Strange Water
Rex Kirshner's tour of the Ethereum ecosystem, interviews with its builders and researchers. The show concluded in June 2024 with a final episode, The Epilogue, after Blockworks acquired it and launched a successor show, Expansion.
67 episodes
- Avalanche, Ethereum and the Future of Distributed Computing w/ Steven Gates (GoGoPool)
- The Next Chapter of Modular Blockchains: Proof of SQL w/ Scott Dykstra (Space and Time)
- From Theory to Practice: Ethereum's ZK Evolution w/ Kartin Wong (Hyper Oracle)
- Reflecting on the State of ZK w/ Kobi Gurkan (Geometry)
- Hardware Acceleration for ZK Cryptography w/ Leo Fan (Cysic)
- Modularity Maximalism w/ Uma Roy (Succinct Labs)
- How Storage Proofs Solve Cross Chain Communication w/ Marcello Bardus (Herodotus)
- Ethereum's Next Upgrade: The (Solana) SVM w/ Sydney Huang (Eclipse Foundation)
- ZK Cryptography and the Frontier of Innovation w/ David Wong (ZK Security)
- Authoring a New Language for the EVM w/ Charles Cooper (Vyper)
- Danksharding and the KZG Ceremony w/ Carl Beekhuizen (Ethereum Foundation)
- The (ERC) Ethereum Upgrade Process w/ Joey Santoro (4626 Alliance)
- How and Why to Build a ZK-Based System w/ Jason Morton (ezkl)
- Decentralization Maximalism w/ Superphiz
- Reflections from Between Two Cycles w/ Hamzah Khan
- Credibly Neutral Public Goods Funding w/ Trent Van Epps (Protocol Guild)
- Installing Ethereum's ZK Coprocessor w/ Yi Sun (Axiom)
- The Past, Present and Future of ChainLink w/ ChainLinkGod
- Cryptography, AI and the ZKML Prover w/ Daniel Shorr (Modulus Labs)
- The Integrated ZK Stack: From Hardware to API w/ Omer Shlomovits (Ingonyama)
- The History, Reality and Future of Off-Shore Finance w/ Alex Golubitsky
- The Next Frontier: Trustless Compute w/ Tim, Wolfgang and Rami (RISC Zero)
- Auditing, Security and Safety Inside the EVM w/ 0xTaiga (Consensys Diligence)
- Building a Decentralized Banking Institution w/ Sam Kazemian (Frax Finance)