Ethereum Cat Herders Podcast

Meet the Herders is a new series where we talk to the people who make the Ethereum Cat Herders work.

Meet the Herders is a series of interviews with members of Ethereum Cat Herders (ECH).In this episode we speak to Pooja Ranjan who is the Herder-In-Chief. We discuss the history, motivations , workings of ECH & much more.

Today we're going to be talking to Octant. Octant is a decentralized governance platform that awards participation with ETH. It is a project by the Golem Foundation and Octant's mission is to streamline the funding for public goods and to ensure they receive the support that they deserve. Octant is doing this by taking a portion of their staking rewards and using that to distribute to the community, who can give it to public goods projects. We're here with James and we're going to be learning about their app today.

What can you expect from the Merge? What are the challenges and opportunities presented to smaller client developers? What impact will new technologies like Bonsai and Snapsync have for client operators? Learn about all this and more in this Merge special episode of PEEPanEIP.

Do blockchains help with privacy or hinder it? Why do we need transactional privacy? Roman Semenov, creator and builder at Tornado Cash joins us to discuss privacy on blockchains and how Tornado strives to improve it. We also discuss the differences between the original version of Tornado and Nova, the new version of Tornado which is rolling out now.

One of the pillars of the ideology around web3 is that of decentralization. Are we delivering on our promises to create decentralized ledgers, or are we falling into the same snares that gave us the highly centralized internet we see around us? Kristy Leigh Minehan, noted consultant and blockchain hardware specialist joins the podcast to talk about decentralization from a number of different potential centralization vectors.

What could be hard about building a crypto wallet? Taylor Monahan, founder of MyCryto (recently acquired by ConsenSys) and currently at MetaMask, joins the podcast to discuss the intricacies of wallets, the challenges in presenting something decentralized and yet user-friendly to a spectrum of users, and more.

We've all heard of DAOs, but what are they practically? How can you contribute to one if you wanted to? What different challenges do DAOs and those contributing to them face? Chase Chapman, a DAO researcher and contributor joins the podcast to talk about all things DAOs.

Running nodes on the Ethereum network (and other blockchain networks) can be hard. The client software can update frequently and be hard to work with. In addition, they need monitoring and maintenance. The data provided as specified can be difficult to work with too. Yet, nodes are necessary to connect applications with the blockchain. The difficulties and need have led to the rise of providers running nodes as a service and providing an API for app builders to use to connect their application to the blockchain. Alchemy is one such provider. Deric Chang and Omar Ceja of Alchemy join to discuss running node infrastructure at scale, and providing useful data to users.

Building apps that aggregate blockchain data opens up new paradigms in application development. Lefteris Karapetsas, a longtime contributor to the Ethereum ecosystem, joins the podcast to discuss his current project, Rotki, a crypto asset accounting app. We discuss the difficulties of obtaining event data from nodes, the benefits and challenges of developing in the open, and more.

Smart Contracts can hold immense amounts of value in an ecosystem that makes them accessible to anyone. As a result, exploits in smart contracts can have catastrophic results. samczsun, a researcher at Paradigm and famous white-hat hacker, joins us to talk about finding vulnerabilities in smart contracts. Among the topics, we talk about his preferred setup for analyzing contracts, how he picks what to look at, and how he goes about looking at code once he's picked something. We also talk about anonymity in the space and his work at Paradigm and previous.

Nethermind is an execution client for EVM-compatible blockchains. Tomasz Stańczak discusses what motivated him to begin working on creating a new execution client and the specific challenges (and joys) of building and maintaining one. We also discuss some of Nethermind's specific features as a client, and future directions for both the larger Nethermind company and the client specifically.

Smart contracts have opened up new opportunities, and we are still exploring what we are able to build with them. Andre Cronje is the creator of Yearn Finance, Keep3r, and more, and joins us in this episode to talk about building innovative platforms with smart contracts, and the various pressures that can come from being a recognized builder in the space.

https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/1515

All Core Devs - Execution (ACDE) #211, May 8 · Issue #1500 · ethereum/pm

EIP-7702: Set Code for EOAsEIP-7702 adds a new transaction type that permanently sets the code for an Externally Owned Account (EOA).Authors: Vitalik Buterin, Sam Wilson, Ansgar Dietrichs, lightclient.Resources:------------------ EIP-7702 SpecificationPresentation:------------------ Ethereum Pectra Mainnet Launch LivestreamPlaylists:------------------ Pectra PEEPanEIP Playlist- General PEEPanEIP PlaylistFollow on Twitter:--------------------------- Guest Speaker: Anders Kristiansen- Host: Pooja Ranjan- Coordination: Vaelyn- Edited by: AkashTopics Covered:-------------------------00:00 - Quick Recap00:25 - PEEPanEIP Intro00:40 - Introduction01:04 - About EIP-770201:57 - Anders Introduction03:27 - Presentation on EIP-770203:44 - What is EIP-7702?05:22 - Motivation and Rationale09:28 - How it works16:40 - Before and After EIP-770217:22 - Implementation Challenges27:48 - Success Stories & Ecosystem Adoption28:57 - Additional Links & Resources29:01 - Presentation End29:46 - Q&A Section29:59 - What does EIP-7702 bring?34:31 - Is EIP-2718 modified for EIP-7702?35:30 - What should developers keep in mind while using this proposal?40:11 - Rapid Fire Section44:46 - Closing Words-------------------------#EIP7702 #Pectra #Ethereum #PEEPanEIP

Agenda: All Core Devs - Consensus (ACDC) #156, May 1 2025 · Issue #1490 · ethereum/pm

All Core Devs - Execution (ACDE) #210, April 24 · Issue #1462 · ethereum/pm

All Core Devs - Consensus (ACDC) #155, April 17 2025 · Issue #1434 · ethereum/pm

Deep FundingDeep Funding is driving rewards to open source repos with a market of AIs as the engine and humans as the steering wheel.Useful Links:----------------------- Deep Funding Official Website- Join the Deep Funding JuryRecent EPD Episodes:---------------------- Octant V2- Open Source Observer- Karma GAPTopics Covered:-------------------------00:05 - Quick Recap00:35 - EPD Intro00:42 - Starting words00:59 - About Deep Funding02:11 - Sejal Introduction03:52 - Devansh Introduction07:08 - Project Overview by Devansh09:46 - What makes Deep Funding unique16:15 - Key participants and their roles25:49 - Collaboration with other projects31:58 - Success matrix for first Deep Funding round34:36 - How Deep Funding will support less visible projects39:36 - How anyone can contribute to Deep Funding41:23 - What’s next for Deep Funding46:33 - Closing wordsFollow on Twitter:--------------------------- Deep Funding- Devansh Mehta- Sejal Rekhan- Pooja RanjanOther Resources:--------------------------- Playlist 1- Playlist 2- Playlist 3- Playlist 4- Playlist 5- PEEPanEIP PlaylistOfficial Websites:--------------------------- Ethereum Cat Herders- Deep Funding--------------------------#DeepFunding #funding #ethcatherders #ethereum