Hardened JS and the Architecture of Agoric with Dean Tribble

This week, Anna chats with Dean Tribble, co-founder and CEO of Agoric. Dean walks us through the landscape of programming languages and Agoric’s philosophy behind building a blockchain that has Hardened JS as its smart contract language. We hear about the two big challenges in using JavaScript in blockchain development, malleability and non-deterministic, and how Agoric addresses these. Dean explains the security implications of many popular blockchain languages and how this led them to build Agoric’s smart contract infrastructure allowing JavaScript functions to run with specific access control – leaving the money management to the larger framework. We touch on what to expect from the upcoming development phases of Agoric, various bridging partnerships to come, and last but not least – if, when and how they envision ZK roll-ups getting implemented into the stack. Here are some links for the episode:Zcon0 episodeAgoric's websiteAgoric Token and Crypto Economy White Paper SF Cryptocurrency Devs: Agoric - Programming Secure Smart ContractsA Deep Dive into Agoric: JavaScript Smart ContractsZKV presents Privacy in Cosmos: Scalability Edition - AgoricWhat is INTERCHAIN SECURITY? by BILLY RENNEKAMP Cøsmos Hub Mainnet Phase 0 LaunchIf you’re looking to jump into ZK professionally – head over to the ZK Jobs Board to find openings from some of the top teams working in ZK: https://jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm/ ZK Hack returns for a 2nd edition with ZK Hack Mini - kicking off on 1st March with a series of workshops and puzzle hacking competitions. Sign up for the first event on March 1st.Today’s episode is sponsored by Polygon.Polygon is one of the top Ethereum scaling platforms for developers with more than 130+ mn unique user wallets. They are committed to bringing web3 to the masses by improving scalability and fostering the network effects of Ethereum. Polygon's projects now include a number of fully secured EVM-compatible Zero Knowledge rollup solutions like Polygon Hermez, Polygon Miden, and Polygon Nightfall and the most recently announced acquisition of Mir Protocol, now known as Polygon Zero. These solutions inherit the security of Ethereum and use the power of zero knowledge. If you like what we do:Follow us on Twitter -