Taiko Labs co-founder Daniel Wang first wanted to make an “unstoppable” social network and found his way to an Ethereum “based rollup” in the process.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, China plunged its economic capital, Shanghai, into a two-month lockdown in an attempt to outlast the virus — but it also wanted to eradicate any dissent regarding its zero-COVID policies, sparking one of Ethereum’s so-called “based rollups.”
“I lived in my apartment in the Shanghai COVID shutdown. I lived in my small apartment for almost three months without going out once,” Daniel Wang, co-founder and CEO of Taiko Labs — creator of the Ethereum layer 2 based rollup Taiko — told Cointelegraph at DevCon in Bangkok.
“I felt like I wanted to say things in China, but it’s not allowed. So my first idea is to build a decentralized publishing network,” he said.
