Chorus One Podcast
66 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 4 ratingsWelcome to the Chorus One podcast - your gateway to exploring the projects we endorse, shedding light on their latest endeavors and advancements. We invite top-notch individuals from various projects, protocols, and networks who pour their passion into their work, giving you an inside look into their work. Tune in to stay in the loop!
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How does Soarchain unlock DePIN's potential? | S2E5
March 21, 2024 15:42 - 50 minutes - 91.6 MBIn Episode 6, we're excited to welcome Kerem Ozkan, the Founder of Soarchain, and Deniz Kalaslioglu, the Co-founder and CTO, as they dive into Soarchain's pivotal role in harnessing the full capabilities of its Layer 1 DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network) built on the Cosmos SDK. They shed light on how Soarchain simplifies the complexities of vehicular connectivity, offering a groundbreaking platform for applications that range from real-time insurance adjustments to AI-d...
NEAR Protocol: Exploring the Path Ahead in 2024 with Altan Tutar | S2E5
January 16, 2024 17:38 - 37 minutes - 84.7 MBWelcome to the S2 Ep 5 of the Chorus One Podcast! Every quarter, Chorus One releases an ecosystem review of a chosen protocol we support and have confidence in. In the third quarter of 2023, our spotlight was on NEAR Protocol, and now we're thrilled to welcome Altan Tutar, Senior Technical BD at NEAR Protocol, on the Chorus One Podcast to provide further insights into the protocol's intricacies. You can read the NEAR Ecosystem Review at https://chorus.one/articles/ecosystem-review-near or...
The Path to a 100k Subnets with Luigi D'Onorio DeMeo, Ava Labs S2E4
November 30, 2023 16:33 - 53 minutes - 122 MBS2Ep #4 features Luigi D'Onorio DeMeo, Head of DeFi at Ava Labs. In October 2023, Patrick O'Grady, Ava Labs' VP of Platform Engineering, unveiled ACP #13, proposing revamped minimum requirements for Subnet validators. In this podcast, our Engineering Lead Erwin Dassen and Luis Nunez of our Ventures team speak with Luigi D'Onorio DeMeo to dissect the proposed changes, how it impacts Subnet validators, the state of institutional adoption of AVAX, and more. To Stake AVAX with Chorus One,...
Lex Avellino, Passage.io | Chorus One Podcast S2E3
November 03, 2023 08:45 - 45 minutes - 103 MBIn Season 2, Episode 3, we revisit Passage.io to get an update on their ecosystem roadmap. Join us in this episode as we talk to Lex Avellino, the Founder of Passage.io! Passage.io, built on the Cosmos platform, is an innovative platform that equips creators with the tools to develop games and social experiences without the need for coding or downloads. During this episode, Lex Avellino and our host, Thalita Franklin, delve into the current progress of Passage on the roadmap to Mainnet. ...
Steven Gates, GoGoPool | Chorus One Podcast S2E2
September 27, 2023 10:25 - 43 minutes - 60 MBIn Episode 2 of Season 2 of the Chorus One Podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Steven Gates, the Founder of GoGoPool. In this conversation, hosts Luis Núñez Clavijo and Erwin Dassen speak with Steven about GoGoPool's primary mission, which is to simplify the process of launching a Subnet within the Avalanche ecosystem. The conversation also touches on various technical aspects of the protocol, its long-term vision, and its DAO. Furthermore, they discuss GoGoPool's latest offering, G...
Chorus One Podcast S2 - Ep 1 Griffin Anderson, Archway Network
August 22, 2023 08:54 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBWelcome to the inaugural episode of the freshly unveiled season two of the Chorus One Podcast! In this episode, we welcome Griffin Anderson, the CEO of Phi Labs and Co-founder of Archway Network, for the second iteration of our conversation centered around Archway Network. Now just a few weeks after the successful launch of Archway's Mainnet, our host, Thalita Franklin, engages Griffin in an insightful discussion about the protocol's transformative journey en route to Mainnet, sheddin...
