Blockhash: Exploring The Blockchain

For episode 436, CTO & Co-founder Mitchell Gildenberg joins Brandon Zemp on the show to elaborate on Switchboard and their customizable oracle network. Switchboard is a fully permissionless and customizable oracle network that allows any developer to build the custom feed they need. Mitchell is a former third-level software engineer and technical lead of cloud services at Google, where he worked for over four years. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a master's degree in computer science. ⏳ Timestamps: 0:00 | Introduction 1:01 | Who is Mitchell Gildenberg? 3:00 | What is Switchboard? 4:18 | What are Oracles? 5:31 | Switchboard on Solana 6:09 | Switchboard products 6:30 | Switchboard Data Feed 7:11 | Switchboard Randomness 8:03 | Switchboard Secrets 9:01 | Switchboard ecosystem & use-cases 10:34 | Latest Memecoin trend 11:03 | AI and Oracles 13:48 | Oracles for Web2 15:27 | ZK-TLS 15:48 | Future of Oracles 17:12 | Switchboard events & conferences 17:54 | Solana Ecosystem 19:14 | S