Citizen Web3 Podcast

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Valerie Tetu Go-to-Market & Marketing Strategist at Lido Finance - DeFi's leading suite of Liquid Staking protocols and assets across multiple networks, including Cosmos and Ethereum. Lido Finance enables users to earn Proof-of-Stake rewards without compromising access to the liquidity of their funds. The Lido protocol issues its native Liquid...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Eric Waisanen, tokenomics lead at Phi Labs Global, helping to facilitate the economic innovation of Archway - a Cosmos-based L1 designed to incentivize developers. Archway is an incentivized smart contract platform that rewards developers that build on the network with baked in incentives and rewards. The protocol gives developers the tools to quic...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Zarko Milosevic from Informal Systems, a core developer of the Cosmos Network. Informal Systems makes formal verification technology more accessible by developing tools and processes to improve the quality and experience of software engineering. We spoke to Zarko Milosevic about Informal Systems and: The evolution of Zarko Milosevic The growth of I...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Jonathan Caras, working for Levana Protocol, a multichain collatiralized trading platform. Levana protocol has a fully-collateralized model, which provides users with an easier and safer access to leverage trading rewards and benefits. We spoke to Jonathan Caras about Levana Protocol and: Portugal as a crypto hub How can we define Cosmos for the ma...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Carter Woetzel, Lead researcher & economist for Shade Protocol, an app for private DeFi. Shade Protocol is an array of connected privacy-preserving DeFi applications built on Secret Network - all accruing value back to SHD ("shade"), the treasury, and governance token. We spoke to Carter Woetzel about Shade Protocol and: Carter's book, "Buildin...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Phoebe Poon, Co founder at Likecoin. A decentralized publishing protocol, built on Cosmos SDK. LikeCoin is an application-specific blockchain on decentralized publishing built on Cosmos SDK. LikeCoin provides open source products ranging from infrastructure to publishing tools for creators on board to Web3. We spoke to Phoebe Poon about Likecoin an...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Boris Mann, Co founder at Fission codes. Building protocols for the future of the Internet and web3. Fission codes are a development team powering up decentralized web applications. They build various open source tools to help bring decntralization to web technology. We spoke to Boris Mann about Fission Codes and: Goals and values in work How far a...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Dan Edlebeck, CEO at Sei network. First sector-specific Layer 1 blockchain, specialized for trading to give exchanges an unfair advantage. Built with Cosmos-SDK. A Decentralized NASDAQ Specialized for Exchanges. Sei is the first sector-specific Layer 1 blockchain, specialized for trading. Every aspect of the blockchain has been optimized to help ex...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Julius Schmidt - COO of Staking Facilities, staking service provider on Cosmos, Ethereum, Solana, Polkadot and other networks. Stakign Facilities strives to develop industry standards for convenient staking with compelling project selection while retaining outstanding security standards. They have been running secure, available and performant staki...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Brian Crain – co-founder of Chorus One, which provides staking solutions on over 30 decentralized networks and builds core infrastructure for blockchain protocols. Chorus One also brings to their stakers such services as Whitelabel staking and Liquid staking. We spoke to Brian Crain about Chorus One and: Brian's path The story behind Chorus One The...

This special episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features various web3 builders with a similar set of questions. The recording took place during Lisbon blockchain week 2022. The second part contains interviews with Felix Lutsch from Chorus one, Andres & Edouard Lavidalle from Stakin & Juri Maibaum from Frens validator and Cosmoverse. We spoke to Felix and Andres and Edouard and Juri about...

