Today’s guest is Alan Keegan. Alan is the co-founder and CSO of Mamori Labs, the company building the Kinto Network. Kinto is a soon-to-be-launched L2 with user permissioning built into the base layer. Prior to that, Alan worked at numerous companies including Bridgewater Associates and Sense Finance. 

Get involved: https://engen.kinto.xyz/

Learn more about Alan: https://twitter.com/MisterKeegan

Follow Kinto: https://twitter.com/KintoXYZ

[00:00:00] Introduction 

[00:00:30] What is Kinto?

[00:05:45] The levels of on-chain compliance

[00:08:30] Comparing against other solutions in the market

[00:13:35] Unlocking RWAs full potential 

[00:18:00] Attracting capital to the chain 

[00:22:30] Discussing the bear case of permissioned chains

[00:27:00] State of ecosystem apps on Kinto on Day 1

[00:30:50] Benefits account abstraction 

[00:36:10] Kinto and bridging 

[00:38:00] Balancing Kinto with broader crypto ethos 

[00:41:00] Alan's background 

[00:44:00] Alan's time at Bridgewater 

[00:51:25] Co-Founding OmegaOne

[00:52:45] Founding a clothing company

[01:00:00] The concept of "participatory design"

[01:04:40] Alan's time at Sense Finance

[01:06:50] Differences between application vs networks

[01:09:00] Initial draw to the ideals of Kinto

[01:11:45] Get involved with Kinto! 

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