The Fren Zone
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
Episodes
43 episodes
Generating Real-Time Proofs With TEEs | t1 Protocol | Can
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 ...
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40:41
Bitcoin Programmability with Zero Trust Architecture | Native Network | Robert
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...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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48:25
Bringing Privacy to Web2 and Web3 with FHE: Zama's Rand
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...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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44:48
The First Clearing Layer: Everclear's Arjun
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....
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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48:45
The First Native Yield Layer: Veda's Stephanie and Sun
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...
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54:24
Building ZK Rollups on Bitcoin: Alpen Labs' David
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...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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49:01
Making it Easy to Inscribe Ordinals on Bitcoin: OrdinalsBot's Toby
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...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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52:47
The Secure Way To Earn Bitcoin: Hermetica's Jakob
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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49:15
Building A Decentralized Knowledge Graph: Intuition's Andrew & Billy
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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51:34
MEV Capture For Protocol Revenue: UMA's Hart
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 ...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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48:17
Institutional-Grade Onchain Privacy: Hinkal Protocol's Nika
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 ...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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54:13
Making Bitcoin Natively Programmable: dWallet Network's Omer
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 ...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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1:04:38
Bitcoin-Based DeFi On Stacks: Zest Protocol's Tycho
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. ...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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44:17
The Prime Brokerage For Ethereum: Blueberry's Slater
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.
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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53:09
Self-Sovereign Private Data For Web3: Verida's Chris
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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46:14
Cloud Compute For Zk-Proofs: Zero Computing's Chris Tam
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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44:05
Connecting Developers To Over 30 Blockchains: Wormhole Foundation’s Nikhil
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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48:53
Enabling Undercollateralized Loans on Starknet: Hashstack's Vinay
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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34:27
Bringing EVM-Compatibility to Bitcoin: Botanix Labs's Willem Schroe
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 ...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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38:10
Zk-Enabled Verifiable Compute: Space and Time's Scott Dykstra
Welcome to The Fren Zone.This week, our host Mason sat down with Scott Dykstra for a deep dive on Space and Time. Space and time is a decentralized verifiable compute layer for web3. As always, we dove deep into the technical si...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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45:58
Pushing Oracles Beyond Price Data: Gora Network's Abdul Osman
Welcome to The Fren Zone.This week, our host Mason sat down with Gora founder Abdul. Gora is a decentralized oracle network. They're live on Algorand mainnet, with testnets on Arbitrum and Polygon. As always, we dove deep into t...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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43:10
Keeping Yourself Safe in Web3: Halborn’s David Schwed
Welcome to The Fren Zone.This week, our host Mason sat down with David Schwed, CEO of Halborn. Halborn is an elite blockchain cybersecurity firm. Thanks in part to their best-in-class audits, they've become a household name in Web3.
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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47:12
Enabling Margin Spot Trading: Primex's Dmitry & Vlad
Welcome to The Fren Zone.This week, our host Mason sat down with Dmitry & Vlad from Primex. Primex is the first fully decentralized spot margin trading protocol. With Primex, users can trade on their favorite DEXs using CEX-like fea...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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57:21
Decentralizing Application Data: 3Box Labs' Joel Thorstensson
Welcome to The Fren Zone.This week, our host Mason sat down with Joel from 3Box Labs. 3Box Labs is building Ceramic Network, a decentralized data network for web3 applications.As always, we dove deep into the technicals to under...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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32:30
Solana-Based Options, On-Chain: DeVol's Lev & Serge
Welcome to The Fren Zone.This week, our host Mason sat down with Lev & Serge from DeVol. DeVol is a decentralized protocol for trading options. They're initially on Solana, with future plans to launch in other ecosystems. As...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:04:04