Interchain.FM
129 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsInterchain.FM is the Cosmos Radio Station which shines a light on the protocols that solve the hardest problems in Web3. It's a technical podcast that uncovers the vibrant world of bleeding edge technology built in the pursuit of anti-censorship, freedom, and preserving the privacy of the sovereign individual. Become an Interchain.FM🥩 staker on Osmosis, Comdex, and Umee!
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Babylon: Bitcoin Staking, 45 Cosmos Chains to Checkpoint to BTC
March 25, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBBabylon Pt. 1: https://www.youtube.com/live/Zfs-RE1jUPk Updates since our last ep: timestamping testnet has 45 cosmos chains bitcoin staking, babylon's brainchild partnering with cosmos hub btc staking testnet launched with 100k nft minted for the first 100 stakers in 48 hours Guest: David Tse
Google Whistleblower: Climate Change is Caused by the Sun!
March 11, 2024 14:21 - 1 hour - 68 MBThe true cause of climate change, as it turns out, is not anthropogenic; it's cyclical. Zach Vorhies, the Google Whistleblower, who blew the whistle on Google's machine learning fairness algorithm in 2018 on Project Veritas, comes to Interchain.FM to discuss current events. Chjango Unchained interviews him about the Israel-Palestine conflict and whether it can escalate into a hot world war. Will the flower of our youth be sent to the meat grinder?
Neon EVM & deBridge - The First EVM on Solana Makes TXs Fast and Cheap $NEON
March 04, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBEthereum may not always be around but the EVM is forever. Neon EVM runs on Solana, inheriting Solana's lightning fast tx speeds and low gas costs. After having integrated with deBridge, it's now interoperable with the rest of the EVM ecosystem on the Ethereum side. We break down the precise mechanics behind the tech that enables this and address the Solana chain halt on February 6, 2024. #web3news #interchainfm #cryptocurrency #cryptopodcasts #evm #ethereum #solana 💟 SUPPORT iFM If you e...
$50B Omnichain Interoperability Protocol Eyes Cosmos, LayerZero Enters the Chat $ZRO
February 26, 2024 19:51 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBBryan Pelligrino joins Interchain.FM to hint about LayerZero's plans to expand support for the Cosmos ecosystem. One of the largest bridging protocols by volume, LayerZero has amassed over $50Bn in tx volume last year alone with $200-300Mn in gas spent across all chains. LayerZero currently powers Stargate, Aptos bridge, BTC.b, DefiKingdoms, Radiant, TraderJoe, Pancakeswap, Abracadabra/Magic Internet Money (MIM), HOlograph, and Gas.zip among the most prominent bridges. #blockchaintech #tech...
Asteroid - Inscriptions Take Over Cosmos Hub $ROIDS | Interchain.FM
February 21, 2024 12:56 - 40 minutes - 38.6 MBAsteroids hit the Cosmos Hub and spur an explosion event of mass inscriptions. But what are inscriptions and why are they so frothy? Some even say $ROIDS will flippen $ATOM! Will it? 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► App: asteroidprotocol.io #asteroidprotocol #blockchaintech #technews #web3news #interchainfm #cryptocurrency #cryptopodcasts #cosmoscrypto #inscriptions #bitcoininscriptions #ordinals 💟 SUPPORT iFM If you'd like to support our work, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing to ...
Celestia Liquid Staking, milkTIA, Goes Live on Osmosis Supercharged Liquidity Pool
February 13, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBMilky Way is the first liquid staking protocol for TIA, milkTIA. And it's live on the Cosmos DeFi Hub, Osmosis exchange. #blockchaintech #technews #web3news #interchainfm #cryptocurrency #cryptopodcasts #liquidstaking 💟 SUPPORT iFM If you'd like to support our work, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing to Chjango Unchained's YouTube channel. If you're a Cosmos appchain user and hold ATOM, OSMO, CANTO, or TIA (soon), your delegation would immensely help us out! You can sup...
Did the Celestia Mainnet Launch Just End the Era of Monolithic L1s?
February 06, 2024 13:52 - 58 minutes - 55.2 MBCelestia pioneered the modular stack, an upgrade of the monolithic stack. With 700 rollups about to be deployed on top of Celestia, will web3 live up to the promise of scaling to support hundreds of millions of new users? 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► Specs: https://github.com/celestiaorg/celest... ► Website: https://celestia.org ► GitHub: https://github.com/celestiaorg/CIPs ► Blobstream: https://github.com/celestiaorg/blobst... Disclosure: Chjango Unchained is an investor of Celestia and Vistara ...
