Citizen Web3 Podcast

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast featureto Jack Zampolin, co-founder of Sommelier finance & Strangelove validator. Sommelier is a bet that Ethereum will be a dominant player in the global economy. Sommelier consists of the Cosmos Stargate SDK, its Tendermint-based consensus layer and a decentralized, bi-directional Ethereum bridge, managed by a global network of validators. Strangelove...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Mirko Schmiedl, CEO and co-founder of stakingrewards.com (plus a guest appearance from Jannik Schmiedl, the CTO and co-founder of the platform). Stakingrewards is the leading data provider for staking and crypto-growth tools. Staking Rewards provides trusted access to all passive income opportunities with digital assets. The focus of the platform a...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Gautier Marin, director of product at Emeris. Emeris is your one-stop portal to a new world of DeFi. Emeris connects the best cross‑chain DeFi protocols, starting with Gravity DEX. It is a future marketplace for all blockchain dapps. Transfer and trade assets. Access a decentralized exchange. Earn competitive yields. We spoke to Gautier Marin about...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Ethan Frey, founder & CEO of CosmWasm and Tgrade. CosmWasm allows you to build robust dApps, on secure, multi-chain smart contracts. It is built using Cosmos-SDK/Tendermint and Rust. This allows your contracts to run on multiple chains, utilizing IBC (InterBlockchian Communication Protocol). Tgrade is labeled as the Bigbang of Regulated Blockch...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Cryptocito, a popular, Cosmos-focused, YouTube blogger. Cryptocito shares his research results and user experiences of Crypto projects that he finds exciting on his YouTube channel. These projects include Cosmos ATOM and related ecosystem projects such as Persistence XPRT, IrisNET IRIS, Akash AKT, Terra LUNA, Regen Network REGEN, Osmosis OSMO but a...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Sunny Aggarwal, founder of Osmosis, the first interchain DeFi platform and AMM. Osmosis is an advanced AMM protocol built using the Cosmos-SDK that will allow developers to design, build, and deploy their own customized AMMs. It is the first interchain DeFi platform built using Tendermint and Cosmos-SDK. We spoke to Sunny about Osmosis and: Defi Wh...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Wilson Withiam, senior research analyst at Messari, one of the largest research firms in the crypto space. Messari bring transparency to the crypto space by providing an insightful and in depth analytics tools. Their aim is to help investors, regulators, and the public to make sense of this revolutionary new asset class. Messari are building data t...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features David Park, co-founder of Cosmostation, one of the biggest staking providers in blockchain industry. Cosmostation is one of the largest staking providers in the blockchain industry. It also provides various products, such as wallets, explorers, statistics, etc. and allows users to access DeFi right away by delegating your tokens and earning rewards...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Sergey Konstantin Lomashuk, the founder of P2P, a secure, non-custodial staking service for your cryptocurrency. P2P validator provides highly-secure, non-custodial staking infrastructure for your portfolio optimization and guarantees a successful staking experience. P2P is one of the largest validators across the POS blockchain space, validating s...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Dean Tribble, the CEO at Agoric, a secure smart contract platform built with the help of Tendermint & Cosmos-SDK. Agoric are a smart contracts platform (transfers of rights enforced in code). Agoric uses an object-capability (ocap) security architecture, in which access to a programming object itself is the authority to use the object. This app...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Hashoshi, a popular, crypto-focused, YouTube blogger. Hashoshi is focused on cutting through the hype and providing accessible, free education about blockchain, cryptocurrency, & emerging technology. His channel can help you equip yourself with the knowledge you need as an investor, enthusiast, or even as a career blockchain professional. Learn...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Tess Rinearson, the VPE at Interchain GMBH aka Tendermint core. Interchain GmbH are responsible for stewarding some of the most foundational infrastructure for blockchain ecosystems. Their work helps secure billions of dollars in value across a variety of major blockchain projects, including Cosmos, and they are pioneering new protocols for interop...