we highlight how this approach forces the team to build real applications from day one, ensuring that the system can actually support the intended use cases.

    Develop on Kinode: https://book.kinode.org

    Project Lead Basile: https://twitter.com/basileSportif

    Lead Dev Doria: https://twitter.com/m_e_doria

    Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/guqKRnPup7

  • In this week's Kinode Office Hours, we dive into the philosophy and rationale behind Kinode's 0.6 release, a major milestone on the path to the highly-anticipated 1.0 version. We discuss the importance of achieving a stable, backwards-compatible API as early as possible in the development process. Drawing parallels to Ethereum's unwavering commitment to backwards compatibility, we highlight how this approach forces the team to build real applications from day one, ensuring that the system can actually support the intended use cases.

    Develop on Kinode: https://book.kinode.org

    Project Lead Basile: https://twitter.com/basileSportif

    Lead Dev Doria: https://twitter.com/m_e_doria

    Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/guqKRnPup7

  • In this week's Kinode Office Hours, we take a deep dive into the future of blockchain scaling solutions. We explore a world where deploying a custom zkEVM rollup is as easy as spinning up a VPS, with Kinode providing the infrastructure to make it possible. The discussion covers the spectrum of Layer 2 solutions, from fully decentralized rollups to more centralized validiums and read-only "oracle" services. Throughout, the theme is lowering barriers to entry and enabling a proliferation of application-specific chains, all seamlessly integrated.

    Develop on Kinode: https://book.kinode.org

    Project Lead Basile: https://twitter.com/basileSportif

    Lead Dev Doria: https://twitter.com/m_e_doria

    Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/guqKRnPup7

  • In this week's Kinode Office Hours, we are joined by John Guibas from Succinct Labs to discuss the latest developments in zero-knowledge proofs and the SP1 prover system. Doria demonstrates a novel use case: a Telegram bot that generates proofs of messages within a group chat, enabling users to cryptographically verify the contents and timestamp of their conversations. The discussion explores the potential of SP1 to radically simplify the development of ZK applications by allowing developers to write programs in Rust, a popular and ergonomic language. John shares Succinct Labs' roadmap for reducing proving costs, integrating with the Ethereum Virtual Machine, and their long-term vision of a decentralized proving network. Basile and Doria share insights into how Kinode's peer-to-peer infrastructure could facilitate such a network and enable a new wave of privacy-preserving, ZK-powered applications.

    Develop on Kinode: https://book.kinode.org

    jtguibas of SuccinctLabs: https://twitter.com/jtguibas

    Project Lead Basile: https://twitter.com/basileSportif

    Lead Dev Doria: https://twitter.com/m_e_doria

    Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/guqKRnPup7

  • This week, we outline Kinode as not just another blockchain ecosystem but a chain integrator, emphasizing its capability to bridge on-chain and off-chain computations. We discuss the architectural and technological innovations Kinode brings to the table, notably its flexibility in integrating with various blockchain layers, enhancing off-chain computations, and the potential to streamline decentralized applications (DApps) development.

    Develop on Kinode

    Project Lead Basile

    Lead Dev Doria

    Join our Discord, where all the devs hang out.

  • The Kinode Team discuss creating a platform that allows for the publishing, installation, reviewing, and forking of software packages in a decentralized manner. We cover governance and the potential for software monetization. And we outline the technical architecture, including the use of smart contracts, NFTs for package ownership rights, and the challenges and solutions for ensuring software integrity and authenticity. The conversation also touches on the broader implications of decentralized software distribution for developer freedom, governance, and the evolution of decentralized applications (DApps).

    Start developing on Kinode here.

    Join our Discord, where the whole team hangs out.

    Project Lead Basile

    Lead Dev Doria

    Developer Goldfinger

  • We're using The Network Age's distribution channel to bring our weekly X (Twitter) spaces to RSS! While you can catch us on our X presence every Thursday at noon Eastern live, where you can participate by asking questions about Kinode, we'll also start bringing the recordings to RSS for those of you who like that medium.

    Here's the first of these Office Hours with @basileSportif and @m_e_doria.

  • This week we speak with Basile Genève, project lead of Kinode OS. We discuss our pivot from Urbit (and the name Uqbar), the main features of Kinode, and what you can expect from the future. We also say goodbye to The Network Age and invite you to join us in our other channels.

    Timestamps

    00:01 - Kinode OS with a name change backstory.

    03:53 - Rebranding.

    06:20 - Pivoting a decentralized project to better realize goals.

    09:14 - Rewriting the kernel and using wasm for decentralized app development.

    14:24 - "just works" in tech, reliability, and user experience.

    17:09 - Decentralized OS development and standards.

    23:46 - Network architecture and robustness.

    26:43 - Software robustness and resilience.

    30:16 - Decentralized networks and their potential for software deployment.

    37:12 - Integrating AI with decentralized computing resources.

    40:15 - Decentralized AI and personal nodes.

    46:41 - Performance of Kinode vs other programming languages.

    49:54 - Decentralized operating system development timeline and features.

