DiscoverWeb3 with Sam Kamani121: Database Innovations Meet Blockchain: The =nil; Foundation Story with founder and builder Misha Komarov
121: Database Innovations Meet Blockchain: The =nil; Foundation Story with founder and builder Misha Komarov

121: Database Innovations Meet Blockchain: The =nil; Foundation Story with founder and builder Misha Komarov

Update: 2024-03-18
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In this episode, I interview Misha Komarov, founder of =nil; Foundation. I speak with Misha about how he entered the crypto space by designing databases and blockchain protocols. He discusses the origins of =nil; Foundation, which sought to merge achievements from traditional database architectures into blockchain to enable highly scalable infrastructure.


We explore some of the technologies =nil; has built, like zero-knowledge applications, a circuit compiler, and a proof generation marketplace. Misha explains their proposal for zero-knowledge sharding as a method to scale Ethereum while retaining composability.


He shares his contrarian perspective that Layer 2 rollups may fragment, rather than effectively scale, Ethereum's liquidity. Misha argues that for crypto projects to be taken seriously by large non-crypto companies, they first need to grow substantially in usage and size. He sees finding product-market fit and real-world use cases as the core challenge confronting the crypto industry currently.




Nothing mentioned in this podcast is investment advice and please do your own research.


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Connect with Misha and =nil; Foundation here:-


https://nil.foundation/


https://twitter.com/nemothenoone?lang=en 


Connect with me here - https://samkamani.com/#linktree 

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121: Database Innovations Meet Blockchain: The =nil; Foundation Story with founder and builder Misha Komarov

121: Database Innovations Meet Blockchain: The =nil; Foundation Story with founder and builder Misha Komarov

Sam Kamani