Griffin Anderson, Archway Network | Chorus One Podcast S2E1
August 22, 2023 08:54 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBWelcome to the inaugural episode of the freshly unveiled season two of the Chorus One Podcast! In this episode, we welcome Griffin Anderson, the CEO of Phi Labs and Co-founder of Archway Network, for the second iteration of our conversation centered around Archway Network. Now just a few weeks after the successful launch of Archway's Mainnet, our host, Thalita Franklin, engages Griffin in an insightful discussion about the protocol's transformative journey en route to Mainnet, sheddin...
#59 Cosmos Hub: Unravelling ATOM 2.0 with Sam Hart
October 19, 2022 14:15 - 49 minutes - 58.3 MBThe highly anticipated ATOM 2.0 whitepaper was released at Cosmoverse 2022 and it proposes a swathe of changes to the way we currently know Cosmos Hub as. We talk to Sam Hart from Interchain Foundation who's also one of the authors of the whitepaper to understand the proposed changes in more detail and their possible impact on the Cosmos ecosystem. Read the ATOM 2.0 whitepaper here - https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmWXkzM74FCiERdZ1WrU33cqdStUK9dz1A8oEvYcnBAHeo Connect with Sam H...
How KYVE solves the issue of data validity | Chorus One Podcast #58
August 11, 2022 12:26 - 35 minutes - 80.9 MBBlockchains generate loads of data and tackling the issue of data availability and validity is an important one. KYVE is a Proof-of-Stake network that uses Arweave to facilitate data storage and data retrieval. Connect with KYVE - https://www.kyve.network/ https://twitter.com/KYVENetwork https://blog.kyve.network/ Connect with Chorus One - https://chorus.one/ https://twitter.com/chorusone https://chorus.one/telegram https://medium.com/chorus-one https://discord.gg/bQ6JWVa...
Paving the way for Interchain Finance - Neutron| Episode #57
July 21, 2022 12:46 - 45 minutes - 104 MBIn this episode, we talk to Vasiliy Shapovalov, Alex Esin, and Spaydh from team Neutron. The new smart contract chain aims to be the best platform for smart chain developers to build a wide range of apps in Cosmos, by maximising interoperability with the rest of the ecosystem and minimising overheads for developers. Connect with Neutron - https://twitter.com/Neutron_org Connect with Chorus One - https://chorus.one/ https://twitter.com/chorusone https://chorus.one/telegram htt...
#56 Evmos: Ethereum Virtual Machine on Cosmos
June 16, 2022 13:38 - 41 minutes - 94.4 MBEvmos is a decentralized proof of stake blockchain in the Cosmos ecosystem, that is also Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible. Evmos’ goal is to bring the world of Ethereum-based applications and assets to the Cosmos ecosystem. In this episode, we talk to Federico, co-founder of Evmos, about what differentiates Evmos from other chains, its ambitions and much more.
#55 Archway: Deploying Smart Contracts on Cosmos
June 06, 2022 12:13 - 33 minutes - 77.2 MBArchway is a smart contract platform that aims to reward its developers that build on the network with baked in incentives and rewards. In this episode, we talk to Michael & Griffin to understand Archway's mission, how it's different from other smart contract platforms, and a lot more.
#54 Autonolas: Enabling Autonomy in DAOs
May 11, 2022 13:50 - 43 minutes - 100 MBIn this episode, we talk to David and Oak from Autonolas. Autonolas has been conceptualised with a vision to 'make DAOs autonomous again'. It does that by providing a software stack to help DAOs with their off-chain operations and also with the help of an on-chain protocol. We discuss David and Oak's history, how Autonolas came about, its journey, and more. Dig in!
#53 Cosmos: On Gov Prop 69 - Adding CosmWASM to the Hub with Billy Rennekamp
May 05, 2022 15:56 - 37 minutes - 42 MBIn this episode, we talk to Billy Rennekamp, Cosmos Hub Product Lead at Interchain GmbH. As of May 2022, there is an ongoing governance vote on Cosmos to add CosmWASM to Cosmos Hub. The vote right now is leaning towards no, however some people in the Cosmos ecosystem feel like this vote is a mistake. Billy is one of those in the Cosmos ecosystem that believes adding CosmWASM to the Hub is a good move. We have Billy on the show to express his views about Cosmos Hub, CosmWASM, interchain secur...
