In this episode, we sit down with Anurag Arjun, co-founder of Polygon and now Avail, to unpack his journey from an early fascination with Bitcoin to building two of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in crypto.

We explore what it really took to get Polygon off the ground, why Anurag believes interoperability is the biggest problem in Web3 right now, and how Avail aims to connect fragmented chains into one seamless experience. We also dive into the role of ZK tech, real-world asset tokenization, and why now might be the best time to build in crypto.

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Avail Website: https://www.availproject.org/

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

01:40 - Anurag discovers Bitcoin

06:20 - Polygon’s birth in a co-working space

08:20 - Scaling from 0 to Billions

12:46 - Failures

15:00 - Founder Mode

18:00 - Crypto Is Fragmented

23:57 - Founding Avail 

28:33 - Launching Nexus

33:20 - Tackling Interoperability Across Crypto

38:37 - TEEs

43:27 - “ZK is going to win”

50:25 - Most Excited About…

51:40 - What’s Next For Avail

56:00 - From Cypherpunk to RWAs

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