Emin Gün Sirer: Avalanche – The Future of Crypto: From Gaming to LLM-Powered Smart Contracts #495
Channel: Epicenter Podcast
Date: 2023-05-11

As the second Avalanche summit drew to a close, Sebastien Couture and Sunny Aggarwal sat down with Emin Gün Sirer for a fascinating conversation exploring future innovation narratives in crypto. Longtime friend of Epicenter, Ava Labs' founder and CEO shared his unique insights on the industry, from both a founder, as well as a former academia perspective.
Given Avalanche's consensus & architecture, it boasts high TPS and scalability properties, incentivising founders to build better products in the AVAX ecosystem.

One of the most controversial narratives is that of LLMs (i.e. ChatGPT) powering smart contract development by bypassing programming languages and even bytecode altogether. The question arises if replacing the human third-party with an AI fixes trust issues or not, but only time will tell which piece of code we can actually consider 'law'.

Topics discussed in this episode:
0:00 - Introduction
1:34 - Emin’s background, from academia to running a multi-billion dollar company
5:45 - Main takeaways from the 2nd Avalanche summit
8:30 - Innovation narratives in the Avalanche ecosystem. NFTs & blockchain gaming
12:36 - The Avalanche architecture, consensus & scalability
19:07 - Avalanche’s evolution
25:08 - ChatGPT smart contracts & no-code blockchains
31:53 - Auditing AI & security
37:22 - Innovation vs. Stagnation
48:11 - Bitcoin, BTC.b & ordinals
50:34 - Bridging Cosmos with Avalanche: IBC x Warp
54:41 - Best & worst products built by crypto

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Emin Gün Sirer on Twitter: bit.ly/3prhhYh
- Avalanche on Twitter: bit.ly/41rlI2G
- Ava Labs on Twitter: bit.ly/42MwHVr
- Shrapnel on Twitter: bit.ly/3BdxrY5
- Gunzilla Games on Twitter: bit.ly/3MhwOD3

This episode is hosted by Sebastien Couture & Sunny Aggarwal. Show notes and listening options: https://epicenter.tv/495