Episode 247: Exploring Penumbra with Henry de Valence

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In this week’s episode, Anna and Guillermo catch up with Henry de Valence from Penumbra. They discuss his thoughts on requirements for adoption of privacy systems and how these led to him to develop Penumbra. They explore how Penumbra aims to use privacy features not as ‘nice to haves' within the system, but rather as essential components that offer a new paradigm for how to think about DeFi in a Multichain Ecosystem.

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Here are some additional links for this episode:

• Episode 126: Crypto libraries, Zcash’s Zebra and contact tracing with Henry de Valence
• Henry de Valence GitHub
• Penumbra Twitter
• Informal Systems
• Uniswap V3
• IBC
• Tendermint
• Rust
• Github
• Git

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Today’s episode is sponsored by Aleo.

Aleo is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup.

If you’re interested in building private applications then check out Aleo’s programming language called Leo. Visit leo-lang.org to start building.

You can also join Aleo’s incentivized testnet3 by downloading and running a snarkOS node. No sign-up is necessary to participate. For questions, join their Discord at aleo.org/discord.

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