TezTalks Radio - Tezos Ecosystem Podcast

Enjoyed our podcast? Shoot us a text and let us know—because great conversations never end at the last word!What happens to your crypto when quantum computers become powerful enough to challenge today's cryptography?This week on TezTalks Live, host Brandon Langston welcomes back Yann Régis-Gianas, Head of Core Engineering at Nomadic Labs, to explore Quantumnet, an experimental network bringing together several of Tezos' quantum-resistance efforts.Following earlier conversations about Tezos X and Ushuaia, we take a closer look at what it actually takes to prepare an existing blockchain for a future where today's cryptographic assumptions may no longer hold.From quantum-resistant accounts and new consensus signatures to changes in the Data Availability Layer, Yann walks us through the engineering decisions, technical challenges, and lessons emerging from Quantumnet.We also explore one of the biggest questions for everyday users: What happens to the tez sitting in wallets created years ago, and how might those assets eventually transition to quantum-resistant security?It's a conversation about preparing for threats before they arrive, testing difficult ideas in practice, and understanding what it will take to bring post-quantum security to Tezos.

Enjoyed our podcast? Shoot us a text and let us know—because great conversations never end at the last word!What happens when an art collector decides to build something for the artists she believes in?This week on TezTalks Live, Brandon welcomes Ida Belle, a Montreal-based collector, generative art enthusiast, and the creator of TezCity, a new social platform for Tezos artists and collectors.Ida's story begins long before TezCity, with a family tradition of collecting, a fascination with generative art, and years spent discovering and supporting artists across the Tezos ecosystem.Now she's bringing those experiences together through TezCity, where artists can connect with supporters, share exclusive content, and receive direct support through memberships and tez tips.We explore the inspiration behind TezCity, what it took to bring the platform to life, how artists are responding, and what Ida hopes this new space could become.It's a conversation about collecting, creativity, community, and what happens when someone decides to build something they wish existed.

Enjoyed our podcast? Shoot us a text and let us know—because great conversations never end at the last word!We talk with Kitsune from Keystone Lab about Panora, a mobile app that captures real world conversations and turns them into transcripts you can search and chat with later. We dig into the product decisions behind mobile first capture, privacy focused processing, and how AI helped ship an MVP fast while distribution stays the hardest challenge. • why unscheduled conversations carry the most valuable work context • who Panora is for, from working professionals to lawyers, HR, and social workers • the mobile first workflow, live transcript, and post recording processing • on device transcription vs backend processing, with encryption and user control • artifacts like topics, events, and decisions, plus chat based recall • optional voice tagging to group recordings by person • long term memory via indexing, recency, and lightweight semantic search • how AI accelerates development, with multi model reviews and harnesses • lessons learned, especially scope creep and shipping tradeoffs 

Enjoyed our podcast? Shoot us a text and let us know—because great conversations never end at the last word!This week on TezTalks Live, we welcome back musician and TEIA core team member Ryan G. Tanaka for a conversation about what years of creating, experimenting, and maintaining community-built infrastructure on Tezos have taught him.From putting everyday objects inside a grand piano at TezCon to building tools because of problems he encountered himself, Ryan shares the stories behind TEIA, teia.cafe, and the decisions that come with keeping open-source projects useful without losing what made them worth building in the first place.The conversation gets into the less visible side of community infrastructure too: changing your mind when new information emerges, cleaning up systems maintained by many people over many years, deciding when funding helps or hurts, and figuring out what should be preserved as a project grows.It is a look at Tezos from someone who has spent years not only using the ecosystem, but helping maintain the spaces where its culture lives.

Enjoyed our podcast? Shoot us a text and let us know—because great conversations never end at the last word!The fastest way to lose money in DeFi is to outsource understanding. We sit down with Anton, founder of Monarch, to unpack a deceptively simple question: when you deposit into a “yield” product, do you actually know what you’re exposed to, and who can change it after you click deposit?We get concrete about Morpho lending markets, why vaults and curators can introduce hidden risk for suppliers, and how Monarch is built to offer permissionless direct access instead. Anton walks through Monarch’s Etherlink integration (Tezos EVM), what the live markets look like today, and how users can supply, track flows, and manage positions with better visibility than a single APY number on a button.From there, we dig into the tools that matter when conditions turn chaotic: smart rebalance across markets with the same loan asset, auto vaults that let you set your own exposure caps, and the bigger idea of agents that help you monitor and de-risk instead of “manage your whole wallet.” We also get into the details most interfaces hide, especially oracle assumptions, hard-coded paths, backup oracle designs, and why RWA and private credit assets can be harder to evaluate when part of the story lives off-chain. Anton shares a monitoring tool he likes for RWAs and stablecoins and how that kind of data could plug into safer DeFi UX.If you care about DeFi risk management, Morpho, on-chain lending, yield optimization, and the real tradeoffs behind vaults, this is a practical listen. Subscribe, share this with a friend who farms yield, and leave a review with the one risk metric you wish every app showed.

