Lex interviews Dean Tribble, co-founder and CEO of Agoric. Agoric is a Proof-of-Stake chain utilizing secure JavaScript smart contracts to rapidly build and deploy DeFi, comprised of a team who are experts in smart contracts. Agoric was founded on open-source principles which look to build a public economy. Dean is considered a technical genius and a long-time developer around blockchain, smart contracts, as well as a number of other technology initiatives

MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION

Agoric's website: https://bit.ly/3DGKuTw

CEO's Linkedin profile: https://bit.ly/3judFCd

Topics: DeFi, artificial intelligence, blockchain, web3, smart contract, javascript, dapps

Companies: Agoric, Xanadu, ARPANET, Ethereum, Cosmos, Agorics, Inter.trade

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TIMESTAMPS

1’28”: Dean’s professional DNA - his motivations, profound experiences, and the journey

3’49”: Early distributed systems - what they are, their evolution, and how they inspired the foundations for the internet/Web that we know today

8’10”: Witnessing the evolution of the internet and how the vision, futurism, and ideals warped over time

16’12”: The relationship between the legal symptoms of society trying to figure out what to do vs what’s actually going on

19’34”: Early forms of smart contracts, designing large scale e-commerce infrastructure, and distributed systems

24’07”: Addressing the idea of building an abstraction/pattern/framework embedded in software and layers in neural networks/AI models

28’07”: Agoric: What it is, what it does, and where it is positioned relative to other Web3 ecosystems

34’02”: The Cosmos ecosystem, what it means to be “multichain”, and the protocol Agoric are in the process of building

38’14”: What composable DeFi means and what the hardened DeFi primitives are that Agoric is providing

43’30”: Channels to use to connect with Dean & learn more about Agoric

Disclaimer here — this newsletter does not provide investment advice and represents solely the views and opinions of FINTECH BLUEPRINT LTD.

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Software contracts and composability unlocking economic growth, with Agoric CEO Dean Tribble

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Software contracts and composability unlocking economic growth, with Agoric CEO Dean Tribble