Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance.

And sometimes, that frontier is at a conference.

Like last weekend, we're over a thousand developers, founders, builders and investors, attended

the StarCware sessions in Tel Aviv in order to participate in growing the StarCnet ecosystem.

This is Bankless's StarCware session series, which are nine bite-sized episodes interviewing

the founders, builders, and ecosystem developers of StarCnet.

Every once in a while, in the crypto world, a conference happens, but not everyone is

available to attend.

Don't worry, Bankless has your back, because I go to basically every conference that's

out on the frontier, and I bring an entire podcast studio into with me, in order to make

sure that the Bankless nation stays on the frontier of what's happening in crypto.

In this interview, we are talking about Herodotus, and that is an interesting name, which will

become self-evident as to how they named what they are working on Herodotus in this interview.

Herodotus is a system for taking all of the very deep rich data that we have across

many, many chains and allowing each of these chains to access the state across chains,

both the current state and the historical state.

So say, for example, optimism, uniswap on optimism, wants to understand the average price

of ether on Arbitrum over a 30-day period, arbitrary length period.

Herodotus, by running all of these very deep archive nodes across all of these chains,

and provide all of this data to all across all of these chains using ZK Proofs in order

to compress all of this data and prove it to the chain.

It's an extremely useful thing to do, and the use cases for this are quite large, so

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