#220 Manuel Araoz: Zeppelin and the Evolution of Smart Contract Development

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Zeppelin Co-Founder and CTO Manuel Araoz joined us to discuss his journey from building one of the first non-financial Bitcoin applications in 2012 to improving development and security practices for Ethereum smart contracts. We discussed the OpenZeppelin framework, a library of audited smart contracts as well as their new project zeppelin_os. Through on-chain, well-vetted and upgradeable smart contracts zeppelin_os aims to make developing Ethereum applications both easier and more secure.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- Manuel's journey in the blockchain space from proof of existence to BitPay to Streamium to Zeppelin
- Why Manuel moved away from a pure Bitcoin focus to working on Ethereum
- Why Zeppelin focuses on smart contract security
- How smart contract security evolved since the start of Ethereum
- The OpenZeppelin framework of audited Ethereum contracts
- Why zeppelin_os and standardized, upgradeable on-chain contracts are the next evolutionary step
- The core component of zeppelin_os: Kernel, SDK and markeplace
- The ZEP token and its role in zeppelin_os

Links mentioned in this episode:
- Zeppelin Website: https://zeppelin.solutions/
- OpenZeppelin Framework: https://openzeppelin.org/
- zeppelin_os: https://zeppelinos.org/
- zeppelin_os Whitepaper: https://zeppelinos.org/zeppelin_os_whitepaper.pdf

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