Podcast 43 [Bridged] - Marco Cora
How can blockchain be deployed to tackle some of the most pressing issues and inefficiencies in our society?
Marco is the SVP of Business and Operations at Matter Labs, the humble creators of zkSync Era, a layer 2 rollup that uses advanced cryptography called zero-knowledge proofs to scale Ethereum without compromising on security or decentralisation.
Tune in to learn about the next steps for zkSync Era, hyperchains and much more. Enjoy!
Link to Matter Labs’ Twitter page
👉🏻 https://twitter.com/the_matter_labs
Link to zkSync Era’s Twitter page
👉🏻 https://twitter.com/zksync
Link to Matter Labs’ website
👉🏻 https://matter-labs.io/
Link to zkSync Era’s website
👉🏻 https://zksync.io/
Episode Breakdown
00:40 - What is your background and how did you find yourself getting involved with Matter Labs?
04:30 - Given your asset management background, did you find that the asset raising for Matter Labs was facilitated by your experience and by a heightened comfort for investors to deal with someone who came from the same world as them?
07:00 - Considering that the blockchain space has grown exponentially over the last few years and with it the involvement of institutional investors, do you think that such involvement has hindered crypto’s capacity to innovate and evolve or do you think that it is a necessary evil to take the sector to the next level?
12:30 - Have you noticed over the last few years that people with different backgrounds and new ideas have entered the Web3 space and, if so, do you think that such a development could help further push innovation in the sector?
15:00 - Has Matter Labs established partnerships solely with other Web3 projects to date or have there also been collaborations with enterprises from the Web2 world?
20:00 - In terms of traditional enterprises onboarding blockchain technology, how do you see such a phase playing out and how do you envision the customer bases of such enterprises having to be educated to successfully grasp the full potential behind this nascent technology?
28:00 - In terms of the adoption of blockchain technology in our society, do you envision blockchain first being implemented to tackle existing and more obvious inefficiencies and then utilised to tackle bigger and more exponential problems or do you think such developments will occur simultaneously?
34:00 - Are we heading towards a future characterised by a plethora of Layer 2 solutions or by a few big ones monopolising the space?
38:00 - In terms of next steps, what can we expect from the Matter Labs team?
