#16 - Sergey Gorbunov: Co-Founder of Axelar Network, building a decentralized, cross-chain interoperability protocol

Sergey Gorbunov is the co-founder of Axelar Network.  With the rise of alternate L1s, the crypto landscape and DeFi assets are more fragmented. Axelar's stack provides a decentralized network, protocols, tools, and APIs that allow for simple cross-chain communication.                    



Sergey received his PhD from MIT in Computer Science. Way back in 2013, he was a crypto researcher for IBM before going on to join the founding team at Algorand. In addition to co-founding Axelar, he is an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo.                                                     



We dive into why interoperability is a buzzword, how the current bridging ecosystem could be a black swan for crypto, the shortcomings of interoperable blockchains that only do a few things and how Axelar could be the "Border Gateway Protocol" moment for Crypto.

Sergey's Twitter: https://twitter.com/sergey_nog?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Axelar's Twitter: https://twitter.com/axelarcore

Sergey's Website: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~sgorbuno/                                                                                                                                Alexlar's Whitepaper: https://axelar.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/axelar_whitepaper.pdf