MoneroKon 2019 - Tari: Advancing Monero Through Ecosystem Development (Riccardo "fluffypony" Spagni)

Riccardo “fluffypony” Spagni presents his ideas for Monero on Tari.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeSSnppixY

Quotes

It's a side chain in the sense that it's merge mined with Monero. [...] We might have a synthetic asset for Monero that exists on Tari and then you're able to swap in and out of that.

– at 7m27s

The building block of Tari are, again, having actual use cases - not "build it and they will come", not "field of dreams", but saying like "Who are the actual users? Who are the actual developers and the actual issuers that will want to use Tari?"

– at 8m10s

We want Monero to have broader appeal, but in order to have broader appeal there is all sorts of things that we need to do that we might not be able to if we just rely on the core community as it is right now.

– at 11m2s

Ultimately I think we can all acknowledge that using Monero is kinda clunky. You know. It's not easy. Having 95 character long addresses is not easy.

– at 14m32s

Now we have a bunch of really cool tools in Monero [...], but they are clunky to use and we believe that [...] we can do better from a UX perspective.

– at 15m39s