Nomic: Bridge Bitcoin in or out of Cosmos without a CEX | Interchain.FM
January 29, 2024 14:00 - 43 minutes - 41.6 MBA critical onramp for DeFi just arrived. After there was Thorchain, there is Nomic. Now you can onramp directly into Cosmos DeFi by bridging in from Bitcoin, all without needing a CEX! 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► App: https://nomic.io Matt Bell: @mappum on twitter #interchainjam #blockchaintech #technews #web3news #interchainfm #cryptocurrency #cryptopodcasts #bitcoin #bitcoinnews 💟 SUPPORT iFM If you enjoy this content, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing to Chjango Unchained...
Alex Tapscott's Web3 Book Onboards Newbies to the Web 3.0 Frontier
January 22, 2024 14:00 - 32 minutes - 31.8 MBIn Web3, award-winning author and technology investor Alex Tapscott provides a cutting-edge guide to the Internet’s next era. Covering everything from the metaverse and non-fungible tokens to DAOs, decentralized finance, and self-sovereign identity, this indispensable, forward-thinking book describes the building blocks and often hidden technologies that will be foundational to our cultural and economic progress. 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► About Web3: Charting the Internet's Next Economic & Cul...
This is how AI and blockchains will actually interact. It's not how you think | Interchain.FM
January 15, 2024 14:00 - 20 minutes - 20.8 MBThis is a look into how engineers from web 2.0 are developing infrastructure to parse vast "lakes" of onchain data. With the help of AI, cross-chain communication protocols, and access to nodes storing and serving that data, will web 3.0 soon get its very own Google to index and parse this new "digital crypto ocean?" #blockchaintech #technews #web3news #interchainfm #cryptocurrency #cryptopodcasts 💟 SUPPORT iFM If you'd like to support our work, please give it a thumbs up and consider sub...
IBC Moves to Unlock Binance's $2.6 Billion Onchain TVL to Cosmos | Manifest Destiny IBC
January 11, 2024 14:00 - 41 minutes - 39.7 MBBinance Smart Chain is the most recent blockchain to be unlocked with IBC. In total, $29+ billion has moved over IBC. With BSC joining the IBC Manifest Destiny, will Cosmos see the $2.6+ billion TVL flood into its ecosystem? #interchainjam #blockchaintech #technews #web3news #interchainfm #cryptocurrency #cryptopodcasts #binance 💟 SUPPORT iFM If you'd like to support our work, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing to Chjango Unchained's YouTube channel. If you're a Cosmos a...
Metamask Snaps unlocks Cosmos Ecosystem to 30M+ new users?!
January 08, 2024 14:00 - 46 minutes - 44.6 MB✨About Cosmos Metamask Snaps ✨ Cosmos Snap for MetaMask will allow independent developers to build a feature for MetaMask, lower the barriers to entry for collaboration and integration, and move us one step closer to an interoperable future. MetaMask is enabling its 30 million+ wallet users to seamlessly and securely connect to the Cosmos ecosystem and provide the framework for Cosmos users to extend their wallets with third-party components, bolstering safety while utilizing plugins within...
As blockchains lean into modularity, are we also leaning into re-centralization?
January 04, 2024 14:00 - 16 minutes - 17.2 MB✨About Mantle ✨ Mantle is a modular layer 2 scaling solution built on top of Ethereum using Eigenlayer for data availability (DA), EigenDA. It's an Optimism fork and thus is EVM-compatible and running the OVM. #blockchaintech #technews #web3news #interchainfm #cryptocurrency #cryptopodcasts #ethereum #eigenlayer #cosmosnetwork #celestia 💟 SUPPORT iFM If you enjoy this content, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing to Chjango Unchained's channel. If you stake on Cosmos Hub,...
Risc Zero Seeks to Scale Decentralized Computing for Modular Architectures through zk
January 01, 2024 14:00 - 25 minutes - 24.9 MB✨About Risc Zero ✨ Risc Zero is a computational platform that brings the power of zero knowledge (zk) primitives to any onchain or offchain network. Applications using Risc Zero can range from onchain orderbooks, gamefi, RWAs, and any onchain application that needs higher throughput without the cost. They're developing the zkVM, a generalized virtual machine (VM) with a built-in zk proving system that implements the same kind of computer architecture as what developers are familiar with in ...
