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Babylon: Bitcoin Staking, 45 Cosmos Chains to Checkpoint to BTC

Interchain.FM - March 25, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Babylon 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...

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Google Whistleblower: Climate Change is Caused by the Sun!

Interchain.FM - March 11, 2024 14:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
The 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 int...

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Neon EVM & deBridge - The First EVM on Solana Makes TXs Fast and Cheap $NEON

Interchain.FM - March 04, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Ethereum 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 mech...

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$50B Omnichain Interoperability Protocol Eyes Cosmos, LayerZero Enters the Chat $ZRO

Interchain.FM - February 26, 2024 19:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Bryan 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 powe...

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Asteroid - Inscriptions Take Over Cosmos Hub $ROIDS | Interchain.FM

Interchain.FM - February 21, 2024 12:56 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Asteroids 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 #interchain...

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Celestia Liquid Staking, milkTIA, Goes Live on Osmosis Supercharged Liquidity Pool

Interchain.FM - February 13, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Milky 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 u...

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Did the Celestia Mainnet Launch Just End the Era of Monolithic L1s?

Interchain.FM - February 06, 2024 13:52 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Celestia 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... ► We...

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Nomic: Bridge Bitcoin in or out of Cosmos without a CEX | Interchain.FM

Interchain.FM - January 29, 2024 14:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
A 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 #tec...

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Alex Tapscott's Web3 Book Onboards Newbies to the Web 3.0 Frontier

Interchain.FM - January 22, 2024 14:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In 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 desc...

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This is how AI and blockchains will actually interact. It's not how you think | Interchain.FM

Interchain.FM - January 15, 2024 14:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
This 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 "...

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IBC Moves to Unlock Binance's $2.6 Billion Onchain TVL to Cosmos | Manifest Destiny IBC

Interchain.FM - January 11, 2024 14:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Binance 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 #cryp...

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Metamask Snaps unlocks Cosmos Ecosystem to 30M+ new users?!

Interchain.FM - January 08, 2024 14:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
✨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 ...

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As blockchains lean into modularity, are we also leaning into re-centralization?

Interchain.FM - January 04, 2024 14:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
✨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 #e...

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Risc Zero Seeks to Scale Decentralized Computing for Modular Architectures through zk

Interchain.FM - January 01, 2024 14:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
✨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...

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Why is web3 still not widely adopted?

Interchain.FM - December 28, 2023 14:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
I 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 a...

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Espresso - decentralized shared sequencer for Ethereum rollups

Interchain.FM - December 25, 2023 14:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
✨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)...

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Levana Finance Pt. 2 - Trade Perpetuals on Osmosis, Neutron, Sei, Injective

Interchain.FM - December 21, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
✨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 episod...

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Wormhole Gateway - New Portal to the Interchain Unlocked

Interchain.FM - December 18, 2023 14:16 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
✨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 #...

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Catalyst AMM - Cross-chain AMM built for the modular future

Interchain.FM - December 14, 2023 14:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
✨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 cre...

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How Akash Skynet will unleash an AI future no one is prepared for

Interchain.FM - December 11, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
✨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 m...

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Centauri - The first IBC connection made outside of the Cosmos ecosystem

Interchain.FM - December 04, 2023 14:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
✨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 exist...

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Duality - 2nd Chain to Launch on Replicated Security to Join Atom Economic Zone

Interchain.FM - November 27, 2023 14:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
✨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 inclusi...

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Urbit-pilling Cosmonauts: How Osmosis will act as the gateway to the Decentralized Web

Interchain.FM - November 20, 2023 20:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
✨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 s...

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How Comdex plans to go Interchain Security

Interchain.FM - November 13, 2023 14:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
✨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 fi...

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Shade Protocol - ShadeSwap, $SILK stablecoin & asymmetric liquidity

Interchain.FM - November 06, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
✨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 Secr...

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Evolution of incentivized testnets, from Proof of Stake to NFTs

Interchain.FM - October 30, 2023 13:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
✨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 NFT...

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Stride - Liquid Staking Derivatives (LSD) for Cosmos Appchains

Interchain.FM - October 23, 2023 13:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
✨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 $ST...

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PolymerDAO - How the IBC Standard Will be Exported to non-Cosmos Chains

Interchain.FM - October 16, 2023 15:08 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
✨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 ...

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ZetaChain - an omni-chain L1 aggregator

Interchain.FM - October 09, 2023 13:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
✨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 tBT...

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USDC Cosmos Hub Interchain Security launch postponed amidst new Noble chain direction

Interchain.FM - October 02, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
✨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...

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