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 and the recent arbitrage 'exploit'. We also catch up about the known challenges facing PoS systems, what EVM support means on other chains and more! Catch our previous episodes with Tarun and James here: https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/99 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/99) https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/61 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/61) https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/34 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/34) The tweet that Anna quotes in the episode is here -> https://twitter.com/bneiluj/status/1228757175595438080 (https://twitter.com/bneiluj/status/1228757175595438080) If you want to join the zkSummit, happening on March 31st, Berlin, do get your application in here: https://forms.gle/WDhUCmowAEk2ymYa7 (https://forms.gle/WDhUCmowAEk2ymYa7) Thanks to this week's sponsor https://www.nucypher.com/ (Nucypher)! Nucypher is currently looking for an engineering lead to work on a new open-source cryptosystem for privacy-preserving smart contracts. This is a new product and so you will get to work on some cool primitives like fully homomorphic encryption and zero knowledge proofs. For more about lead engineer role, check out the ad here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21693548 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21693548) If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm (@zeroknowledgefm) Join us on https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA (Telegram) Support our https://gitcoin.co/grants/329/zero-knowledge-podcast-2 (Gitcoin Grant) Support us on the https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge (ZKPatreon) Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