Why is web3 still not widely adopted?
December 28, 2023 14:00 - 18 minutes - 18.6 MBI recorded this episode with Hyperlane's founder for Sovereign Radio and subsequently reposting it to my own channels. Hyperlane is an interoperability protocol and an alternative to IBC. This conversation just barely scratches the surface about Hyperlane and is in fact not about Hyperlane at all. More important than the technicals, we articulate what phenomenon is stunting web3's development. Hint: it's a cultural one. Despite having existed just shy of 15 years, the crypto space has unde...
Espresso - decentralized shared sequencer for Ethereum rollups
December 25, 2023 14:00 - 21 minutes - 21.5 MB✨About Espresso ✨ The Espresso Sequencer supports the decentralization of L2s. It handles the decentralized sequencing and data availability of rollup transactions, functioning as middleware between rollups and their underlying layer-1 (L1) platforms. Guest: Jill Gunter (formerly Jill Carlson) #blockchaintech #web3 #interchainfm #cryptocurrency #cryptopodcasts #ethereum #rollups 💟 SUPPORT iFM If you enjoy this content, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing to Chjango Uncha...
Levana Finance Pt. 2 - Trade Perpetuals on Osmosis, Neutron, Sei, Injective
December 21, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MB✨About Levana✨ Levana builds innovative decentralized finance solutions designed to make leverage trading accessible to everyone. Levana stands for LEV-erage AN-y A-sset. Their perpetuals product is now live on Osmosis. The most recent appchain that they added support for is Sei. In this episode, you'll get a live demo of the working product! Don't miss it. 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► Primer: https://www.youtube.com/live/65xSeT3BRn0 ► Socials: / levana_protocol ► App: https://trade.levana.fin...
Wormhole Gateway - New Portal to the Interchain Unlocked
December 18, 2023 14:16 - 56 minutes - 53.6 MB✨About Wormhole Gateway✨ Wormhole Gateway is an application-specific blockchain built with the Cosmos SDK, purpose-built for the Cosmos ecosystem with seamless composability with the Wormhole stack. It will allow fungible assets to be transferred across the Interchain via IBC. #interchainjam #blockchaintech #technews #web3news #interchainfm #cryptocurrency #cryptopodcasts 💟 SUPPORT iFM If you enjoy this content, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing to Chjango Unchained's c...
Catalyst AMM - Cross-chain AMM built for the modular future
December 14, 2023 14:00 - 50 minutes - 48.1 MB✨About Catalyst ✨ Catalyst is the permissionless cross-chain Automated Market Maker (AMM) for the modular future. It enables easy liquidity connections and asset swaps between different blockchains, such as Ethereum, Cosmos, and rollups like Optimism and Eclipse. The goal of Catalyst is to create an interconnected ecosystem where users can effortlessly access assets and applications across multiple chains, and developers can easily launch new blockchains and connect them to existing networ...
How Akash Skynet will unleash an AI future no one is prepared for
December 11, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 103 MB✨About Akash AI Supercloud ✨ There is no denying the state of the world we live in. Just as the success of the Manhattan Project transitioned the old world into the new with the atomic bomb, AI is similarly shifting our's out of the Information Age into the AI Age. One has to wonder what this means for humanity and where blockchain technology fits into the story arc. Greg Osuri of Akash seems to be a contributor to that story through their new AI Supercloud that is slated to ship in their 6...
Centauri - The first IBC connection made outside of the Cosmos ecosystem
December 04, 2023 14:00 - 52 minutes - 49.9 MB✨About Centauri ✨ Centauri is an extension of the IBC protocol that facilitates trust-minimized cross-ecosystem communication among various blockchains; it already connects Polkadot, Kusama, and Cosmos, with plans for expansion to Ethereum, NEAR, and other ecosystems. Centauri expands the existing IBC beyond Cosmos appchains for the first time. Similar to any IBC connection between two chains, Centauri supports asset transfers (including fungible and non-fungible tokens), generic message pa...
