
Agoric - building technology that helps humans cooperate better
About this episode
Dean Tribble is the CEO of Agoric, the JavaScript-native smart contract platform with backing from Naval and Polychain Capital. Dean co-designed the negotiation process and contract for the first smart contracting system, AMiX. As a Principal Architect at Microsoft, he co-designed the Midori distributed object-capability operating system. As founder and CTO for Agorics, he architected the brokerage information system for Schwab's active traders and the WebMart electronic contract system for SunLabs. Dean has a fascinating perspective on the past, present, and future of blockchain.
Why you should listen:
Dean's life work can be described as creating software that lets humans cooperate better. He wants to use technology to give humanity leverage to accomplish our goals and create a more cooperative world. A Proof of Stake blockchain and JavaScript-native smart contract platform, Agoric offers developers and enterprises an interoperable ecosystem for deploying and managing DeFi applications. Agoric is a robust architecture for building secure smart contracts based in JavaScript for maximum reach. Agoric empowers developers to execute transactions, establish new markets, and craft novel exchanges — without centralized control. Agoric uses an object-capability (ocap) security architecture, in which access to a programming object itself is the authority to use the object. All kinds of digital assets can be created, but importantly, they can be transferred in exactly the same ways, with exactly the same security properties. Agoric's composable smart contract development environment provides reusable governance, lending, and trading components to propel the creators of the multi-chain DeFi economy.
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