StarkWare Sessions #2 | Braavos & Smart Contract Wallets with Motty Lavie
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🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes, the frontier is at a crypto conference. We’re returning from our adventures in Tel Aviv with nine exclusive interviews with some of the key players in the StarkNet space.
Wish you could make it to all the crypto conferences, but don't have the time? Don't worry, Bankless brings the frontier to you.
In this episode, we’re talking to Motty Lavie, the founder and CEO of Braavos, the team behind the self-custodial Braavos wallet on top of StarkNet. As the fastest growing wallet on StarkNet, Braavos is paving new ground with smart contract wallets. If you can’t tell yet, David was heavily smart contract wallet-pilled after the Starkware Sessions.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
3:30 What’s Braavos?
5:30 Smart Contract Wallets
11:30 Signers
14:30 A Use Case Revolution
18:45 An Example
20:50 Synergy with Layer 2
22:50 The Braavos Approach
24:40 Get Involved
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Resources:
Motty Lavie
https://twitter.com/mottylen
Braavos
https://braavos.app/
StarkNet
https://starkware.co/starknet/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. |
| 0:06.9 | And sometimes, that frontier is at a conference. |
| 0:09.6 | Like last weekend, we're over 1,000 developers, founders, builders, and investors attended |
| 0:14.9 | the Starquare sessions in Tel Aviv in order to participate in growing the StarkNet ecosystem. |
| 0:20.1 | This is Bankless's Starquare Session series, which are nine bite-sized episodes interviewing |
| 0:25.0 | the founders, builders, and ecosystem developers of StarkNet. |
| 0:29.0 | Every once in a while, in the crypto world, a conference happens, but not everyone is |
| 0:32.3 | available to attend. |
| 0:33.3 | Don't worry, Bankless has your back, because I go to basically every conference that's |
| 0:37.6 | out on the frontier. |
| 0:38.6 | And I bring an entire podcast studio in tow with me, in order to make sure that the |
| 0:42.6 | Bankless nation stays on the frontier of what's happening in crypto. |
| 0:45.6 | In this episode from Bankless's Starquare Session series, I'm interviewing Modi, the CEO, |
| 0:49.8 | and co-founder of Bravos, which is one of the two main smart contract wallets in the |
| 0:54.2 | StarkNet ecosystem, the other one being Argent. |
| 0:56.8 | Now if you understand smart contract wallets, you'll know that eventually, this paradigm |
| 1:00.5 | of externally owned accounts, which is probably the wallet that you use if you use ledger |
| 1:04.7 | or a metamask, is not long for this world. |
| 1:07.7 | Whereas 99% of wallets these days are probably externally owned accounts. |
| 1:12.6 | Eventually, once we crack the smart contract wallet nut, 99.9% of all wallets out there |
| 1:19.0 | will be smart contract wallets. |
| 1:21.5 | The potential that these wallets have will break your brain in terms of what they can |
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