#52 Covalent: A Billion Possibilities with Blockchain Data
April 25, 2022 17:56 - 50 minutes - 116 MBIn this episode, we talk to Ganesh Swami, co-founder of Covalent. Covalent provides a unified API that brings visibility to billions of blockchain data points. There are over 500 cryptocurrency projects using Covalent's API currently. We talk to Ganesh about Covalent's origins, technology, and its future.
#51 Passage: Building Virtual Worlds on Cosmos
March 24, 2022 16:15 - 45 minutes - 52.2 MBIn this episode, we talk to Lex Avellino, founder of Passage, a platform that will enable people to build virtual worlds on Cosmos. Metaverses have been the talk of the town since 2021 and Passage is its torch-bearer on Cosmos. We deep dive into Lex's history, Passage's roadmap and much more.
#50 Mina: Use Cases for Snapps & Snarketplace Dynamics
November 24, 2021 16:40 - 50 minutes - 58.4 MBOn the show today, we have Bijan Sharohki, Head of Product and Brandon Case, Head of Product Engineering from O1 labs, the development company working on Mina. Mina is the first protocol to use recursive zero-knowledge proofs to track the entire state of a blockchain. Using zero-knowledge proofs to track states rather than a full ledger of transactions, Mina is able to keep their blockchain to a fixed size of ~22kb. Mina enables a new category of applications called ‘Snarkified Applications’...
#49 Connext: Trustless and Fast Interoperability
November 16, 2021 12:48 - 44 minutes - 55 MBOn the show today, we have Arjun Bhuptani, founder of Connext. Connext is an interoperability network, which is going to market with NXTP, a non-custodial cross-chain protocol. Connext is trustless, meaning there is no trust placed in external validators outside 2 native blockchains where a cross-chain transaction is occurring. Connext makes use of ‘routers’, which are nodes that facilitate cross-chain transfers and hold liquidity of different assets on multiple chains. If a user wants to mo...
#48 Stargaze: Unleashing NFTs into the Cosmos with Shane Vitarana
October 07, 2021 16:21 - 36 minutes - 41.2 MBOn the show today, we have Shane Vitarana, co-founder of Stargaze. Stargaze is a fully decentralised NFT marketplace. Stargaze has built the first standard in the Cosmos ecosystem for NFTs, which is similar to the ERC-721 standard on Ethereum. Stargaze is IBC-compatible, meaning NFTs minted on Stargaze will be able to be sent to any other sovereign network in the Cosmos ecosystem, which is also IBC-compatible. Stargaze is using novel incentive mechanisms such as staking rewards to incentivi...
#47 Wormhole: A Pathway for All Blockchain Information
September 20, 2021 15:48 - 43 minutes - 40 MBOn the show today, we have Hendrik Hofstadt, director of digital assets at Jump Trading and core contributor to Wormhole. Wormhole is a simple, generic protocol that delivers a pathway for any kind of information—funds, votes, programs and more—from any blockchain in the network to any other. In short, Wormhole acts as a notary that allows message passing between networks. Recently, Wormhole announced they would launch version 2 of their network, which will go-live connecting four networks -...
#46 Umee: Building the Term Structure of Staking Reward Rates
August 25, 2021 15:47 - 37 minutes - 43.1 MBOn the show today we have Brent Xu, founder of Umee. Umee is a suite of cross-chain DeFi protocols that interconnects between Cosmos and Ethereum. Umee takes inspiration from Brent's experience in DeFi, Proof-of-Stake and Fixed Income. Umee has 3 core products at launch, multichain staking, cross-chain DeFi rates and interchain leverage. The podcast explores Brent's background in TradFi and some TradFi concepts such as the term structure of interest rates and covers how Umee is bringing a lo...