Duality - 2nd Chain to Launch on Replicated Security to Join Atom Economic Zone
November 27, 2023 14:05 - 1 hour - 58.2 MB✨About Duality ✨ The vision for Duality is to take a major step towards building efficient and incentive-aligned markets that realize the original vision of decentralized finance: open and fair finance without middlemen. To do so requires full-stack control: custom logic for transaction inclusion and ordering, reduced block times to improve UX, modifications to fee markets to reduce network congestion and more. It's also imperative that a new protocol should never sacrifice community, secur...
Urbit-pilling Cosmonauts: How Osmosis will act as the gateway to the Decentralized Web
November 20, 2023 20:40 - 1 hour - 78.5 MB✨About Urbit ✨ Urbit is a next generation operating system (OS) for the decentralized web. It's a fully vertically integrated stack that includes a decentralized ID layer, an OS, a fully fungible frontend that anyone can spin up, and much more. If you're interested in learning about what's in store for the dWeb, then don't miss this show. Guests: Josh Lehman, Executive Director of Urbit Foundation, AJ Lamarc, Software Developer & Urbit Shill 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► Website: https://urbit.org...
How Comdex plans to go Interchain Security
November 13, 2023 14:00 - 45 minutes - 43.2 MB✨About Comdex ✨ Comdex is a commodities DEX that has built a vertically integrated interchain DeFi UX. It's an Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC)-enabled Cosmos appchain with a native staking token, $CMDX. In this episode, we interview Siddarth Patil about the latest developments since our first episode (linked below). Chjango Unchained presents some questions concerning Comdex's financials. And lastly, we cover Comdex's plans to launch with Cosmos Hub Interchain Security and join the Ato...
Shade Protocol - ShadeSwap, $SILK stablecoin & asymmetric liquidity
November 06, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 62.2 MB✨About Shade Protocol ✨ Shade protocol operates a DEX, ShadeSwap, on Secret Network. One of its killer features is asymmetric liquidity. Its multi-collateral backed reflexive stablecoin, SILK, is pegged to a basket of global currencies and commodities. You'll learn about how Shade utilizes Secret Network's secure enclaves to shield transactions and possibly even mitigate MEV, an existential threat to DEX UX. 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► Socials: / shade_protocol #interchainjam 💟 SUPPORT iF...
Evolution of incentivized testnets, from Proof of Stake to NFTs
October 30, 2023 13:00 - 47 minutes - 44.8 MB✨About Game of NFTs ✨ GoN centers around testing the functionality of performing cross-chain transfers of NFTs across the Cosmos ecosystem. In having Interchain NFTs, it potentially opens up a world of novel use cases that may evolve into real-world applicability. But is the ability to move NFTs across blockchains a necessary standard, or is the future going to hold something different for NFTs? 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► https://interchainnfts.dev/gon/ #interchainjam 💟 SUPPORT iFM If you enj...
Stride - Liquid Staking Derivatives (LSD) for Cosmos Appchains
October 23, 2023 13:00 - 58 minutes - 55.6 MB✨About Stride ✨ Stride is a first-mover in the LSD sector of the Interchain. It lets you stake your Cosmos tokens (e.g. ATOM) through Stride's platform which will then allow you to mint a requisite staked derivative (e.g. stATOM) that you could use for DeFi. If you've been wondering why the $STRD has gone on a rip, it's because it's the LidoDAO or RocketPool equivalent of the Cosmos. Stride will be receiving Interchain Security from the Cosmos Hub and is galvanizing financial incentives for...
PolymerDAO - How the IBC Standard Will be Exported to non-Cosmos Chains
October 16, 2023 15:08 - 47 minutes - 44.9 MB✨About PolymerDAO ✨ Polymer is a hub chain that converts non-Cosmos chains into single-slot finality Tendermint BFT-speak in order to make them IBC-compatible. In effect, it acts as an IBC bridge between the EVM and IBC ecosystems while cementing IBC as de facto message passing protocol. Where if they succeed, Polymer may help to usher in IBC as the cross-chain communication standard for the industry. 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► Socials: https://twitter.com/polymerdao #interchainjam #ibc #interc...
ZetaChain - an omni-chain L1 aggregator
October 09, 2023 13:00 - 44 minutes - 42.6 MB✨About ZetaChain ✨ ZetaChain is a Cosmos-SDK PoS chain that aggregates the state of all of its supported chains like Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ethereum, Eth L2s, Solana, Terra, and Algorand. It's a smart contract-enabled chain that does wrapping and unwrapping of tokens similarly to wrapped BTC or tBTC to allow for bridge-less trading of wrapped tokens across the Cosmos. 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► GitHub: https://github.com/zeta-chain ► Whitepaper: https://www.zetachain.com/whitepaper.pdf #interchainj...
