Clovyr’s Amber Baldet and Patrick Nielsen on Building Simple Tools for a Wider Reach

In Relay Chain’s second episode, Joe Petrowski (Research Analyst, Parity) talks to Amber Baldet and Patrick Nielsen from Clovyr. They discuss connecting app devs with tools to easily plug into blockchains, non-surveillance business models, why working for large corporations has its value, and more. Check it out and subscribe for more episodes of Relay Chain.

Highlights:
(00:22) How Clovyr is connecting application developers with tools to easily plug into blockchains.
(05:44) Customizability versus ease of use.
(11:16) The dream of the Internet as its own jurisdiction.
(17:27) Non-surveillance business models.
(23:49) Targeting developers who so far have not cared about blockchain.
(25:33) Building APIs in a changing protocol landscape.
(33:42) Decentralization as an ongoing process.
(42:28) The value (and challenges) of working for a large corporation.

Special Guests: Amber Baldet and Patrick Nielsen.

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Relay Chain is a podcast covering blockchain development and building the decentralized web. We focus on the cutting edge of blockchain tech, including Substrate (https://parity.io/substrate) and Polkadot (https://polkadot.network). Brought to you by Parity Technologies (https://parity.io), a core blockchain infrastructure company. Parity is creating an open-source creative commons that will enable people to create better institutions through technology. Follow us at @paritytech (https://twitter.com/paritytech) and @relaychain (https://twitter.com/relaychain). To be informed of new episodes, subscribe to the podcast and our newsletter (https://parity.io/newsletter).