#45 Axelar: Consensus Agnostic Interoperability with Sergey Gorbunov
August 18, 2021 15:42 - 38 minutes - 44 MBOn the show today, we have Sergey Gorbunov, co-founder of Axelar. Axelar network is a decentralized state machine responsible for facilitating cross-chain requests. Axelar’s gateway protocol is a delivery and routing protocol that can work with any arbitrary blockchain regardless of consensus. This means any decentralised network can plug-in to Axelar seamlessly to access liquidity amongst other things from all other decentralised networks. Axelar also gives developers the freedom to connect...
#44 Sommelier: Improving Tooling for Liquidity Providers with Jack Zampolin
August 15, 2021 17:04 - 35 minutes - 40.7 MBOn the show today we have Jack Zampolin, co-founder of Sommelier. Sommelier network improves tooling for DeFi liquidity providers (aka LPs) on Ethereum. The first DeFi vertical that Sommelier is targeting is Uniswap V3 liquidity provision. Right now, the experience to swap assets on Uniswap is great but the tools for liquidity providers to optimise their returns are lacking. Sommelier will be used as a one-stop shop for Ethereum LPs to maximise their returns through pooling of liquidity, in...
#43 Agoric: An Integrated Economy of Secure Smart Contracts with Dean Tribble
July 27, 2021 10:22 - 49 minutes - 56.6 MBJoining Felix Lutsch and Xavier Meegan on the show today we have Dean Tribble, co-founder and CEO of Agoric Systems. Agoric is a developer-friendly environment and economy for expressible, programmable, composable and secure smart contracts. Agoric aims to be a platform that offers developers a secure version of Javascript to deploy smart contracts safely into. Agoric’s own network encourages cooperative economic activity using two tokens, RUN (a stablecoin) and BUILD (a staking token). The ...
#42 Injective: Multichain Derivative Markets with Eric Chen
July 19, 2021 16:33 - 37 minutes - 42.4 MBOn the show today we have Eric Chen, co-founder and CEO of Injective Protocol. Injective is an EVM-compatible, interoperable order-book based decentralised exchange that acts as a layer-2 sidechain, built using Tendermint-based consensus. Injective’s canary-chain phase 2 mainnet recently went live earlier in July, which introduced staking and governance to the network. Injective’s Governance has already passed the activation of spot market trading and is likely to enable derivative trading s...
#41 Moonbeam: Bringing Ethereum dApps to Polkadot with Derek Yoo
July 05, 2021 16:34 - 36 minutes - 43.1 MBOn the show today we have Derek Yoo, CEO of PureStake and co-founder of Moonbeam. Moonbeam is a Polkadot parachain designed for developers that combines full Ethereum compatibility with the power of Polkadot. Moonbeam uses another network known as Moonriver to test and verify code under real economic conditions on Kusama. Moonriver won the second-ever parachain auction on Kusama just days ago and is now producing blocks. We have Derek on to discuss Moonriver’s winning auction on Kusama, the ...
#40 Osmosis: The Interchain AMM Protocol
July 01, 2021 10:27 - 43 minutes - 51.4 MBOn the show today we have Sunny Aggarwal and Josh Lee, co-founders of Osmosis. Osmosis is a fair-launched, customizable automated market maker for interchain assets. Osmosis’ differentiator compared to other decentralised exchanges is the customisation it gives all participants in the network. For example, liquidity pool creators have the flexibility to create their own formulas and fees that determine prices of assets. Liquidity providers have customisable tools to provide liquidity to suit...
#39 Helium: From Proof of Coverage to Proof of Stake with Scott Sigel
June 21, 2021 18:32 - 41 minutes - 47.1 MBOn the show today we have Scott Sigel, Director of Operations for the Decentralized Wireless Alliance. Helium network is a novel decentralised network because it is not just a blockchain or an application, but a worldwide decentralised physical wireless network, powered by hotspots. The wireless network is known as LongFi and incorporates state-of-the-art wireless network tech with blockchain. Companies use Helium network as a cost-effective alternative to track their IoT devices and network...
