Smart Contracts
Making Markets
This is Eric Golden and my guest today is EG Galano,...
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Nov 11 2022 56m
Chapter 1 2 mins
[First question] How he first got involved with Ethereum and wound up at ConsenSysChapter 2 1 min
What made the idea of smart contracts so special and first got his attentionChapter 3 2 mins
The original inspiration behind building InfuraChapter 4 1 min
What life was like trying to build on top of Ethereum before InfuraChapter 5 1 min
Overview of what a node is and what it’s like to run oneChapter 6 2 mins
When the time came to outsource instead of handling infrastructure internallyChapter 7 5 mins
How Infura was initially received and whether or not blockchain participants and builders felt it went against their decentralized philosophiesChapter 8 3 mins
Going from an open source project to a monetized platformChapter 9 1 min
How their premium offering was received and which developers made them second guess themselvesChapter 10 3 mins
The story of Uniswap and how Infura influenced and impacted their successChapter 11 4 mins
How the buying and trading of an NFT with MetaMask interacts with InfuraChapter 12 2 mins
Whether or not building applications on blockchains is more similar to on-premise servers than building on the cloudChapter 13 1 min
His thoughts about their market share and possible system fragilityChapter 14 3 mins
How their mission incentivizes them to help and support their competitorsChapter 15 1 min
What he’s worried about that could go wrong when decentralizing infrastructureChapter 16 2 mins
Jai Ramaswamy Crypto Regulation and EnforcementChapter 17 4 mins
Thoughts about decentralization, the benefits of it, and where Infura is headedChapter 18 1 min
Describing the future of Infura in a non-technical wayChapter 19 4 mins
The trigger that lead to making an immediate pivot in their trajectoryChapter 20 2 mins
What he’s most excited to see built in the six months and six years