Smart Contract Interoperability, Ethereum, and Crypto: Maciej Baj, t3rn CTO

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Maciej Baj, founder and CTO at t3rn protocol, was a special guest on this HackerNoon podcast. With host Utsav Jaiswal, Maciej discussed the need for smart contract interoperability (making smart contracts blockchain-agnostic), what’s happening in the space, and how far we've come in terms of crypto-adoption and DeFi proliferation.

They also discussed the Ethereum ecosystem, the difference between UTXO accounting (Bitcoin blockchain) and the Account-based wallets (Ethereum Blockchain), and why both fill different needs for decentralized financial operations and innovation.

In this episode: 1:40 - How did your journey in blockchain begin? 4:35 - Let’s dig deeper into smart contracts. What’s your takeaway from Parity Wallet Hack? 8:20 - How to explain Reentrancy Attack to non-technical folks? 12:09 - Are Bitcoin Maxis right? 14:50 - Interoperability in smart contracts 20:24 - Yield farming in smart contracts 22:55 - How do you see third-party/external smart contract auditing? 27:31 - Your favorite smart contract hack? 32:55 - Why do we see more hacks happening on Ethereum or EVM chain? 37:40 - Which programming language do you think is best suited for your work? 41:30 - What do you think is the next big use case of smart contracts? 44:35 - Do you think Ethereum should die for other things to flourish? 48:05 - Do you think that interoperability is comparatively better for Polkadot? 49:13 - Layers on Polkadot 51:30 - Message for the HackerNoon community

Follow Maciej Baj on Twitter https://twitter.com/Maciej_Baj Follow Utsav Jaiswal on Twitter https://twitter.com/utsav_jaiswal1 Learn more about t3rn https://twitter.com/t3rn_io