Privacy, Silk and Encryption with Carter Woetzel

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This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Carter Woetzel, Lead researcher & economist for Shade Protocol, an app for private DeFi.

Shade Protocol is an array of connected privacy-preserving DeFi applications built on Secret Network - all accruing value back to SHD ("shade"), the treasury, and governance token.

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We spoke to Carter Woetzel about Shade Protocol and:

• Carter's book, "Building Confidence in Blockchain"
• Privacy on the blockchain
• Bringing privacy to smart contracts
• Auditability, for regulators
• How do we get people to trust blockchain
• How trust in the technology is crucial for adoption by users and financial institutions
• Simplifying or solving the gas token
• Futuristic currencies
• Non traditional stable coins
• Sustainability in protocol development
• Blockchain at the moment is an experiment
• Privacy issues with Intel
• Our perception of time in blockchain
• Homeomorphic Encryption as a solution to encryption
• Why removing the middlemen is always in our best interest
• Motivation

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Special Guest: Carter Woetzel.