Chorus One Podcast #38 - Persistence (Tushar Aggarwal)
June 14, 2021 17:29 - 37 minutes - 43.5 MBOn the show today we have Tushar Aggarwal, CEO of Persistence One. Persistence One is a network in the Cosmos ecosystem with bold ambitions to bridge traditional finance to decentralised finance. Already with 5 products outstanding, we took the time to speak with Tushar about Persistence’s journey so far. In the show we discuss the many products of Persistence, their initial use of validating nodes to bootstrap their protocol, their future plans to bring liquid staking to Cosmos, the importa...
37 Lunie: Multi-Network Staking and Governance with Jordan Bibla
May 25, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes - 54.1 MBLunie is a multi-network wallet focused on staking networks and on-chain governance. Lunie was one of the first wallets for Cosmos (then Voyager) and has since expanded to support multiple networks from the Cosmos ecosystem (Terra, E-Money) with Polkadot and other networks coming soon. In this episode, Felix is joined by Jordan Bibla. CEO and Co-Founder of Lunie, to discuss the crypto wallet and staking ecosystems. The episode begins going into the background of Lunie and the products the ...
36: Band Protocol: Off-Chain Data for the Internet of Blockchains with Soravis Srinawakoon
April 27, 2020 09:00 - 41 minutes - 59.7 MBIn this episode, Brendan and Felix are joined by Soravis Srinawakoon, Co-Founder and CEO of Band Protocol, a data governance framework for Web3. Band is soon launching its own Cosmos SDK chain focused on provisioning oracle data for blockchain applications. We cover what the oracle problem is, how Band is able to provide off-chain data to blockchain applications in a single transaction, what the team imagines the role of Band Chain to be within the ecosystem and take a look at the parties ...
35 Centrifuge & Tinlake: The OS for the Financial Supply Chain with Lucas Vogelsang
April 13, 2020 09:00 - 43 minutes - 62.6 MBCentrifuge is building the operating system for trade finance. In this episode, Brian is joined by Lukas Vogelsang, CEO of Centrifuge, to speak about the technologies Centrifuge is building to enable more efficient, transparent, and privacy-preserving supply chain financing. We start by exploring the background of the idea and the founders’ decade long background in the area of trade finance with Taulia, a company focused on invoice financing and working capital management, which is curren...
34 Flow: A Blockchain by and for Smart Contract Developers with Dieter Shirley
March 23, 2020 09:00 - 58 minutes - 81.4 MBIn this episode, Felix is joined by Dieter “dete” Shirley, CTO at Dapper Labs. The team at Dapper Labs, a spin-off from Axiom Zen, are the creators of Cryptokitties and have spent recent years to create their own blockchain optimized for decentralized applications building on their learnings of writing some of the most widely used smart contracts. The podcast begins with Dieter going into his background in crypto and how Cryptokitties emerged out of a series of ideas his former company at ...
33 Oasis: Privacy-Preserving Smart Contracts with Andrew Miller and Vishwanath Raman
March 09, 2020 09:00 - 34 minutes - 50 MBOne of the major factors hampering blockchain adoption is that current decentralized applications only function when all associated data is public. Many real world use cases are only possible when participating parties can be assured that their information is kept private. Oasis is a network that is focused on enabling privacy-preserving smart contracts through the use of secure enclaves. In this podcast episode, Meher and Brendan are joined by Andrew Miller and Vishwanath Raman, who are p...
32 Coda: Sound Money and SNARKs with Emre Tekisalp and Brad Cohn
February 17, 2020 10:00 - 43 minutes - 30.7 MBWhile most other upcoming smart contract platforms seem to have identified throughput as the major bottleneck for why blockchains haven’t found mass adoption yet, Coda has focused on a different part of the stack that they perceive to be a much more important issue plaguing blockchain, which is how long it takes for new participants to verify the blockchain. Coda is using recursive zk-SNARK technology which enables them to create a constant-sized blockchain, making it really easy for clients...
31 Unslashed: Insuring Blockchain Risks with Marouane Hajji
February 03, 2020 13:48 - 38 minutes - 54.3 MBInsurance is a part of the finance stack that has received less attention in the Defi space compared to other segments like lending and derivatives. In this episode, Meher and Felix are joined by Marouane Hajji, Co-Founder at Unslashed, to talk about blockchain risk, insurance, and the protocol that Unslashed is building. We start out exploring why blockchain risks can’t yet be insured using traditional insurance methods, as well as the go-to-market approach of Unslashed and their first prod...
