Fabric Cryptography x Lagrange: Building Hardware for Trust

In this conversation from Decvon 2024 in Bangkok, Fabric Cryptography Founder & CEO Michael Gao sat down with Lagrange Co-founder & CEO Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh. Michael discusses how hardware can be a powerful force for decentralization and shares insights on Fabric's general-purpose chip architecture for cryptography acceleration. Conversation topics include: 1. Hardware's role in democratizing computational resources 2. The journey from Bitcoin mining to building specialized ZK chips 3. Challenges of creating general-purpose vs. fixed-function hardware 4. Performance benchmarks of Fabric's upcoming chip 5. How ZK hardware will bridge web2 and web3 applications 6. Vision for restoring trust in digital systems through cryptography 7. The future of mainstream cryptography adoption