In this episode, we interview Justin Kilpatrick and Jehan Tremback of Althea, one of the few projects in the blockchain space undertaking the herculean effort of decentralizing the Internet. Althea is a grant recipient of the Interchain Foundation (ICF) grants and is building a bridge between Cosmos and Ethereum known as Peggy. In this interview, we refer to this bridge as 'Althea Peggy'.

In this episode, Andreas Antonopoulos joins us to talk about the future of the cryptocurrency industry amidst an ongoing pandemic and the beginnings of a worldwide recession in light of a recently passed $4 trillion stimulus package. Andreas explains his view of how the Bitcoin narrative has played out and how it will shift in the near future. We cover what wallets can do *now* in order to monetize and better enable user adoption of the coins they support, what's in store for the startups in the industry as venture capital dries up and natural selection takes hold, and how an interchain future will evolve as standards across protocols mature.

This week we're speaking with Ryan John King, co-founder and CEO of FOAM. FOAM Location is an open web3 protocol powered by an incentivized network of low power radios that offer secure location services independent of GPS and allows user to control and own their data in a privacy preserving way. Location services are an integral part of the global economy, but GPS technology is starting to show its limits. Issues like spoofing, multipathing, signal outages, third party collection and sale of user data and a fundamental lack of location authenticity are suppressing further marketplace growth for location services. The FOAM Location network provides a leading web3 solution with secure, fault tolerant and ubiquitous location services by combining an immutable blockchain ledger, self-synchronizing low-power radios, and a token incentive mechanism.

Riad Wahby discusses a particular zero-knowledge proof called GooSig. Riad is a PhD student at Stanford University who works with Dan Boneh, Christopher Jeffrey, and Joseph Poon using GooSig to enable a privacy-preserving token distribution scheme for the Handshake Naming System. Most of Riad's work is in ZK proofs and verifiable computation.

Kate Sills, software engineer at Agoric, explains the design choices for the secure smart contract framework they've developed, and how they incorporate e-rights into an interoperable cross-chain world. Agoric is one of the founding members of the IBC steering committee and has been instrumental in the development and specification of the protocol. Kate has written on the intersection of technology and law for libertarianism.org.