Blockhash: Exploring The Blockchain

For episode 429, Co-founder Yves La Rose joins Brandon Zemp to discuss the upcoming mainnet launch of exSat. exSat is a new Docking Layer with protocols that extend BTC’s data consensus, improving interoperability, scalability, and security. It allows direct BTC and token balance queries, enabling seamless asset and information flow across networks and Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions. Key benefits include multi-index support, BTC transaction-triggered logic, EVM and Solidity compatibility, universal gas fee support, ZK Rollups, and BTC staking. Yves demonstrated an early interest in information technology, creating his first computer and writing his first program at the age of seven. His passion for decentralization and blockchain technology led him to mine Bitcoin in 2010, utilizing his BTC earnings to upgrade his computer. Before fully committing to the crypto industry, he worked in national politics, serving as an economist and policy adviser for the Canadian federal government and later in the communicatio