    Contact Us

    Edgar

    Josh

    Basile

    The Kinode OS discussion is happening on Discord

  • This week, it's Spreek: crypto Twitter's own crypto rug early warning system. He discusses his work in on-chain monitoring and stopping hacks in the DeFi industry, his experiences of saving people from potential losses, the highlights and lowlights of DeFi Summer, the challenges of smart contract security, and more. We've also got great advice on how to miss out on generational wealth. Another perfect episode you won't want to miss.

    Timestamps

    00:00 Introduction and Background

    03:00 Getting Started with On-Chain Monitoring

    08:20 Highlights and Lowlights of DeFi Summer

    14:08 The Challenges of Smart Contract Security

    19:26 Building a Community and Interacting with the Crypto Space

    25:32 The Future of DeFi and Investing in Crypto

    28:49 Balancing Risk and Opportunities in the Crypto Market

    32:37 Lessons Learned from Rugs and Scams

    1:08:37 The Lesson of Life and Crypto

    1:09:14 Generational Wealth and Selling

    1:09:56 Holding Ground and Hedging

    1:10:42 Wrapping It Up

    Mentions

    Casa (for seedless multisigs)

    Rabby wallet

    Contact

    Spreek

    Bichul

    Habsul

  • This week we speak with L0m3z of Passage Prize, Passage Publishing, and Twitter fame. Our theme: what's so wrong with legacy writing and publishing and will people actually buy books again if you just start your own publishing house and give them what they want to read? This is an extra special episode you won't want to miss.

    Timestamps

    00:00 - Introduction & decentralized publishing and art creation.

    09:20 - The success of a dissident art publishing project.

    15:00 - Literature's decline and gatekeeping.

    20:06 - Gender imbalance in literature and publishing.

    28:27 - Art, politics, and publishing with a rightist perspective.

    35:33 - Cultural homogenization and the loss of high art in democratized societies.

    43:28 - Preserving cultural distinctness in art and literature.

    48:21 - Language loss and cultural heritage.

    54:08 - Literary voices and the Passage Prize.

    58:22 - Writing, creativity, and personal life.

    1:05:05 - Writing, publishing, and authenticity.

    1:10:40 - Decentralized publishing and supporting new writers.

    Mentions

    Passage Publishing

    The Passage Prize

    Man's World Magazine

    Contact

    L0m3z

    Habsul Rignyr

    Bichul Ritsen

    If you liked this episode (a person of taste!), please go immediately to your podcast provider of choice and leave 5 star reviews of erudition and wit.

  • On this extra special episode, the boys are joined by Grin, founder and CTO of LBRY and tech lead for Cabin DAO. They talk about fighting the SEC and losing but still WINNING, the LBRY blockchain and Odyssee video sharing platform, about finding friends online to VIBE with and maybe even move into together, and more! Don't miss it.

    Timestamps

    00:00 - Intro

    01:53 - The origins and development of the decentralized library platform, LBRY.

    06:02 - Decentralized video sharing platform Odyssey.

    09:26 - Decentralized video platform Odyssee's discoverability and content culture.

    16:17 - Curation and personalized content experiences.

    20:37 - LBRY's popularity and SEC lawsuit.

    29:33 - Crypto regulations and legal issues.

    41:33 - Building a network of modern villages using technology and community.

    49:35 - Novel ways to organize physical space and relationships through technology.

    52:58 - Debt, relationships, and community in a libertarian context.

    01:01:23 - Community-driven urban planning and sustainability.

    01:06:07 - Creating a virtual event platform.

    01:13:23 - Vibe.camp, a community-driven event.

    Mentions

    LBRY

    Odyssee

    Cabin

    VibeCamp

    Hester M. Peirce's Statement of Dissent on LBRY

    Contact

    Grin

    Bichul Ritsen

    Habsul Rignyr

  • On this extra special episode, we're joined by Henning Diedrich, the visionary behind Lexon—a groundbreaking tool that's redefining the boundaries between natural language and code. Dive into a riveting conversation where we explore how Lexon is making the intricate world of programming accessible to everyone, allowing us to craft complex contracts and algorithms using everyday language. It's a journey from the nuances of human conversation to the precision of machine logic, and you won't want to miss it.

    Timestamps

    00:00 - Lexon, a tool for legal and programming worlds.01:01 - Democratizing programming with lexicon language for smart contracts.06:38 - Natural language processing and smart contracts.12:05 - Creating a new programming language for smart contracts.17:26 - AI-generated lexicon and its implications.21:27 - Language, philosophy, and programming.26:24 - Programming with natural language.32:23 - Using AI to write contracts and legal documents.40:42 - Legal term "may" and its meaning.43:05 - Smart contracts and blockchain technology.48:25 - Using blockchain for gaming, including scripting and game development.54:53 - Using AI for game design and development.58:40 - Using blockchain technology in game development.1:03:48 - Using blockchain technology for art and legal contracts.1:09:17 - AI-assisted law enforcement and fairness.1:16:05 - AI-powered Lexicon and its potential impact on the future of blockchain.

    Mentions

    LexonPlenity

    Contact

    Henning DiedrichBichul RitsenHabsul Rignyr

    And, if you liked the episode, don't forget to give us a five star review. Say something nice and we'll even read it on the pod.

