Malachite with Adi Seredinschi

20/06/2025 42 min
 Malachite with Adi Seredinschi

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Episode Synopsis

Allen Wyma talks with Adi Seredinschi, creator of Malachite, a Byzantine-fault tolerant (BFT) consensus engine implemented in Rust.

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Timestamps

[@0:00] - Meet Adi Seredinsky, Director of Product at Informal Systems
[@5:23] - From Go to Rust: The Malachite rewrite of Tendermint
[@9:26] - Technical challenges of the original Go codebase
[@16:56] - Why Rust was chosen for the rewrite
[@22:23] - Quint: A developer-friendly language for formal methods
[@33:48] - Performance gains from the Rust rewrites
[@40:42] - Closing thoughts


Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma