Latest Handshake Podcast Episodes
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Interchain Jam - 2 years, 274 appchains, $178B AUM later, Cosmos IBC turns 2!
Interchain.FM - September 25, 2023 13:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsInterchain 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 ep...
Haseeb Qureshi, Emin Gun Sirer, Chjango Unchained: Will Crypto Survive or will AI eat its lunch?
Interchain.FM - September 18, 2023 13:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsI 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 h...
Quasar
Interchain.FM - September 11, 2023 13:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings✨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 acro...
Not clickbait! Squid will revolutionize DeFi, bi-directional trade from EVM to Cosmos in 20 seconds
Interchain.FM - September 04, 2023 13:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings✨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 ...
Zo - Web3 chat app powered by decentralized digital ID seeks to disrupt SMS based identity
Interchain.FM - August 28, 2023 13:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings✨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 inte...
Near protocol's Blockchain Operating System - An operating system for blockchains. What this means for consumer dApps
Interchain.FM - August 21, 2023 13:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings✨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 de...
Eclipse - Could 90+% of blockchain activity happen on (zk)rollups within a few years?
Interchain.FM - August 14, 2023 13:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings✨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, ...
Celestia Rollkit: Modular frameworks—the future of blockchains or just another narrative?
Interchain.FM - August 07, 2023 13:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings✨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 C...
Interchain NFTs - This lets you trade NFTs across the Cosmos Network
Interchain.FM - July 31, 2023 13:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings✨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...
Mars protocol is bringing borrowing/lending of native Cosmos tokens on Osmosis
Interchain.FM - July 24, 2023 14:23 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings✨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 bor...
Ex-Twitter Exec Joins Osmosis Labs to Take DeFi to the Next 100M Users
Interchain.FM - July 17, 2023 16:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsGuest: 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 ...
Babylon - How Babylon Will Turn Bitcoin into the Cosmos Settlement Layer
Interchain.FM - July 10, 2023 13:01 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings✨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 pot...
Sei Network - lets you build high throughput DEXs on its base layer
Interchain.FM - July 03, 2023 13:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings✨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 Na...
Canto DEX - liquidity rails but make it public
Interchain.FM - June 26, 2023 13:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings✨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 li...
dYdX - Largest derivatives DEX in DeFi picks Cosmos over ETH scaling solution for scaling?
Interchain.FM - June 19, 2023 13:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings✨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 ...
Interchain name service - How crypto wallets can unlock web3 access via sovereign digital identities
Interchain.FM - June 12, 2023 13:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings✨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 b...
Haseeb Qureshi, Emin Gun Sirer, Chjango Unchained - Will Crypto Survive or will AI eat its lunch?
Interchain.FM - June 05, 2023 13:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsI 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 h...
Skip protocol - Frontrunning the frontrunners? MEV Flashbots for the Cosmos
Interchain.FM - May 29, 2023 13:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings✨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...
ATOM 2.0 - Why the Founder of Cosmos Opposes a Proposal to Improve $ATOM Utility
Interchain.FM - May 22, 2023 13:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsATOM 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 Cosmo...
Circle - Native $USDC Comes to Cosmos Amid Silicon Valley Bank Uncertainty
Interchain.FM - May 15, 2023 13:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings✨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, Cir...
Interchain Accounts - Deep Dive: Understand ICA in Under 30 Min
Interchain.FM - May 08, 2023 13:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings✨About Interchain Accounts ✨ ICA unlocks a greater surface area for designing cross-chain applications. Cross-chain TXs currently speak very basic language: token swaps. But by being able to control an account of another chain, you can potentially unlock a vibrant multichain world of dynamic D...
Sunny Aggarwal Explains the Difference between Mesh Security vs Atom 2.0 Interchain Security
Interchain.FM - May 02, 2023 14:43 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings✨About mesh security✨ It's just an idea for now! Mesh security is a bi-lateral agreement between two chains agreeing to secure the other chain with its native staking token. Network topology of a mesh secured network looks like a distributed set of chains rather than hub and spoke, arguably a ...
Levana Finance - Trading Options and Perpetual Swaps on JUNO
Interchain.FM - April 24, 2023 13:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings✨About Levana✨ Levana builds innovative decentralized finance solutions designed to make leverage trading accessible to everyone. 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► Socials: https://twitter.com/levana_protocol ______________ 💟 SUPPORT iFM If you enjoy this content, please give it a thumbs up and con...
Galois - How Galois Capital Made the Big $LUNA Short, is One of a Few Crypto Hedge Funds Who Came out on Top
Interchain.FM - April 17, 2023 13:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratings✨About Galois✨ Galois Capital is a long-standing crypto hedge fund run by a Bitcoin OG, Kevin Zhou. He goes over his highly controversial takes about Ethereum moving to PoS, base layer neutrality, his framework for reasoning about different classes of tokens, and where he believes the space ...
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