Enjoyed our podcast? Shoot us a text and let us know—because great conversations never end at the last word!This week on TezTalks Radio, host Brandon Langston welcomes back Ben Elvidge to discuss the next evolution beyond Uranium.io: **Metals.io>.Last time, the conversation focused on uranium and the challenge of making a difficult physical commodity accessible through modern financial infrastructure.This time, the lens gets much wider.Metals.io expands that vision into a broader universe of materials including gold, uranium, strategic metals, and upcoming additions like cobalt, silver, palladium, and nickel. At the heart of the discussion is a simple question:Why are some of the world's most important materials still so difficult for ordinary investors to access directly?

Enjoyed our podcast? Shoot us a text and let us know—because great conversations never end at the last word!This week on TezTalks Radio, we’re joined by Arthur Breitman, co-founder of Tezos, for a deep conversation about TzEL, an experimental project exploring private, post-quantum payments on Tezos testnet. At the center of the discussion is a deceptively simple question:If blockchain data can remain public forever, what does privacy actually mean over time?Rather than treating privacy as a momentary concern, this episode looks at the long-term reality of encrypted transaction data that may still exist decades from now — and what happens if future cryptographic assumptions change.🎙️ The conversation moves through private payments, post-quantum cryptography, rollups, the DAL, and the engineering realities of turning research ideas into working systems.🔍 In this episode, we explore: Why blockchain privacy has a “time problem”  What kinds of transaction data remain exposed long term  Why Arthur became interested in private post-quantum payments specifically  What TzEL is actually testing — and what it is not claiming yet  How Tezos’ long-term adaptability connects back to post-quantum design  The difference between a research prototype and production infrastructure  What had to be built to make TzEL function end to end  Why proof size becomes a major constraint for private systems  How the Tezos DAL changes what becomes practical  Why heavier cryptographic systems may naturally live in rollups  How viewing keys, detector keys, and selective disclosure work in practice  What this experiment reveals about the future design space for Tezos This is one of the clearest conversations yet on how Tezos infrastructure, rollups, governance, and long-term adaptability connect together underneath the surface.

Enjoyed our podcast? Shoot us a text and let us know—because great conversations never end at the last word!This week on TezTalks Radio, we’re joined by Yann Régis-Gianas to unpack Ushuaia, a new Tezos protocol proposal that sits directly in the path toward Tezos X. From the outside, Tezos X promises something simple: a more unified Tezos experience where EVM and Michelson applications can interact more directly without the awkward fragmentation users are used to across chains, rollups, wallets, and app environments.Ushuaia is part of the infrastructure underneath that promise.This episode focuses on what Ushuaia actually unlocks, what becomes harder without it, and how the clean roadmap for Tezos X meets the reality of engineering constraints.

Enjoyed our podcast? Shoot us a text and let us know—because great conversations never end at the last word!This week on TezTalks Radio, we sit down with George Goodwin, better known as OMGiDRAWEDit, one of the most recognizable artists in the Tezos ecosystem. If you’ve spent time in Tezos art, you’ve likely seen his work — bold colors, strange characters, chaotic scenes that somehow hold together the longer you look.But this conversation goes deeper than style.🎙️ It starts before Tezzardz, before Tezos — back when George was still trying to figure out what kind of artist he wanted to be, and what was missing from his work.🔍 In this episode, we explore: The shift from darker, monochrome work to vibrant, character-driven worlds  What it really means to “find your voice” as an artist  Why NFTs felt different from the start — and why they mattered  How Tezos became more than a platform and started to feel like home  What stayed true through every phase of the Tezos art scene  The real story behind Tezzardz and what it was responding to  How success changed George’s perspective as an artist  Why projects like Bedroom Nostalgia and Disordurance reveal a deeper side of his work  The tension between being an artist and becoming a content creator  What it takes to keep going when attention fades At its core, this is a conversation about something most artists wrestle with quietly: how to grow without losing the thing that made your work yours in the first place.

Enjoyed our podcast? Shoot us a text and let us know—because great conversations never end at the last word!This week on TezTalks Radio, host Brandon Langston sits down with Ryan Tanaka, a longtime builder in the Tezos art ecosystem behind projects like TEIA, teia.cafe, and Tezcon.The conversation starts with a moment many remember, when Hic et Nunc shut down. For some, that was the end. For others, including Ryan, it became the reason to rebuild.🎙️ This episode explores what it actually takes to keep a creative ecosystem alive when the platform disappears.🔍 In this episode, we explore: Why Ryan chose to rebuild after Hic et Nunc instead of moving on  How fragmentation across tools like teia.cafe created real friction for users  Why music and on-chain media remain under-discovered on Tezos  What it’s like to build and ship features inside a DAO  Why simple ideas like wallet-to-wallet messaging are harder than they seem  What’s still missing for artists in the space today  How builders stay motivated through quieter market cycles  Whether decentralized platforms can avoid the same patterns as Web2  Why the Tezos art community has endured while others faded