USDC Cosmos Hub Interchain Security launch postponed amidst new Noble chain direction
October 02, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 65.4 MB✨About Noble ✨ Noble is an asset issuance Proof-of-Authority special-purpose chain for the minting/burning of Circle's USDC. It is intended for injecting native USDC liquidity directly into the IBC ecosystem without the latter relying on EVM bridges to import with. 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► TWITTER: @noble_xyz ► WEB: nobleassets.xyz 💟 SUPPORT iFM If you enjoy this content, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing to my channel. If you use Osmosis, Umee, and/or Comdex, you can supp...
Interchain Jam - 2 years, 274 appchains, $178B AUM later, Cosmos IBC turns 2!
September 25, 2023 13:00 - 42 minutes - 40.4 MBInterchain Jam is the latest segment brought to you by Cosmos and hosted by Chjango Unchained to distill the rapidly expanding Cosmos ecosystem down into pure signal. It will be a segment that augments the current Cosmos Radio Station, Interchain.FM, starting in April 2023. In this inaugural episode, we will be bringing on the builders who were integral to the success of the TCP/IP layer of the Internet of Blockchains. Guest speakers include Josh Lee (Dogemos) of Keplr, Christopher Goes of ...
Haseeb Qureshi, Emin Gun Sirer, Chjango Unchained: Will Crypto Survive or will AI eat its lunch?
September 18, 2023 13:00 - 49 minutes - 47.2 MBI sat down with Haseeb Qureshi, MP of Dragonfly Capital, and Emin Gun Sirer, Co-founder of Avalanche, to discuss crypto macro. We ran through a wide range of discussions covering regulations in the US, China, Singapore, HK, and the Middle East before moving on to speculate what will ultimately happen to SBF and Do Kwon. We go in-depth about Balaji's bet against the USD and for Bitcoin. (Hint: neither one of our guests thinks BTC will win out.) And much more! One of the most fun times I've ha...
Quasar
September 11, 2023 13:00 - 33 minutes - 32.2 MB✨About Quasar ✨ Quasar is to Cosmos as Yearn is to Ethereum. The difference is, since Quasar is one of the first cross- chain yield aggregators, it will be leveraging Interchain Accounts to do much of the heavy-lifting for optimizing yield strategies that will allow you to farm efficiently across the IBC ecosystem. 💟 SUPPORT iFM If you enjoy this content, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing to my channel. If you use Osmosis, Umee, and/or Comdex, you can support by delegat...
Not clickbait! Squid will revolutionize DeFi, bi-directional trade from EVM to Cosmos in 20 seconds
September 04, 2023 13:00 - 17 minutes - 17.3 MB✨About Squid Router ✨ Squid router can be thought of as a bridge and DEX aggregator in one. It uses Axelar under the hood. Axelar is one of the most popular bridging options when you want to bridge between the EVM and IBC ecosystems. If you haven't watched it already, I did two interviews with Sergey, the co-founder of Axelar, so be sure to check those out. Squid does the manual labor of performing each and every hair-tearing step for you when you're migrating an Ethereum native stablecoin,...
Zo - Web3 chat app powered by decentralized digital ID seeks to disrupt SMS based identity
August 28, 2023 13:00 - 31 minutes - 30.8 MB✨About Zo ✨ Zo is a chat app, like Signal, built with web3 in mind. Despite being in the modern era of social and chat, the underlying infrastructure is frustratingly antiquated. Using SMS to log in to any platform is extremely insecure and it's akin to driving a horse-drawn cart across an interstate highway—antiquated. But with the advent of web3 identity, now you can drive a Tesla across that highway. It's more secure, privacy-preserving, and it gives you your sovereignty back. As in, you...
Near protocol's Blockchain Operating System - An operating system for blockchains. What this means for consumer dApps
August 21, 2023 13:00 - 30 minutes - 29.4 MB✨About Near protocol's Blockchain Operating System ✨ There's the Linux operating system and the iOS, but is there such thing as a blockchain operating system (bOS)? Near is building in that direction. If you are to live in a future world where 99% of consumer applications will be running on decentralized infrastructure, then this must be where it starts. At the very least, you will have decentralized frontends that should not have to rely on centralized servers. The BOS will work with diff...