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Chjango Unchained, a free speech advocate, host of the interchain.fm podcast and an ex VP of ecosystem development at Tendermint. Tendermint are a core contributor to the Cosmos Network. Building powerful tools for distributed networks. Tendermint is the gateway to the Cosmos ecosystem. Building critical infrastructure for open networks, like the C...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Reda Berrehilli, the CEO and founder of Ki foundation, which are deploying a new currency and building a fund with the help of Cosmos-SDK blockchain technology and Tendermint. The Ki foundation is a blockchain fund, consisting of 2 primary components. The Ki token, build on the Ki chain. The Ki Token is the backbone of value-sharing in the Ki Ecosy...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Greg Osuri, the CEO of Akash Network. The DeCloud for DeFi, and the world's first decentralized cloud computing marketplace built with the help of Cosmos-SDK and Tendermint. Akash Decentralized Cloud is 'a faster, better, and lower cost cloud built for DeFi, decentralized projects, and high growth companies, providing unprecedented scale, flexibili...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Dan Edlebeck, Co-Founder and CEO at Exidio. A project that is creating a resilient and robust decentralized VPN solutions on Sentinel. A protocol for dVPN built with the help of Cosmos-SDK and Tendermint. Exidio is building decentralized and distributed networking solutions and contributing to the Cosmos open source community by creating a resilien...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Ian and Jacob, the founders of secretnodes.org and the puzzle report explorer for Secret network, a Cosmos-SDK blockchain with privacy-preserving smart contracts. The Secret Nodes project was established in 2018, we're a grassroots organization that believes society is facing a fork in the road in regards to privacy, security, data rights and their...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast is hosted by Johnnie Red, with Serj & Anna joining to co-host in order to catch up with some of the most active community members of the Cosmos hub and listen to their views on the progression of Cosmos so far. Cosmos is a decentralized network of independent parallel blockchains, each powered by BFT consensus algorithms like Tendermint consensus. Cosmo...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Tushar Aggarwal, the CEO of Persistence. A protocol, made with the help of Tendermint and Cosmos-SDK, powering Institutional Decentralized Finance. Persistence bridges DeFi and traditional finance by facilitating borrowing of crypto-assets using real-world assets as collateral. We spoke to Tushar about the vision of Persistence, the power of DeFi a...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Zarko Milosevic, the lead researcher at Informal Systems, which develops tools to simplify the operation of organizations by leveraging open-source development, plaintext data, and distributed version control systems. They are a contributor to the Tendermint codebase, concentrating on protocol design, and formal verification within distributed syst...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Antoine Herzog. At the time the CEO of Starname. We discuss the importance of identity standards for the decentralized space. Different variations of name services and approaches to blockchain identity across the space. We also touch on the importance and value of privacy and information disclosure, as well as such issues as KYC and their possible...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Deborah Simpier about networking technology, Althea blockchain, mesh networks and how these affect our daily lives. We also discuss controversial topics, such as, freedom and the cost and quality of an internet connection. Can internet access become a lifesaver? And, learn about, Deborah's personal ‘radio in the blood’ feeling. Althea is built for...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Chris Remus from Chainflow & Staking defense. We discuss the differences between operators and validators, their role and importance in the ecosystem and why it's uber important to decentralize staking power. We talk about the monetary cost of freedom, product management in the validation business and about decentralized projects in general. Ch...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Tor Bair from Secret Network. The episode contains plenty of secrets, just make sure to pay attention. We talk about privacy, trust, Amazon drones, privacy by design and learn how to lay out the foundation for privacy projects. We go to depth about more technical things, such as, privacy preserving smart contracts, transactional privacy vs programm...

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Billy Rennekamp, the grants manager at Interchain Foundation and the founder of Clovers Network. In this episode we discuss ICF’s functions as a vehicle and its role for the greater Cosmos ecosystem. The DLT project we chat about is Clovers Network. We also talk about citizenship in the (not so) distant future, tattoo machines and blockchain DNA. I...