Ep.68 Podcast Summary / Notes
Web3 and Developers
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Blockchain technology will disrupt the world in many ways
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Web3 is a way for developers to recover agency and realize their dreams
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Builders and coders are heavily underrated in the space
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Cartesi looks to empower and give developers the tools they need to realize their dreams.
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How does Cartesi compare to other chains?
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Cartesi is not just about language support
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Supporting developers with everything built on Linux
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Bring all the open source stacks that are available to smart contract developers
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Host of libraries behind Linux
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Express powerful and sophisticated smart contracts and dApps
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No need to reinvent the wheel
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Other blockchains support other languages like Rust
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Only have very basic features of the language
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Don’t have access to components and features outside of native language
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Objective: To reduce a lot of entry barriers for a non-crypto developer
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Master Solidity, understand a new language, etc.
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Thoughts on Polygon and Solana’s phone integration
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Cartesi currently focuses on the backend and smart contract platform
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Remove the barrier for developers to create applications
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Make it easier and more efficient for developers to create web3 applications
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Not focusing on the front end at the moment
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Thoughts on the recent ZK-proof trend
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ZK is like magic
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Erick recently wrote a Twitter thread about ZK
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ZK-rollups is the best solution for a range of dApps
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Particularly for the dApps similar to the DeFi apps of today
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DeFi implements very simplistic smart contracts
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Better security and efficient for validation than optimistic rollups
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Developers have to be economical in the way they use computational resources due to the cost of gas and resources
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Cartesi doesn’t implement ZK-rollups
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Impossible to run a Linux Virtual Machine on a ZK-rollup L2 due to technical reasons
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Sorting Arrays in ZK-Rollups
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Limited to very small memory ranges
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Smart contracts on EVM model are very limited by memory and data constraints
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Unable to deal with large amounts of data and memory spaces of Operating Systems
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Are there too many L2s?
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Liquidity fragmentation
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More chains than what the community needs?
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Multi-chain has huge technical issues and security risks from transferring assets through bridges
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Very hard to make a secure, interoperable bridge across L1s
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However, bridges across other L2s of the same base layer are very secure
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Due to the inheritance of strong security of the base layer (ETH)
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Bridges across L2s of the same L1 could be a solution to liquidity fragmentation
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Where do you see the future of L2s?
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Traditional OS will implement blockchain tech or blockchains adopting Cartesi’s developer-friendly approach
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Firmly believes the future of web3 and blockchains is embracing mainstream OS and software components
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Long-term vision of web3
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Web3 will start to onboard users just like web2
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Real-world uses instead of people trying to make money
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More sophisticated applications to bring user base and value
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Is there a timeline for the testnet
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Tricky to work with a timeline in Crypto
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E.g. Ethereum delays
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Largely due to the complexity of the research required
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Cartesi moved away from a deadline approach to focus on
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High frequency and transparent updates for the community to try things out
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Reports and codes were released for the community to see the progress
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Currently very close to a testnet-ready version
Jun Sheng is a research intern and is an avid gamer, degen, memer, sleeper. Follow the author on Twitter @jnshngl
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