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In this episode, we talk to Willy Ogorzaly, head of decentralization at the ShapeShift DAO, governing one of the oldest non-custodial exchanges, which allows users to trade crypto.


ShapeShift gives you zero-commission crypto trading, and you always stay in control of your crypto private keys.



Willy’s Twitter


We spoke to Willy about Shapeshift, and:



DAO's & memes
CEX vs. DEX
DeFi & financial sovereignty
Community, values & market cycles
Fox chain, airdrop & the interchain
MLE, MVP & progressive decentralization
Motivation, values & goals
Staking, yield & laser eyes
Maximalism, the best day ever & bounties


The projects and people that have been mentioned in this episode:


| Tendermint | Cosmos | IBC | ShapeShift | Thorchain | Ethereum | BTC | Gitcoin | Giveth | Mt. Gox |


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Special Guest: Willy Ogorzaly.

In this episode, we talk to Deborah Simpier and Justin Kilpatrick, co-founders of Althea, an Internet Service Provider (ISP) platform and blockchain that enables the coordination of multi-stakeholder networks.


Althea is built for a fast and affordable, locally run internet. Althea's unique cooperative vision for the internet brings peering from the data center to the field. Empowering communities to build multi-stakeholder networks faster and more affordably than legacy telecom models. The core technology behind Althea is a price-aware routing protocol and blockchain-based payment system that debits and credits funds based on a router’s bandwidth usage. Althea decouples the service and infrastructure layers of Internet delivery and coordinates transparent and programmatic revenue sharing.



Deborah’s Twitter
Justin’s Twitter


We spoke to the team about their journey with Althea, and:



Open source & Linux
Engineering & impacting the world
Bridges & the philosophy behind building them
Mesh & bandwidth
Payment channels & TCR
Cryptography
Working nights & delivering products
Routing & decentralization
Delivering products
Tools & libraries for web3
Economic incentives


The projects and people that have been mentioned in this episode:


| Tendermint | Cosmos | IBC | Althea | Gravity Bridge | Ethereum | BTC | Spank chain | XDAI |


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Special Guests: Deborah Simpier and Justin Kilpatrick.

In this episode, we talk to Rebecca Liao, Co-founder and CEO at Saga, a Cosmos-based protocol for automatically provisioning application-specific blockchains.


Saga is a protocol that allows developers to take a single tenant VM and automatically launch it on a dedicated blockchain, complete with fully provisioned validators and an optimally incentivized security structure.



Rebecca's Twitter


We spoke to Rebecca about Saga, and:



Elections & civil theory
Dedicated chains & interchain security
Marketing dynamics & hype
Beating the drum & brotherhood
Fees & tokens
Deployment & scalability
Gaming & web3 economics
Infrastructure & dev. Experience
Values & motivation


The projects and people that have been mentioned in this episode:


| Tendermint | Cosmos | IBC | Saga | Kusama | Ethereum | Jim Kwon | Coney Daddy | Ethan Buchman | Jack Zampolin | Jacob Mcdorman | Solana |


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Special Guest: Rebecca Liao.

In this episode, we talk to Joe Bowman, CEO at Ingenuity. Founder of Quicksilver protocol, a liquid staking zone, built on Tendermint.


A sovereign Cosmos-SDK zone, Quicksilver is a Liquid Staking zone. Through interchain accounts and the Liquid Staking Module, Quicksilver can onboard any Cosmos-SDK based zone in a permissionless manner. Quicksilver can scale to a limitless number of zones, with zero onboarding effort required from neither the zones nor their validators.



Joe's Twitter


We spoke to Joe about Quicksilver, and:



Liquid staking
Governance & emotions
DeFi
Capital efficiency
Validatros & reputation
Qtoken, drop & tokenomics
Goals & motivation


The projects and people that have been mentioned in this episode:


| Tendermint | Cosmos | IBC | Quicksilver | Chorus One | Ethereum | Terra | Cyber | Osmosis | Juno | Polkadot | Solana |


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Special Guest: Joe Bowman.

In this episode, we talk to Eric Chen, the co-founder of Injective Protocol, IBC-enabled DEX protocol and a decentralized exchange built with Tendermint.


Injective is providing the unrestricted and unprecedented ability to express diverse views in the decentralized financial markets, and striving to empower individuals with the ability to more efficiently allocate capital in society.



Eric's Twitter


We spoke to Eric about Injective, and:



Trading & MM's
DeFi & research
The Cosmos ecosystem
The rabbit hole
DEX vs CEX
Value propositions
The red herring
Governance & goals
Bridging & relaying
Research & white papers
Motivation


The projects and people that have been mentioned in this episode:


| Tendermint | Cosmos | IBC | Injective | CosmWasm | Ethereum | Bitcoin | Terra | Band | Evmos |Keplr | Gravity bridge | Osmosis | Microtick | Silk Road | Dogecoin | Cryptopia | Solana | Bitcointalk |


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Special Guest: Eric Chen.

In this episode, we talk to Ismail Khoffi, Co-Founder and CTO at Celestia Labs, the first modular blockchain network.


Celestia is the first modular consensus and data network to power scalable, secure Web3 applications. It is a minimal blockchain that only orders and publishes transactions and does not execute them. By decoupling the consensus and application execution layers, Celestia modularizes the blockchain technology stack and unlocks new possibilities for decentralized application builders.



Ismail's Twitter


We spoke to Ismail about Celestia, and:



IT & programming
Math & coding
Merkle trees
Rollups & execution
Apps & fees
Bots & smart contracts
Adoption
Simplicity
DeFi
The metaverse
Validating
Architectures
Motivation


The projects and people that have been mentioned in this episode:


| Tendermint | Cosmos | IBC | Celestia | Informal Systems | Ethereum | Google | EPFL | Jae Kwon | Zaki Manian |Ethan Buchman |


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Special Guest: Ismail Khoffi.