Software contracts and composability unlocking economic growth, with Agoric CEO Dean Tribble

<p>Lex interviews Dean Tribble, co-founder and CEO of Agoric. Agoric is a Proof-of-Stake chain utilizing secure JavaScript smart contracts to rapidly build and deploy DeFi, comprised of a team who are experts in smart contracts. Agoric was founded on open-source principles which look to build a public economy. Dean is considered a technical genius and a long-time developer around blockchain, smart contracts, as well as a number of other technology initiatives</p><p> </p><p>MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION</p><p> </p><p>Agoric's website: https://bit.ly/3DGKuTw</p><p>CEO's Linkedin profile: https://bit.ly/3judFCd</p><p> </p><p>Topics: DeFi, artificial intelligence, blockchain, web3, smart contract, javascript, dapps</p><p> </p><p>Companies: Agoric, Xanadu, ARPANET, Ethereum, Cosmos, Agorics, Inter.trade</p><p> </p><p>ABOUT THE FINTECH BLUEPRINT</p><p> </p><p>🔥Subscribe to the Fintech Blueprint newsletter to stay at the forefront of Fintech and DeFi: https://bit.ly/3hyhlC2</p><p> </p><p>🤝 Partner with Fintech Blueprint through sponsorships: https://bit.ly/3UZllsV</p><p> </p><p>👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/LexSokolin</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>TIMESTAMPS</p><p> </p><p>1’28”: Dean’s professional DNA - his motivations, profound experiences, and the journey</p><p> </p><p>3’49”: Early distributed systems - what they are, their evolution, and how they inspired the foundations for the internet/Web that we know today</p><p> </p><p>8’10”: Witnessing the evolution of the internet and how the vision, futurism, and ideals warped over time</p><p> </p><p>16’12”: The relationship between the legal symptoms of society trying to figure out what to do vs what’s actually going on</p><p> </p><p>19’34”: Early forms of smart contracts, designing large scale e-commerce infrastructure, and distributed systems</p><p> </p><p>24’07”: Addressing the idea of building an abstraction/pattern/framework embedded in software and layers in neural networks/AI models</p><p> </p><p>28’07”: Agoric: What it is, what it does, and where it is positioned relative