Dr Weijia Zhang on Blockchain’s Big Leap: Education, Interoperability, and Wanchain’s Edge Description
Dive into the world of blockchain with Dr. Weijia Zhang, EEA Regional Head of China and Vice President of Engineering at Wanchain Foundation, in our latest podcast episode! With over 30 research papers, 20 patents, and a knack for turning complex smart contracts into “coding poetry,” Zhang shares his journey from Tsinghua University to pioneering cross-chain interoperability, connecting Bitcoin, Ethereum, and 16+ other blockchains. Discover how Wanchain’s decentralized bridges are revolutionizing DeFi and why education is the key to unlocking blockchain’s potential.
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Anthony Patrick: Hello again, welcome to the latest episode of Crypto.News show. I am your host, Tony Noto. With me is Dorian. How are you, Dorian?
Dorian Batycka: Not too bad. Welcome, welcome, welcome to our guest this week, Dr. Zhang from Wanchain and everything interoperability. How are you, Dr. Zhang?
Weijia Zhang: Great, thank you for hosting this, great to be here.
Anthony Patrick:
You are an esteemed member of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, correct? What is it like being a member of the EEA, as they call it for short?
Weijia Zhang: Yeah, EA stands for Enterprise eCM Alliance, and this is a member-driven organization that builds standards for blockchains and blockchain interoperability as well. So I have been co-chairing the EA interoperability workgroup for a couple of years already, and we produce many good documents that decentralize security guidelines, decentralize decentralization guidelines and also data is the, we release the
DLT — Decentralized Ledger Technology Interoperability Specification. The goal of that specification is to be able to link blockchains together with a standard specification and then standard interfaces so that you can write a cross-chain code once and then deploy it to different blockchains, and they all work together. So it’s a great experience over there.
Anthony Patrick:
Right, and I remember I came across a couple of past interviews that you did on other podcasts, and you went into detail with that, on that, and it was really quite fascinating. Your expertise spans both blockchain and cognitive sciences. How do you see cognitive modeling contributing to the future of blockchain development?..
