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15 episodes
since Aug. 19, 2025
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StarkWare's CISO bootstrapped the Israeli Air Force's penetration testing team before spending years across mobile forensics at Cellebrite, email security at Proofpoint, and enterprise DevSecOps at Red Hat. That depth across offensive and defensive disciplines is rare in Web3, and it shows in how H…

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Most Web3 security conversations focus on smart contracts. Mudit Gupta, CTO of Polygon Labs, thinks that's the wrong place to be worried. In this episode, he makes the case that ZK infrastructure carries significantly more bugs than the smart contract layer — the reason large-scale exploits haven't…
When Sky's audits return serious issues, they don't just fix bugs and ship—they pull the brake and investigate what failed in their internal review process. Deniz Yilmaz, CTO of Sky Frontier Foundation, walks through the defensive layers behind USDS (third-largest stablecoin globally): six-month en…
World Foundation's proof of personhood system defended against an iris spoofing attack where users verified multiple times by pairing their left eye with someone else's right eye—exploiting uniqueness checks that operated on eye pairs rather than individuals. DC Builder, Research Engineer at World …
When Solana dropped to $8 during FTX, Matt Sorg watched Twitter erupt while his validator network stayed focused on the technical roadmap. The VP of Technology at Solana Foundation had built something that would prove more valuable than hype: a technically aligned community shipping performance imp…
Coinbase's security process protecting over $7 billion in TVL rejects the single-audit model common in DeFi. Shashank Agrawal, Senior Engineering Manager, Protocol Security at Coinbase, explains their multi-round validation approach: internal security teams (separated from product engineering) audi…
Justin Drake reveals Ethereum's infrastructure path to 1 gigagas per second—equivalent to 10,000 TPS and 10x Solana's current user transaction throughput—while operating validators on consumer hardware. As researcher on Ethereum Foundation's protocol architecture team, he details how ZK-EVM proof s…
When the Interchain Foundation acquired Skip Protocol in 2024, Cosmos Labs inherited a 200-chain ecosystem with no commercial strategy and a massive security backlog. Barry Plunkett, co-CEO, explains how they systematically tested three strategic pivots in six months, killed two based on hard metri…
Maker's core accounting contract—the vat—has remained immutable for six years while processing tens of billions in TVL. Centrifuge is proving this isn't legacy thinking; it's the only approach that survives institutional custody requirements where protocol upgrades introduce unacceptable counterpar…
Safe's smart account infrastructure secures $60B+ in TVL while handling over $1 trillion in cumulative transaction volume. Co-founder, Richard Meissner reveals how Safe is rebuilding its collaboration layer from scratch—replacing centralized transaction services with encrypted on-chain queues while…
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