30 Cosmos Governance Working Group with Figment’s Gavin Birch
January 28, 2020 17:24 - 41 minutes - 58.1 MBIn this episode Felix is joined by Gavin Birch, community analyst at Figment Networks, who has took it upon himself to improve the decentralized governance process of the Cosmos Hub. We start by going into Gavin’s background in the crypto space and how he joined the Figment team before exploring Gavin’s experience working on coordinating the upgrade to Cosmos Hub 3. Figment recently put forth a proposal to the Cosmos community pool, which is a source of capital that the Cosmos Hub is coll...
29 Terra: Payment Processing on the Blockchain with Do Kwon
January 20, 2020 10:00 - 43 minutes - 60.8 MBWe took Terra passing the 1 million accounts milestones as a reason to bring Terra’s CTO Do Kwon on the podcast. Terra is a blockchain network and stablecoin system with meaningful real-world adoption through integrating their mobile payment app CHAI. In this interview, Brian talks to Do about payment processing and how Terra enables merchants in eCommerce and elsewhere to save on transaction fees. The two discuss the flow of how a transaction in the CHAI app gets included on the Terra blo...
28 Stake Capital DAO: Revenue-Sharing and Liquid Staking with Julien Bouteloup and Leopold Joy
January 13, 2020 10:00 - 41 minutes - 58.3 MBThis episode covers the Stake Capital DAO, an interesting project aiming to form a revenue-sharing staking and DeFi DAO that also issues tokenized staking positions called LTokens. The Stake Capital DAO is a project by Stake Capital, a staking service provider operating on various networks including the Cosmos Hub, Livepeer, Tezos, and Loom. In this episode, Felix is joined by Stake Capital founders Julien and Leopold to discuss the recently revealed plans to launch a DAO. It dives into th...
27 Validator Business Model Discussion with the Decentralized Staking Defenders
January 06, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 98.3 MBThis episode is a re-upload of recent roundtable hosted by Chris Remus of Chainflow that featured multiple validator team members to discuss the future of business models for operators of staking node infrastructure. The roundtable discussion starts with introductions to the participants before going straight into the current state of the validator space and approaches to business models for node operators. Make sure to check out Chris Remus’ conclusion post that features questions, key ...
26 Economics of Proof-of-Stake versus Proof-of-Work with Eric Wall
December 23, 2019 10:00 - 59 minutes - 83.3 MBThere’s a long standing argument about the wastefulness of Proof-of-Work mining. To some, Proof-of-Stake is a viable, less wasteful alternative to achieve distributed consensus in a permission-less setting. In this episode, Brian is joined by Eric Wall, Fund Manager at Arcane Assets, to discuss the thought process that brought Erik, who is a strong Bitcoin advocate, to re-consider Proof-of-Stake as a potential alternative to Proof-of-Work. The conversations starts by going into Eric’s ba...
25 Crypto Mega Theses with Multicoin’s Kyle Samani
December 16, 2019 13:38 - 39 minutes - 55.1 MBMulticoin Capital is one of the best known crypto-focused funds worldwide. The team subscribes to three major theses in the space: open finance, Web3, and stateless currencies. In this episode Brendan is joined by Kyle Samani from Multicoin to dive into how Kyle sees the future for the crypto space play out. The interview goes into the role of centralized exchanges and implications for the ecosystem, starting with taking a look at Binance’s approach that Multicoin has dubbed “blitzscaling”...
24 NEAR: Sharding Economics and Developer Business Models with Illia Polosukhin
December 09, 2019 18:35 - 52 minutes - 72.7 MBIn this episode Felix is joined by Illia to discuss NEAR’s economic model, its trade-offs and advantages. NEAR is a sharded blockchain with a unique economic model that seeks to unify gas cost across shards through load balancing. With this model, NEAR is able to significantly improve the user and developer experience for cross-shard applications. The episode walks through the founding story of NEAR, what dynamic sharding is and how it works and NEAR’s fee model for computation and state...
