Solidity Galaxy Brain 🌌🧠 – Details, episodes & analysis

We dive into the Adventure Gold contract, and Will shares the story of writing $AGLD in four hours while stuck at an airport. We discuss his aspirations for the project, the mechanisms he included in the code, and what he might do differently with what he's learned since then.

We also discuss Will's main project, Syndicate, the crypto investment club tech that's already been used to launch thousands of daos since it launched only a few months ago. Will explains the lessons he and his team have learned about smart contract upgradeability patterns, and what makes managing solidity engineering teams different from their Web2 equivalents.

I had a great time chatting with Will as always. This conversation was an inspiring reminder that blockchains give superpowers to optimistic devs willing to make new discoveries through playful experimentation. I hope you enjoy the show.

Welcome to Solidity Galaxy Brain. My guest today is Will Papper. Will is a Solidity developer, co-founder of Syndicate, a platform for creating crypto investment clubs, and the creator of Adventure Gold, better known as $AGLD.

In this episode, we discuss Will's background researching mesh networks prior to getting involved in crypto, and how he came to learn about community management through a side project running Minecraft game servers.

• AGLD
• Helium mesh network
• FireChat used in Hong Kong
• MIT Media Lab
• Running Minecraft and TF2 servers
• Bitcoin White Paper and Ethereum Yellow Paper
• David Silverman of Lens Protocol
• Loot contract
• Syndicate
• Data Separation vs Delegate Call upgradeability (Trail of Bits)
• ERC721ATM.sol by @remnynt
• JokeDAO disposable cross-chain governance tokens

My guest today is Treppers, developer of the Genesis Loot contracts, Genesis Mana and Genesis Adventurers. 

In today's episode we discuss Treppers background in startups, and how he fell down the crypto rabbit hole.

First, Treppers and I discuss the core mechanisms in Dom Hoffman's Loot (for Adventurers) contract, and how onchain composability enables permissionless collaboration on the blockchain.

Treppers then walks me through the many contracts that make up the Genesis Loot ecosystem. We discuss Genesis Mana and Genesis Adventurers, which were Treppers' very first Solidity contracts deployed to mainnet, and how each of these made reference to and expanded upon the data in the original Loot contract. We also discuss Adventure Time (or $ATIME), the Genesis Loot ERC-20 token, and its present utility. We chat about two lesser known Genseis Loot contracts, Loot Classification, and Loot Stats, which are onchain utilities that expose data from the original Loot contract that was previously unavailable for composition. Finally we discuss bottle.to, an onchain SVG NFT messaging dapp that emerged to fill a need amongst Genesis Mana traders seeking to communicate with anon Loot and Mana holders on Ethereum.

I had a wonderful time chatting with Treppers about his approach and the lessons he's learned along the way. By coincidence, Treppers and I spoke while he attended a Divine DAO builders meetup, and I can't think of a better example of the collaborative energy surrounding Treppers work and the Lootverse that he's so deeply involved in. Genesis Loot is one of the coolest onchain composable games, where NFT trading, cross-contract composability, and lorebuiling are the game. It was great getting to know Treppers better. I hope you enjoy the show.

• Treppers' background in Silicon Valley
• DivineDAO
• Loot (for Adventurers)
• Genesis Loot Github
• bottle.to (etherscan)
• Genesis Mana
• $ATIME Adventure Time
• loot classification
• loot-stats

My guest today is Ben Heidorn, better known as @cybourgeoisie on Twitter. Ben is a Solidity developer who has been building crypto puzzles and games for several years. He is the CTO at crypto game studio Blockade Games, developers of Neon District, and principal developer on Josie Bellini's CyberBrokers, a massively on-chain SVG NFT collection that has been in the works for over two years.

In this episode, Ben and I chat about many of the projects he's worked on over the years, including Torched Hearts, Plasma Bears, Tokens of Infection, F473, The Ledger of Szabo, and more.

If you're excited to hear the details on how Ben stored more than 1400 SVG layers in over 2000 contracts on Ethereum L1 for CyberBrokers, make sure to stick around for the last third of this episode.

It was a pleasure chatting with Ben about the early days of puzzling and cross-chain experimentation, and his more recent experience building sophisticated onchain NFT projects. I hope you enjoy the show.

Interview by @nnnnicholas. Produced by @0xRavel.

