Tarun and James talk Flash Loans & more

In this week's episode, we catch up with our friends Tarun Chitra and James Prestwich at the Stanford Blockchain Conference. We chat about the Flashloan phenomenon & the recent arbitrage 'exploit'. We also catch up about the known challenges facing PoS systems, what EVM support means on other chains & more!

Catch our previous episodes with Tarun and James here:

https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/99

https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/61

https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/34

The tweet that Anna quotes in the episode is here -> https://twitter.com/bneiluj/status/1228757175595438080

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