The Pomp Podcast
343: Joe Lallouz On Building Blockchain Infrastructure
- Bison Trails provides infrastructure and APIs enabling companies to run and manage blockchain nodes across multiple protocols without technical expertise.
- The company emerged from founders' hands-on exploration of Bitcoin mining, wallet building, and blockchain connectivity challenges they repeatedly encountered.
- Infrastructure centralization risk exists even on decentralized networks; AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure host significant portions of many blockchain networks.
- Bison Trails deploys nodes across 25+ cloud zones and providers to reduce single-point-of-failure risk and improve network redundancy for customers.
- Approximately 30 protocols are transitioning to mainnet in the next 12–18 months, with Bison Trails supporting maturation of networks like Polkadot, Cosmos, Tezos, and Algorand.
- Bitcoin and broader crypto networks address separate problems—Bitcoin tackles state-money separation; other protocols solve diverse technical and application challenges.