This special episode of the #citizenweb3 Citizen Web3 podcast we interview various web3 builders with a similar set of questions. The recording took place during Lisbon blockchain week 2022. The first part contains interviews with Gregory Landua from Regen network & JK , ex Stake Fish. We spoke to JK and Gregory about Motivation and: Crypto stories Values Goals Views on the industry Opinions a...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Sam Hart - Strategy lead of the Cosmos Hub & the lead author of the ATOM 2.0 whitepaper on this vision for an ATOM-centric future. We spoke to Sam Hart about Cosmos and: Sam’s path towards Atom 2.0 The white paper The future of blockchains intercommunication Art Communication Singularity Ethics Atom 2.0 Reserve assets Council assembly system Pe...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Youssef Amrani - Independent Cosmos Hub contributor & Advisor to Agoric. He is an active co-author of ATOM 2.0 white paper and the initiator of a working group aimed at revamping ATOM tokenomics & growth strategy. Youssef’s area of focus: token supply, liquid staking, the role of ATOM in DeFi. At Agoric, Youssef Amrani defines economic desi...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Kadan – CTO of Komodo, integrated ecosystem platform and developer of the AtomicDEX. Ecosystem consists of: AtomicDEX. A non-custodial wallet and atomic swap DEX rolled into one application, workshop and open technology educational hub. We spoke to Kadan about Komodo and: Kadan’s intro Cross-chain atomic swap KYC Komodo Roadmap IBC compatibility DE...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Spaydh – manager of Neutron, permissionless smart contract platform for Interchain DeFi built with Cosmos SDK & Tendermint. Neutron is a permissionless platform that allows to deploy smart contracts to the market in a blaze. Smart contracts can query, transact and manage accounts in remote zones directly from Neutron. Neutron is the most secure...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Riley Edmund, the co-founder of Stride Labs, a liquid staking protocol built with Cosmos SDK & Tendermint. Stride allows users to liquid stake any IBC-compatible cosmos SDK native appchain token. Under the hood, Stride leverages the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol, Interchain Accounts and Interchain Queries. We spoke to Riley about Stri...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Jacob Gadikian, the founder of Notional Labs, validating various networks in the Cosmos ecosystem. Notional uses in-house hardware. Validating outside the cloud increases decentralization and dramatically improves epoch time. As a validator and software developer, Notional performs IBC relayers to support the interchain and provides services for va...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Ivan Shumkov and Samuel Westrich, developers of Dash Core Group (DCG) working on Tenderdash. Dash has developed a consensus, which is a fork of Tendermint - Tenderdash. Tenderdash handles state transition ordering, block creation and network communications to the platform, while the Dash Platform Protocol ensures the consistency and integrity of th...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Taariq Lewis, the founder of Volume finance, Secure And Scalable Blockchain Messaging For Cross Chain Developers, built with Tendermint. Volume provides blockchain messaging software that is secure, scalable allowing developers to communicate across any number of blockchains and at the lowest possible cost. It allows developers to write smart contr...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Ivan Poon, the co-founder of Switcheo lab and Carbon, cross-chain protocol that acts as a building block for DeFi. Switcheo ecosystem consist of 3 main parts: Decentralized infrustructure (Carbon protocol), dApps (Demex & Zilswap) and White spaces (Switcheo dev funds, The bear market & Zolar). We spoke to Ivan about Carbon and: Switcheo eco...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Travis (TravCrypto) & LTraveler, community members of Idena, the first Proof-of-Person blockchain based on democratic principles with equal voting powers. The project strives to perform such ideas as democratic governance, freedom of speech, universal basic income and attention economy. Idena is designed to be human-centered and community-based...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Matt Hawkins, Founder & CEO of CUDOS, a project built on the Cosmos SDK that uses the Tendermint protocol for network governance. CUDOS consists of a layer 1 network, layer 2 solutions, and an oracle network. The network provides decentralized, permissionless high performance computing at scale while enabling computing scaling up to 100,000 nod...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Will Martino (Co-Founder & President) and Randy Daal (Developer Experience Lead) from Kadena, a project proposing L1 PoW blockchain that offers users a unique combination of scalability and security. Kadena has its own ecosystem with smart contract language PACT, created to enable formal verification and upgradable smart contracts. We spoke to...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features CO, Co-Founder and Community Manager of Orbital Apes. It’s a NFT project that has its own ecosystem which consists of four main components, such as, NFT collections, Marketlpalce, Odyssey, etc We spoke to CO about Orbital Apes and: Plans Anonymity Community Overlord and cool nicknames Why are 10 000 NFTs Why EVMOS Solidity and Ethereum Perfect star...