Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Arie Trouw from XYO Network. XYO Network is a decentralized tech ecosystem connecting the physical and digital worlds. It helps users own and monetize their data through node-based DePIN infrastructure, easily integrated into any Web3 or Web2 product. Topics Discussed: Reality oracle…

Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Jacob Phillips from Lombard Finance. Lombard Finance is on a mission to expand the digital economy by transforming Bitcoin’s utility from a store of value into a productive financial tool with LBTC. Topics Discussed: Liquid staking for Bitcoin with LBTC Babylon integration for Bitcoi…

Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Srinivasan Parthasarathy from Shardeum. Shardeum is an EVM Compatible L1 blockchain that uses dynamic state sharding to keep transaction fees low forever. Topics Discussed: Dynamic state sharding with scalable architecture Leaderless consensus with rotating validators No block struct…

Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Lyron Co Ting Keh from Seismic. Seismic is the encrypted blockchain. Seismic’s system lets developers encrypt apps to produce differentiated user experiences. Topics Discussed: Encrypted global state for private app logic Protocol-level encryption enables new UX design space Dual-mem…

Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Dean Tribble from Agoric. Agoric is a blockchain platform that enables seamless multi-chain coordination through orchestration, allowing developers to create long-lived JavaScript smart contracts with native async execution, multi-block workflows, and automated cross-chain interactio…

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 between Bitcoin and other blockchains without relying on bridges or intermediaries.. Topics Discussed: Trustless swaps eliminate…

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 the internet. Topics Discussed: Tokenizing domains on the DOMA Protocol On-chain DNS resolution for Web3 compatibility Aut…

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 models by leveraging on-chain data. Topics Discussed: Focusing on on-chain models for trading, risk assessment, and wallet prof…

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 facilitate seamless transactions on the only scalable and programmable Proof-of-work blockchain. As always, we dove deep int…

Welcome to The Fren Zone This 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 ZK cryptography and BLS signatures. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The…

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 Bitcoin. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow u…

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 minimized way. Avail’s recent partnership with Symbiotic is game changing for developers, with streamlined interoperability and …

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 dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft – @Token…

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 Bitcoin community – 👨‍💻 Multi-party computation (MPC) to program Bitcoin transactions directly – ✅ Combining the benefits of both L1 and L2 solutions – ⏱️…

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, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokenso…

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. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twi…

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 superior UX. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Foll…

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 into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc A…

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 ecosystem. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twi…

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 things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc Hermetica - @HermeticaFi…

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'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc 0xIntuition - @0xIntuition…

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 generates protocol revenue. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in …

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 us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc Hinkal Protocol - @hinkal_protocol…

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 in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc dWallet Network - @dwalletnetwork…

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. brokerage for Ethereum, supporting lending and borrowing up to 20x leverage. As always, we dove deep into the technical s…

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. As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: To…

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 hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc Verida - @Verida_io…

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 things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc…

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 dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @Tokenso…

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 of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc Hashstack - @0xHashstack…

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 technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc Botanix - @…

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 side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc Space and Time - @…

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 the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc Gor…

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. This week, we did something a bit different. Enjoy this guide on best cybersecurity practices and how to avoid commo…

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 features. As always, we dove deep into the technicals to understand how things work under the hood. We hope you'll join …

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 understand how things work under the hood. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @Tokens…

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 always, we dove deep into the technicals to understand how things work under the hood. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zo…

Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with James & Steven from Intu. Intu is building human-centric infrastructure for web3. They're leveraging advanced cryptography to make blockchains more user-friendly. As always, we dove deep into the technicals to understand how things work under the hood. We hope you'll join us in The F…

Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Yev from DIMO. DIMO is an open source, community governed protocol and platform for vehicles and related IoT devices. As always, we dove deep into the technicals to understand how things work under the hood. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @…

Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Zaki from Sommelier and Stephanie from Seven Seas. Sommelier is an asset management protocol whose mission is to make decentralized finance (DeFi) more accessible, profitable, and efficient. Seven Seas is a data science & research firm that develops responsive, transparent, decentral…

Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Connor from Enso Finance. Enso is a platform that simplifies the DeFi experience, allowing users to interact with various protocols and bundle multiple transactions into a single transaction. As always, we dove deep into the technicals to understand how things work under the hood. We…

Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Philip from Elixir Protocol. Elixir is a decentralized protocol offering computationally secure and algorithmic market making across centralized and decentralized exchanges. As always, we dove deep into the technicals to understand how things work under the hood. We hope you'll join …

Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Jelena and Jack from Noble Assets. Noble is a purpose-built asset issuance chain bringing USDC and other assets into the Cosmos ecosystem. As always, we dove deep into the technicals to understand how things work under the hood. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on T…

Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Rich from Core DAO. Core is a layer-1 blockchain powered by Satoshi Plus, a new consensus mechanism that combines elements of Proof-of-Work (PoW) and Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS). As always, we dove deep into the technicals to understand how things work under the hood. We hope you…

Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Simon from Edge & Node, one of the early developer teams that contributed to The Graph. The Graph is a web3 protocol for organizing and accessing blockchain data. As always, we dove deep into the technicals to understand how things work under the hood. We hope you'll join us in The F…

Welcome to The Fren Zone. This week, our host Mason sat down with Taariq to learn more about Paloma Chain. Paloma is a layer-1 blockchain built on Cosmos, designed for cross-chain message passing. As always, we dove deep into the technicals to understand how things work under the hood. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: …

The Fren Zone is back for Season 2. To kick off the new season, our host Mason sat down with SeaFi to learn more about Siren Protocol. Siren is a decentralized, non-custodial protocol for trading options on a variety of cryptocurrencies. As always, we dove deep into the technicals to understand how things work under the hood. We hope you'll join us…

For the eighth episode of The Fren Zone, our host Mason sat down with James & Tudor to learn more about Obscuro. Obscuro is bringing privacy to the Ethereum network by way of an L2 rollup. As always, we dove deep into the technicals to understand how things work under the hood. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensof…

For the seventh episode of The Fren Zone, our host Mason sat down with Sergey to learn more about Axelar, a secure cross-chain communication network. With Axelar, dApp users can interact with any asset or app on any chain, with just one click. As always, we dove deep into the technicals to understand how things work under the hood. We hope you'll j…

For the sixth episode of The Fren Zone, our host Mason sat down with Ismail to learn more about Celesta, the first-ever modular blockchain network to power scalable, secure Web3 apps. As always, we dove deep into the technicals to understand how things work under the hood. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone. Follow us on Twitter: Tokensoft - @…