Citizen Web3 Podcast

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Mark Jackson, the founder of Microtick - a short term options and decentralized price oracle for DeFi built on Tendermint. We have discussed Mark's career journey, his work with exchanges, options, liquidity, price discovery, price manipulation, project values and coding using punch cards. The goal of the Microtick project’s is to provide a globall...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Dr Shaun Convey , the founder of IXO which aims to become the internet of impact in the blockchain space. Shaun was joined by Alwyn and Mike - team members of the IXO. The non-profit foundation was formed to research and develop open-source digital technologies for human-scale development and sustainable economic growth. It was founded to build a g...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Sébastien Couture, the co-founder and the host of the Epicentr.tv and Interop podcast. Epicentr.tv is the OG of crypto podcasts, making sense of cryptocurrencies and blockchain since before they became mainstream. Epicentr explores this game-changing industry's technical, economic, and social implications through interviews with founders and builde...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Ivan Shumkov and Samuel Westrich, developers of Dash Core Group (DCG) working on Tenderdash aka Dashevo, a fork of Tendermint, Core (BFT Consensus) in Go. 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...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features 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. We spoke to Willy Ogorzaly about ShapeShift DAO and: DAO's Memes CEX vs. DEX DeFi Fi...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features 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. E...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features 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. We...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features 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 nu...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features 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...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features 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...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Mircea Colonescu, Infrastructure Engineer at Informal leading the operations of the Cephalopod Validator. The mission of Informal Systems is a vision is an open-source ecosystem of cooperatively owned and governed distributed organizations running on reliable distributed systems to bring verifiability to distributed systems and organizations. Cepha...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Jelena Djuric, Product Marketing Manager at Informal Systems, core developer of Cosmos. The mission of Informal Systems is a vision is an open-source ecosystem of cooperatively owned and governed distributed organizations running on reliable distributed systems to bring verifiability to distributed systems and organizations. We spoke to Jelena Djur...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features David, founder of CosmosUpLink, a web app that helps follow events, catch airdrops and save time roaming the Cosmos. We spoke to David about CosmosUpLink and: His crypto story Consensus and democracy The bible Validating and staking Saving time for crypto users Burning out and working An upcoming airdrop Future chain launch Validator operators and...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Archway's core contributors. Archway is a smart contract platform that rewards developers ushering in next gen dapps. Archway allows you to easily deploy smart contracts to Cosmos. The Archway smart contract platform is owned, operated, and governed by the developer community. As you build and launch impactful, highly used open-source dapps, you ea...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Highlander, a validator and a Cosmos ecosystem contributor. Highlander-Nodes is a Validator and dev contributor, that highly participate in a few Cosmos projects, such as Juno, Comdex, Ki-Network. The Highlander team believes in their experience in validation, as they’re a team that has seen the ecosystem evolve across multiple phases, and saw the...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Coney Daddy, a community developer and a Cosmos rock star. In the episode, Coney Daddy shares his thoughts on the crypto industry. And we discuss what things are worth paying attention to if you're just starting out in crypto. We spoke to Coney Daddy about Cosmos and: Ecosystem development Layer-0 and the community First steps in crypto Mining Sail...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Federico Kunze Küllmer, co-founder Evmos - EVM on Cosmos, and CEO of Tharsis HQ - EVM and blockchain interoperability. Evmos is a scalable, high-throughput PoS blockchain that is fully compatible and interoperable with Ethereum. Evmos is a sovereign blockchain built with the help of the Cosmos / Tendermint stack, which means it has the superpowers...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Jon Farjoe, Founder and Chief Product Officer at Lunarcrush - Social Intelligence for Crypto. Lunarcrush is building a social media tool that directly impacts cryptocurrencies. Because you can’t listen to a million different opinions a minute, LunarCrush does it for you. LunarCrush collects activity across social media for bitcoin, thousands of alt...

This interchain special episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features 4 projects: Trading Strategy, Gnosis, Radicle & Gitcoin, in 4 short interviews during Liscon 2021. Trading Atrategy is an algorithmic trading protocol for decentralized markets. It is a decentralized protocol for the next generation quantitative finance. Decentralized automated trading strategies allow investing with more pro...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Ankur Banerjee, co-founder of Cheqd. The authentic data network built with the help of Cosmos-SDK and Tendermint. Cheqd is building a secure network that enables individuals and organizations to fully control their personal data. It allows self-sovereign identity (SSI) companies to build and deliver secure solutions. Through the network, anyone can...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Amir Taaki, founder of DarkFi, an anonymous DeFi network bridged to Ethereum. DarkFi is an anonymous DeFi network. Its objective is to offer flexible private primitives that can be wielded to create any kind of application. DarkFi uses advances in zero-knowledge cryptography and creates a contracting language and developer toolkits aimed to make an...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Dan Edlebeck, cofounder of Exidio. Building a decentralized VPN solution as part of the Sentinel ecosystem. Exidio is building decentralized and distributed networking solutions and contributing to the Cosmos open-source community by creating a resilient and robust decentralized VPN and allowing you to create your own decentralized and distributed...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Henrik Aasted Sørensen, founder of E-money, stablecoins for the Internet of money. E-money is empowering people in the digital economy with next-generation stablecoins, which are designed for financial inclusion, transparency, and instant settlement. We spoke to Henrik Aasted Sørensen about E-money and: What stablecoins are for How to verify E&...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features the Cyber core dev team, a decentralized superintellect. Cyber is building a decentralized superintelligence for the new web. Their goal is to build decentralized tools that will change the way how we use the web. We spoke to the Cyber core dev team about Cyber and: Superintelligence What's wrong with Web 2.0 Cyber and AI How Cyber works and how ca...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features the Juno core dev team, an interoperable smart contract network. Juno is built on Cosmos-SDK, which ensures high throughput and fast contract execution. Juno offers a blockchain network that scales to 10000 TPS & and provides an environment for cost-effective deployment at -99% reduced cost. Juno is an interoperable smart contract network. We s...