Topics discussed:

• COIN ARTIST and the invention of crypto puzzles
• Rhea Myers
• @Zd3N puzzle artist
• @Zd3N's Litecoin puzzle
• Torched Hearts
• Tokens of Infection (September 2019) (Etherscan)
• CryptoKitties
• Diego Rodriguez lead artist at Neon District
• David Hoover, founder of Red Squirrel technologies) wrote the original Neon District trophy contract (January 2018)
• Pineapple Arcade
• Plasma Bears (March 2019) (article, OpenSea)
• XCOPY plasma bear
• Loom Network, now-defunct alt-L1 EVM.
• Axie Infinity
• Loom DM: "We're shutting down tomorrow."
• The Ledger of Szabo (Aug 2019), cross chain Ethereum-Lightning puzzle game (team) (Etherscan)
• Die Kitty Dai (Feb 2020), demo (team picture), Etherscan
• JTobcat creator of the first NFT airdrop
• F473 (Fate) (2021) documentation,

On this episode, my guest is Steve Klebanoff. Steve has been developing solidity contracts for several years, first at 0x, then as an independent developer-artist, and now as a member of PartyDAO, creators of the collective NFT bidding and fractionalization Dapp PartyBid.

Steve shares stories about his early days in crypto writing arb bots against EtherDelta, and the two years he spent as tech lead at DEX protocol 0x. We get into the nitty gritty on three of Steve's projects: The Bronx Zoo, a fractionalized cryptovoxels zoo plot, rats.art, a free art-for-art NFT trading portal, and Solvency, his nft collaboration with webgl artist Ezra Miller. We cover a lot of other topics, from Trash Art to OpenSea's API, and even some new PartyBid features.

Host: @nnnnicholas

Editor: @0xmatthewb

• Steve's project Next Epoch
• EtherDelta order book exchange on Ethereum
• Bored Apes seed phrases
• 0x Request for Quote to private market makers
• Sudoswap
• Boxswap
• Trash art
• Jay Delay
• rats.art Etherscan
• fwb
• friends with art
• top erc721 on arbitrum
• Solvency
• Arweave
• Arweavewallet
• genie.xyz
• gem.xyz
• LooksRare
• NFTX
• 0xmons
• Uniswap time weighted oracles
• Partybid
• Partybid Mirror
• Anna Carrol
• collection based parties
  • party creator specifies a list of deciders who can pick the tokenid
• partybuy
• collectionbuy
• opensea sdk
• Getting Started with Forge by Wilson Cusack
• Hardhat Deploy
• Foundry
• ds-test

A discussion with Iain Nash, full stack Ethereum engineer at Zora. In this episode, Iain and Nicholas talk about what drew Iain into the Web3 ecosystem, the spectrum of onchain metadata, a handful of his own NFT contracts, and his thoughts on today's developer tooling.

Interview with @nnnnicholas. Produced by @0xRavel.

Topics discussed:

• Iain's Github
• EthDenver
• EthASketch
• @cryptoartsy
• Matthew Ball Metaverse NFT: Announcement, auction, Github, and the original essay
• 0xmons v2 Cthulu: On-chain Encoding
• Boobies on the Ethereum blockchain
• @dhof's Michelin stars of onchain NFT
• On-Chain Art list by @emrecolako
• 0xDEAFBEEF onchain C
• Autoglyphs contract vs OpenSea representation
• Flavours of On-Chain SVG NFTs on Ethereum by Simon de la Rouviere
• Collab splitter by @dievardump
• Iain's Gwei Slim ERC721 repo
• Proxy Upgrade Pattern
• Iain's Ether Actor project
• Zora Marketplace
• Zora Metadata

A discussion with Mirror Co-Founder and CTO Graeme Boy (@strangechances) and Foundation Co-Founder and CTO Elpizo Choi (@elpizoch) about each of their company's Splits contracts. We are also joined by Masterfile CTO Garret Hardin (@polymathic) and Foundation Engineer and co-author of the Foundation Split contract Paul Cowgill (@paulcowgill). 

Splits contracts allow revenues from an NFT sale or other onchain activity to be divided between several recipients. Both Mirror and Foundation have implemented Splits contracts and in this episode we talk with their authors about the similarities and differences in the problems they were solving, and how these differing contexts impacted the design decisions they made.

Mirror Splits

• Announcement blog post
• Github repo
• Etherscan

Foundation Split

• Announcement
• Dev thread
• Etherscan (verified)

Both companies are hiring developers and have active bug bounty programs.

This episode was organized and hosted by @nnnnicholas.