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Today I'm speaking to Piper Merriam. He works with consensus.

Piper, do you want to give us a rundown on the type of projects you're involved in because they seem to be pretty diverse?

Sure.

I've had the luck or benefit or whatever you want to call it of being able to pursue my own interests

in this space for pretty much the entire last year and a half.

So the work that's done is pretty diverse.

One of the things that's more well known potentially among the developer community is the Ethereum alarm clock project.

It's designed to fill a gap in the Ethereum virtual machine, allowing people to schedule code to be executed at a later time, which is something you can't do

natively in the EVM.

Outside of that, I maintain a lot of the Python tooling in the Ethereum ecosystem.

I kicked off a identity project at DevCon 2 this year, the DevCon 2

token system, which is a civil resistance token that we'll see what people do with.

I think that about...

Let's talk about that first. The Def CON project is probably the juiciest one.

You know, because of the hackers world there.

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