Eclipse - Could 90+% of blockchain activity happen on (zk)rollups within a few years?
August 14, 2023 13:00 - 24 minutes - 24.1 MB✨About Eclipse ✨ There seems to be a Cambrian explosion of alternative VMs (e.g. Move VM, Gno VM, Solana VM, Fuel VM). But the execution layer is not the only layer that's being reimagined. Up until the advent of Celestia, the crypto research space has only ever thought of consensus/security, data availability, and execution as one single monolithic stack—a Layer 1 (L1). In 2023, that all changes. Now there's about to be a Cambrian explosion of Data Availability (DA) layers (e.g. Celestia,...
Celestia Rollkit: Modular frameworks—the future of blockchains or just another narrative?
August 07, 2023 13:00 - 38 minutes - 36.9 MB✨About Rollkit ✨ Rollkit is a new application development framework that lets developers roll their own L2 rollup on top of any data availability (DA) layer that they choose. Going forward, developers could deploy a rollup on top of Celestia, Cosmos Hub, Osmosis, or any compatible underlying Cosmos chain. Rollkit is a watershed tool for building next generation blockchain applications within a much more scalable paradigm compared to its monolithic counterparts. Is the Celestia "modular fra...
Interchain NFTs - This lets you trade NFTs across the Cosmos Network
July 31, 2023 13:00 - 32 minutes - 31.8 MB✨About Interchain NFTs ✨ An Interchain NFT has been formally specified as an Interchain token standard (ICS721) for the Cosmos ecosystem. What implications does this have for Cosmos appchains? Will it drive new demand for the ecosystem? Stay tuned for news about a new incentivized testnet game, the Game of NFTs! 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► More info about Game of NFTs: https://interchainnfts.dev/gon/ ► Specification: https://github.com/cosmos/ibc/tree/ma... ► Golang implementation: https://g...
Mars protocol is bringing borrowing/lending of native Cosmos tokens on Osmosis
July 24, 2023 14:23 - 39 minutes - 37.7 MB✨About Mars Hub ✨ Mars Hub was launched on January 31, 2023. The Hub acts as the canonical chain where major decisions governing the Hub and its various outposts will take place, enabled by its native staking token, $MARS. In this episode, we will cover the airdrop details, the lending and borrowing product (Red Bank) on Osmosis, and what you can do to best leverage this protocol. 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► Socials: https://twitter.com/mars_protocol ► Primer, Mars Protocol Deep Dive Ep. 1 on...
Ex-Twitter Exec Joins Osmosis Labs to Take DeFi to the Next 100M Users
July 17, 2023 16:11 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBGuest: Rob Benson Rob Benson was previously Sr. Dir. of Engineering at Twitter right before Twitter rocketed into the pockets of 450M users. He recently joined Osmosis Labs to head up engineering to bring the promise of DeFi into the hands of the next hundreds of millions of the unbanked. Rob onboarded the Cosmos ecosystem rapidly, donning his very own Bad Kid and met all the players at his first Cosmoverse in Medellin, Colombia. Tune in for war stories about the very early days of Twitter.
Babylon - How Babylon Will Turn Bitcoin into the Cosmos Settlement Layer
July 10, 2023 13:01 - 47 minutes - 44.8 MB✨About Babylon ✨ Babylon chain offers checkpointing to the Bitcoin blockchain for Cosmos appchains. This can possibly reduce the standard 14-day unbonding period you must wait to securely unbond from any Tendermint-based chain by leveraging the security of the Bitcoin blockchain. Does this potentially turn Bitcoin into the de facto settlement layer for Cosmos where there wasn't one before? Guest: David Tse 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► Primer: https://blog.cosmos.network/consensus... ► Social...
Sei Network - lets you build high throughput DEXs on its base layer
July 03, 2023 13:00 - 36 minutes - 34.9 MB✨About Sei ✨ Sei is a Cosmos-based platform that enables dApps, specifically DEX applications, to be hosted on its layer 1. It offers high throughput and data availability for the DEXs that run on it. Sei leverages the power of parallelization and transaction batching in the mempool through Narwhal in order to achieve the high TPS that it promises to the exchange logic that depend on it. This is a deep dive into the technicals so strap in. Guest speaker: Jay Jog 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► So...
