Sacred Finance is a decentralized protocol that enables private yield redemption and the private transfer of funds. Sacred enables you to deposit funds into a mixer with one address, and redeem it with a different address, breaking the on-chain link and obscuring the record on the blockchain from observers. This is possible thanks to zero knowledge proofs. 

In this episode, we discussed

• Motivation and thesis of Sacred Finance
• Importance of privacy and improving the UI for privacy protocols
• The upcoming Trusted Setup Ceremony for Sacred v1

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Filip is a developer relations manager at Unique Network, a scalable blockchain for composable NFTs with advanced economies — The NFT chain built for Polkadot and Kusama.

In this episode, we discussed

• What's unique about the Unique Network
• Design space approaches in NFTs
• What does mainstream adoption of NFTs look like and are we there yet

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Lefteris is a developer from Berlin and has been involved in blockchain since the early days of Ethereum. Rotki is an open source portfolio tracker, accounting and analytics tool that protects your privacy.

In this episode, we discussed

• His motivation for starting Rotki, and challenges in open source development especially in the crypto space.
• Issues regarding privacy that users should pay attention to, so that security is not compromised.
• Lefteris's involvement in DAOs, notably Gitcoin and ENS.

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Patric Chan is a best-selling author, international speaker in 12 countries and internet marketing pioneer. In the internet marketing world, he has been known as a Super Affiliate. He’s also the author of WakeUp Millionaire, Right now, he has decided not to sell the book in Amazon anymore but make it available as an NFT.

In this episode, we discussed

• How internet marketing has evolved from web1 to web2 to web3
• Why creators should pay attention to NFTs and how to launch a collection today
• The motivation behind PatricNFT and MMNFT

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Alex Smirnov is an IT expert, entrepreneur, and blockchain enthusiast. Alex is now fully focused on DeFi and works on the development of cross-chain interoperability and liquidity transfer protocol called deBridge.

In this episode, we discussed

• deBridge emerging as the winner of Chainlink Global Hackathon in 2021
• How protocols and users can interact with the deBridge Testnet 2.0
• What it means to be fully composable and connect the puzzle for the entire multi-chain ecosystem

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Eduardo is the Latin America Marketing Manager of Status. He loves helping people understand the power of Crypto, Privacy and Decentralization.

In this episode, we discussed

• The origin story of Status, the “holy trinity” (Ethereum, Swarm and Whisper)
• Status products which includes Vac, Nimbus, Keycard, Embark, Subspace and Waku
• The use of $SNT, and how you can get involved to be part of the Status global community today

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Roi is a crypto enthusiast who's very involved with the Japan community, and also a Chainlink advocate. Since entering into the blockchain space just over year ago, he's been organizing whitepaper studies to educate others about potential of web3.

In this episode, we discussed

• Theories of L1 and "Layer 0" chains
• CCIP vs IBC vs bridges
• What makes a good oracle network

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Zachary Edwards is the content lead & community manager at Subsocial Network, an open platform that allows anyone to launch their own decentralized censorship-resistant social networks and marketplaces. Subsocial will help you create your own decentralized version of the popular sites we see today, such as Medium, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Discourse, Patreon, OnlyFans and more.

In this episode, we discussed

• How value was extracted by social media platforms of Web 2.0,
• Solving the problem of censorship and platform bans
• Tips to start using Subsocial today

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