We sit down with John Reynolds, a Product Manager at privacy-focused developer platform Aleo, to discuss leveraging zero-knowledge cryptographic solutions to help secure information while also providing privacy. John explains how his experiences at the Air Force Academy first got him invested in personal information and privacy concepts, how ZK proofs work, how CBDCs relate to privacy, and more.

In this episode, Reserve Protocol Co-founder, Nevin Freeman joins us to discuss algorithmic stablecoins. Reserve is a permissionless platform for launching and governing 1:1 asset-backed stable currencies. Nevin explains the initial idea behind algorithmic stablecoins and goes into why the flaws in the Terra stablecoin’s design, leading to its crash, should have been obvious from the design stage. We also discuss the future of the dollar and why designing a sound stablecoin requires some compromise.

In this episode, Balancer Co-founder & CEO, Fernando Martinelli joins us to talk DEXs! Mark and Fernando discuss DEX aggregators from a DEX builders’ perspective, liquidity migration from L1s to L2s, how the new risk-free rate for Ethereum might affect DEX liquidity, and why Fernando believes in the future most of the TVL for AMMs will be on L2s.