Canto DEX - liquidity rails but make it public
June 26, 2023 13:00 - 37 minutes - 35.8 MB✨About Canto✨ Canto is a decentralized exchange built with Cosmos SDK that runs the EVM on its execution layer. The primary difference between Canto and most other DEXs is that it doesn't charge the user LP fees to make swaps, which means that LPs don't earn additional swap fees. This is in line with Canto's vision of providing an exchange as a public service rather than as a private enterprise. From Messari: - Canto is a general-purpose Proof-of-Stake blockchain that embeds a decentra...
dYdX - Largest derivatives DEX in DeFi picks Cosmos over ETH scaling solution for scaling?
June 19, 2023 13:00 - 38 minutes - 37.3 MB✨About dYdX ✨ dYdX is a perpetuals DEX that started on an ETH L2, Starkware, that has since made the strategic decision to migrate their DEX to becoming fully onchain. Because Cosmos allows dYdX to customize the product experience for their users while achieving the scalability needed for the volume their users demand, they picked Cosmos as the clear winning stack. dYdX is the largest derivatives exchange in DeFi in terms of volume, having over $300M DAV, which merits the need to move onto...
Interchain name service - How crypto wallets can unlock web3 access via sovereign digital identities
June 12, 2023 13:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MB✨About ICNS ✨ How will onchain digital identities like your ENS, ICNS (Interchain Nameservice), Handshake names and the like become your gateway into what lies ahead in Web3 UX? When a new person gets onramped into crypto, they all have to download wallets. What if your wallet will no longer be "just a wallet", the same way your phone, at the turn of the 2000s, was no longer "just a phone"—it became your access to the internet as you know it. Well, we're right at the precipice of yet anoth...
Haseeb Qureshi, Emin Gun Sirer, Chjango Unchained - Will Crypto Survive or will AI eat its lunch?
June 05, 2023 13:00 - 49 minutes - 47.1 MBI sat down with Haseeb Qureshi, MP of Dragonfly Capital, and Emin Gun Sirer, Co-founder of Avalanche, to discuss crypto macro. We ran through a wide range of discussions covering regulations in the US, China, Singapore, HK, and the Middle East before moving on to speculate what will ultimately happen to SBF and Do Kwon. We go in-depth about Balaji's bet against the USD and for Bitcoin. (Hint: neither one of our guests thinks BTC will win out.) And much more! One of the most fun times I've ha...
Skip protocol - Frontrunning the frontrunners? MEV Flashbots for the Cosmos
May 29, 2023 13:00 - 40 minutes - 38.5 MB✨About Skip Protocol ✨ Skip protocol can be likened to flashbots of the interchain. With mainnet outposts deployed on juno and evmos so far, they're getting ahead of the specter of mev seekers profiteering risk-free in attempts to pillage the value from within the cosmos network. Here's a deep dive into how Skip redistributes mev profits across a more distributed set of validators while securing the interchain. (Disclosure: Chjango Unchained is an angel investor in Skip).) 🔗 Useful Links ...
ATOM 2.0 - Why the Founder of Cosmos Opposes a Proposal to Improve $ATOM Utility
May 22, 2023 13:00 - 54 minutes - 51.9 MBATOM 2.0 is the latest and greatest development to come out of Cosmos as of late. It proposes an updated roadmap for $ATOM, the token housed on the Cosmos Hub. So why does the very creator of Cosmos, the visionary behind BFT Proof-of-Stake itself, vehemently oppose this new roadmap for the Cosmos Hub? We explore what's at stake for the future of Cosmos, what are the good parts of Prop 82, as well as legitimate criticisms of some bad parts that have a rising number of people concerned. There'...
Circle - Native $USDC Comes to Cosmos Amid Silicon Valley Bank Uncertainty
May 15, 2023 13:00 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MB✨About USDC ✨ $USDC is the second most liquid stablecoin that powers crypto asset-to-stablecoin swaps for both CeFi and DeFi protocols alike. USDC will be a keystone stablecoin for the Interchain, especially as it emerges from the ashes of the $UST de-peg. As part of the go-to-market plan, Circle will be issuing USDC from an asset issuance chain, secured by Cosmos Hub Interchain Security. If you're not familiar with Interchain Security, I recommend you to watch a primer about it under the ...