Welcome, Bankless Nation, to the Summer of Protocols.

Summer of Protocols is an ongoing research and evangelism effort that aims to catalyze

broad interest in the study of Protocols as a first class concept for thinking about the world.

Today on the show you're going to experience something a little different here,

something a little bit more closely storytelling, a little different kind of frontier,

but all around the idea of protocols to explain a little bit but all around the idea of protocols

to explain a little bit more about what we're up to

Tim Baco from the Ethereum Foundation

and Venkat Rao will open up the show today.

Tim Venkat, welcome to the show. Thanks for having yes. So this is going to be your

guys' show today. Tim, maybe you can kind of lay down a little bit of context as to, again, a little bit more about

what summer protocols is and how it relates to

Ethereum and what the Ethereum Foundation's role is here like whatever

our listeners can experience you today. Yeah of course. So the idea with Summer

Protocols is to better understand exactly what protocols are and do this across a whole range of domains so that we can hopefully on the etheorem side just have a better way of thinking about what etheorem is.

This sort of started a few years ago now where I reached out to Venkett who is a blogger and consultant across the tech industry and if maybe in like 2017-2018

started mentioning Ethereum from time to time in his newsletter I think the first mention I recall was like the parody hack.

And so I reached out in like, yeah, a few years ago just familiar with his work because I work on

Ethereum and Ethereum is kind of a weird thing to work on like a lot of the

frameworks that you have when you say working on a tech startup or something else just

don't quite apply right like Ethereum is not like a product. It's not like something where you, like yes, there is a high-level roadmap, but it's very different than that there's not like a specific team that's working on with a CEO pushing it forward. So I I reach out to

Venkat to just like help me better think about this thing. I think when we

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