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The Fren Zone brings you the brightest technical minds in crypto and web3. Join our host Mason as he goes on a technical deep dive with cutting-edge projects building new and novel technology. Twitter: @tokensoftinc

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The Fren Zone brings you the brightest technical minds in crypto and web3. Join our host Mason as he goes on a technical deep dive with cutting-edge projects building new and novel technology. Twitter: @tokensoftinc

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English


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The Unification Layer for Web3 | Avail | Anurag

11/19/2024
Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Anurag from Avail and Misha from Symbiotic. Avail is the unification layer for Web3, allowing modular execution layers to scale and interoperate in a trust minimized way. Avail’s recent partnership with Symbiotic is game changing for developers, with streamlined interoperability and shared security. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc Mason – @masonic_tweets Anurag – @anuragarjun Avail – @AvailProject Misha – @Psalom Symbiotic – @Symbioticfi

Duration:00:45:50

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Generating Real-Time Proofs With TEEs | t1 Protocol | Can

9/10/2024
Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Can from t1 Protocol. t1 Protocol leverages Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and user signature verification to generate real-time proofs. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc Mason – @masonic_tweets t1 Protocol – @t1protocol Can – @kisaguncan

Duration:00:40:41

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Bitcoin Programmability with Zero Trust Architecture | Native Network | Robert

9/2/2024
Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Robert from Native, the first platform that enables Bitcoin programmability with zero trust architecture. Topics: – ₿ Underserved Bitcoin community – 👨‍💻 Multi-party computation (MPC) to program Bitcoin transactions directly – ✅ Combining the benefits of both L1 and L2 solutions – ⏱️ Aiming to achieve block times of 2-3 seconds – 🚀 Mainnet launch in Q1 As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc Mason – @masonic_tweets Native – @NativeNetwork Robert – @RobertZarembaIT Check us out on the Web: Tokensoft – https://www.tokensoft.com/ Native – https://www.gonative.cc/

Duration:00:48:25

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Bringing Privacy to Web2 and Web3 with FHE: Zama's Rand

8/15/2024
Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Rand from Zama. Zama is an open source cryptography protocol building state-of-the-art fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain and AI. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc Mason – @masonic_tweets Zama – @zama_fhe Rand – @randhindi

Duration:00:44:48

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The First Clearing Layer: Everclear's Arjun

8/8/2024
Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Arjun from Everclear, the first clearing layer. Everclear coordinates the global settlement of liquidity between chains, solving fragmentation for modular blockchains. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc Mason – @masonic_tweets Everclear – @EverclearOrg Arjun – @arjunbhuptani

Duration:00:48:45

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The First Native Yield Layer: Veda's Stephanie and Sun

8/1/2024
Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Stephanie and Sun of Veda, the first native yield layer for DeFi. Veda tokenizes the most complex DeFi interactions, granting protocols the power to embed yield for a superior UX. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc Veda – @veda_labs Stephanie – @goodstephv Sun – @sunandr_

Duration:00:54:24

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Building ZK Rollups on Bitcoin: Alpen Labs' David

7/17/2024
Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with David of Alpen Labs. Alpen Labs is expanding global financial access & individual agency through ZK-enabled infrastructure on Bitcoin. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc Alpen Labs – @AlpenLabs David – @david_seroy

Duration:00:49:01

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Making it Easy to Inscribe Ordinals on Bitcoin: OrdinalsBot's Toby

6/12/2024
Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Toby of OrdinalsBot. OrdinalsBot provides accessible tools and resources for inscriptions, token creation, digital collectibles, and more within the Bitcoin ecosystem. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc OrdinalsBot – @ordinalsbot Toby – @tobynovum

Duration:00:52:47

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The Secure Way To Earn Bitcoin: Hermetica's Jakob

5/1/2024
Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Jakob of Hermetica. Hermetica is a DeFi app built on Stacks, allowing users to earn yield on their BTC. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc Hermetica - @HermeticaFi

Duration:00:49:15

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Building A Decentralized Knowledge Graph: Intuition's Andrew & Billy

4/18/2024
Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Billy and Andrew of Intuition. Intuition is a decentralized knowledge graph for web3. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc 0xIntuition - @0xIntuition

Duration:00:51:34

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MEV Capture For Protocol Revenue: UMA's Hart

4/10/2024
Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Hart of UMA Protocol. UMA is a long-time DeFi project with many offerings. In this episode, we learned about Oval - an MEV capture technology that wraps price oracles and generates protocol revenue. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc UMA Protocol - @umaprotocol

Duration:00:48:17

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Institutional-Grade Onchain Privacy: Hinkal Protocol's Nika

4/4/2024
Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Nika of Hinkal Protocol. Hinkal is an institutional-grade onchain privacy protocol. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc Hinkal Protocol - @hinkal_protocol

Duration:00:54:13

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Making Bitcoin Natively Programmable: dWallet Network's Omer

3/28/2024
Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Omer of dWallet Network. dWallet Network is making Bitcoin natively programmable. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc dWallet Network - @dwalletnetwork

Duration:01:04:38

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Bitcoin-Based DeFi On Stacks: Zest Protocol's Tycho

3/21/2024
Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Tycho for a deep dive on Zest Protocol. Zest is a DeFi protocol for borrowing and lending $BTC. It's built on Stacks, a leading Layer-2 network on top of Bitcoin. brokerage for Ethereum, supporting lending and borrowing up to 20x leverage. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc Zest Protocol - @ZestProtocol

Duration:00:44:17

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The Prime Brokerage For Ethereum: Blueberry's Slater

2/22/2024
Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Slater for a deep dive on Blueberry Protocol. Blueberry Protocol is the DeFi prime brokerage for Ethereum, supporting lending and borrowing up to 20x leverage. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc Blueberry - @BlueberryFDN

Duration:00:53:09

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Self-Sovereign Private Data For Web3: Verida's Chris

2/1/2024
Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Chris for a deep dive on Verida. Verida is the self-sovereign private data network for web3. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc Verida - @Verida_io

Duration:00:46:14

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Cloud Compute For Zk-Proofs: Zero Computing's Chris Tam

1/26/2024
Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Chris Tam for a deep dive on Zero Computing. Zero Computing is a cloud compute platform for zk-proofs. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc

Duration:00:44:05

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Connecting Developers To Over 30 Blockchains: Wormhole Foundation’s Nikhil

1/11/2024
Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Nikhil for a deep dive on Wormhole. Wormhole is an interoperability protocol allowing developers to connect to over 30 different blockchains. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc Wormhole - @wormholecrypto

Duration:00:48:53

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Enabling Undercollateralized Loans on Starknet: Hashstack's Vinay

1/3/2024
Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Vinay for a deep dive on Hashstack. Hashstack is a protocol for undercollateralized loans, built on Starknet. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc Hashstack - @0xHashstack

Duration:00:34:27

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Bringing EVM-Compatibility to Bitcoin: Botanix Labs's Willem Schroe

12/6/2023
Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Willem Schroe for a deep dive on Botanix. Botanix is the first fully decentralized, EVM-compatible layer-2 built on Bitcoin. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc Botanix - @BotanixLabs

Duration:00:38:10