Welcome to The Fren Zone.This week, our host Mason sat down with Chandra and Manoj Duggirala from Portal to Bitcoin. Portal to Bitcoin is a trust-minimized, cross-chain DEX that enables secure, non-custodial atomic swaps betwe...

Welcome to The Fren Zone.This week, our host Mason sat down with Fred Hsu from D3. D3 is the first authoritative network built for DomainFi that tokenizes domains as real-world assets for billions of users on the root layer of...

Welcome to The Fren Zone.This week, our host Mason sat down with Dylan Zhang from Pond. Pond is a crypto-native AI model platform that enables developers to collaboratively create, own, and monetize blockchain-specific AI mode...

Welcome to The Fren Zone.This week, our host Mason sat down with Dr K from Quai Network. Quai is transforming the world of blockchain with the first decentralized energy dollar, $Qi, designed to provide predictable value and f...

Welcome to The Fren ZoneThis week, our host Mason sat down with Karel from Union. Union is a trustless, hyper-efficient zero-knowledge infrastructure layer enabling fast, secure interchain messaging and asset transfers using Z...

Welcome to The Fren Zone.This week, our host Mason sat down with Bram from Chia Network. Chia's proprietary consensus mechanism Proof of Space and Time drastically reduces energy requirements of Proof of Work based blockchains like ...

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 minimize...

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 ...

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 Bitco...

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...

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....

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 supe...

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...

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 ecosyste...

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 thi...

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'l...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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. 

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 hop...

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 thi...

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 do...

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...