Ep. 496 Behind the Scenes of Blockchain Security
CRYPTO 101
Bryce Paul & Brendan Viehman
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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In this episode of Crypto 101 we talk to Andrew Beal of Forta Network to dive into how a security company operates in Web3. As a decentralized monitoring network, Forta detects threats and anomalies on DeFi, NFT, governance, bridges and other Web3 systems in real-time. This type of security is necessary for top projects to be informed on and great for beginners to start to understand how security works in this growing vertical.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everybody, welcome back to the Crypto 101 podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm your host, Bryce. |
| 0:14.1 | And I'm not joined by Pizza Mine today. |
| 0:16.0 | He's still in Taiwan doing God knows what. |
| 0:19.0 | No, I'm kidding. |
| 0:19.5 | He is at a crypto conference reporting, doing some live streams and some vlogging. |
| 0:25.1 | Check us out on the YouTube channel, Crypto 101 Podcast on YouTube. |
| 0:28.7 | But today I'm joined by an awesome guest from the Forta Network, the lead, the gentleman who's in charge of the ecosystem. |
| 0:36.4 | Andrew Beal, man, welcome to the Crypto |
| 0:39.5 | 101 podcast. I hope you're ready. Right. Thanks for having me. Yep, ready to roll. Okay, cool, |
| 0:45.5 | man. So, yeah, as we were catching up before the recording, you were kind of telling me about |
| 0:50.5 | like how you were getting into the industry. And it's a pretty pretty interesting winding trail um you you have a law background um you're an attorney by trade so can you kind of |
| 1:00.2 | tell us what it was that attracted you to the wild west of of finance and digital media rights |
| 1:07.6 | sure so my i think unlike unlike a lot of people in this space early on, |
| 1:13.8 | like I did not have an ideological sort of hook into crypto. More like a crypto sort of like |
| 1:21.3 | anarchist or one of these guys was like, you know, power to the people and decentralization. |
| 1:26.1 | That wasn't your thing, really. It was not my thing. No, |
| 1:29.0 | I didn't even know what, what, you know, decentralized systems were when I got into it. I went to college. |
| 1:34.6 | I was a music business major in college. I thought I was going to be a, you know, a producer when I finished. |
| 1:40.7 | And I ended up going to law school and then ended up working with startups when I, |
| 1:44.9 | when I graduated. And I very quickly stumbled on to, I was in Los Angeles at the time, and I very |
| 1:50.2 | quickly stumbled onto the small but like really interesting kind of crypto scene that existed |
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