Episode 116 - Parallel Execution in Blockchains
Traditionally blockchains execute transactions sequentially. Some of the newer chains have been trying parallel execution of transactions to...
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Episode 115 - Real World Asset Tokenisation
In this episode we understand what are real world assets and why they are being tokenised. What are real world assets?Any thing of value tha...
Episode 114 - The Dencun Upgrade
After a brief break, we are back with new episodes. Ethereum recently upgraded to a new update called Dencun. In this episode we understand...
Episode 113 - What is Restaking?
Restaking is staking of already staked tokens. But how is the possible? If tokens are staked for one purpose — providing econoimic security...
Episode 112 - Modular Blockchains
Modular blockchains has been one of the buzz words in the last year. In this episode, let’s understand modularity in blockchains. In the beg...
Episode 111 - What are Altcoins?
In this episode, we understand what are altcoins? Altcoin was first used for any coin other than bitcoin. But the definition has evolved a b...
Episode 110 - Orphan or Uncle Blocks
In this episode, we understand what are orphan or uncle blocks. This is more of a Proof of Work related concept where two blocks are produce...
Episode 109 - On-chain vs Off-chain Governance
In this episode, we understand the two ways of doing blockchain governance - on-chain and off-chain. When the decisions to update the blockc...
Episode 108 - Fork Choice Rule
A fork choice rule is part of the blockchain consensus mechanism and it is used to find out the canonical chain for adding new blocks. Fork...
Episode 107 - Are Rollups also Blockchains?
Rollups are L2 scaling mechanisms where transaction execution is done offchain in the rollup node or sequencer. The state is updated on the...
Episode 106 - What is Liquid Staking?
When users stake their tokens to provide security and validation in a PoS network, those tokens are locked for the duration of staking. The...
Episode 105 - What is Data Sharding?
Sharding in blockchain is of two types — execution sharding and data sharding. There could be other types in the future, the crypto space ev...
Episode 104 - Data Availability Sampling
To scale blockchains, we need scalability solutions like rollups. To make sure that the rollups are doing the right thing, we need data avai...
Episode 103 - What are Validiums?
Validiums are L2 scaling solutions similar to ZK Rollups with a basic difference that they use a separate data availability layer instead of...
Episode 102 - What is Blobspace?
There is a new term in the crypto land — blobspace. Before understanding blobspace, let’s first do a quick refresher on data availability. C...
Episode 101 - What is Blockspace?
Just a couple of days ago, in a work call, someone asked me the difference between blockchain and blockspace. Blockspace is a bit of a abstr...
Episode 100 - Summary of Bitcoin Whitepaper
In this 100th episode we do something special. We look at the Bitcoin whitepaper and summarize the key points. We understand what are the de...
Episode 99 - Latency Vs. Throughput
In this episode we understand what is latency in blockchains and how it relates to throughput. We also look at various factors and variables...
Episode 98 - Intents Vs. Transactions
In this episode we understand what are Intents in blockchains and how they are different from transactions. We also understand the different...
Episode 97 - What are ASICs?
In this episode we understand what are ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) and why they are used in Bitcoin and other crypto mi...