  • On this extra special episode, we're joined by Robert Kornacki, the Chief Science Officer of dcSpark and the brains behind Shinkai, the AI Operating System that's poised to redefine our digital lives. Rob walks us through the labyrinth of AI, from the intricacies of vector embeddings to the challenges of data encryption, and unveils Shinkai's plan to make all your data fully searchable by AI agents. We'll also tackle the ethical dilemmas surrounding AI governance, the scalability hurdles of running full nodes, and even get a glimpse into Robert's journey from the crypto world to the AI frontier.

    Timestamps

    00:00 - Intro02:12 - AI agents and off-chain technology in the crypto space05:56 - AI and blockchain technology12:36 - AI agents and their potential to be trapped in centralized systems16:01 - AI agents, personal servers, and crypto interrupt24:45 - AI agents and toolkits for efficient task execution29:59 - Using AI agents to augment cognitive abilities34:30 - Vector databases and their challenges40:49 - AI agent network Shinkai and its user interface46:39 - AI-powered Shinkai platform for unified messaging and automation51:39 - AI's impact on human experience and ethical concerns58:09 - The future of technology and its impact on society1:00:08 - Offloading mental capabilities and cultural shared knowledge1:02:41 - The impact of AI on education and society1:08:06 - On-chain gaming and AI messaging with Paima Studios

    Mentions

    dcSparkShinkai ProtocolPaima StudiosZeko Labs

    Contact

    Bichul RitsenHabsul Rignyr

    And, if you liked the episode, don't forget to give us a five star review. Say something nice and we'll even read it on the pod.

  • On this extra special episode, the boys are joined by Ryan Rossner, the Director of Longevity Research at Minicircle, the first platform for reversible gene therapies. With patience and wisdom, Ryan leads our lovable idiots through the history of longevity and genetics research, explains the benefits of fasting, and details the incredible results of Minicircle's first trials. The crew also dives into the nuances of regulation, the experimental Honduran island of Roatán, and how EVEN YOU can become better, faster, and stronger. All this plus: Ryan's brief NFL career, genetic enhancement in sports, and Bryan Johnson's cutting-edge penis treatments. Don't miss it.

    Timestamps

    0:00—Intro3:03—Ryan Rossner, doctor, PhD, super soldier9:27—Longevity 101: research, genetics, and a brief interlude on fasting19:37—The Gene Therapy Primer27:58—Gene therapy and competition35:26—Minicircle's Results47:09—Honduras and Medical Research Regulation51:53—The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement1:04:15—The mechanics of gene therapy1:09:15—How to live longer1:13:37—Outro

    Mentions

    MinicircleThe Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil

    Connect

    Ryan Rossner ([email protected])~bichul-ritsen (@bichulR)~habsul-rignyr (@habsulrignyr)

    And, if you liked the episode, don't forget to give us a five star review. Say something nice and we'll even read it on the pod.

  • On this extra special episode, the boys are joined by Chase Van Etten, founder and CEO of Vaporware, a programmatic platform for the monetization and distribution of open-source software. Together, Chase and the crew discuss how NFTs can play a role in software distribution, the monetization of open-source software, and Chase's personal Bible, The Nature of Technology by W. Brian Arthur. All this, plus a deep dive on Vaporware, musings on Dota, and a sci-fi vision for software development in fifty years. Don't miss it.

    Timestamps

    0:00—Intro2:39—The Nature of Technology by W. Brian Arthur and how technology evolves27:47—Vaporware, sofware distribution, and monetizing open-source40:27—Tharsis: Vaporware's first game45:11—Vaporware on Urbit and beyond56:01—The price of programmer capital and increased community development1:07:04—Software development in the next five decades

    Mentions

    Vaporware (@__vaporware__)TharsisThe Nature of Technology by W. Brian Arthur

    Connect

    Chase Van Etten (@harden_hardys)~bichul-ritsen (@bichulR)~nilrun-mardux (@AlephDAO)~habsul-rignyr (@habsulrignyr)

    And, if you liked the episode, don't forget to give us a five star review. Say something nice and we'll even read it on the pod.

  • On this extra special episode, the boys are joined by Avi Zurlo (@thejewforu) of Delphi Ventures, a top crypto research and investment firm with a builder-centered approach to markets. Together, Avi and the crew explore the nuances of crypto twitter, his work at Delphi, zero-knowledge computation and p2p systems, and what is DEFINITELY NOT INVESTING ADVICE. All this plus scanning parents' eyeballs, self-evaluating Jewishness, and the world computer to come. Don't miss it.

    Timestamps

    0:00—Intro

    1:32—Avi's Journey from Crypto Twitter to Investment God

    8:43—The Unique Approach of Dephi Digital

    17:48—Avi's Current Obsession: ZK Cryptography

    31:00—The Whacky World of Urbit

    46:02—Avi's Investing Insights (NOT ADVICE)

    Connect

    Avi Zurlo (@thejewforu)

    ~bichul-ritsen (@bichulR)

    ~nilrun-mardux (@AlephDAO)

    ~habsul-rignyr (@habsulrignyr)