23 Microtick: Price Oracles and Short-Term Options with Mark Jackson and Kent Barton
December 02, 2019 16:13 - 39 minutes - 55.3 MBMicrotick is an innovative protocol designed to foster global price agreement for any type of asset through an economic game between market makers providing quotes and traders placing bets. Microtick is a ShapeShift research project that is currently live in the form of a Cosmos SDK testnet. In this episode, Meher and Felix are joined by Mark and Kent, who are leading Microtick’s research and development. We dive into the background of Microtick and how the project developed inside of Shap...
22 Ethermint: EVM on Cosmos with Chainsafe’s Austin Abell and Gregory Markou
November 25, 2019 13:51 - 37 minutes - 53.2 MBChainsafe is an R&D consulting firm focused on blockchain technology. The team is building clients and applications for various blockchain projects including Ethereum, Polkadot, and Cosmos. In this interview, Brian is talking to Austin and Gregory, who have been working on the Cosmos SDK module called “Ethermint”. Ethermint is bringing the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) to the Cosmos ecosystem allowing developers to launch their own blockchains with EVM support. One of the chains that is goi...
21 IBC: Connecting the Interchain with Christopher Goes
November 12, 2019 17:19 - 41 minutes - 58.7 MBCore to the Cosmos vision is interoperability between various ledgers on the “internet of blockchains”, sometimes also referred to as the interchain. Our guest this week, Christopher Goes, is the lead on the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol (IBC) that is core to fulfilling this vision. IBC aims to be the rails of the interchain, analogous to what TCP/IP is to the internet. Christopher is wearing many hats in the cryptocurrency space: aside from his Researcher role at Tendermint, he is...
20 StakingRewards.com: Aggregating Data for Staking Assets with Mirko Schmiedl
November 04, 2019 10:00 - 34 minutes - 32.6 MBThis episode Felix is joined by Mirko Schmiedl, Founder of StakingRewards.com, a website focused on displaying various metrics about staking tokens. We dive into what kind of data users of Staking Rewards can currently see, what this data is useful for, as well as what Mirko imagines the site to cover in the future. Additionally, we talk about the state of Proof-of-Stake and different staking provider models, the research studies the Staking Rewards team has carried out, as well as the dif...
19 yTokens: DeFi Innovation in Crypto with Paradigm’s Dan Robinson
October 28, 2019 09:00 - 44 minutes - 42 MBIn this episode Brendan and Meher interview Dan Robinson, Researcher at Paradigm, who has worked on various cutting-edge topics in the crypto space. We start out exploring Dan’s background and the various projects he has worked on before starting at Paradigm and how his extensive collaborations with different topics and actors have led to his most recent position. The episode then dives into the ideas that he has brought forth, specifically Yield Tokens (yTokens). yTokens are a novel way t...
18 Kava: Cross-Chain Collateralized Debt Positions with Brian Kerr
October 21, 2019 09:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBCurrently in the blockchain ecosystem most decentralized finance applications are built on Ethereum. Kava is seeking to bring crypto-backed borrowing in the form of Collateralized Debt Positions (CDPs) to the Cosmos ecosystem. The Kava blockchain is a Maker-style platform built using the Cosmos SDK that enables users to borrow a dollar-pegged stablecoin (USDX) by locking up collateral from different blockchains (BTC, ATOM, XRP) in the system. In this episode, Brian interviews Brian Kerr, CEO...
17 Celo: Financial Inclusion and Mobile First Light Clients with Marek Olszewski
October 14, 2019 09:00 - 31 minutes - 29.9 MBCelo is a Proof-of-Stake network focused on usability and financial inclusion in emerging markets. The team is combining innovations that aim to financially empower unbanked people in developing economies. In this episode Brian talks to Marek Olszewski, founder and CTO of Celo Labs. The episode specifically tackles Celo’s staking and full node incentive design, but also goes into how Celo built a mobile-first smart contract platform. This includes a lightweight identity protocol that maps ph...