Silvio Micali & Steven Kokinos: Algorand – In Pursuit of the Blockchain Trilemma (#323)
21 Jan 2020 · 1:31:40
Silvio Micali, the Turing Award-winning cryptographer who founded Algorand, and CEO Steven Kokinos join Epicenter to discuss how their network aims to solve the blockchain trilemma of security, decentralization, and scalability without trade-offs. They cover Algorand's recent protocol upgrades, the TEAL smart contract language, atomic swaps and asset issuance as core primitives, and the role of the Algorand Foundation in growing the ecosystem.