Finality Crypto Podcast

The crypto airdrop season is back! Airdrops in the Solana, Celestia, and Cosmos ecosystems have treated stakers very pleasantly in the past weeks and months. But today we will ask the question of how sustainable stake-drops are, how to run a successful airdrop that drives users to your platform, how airdrops can be the ultimate go-to-market and marketing initiative, and what the perfect airdrop an...

What is Passage? And is Passage the best crypto gaming and metaverse project? Today we are joined by Passage Co-Founder Lex Avelino. Passage is the metaverse project of the Cosmos ecosystem and today we will discuss the comeback of the Metaverse, how AI is transforming the gaming industry and making the production costs of games 10x cheaper, how you can create your own world and game on Passage, w...

For the fourth episode of Builders´ Diary, we welcome the Cosmos SDK Lead Marko Baricevic to the show! Builder's Diary sheds light on the famous builders behind your favorite crypto project. Marko is one of the most respected builders in the Cosmos ecosystem and all of crypto. In this episode, we reflect on how Marko became one of the core developers in Cosmos after learning programming only out o...

What is the crypto investment thesis for 2024? How do I optimize my staking portfolio for airdrops? What are the top narratives, sectors, and projects to look at in 2024 and what will disappoint us? This is what we will discuss with Stakecito Co-Founder Serch today! - - - - Catch up with FRENS VALIDATOR:  💻 WEBSITE:  https://frens.army   📲 FOLLOW ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/frensvalidator 🌖...

What is the end goal of crypto and how can we fix today's money? Dive in for one of the most dense and intense conversations ever held on our podcast! Max is joined by Ethan Buchman, co-founder of Cosmos and CEO of Informal Systems. Together, they discuss how to fix our money, and the end state of crypto, and develop a critique of major economic philosophies.  - - - - - Follow Ethan: Ethan: https:...

Governance Proposal 848 passed which will halve the maximum inflation rate of $ATOM, the native cryptocurrency of the Cosmos hub from 20% to 10%. But why did the Cosmos community decide to do so? Is this a bullish sign for $ATOM? What are some takeaways from the recent discussions? This and much more is what we will discuss today! - - - - Catch up with FRENS VALIDATOR:  💻 WEBSITE:  https://frens....

Governance proposal 853 aims to allocate 600k $ATOM to pStake. The pStake protocol is built on top of Persistence. Persistence is a liquid staking blockchain in Cosmos. The proposal aims to make stkATOM more liquid and available across the Cosmos and counter-fight centralizing forces coming from one dominant liquid staking protocol only. But what are the other arguments speaking for and against al...

The highly anticipated dYdX chain is finally here! At Cosmoverse 2023, we sat down with David Gogel to teach you everything you need to know about the dYdX chain. - - - - - Catch up with FRENS VALIDATOR:  💻 WEBSITE:  https://frens.army   📲 FOLLOW ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/frensvalidator 🌖FOLLOW JURI:  https://twitter.com/jurimaibaum  - - - - DISCLAIMER All information presented in this po...

For the third episode of Builders´ Diary, we welcome 0xJim from Catalyst to our show! Builder's Diary sheds light on the famous builders behind your favorite crypto project. 0xJim has had an extensive journey in the crypto industry so far. He was an early contributor at Ripple and ENS, then joined AAVE, and is now a builder in the interchain. His newest project is called Catalyst and aims to unlea...

We welcome Jeffrey Hu, Tech Lead at Hashkey Capital for the second episode of Speculators' Demise. He is also an ambassador of the Cosmos Chinese community, co-hosting several Cosmos dev events.  Previously, he was research director at IRIS Network (the first mainnet launched in Cosmos and running Cosmos Chinese community) and chief technical analyst at Huobi Research. He also drafted several bloc...

What is Celestia and why is everyone so excited about Celestia's recent mainnet launch? Celestia is the first-ever modular blockchain. Modular blockchains separate the consensus and data availability layer from the execution layer. Therefore, modular blockchains differ significantly from today's monolithic blockchains.  But how does Celestia's launch shape the rest of the crypto industry? What are...

How can we make $ATOM successful and find a set role for the Cosmos Hub in the Interchain and the broader crypto industry? And how can we make sure that teams are incentivized to stay in the AEZ and build successful projects? This is what we discussed with Noam Cohen from Binary Builders, a team that is thinking about and working on optimizing the hub's expenditures and making sure it spends its m...

For the first episode of Speculators´ Demise, we welcome The Calculator Guy, Dojo Validation, and Levana to our show! Together, we assess the current Cosmos eco DeFi landscape and leak Alpha on the best yield strategies! - - - - -  Follow Stephen (The Calculator Guy), the DeFi Dojo, and Levana: Stephen (The Calculator Guy): https://twitter.com/thecalcguy   The Calculator Guy YouTube: https://www.y...

For the second episode of Builders´ Diary, we welcome Dean Tribble to our show! Dean has been working on smart contracts since before you were even born, and he is the CEO of Agoric, which aims to onboard millions of JavaScript developers to crypto.  Tune in to learn Dean's unique take on crypto´s largest challenges, if there is more to our space than speculation, and what we can learn from the We...

The Deutsche Telekom AG has become a crucial infrastructure provider in the crypto industry. The enterprise offers Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service and also allows you to stake your crypto assets via their own infrastructure. So far, the enterprise supports infrastructure with validators on the following networks: Ethereum ($ETH), Polkadot ($DOT), Polygon ($MATIC), Celo ($CELO), Chainlink ($LINK)...

What is the status of the $NEAR ecosystem and where will $NEAR go next? This is what we discussed with Metapool founder Claudio. We also talked about lessons learned from the $800 million $NEAR grant, staking on Aurora, pain points in the NEAR ecosystem, the Rainbow bridge, roadmap, and much more! - - - - - - Catch up with FRENS VALIDATOR: 💻 WEBSITE: https://frens.army 📲 FOLLOW ON TWITTER:  http...

What exciting developments are occurring in the Avalanche ecosystem and where will it go next? We sat down with Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, VP of Marketing at Ava Labs, discussing these questions, similarities with the Cosmos ecosystem, scalability and interoperability of subnets, how Avalanche boards big players from Web2 and traditional finance, and much more! - - - - - -  Catch up with FRENS VALIDATOR...

The SEC just declared a basket of assets as securities, such as $ATOM, $ADA, and more! Besides, under the lead of Gary Gensler, sued Binance and Coinbase.  This is why Gary Gensler and the SEC get heavily criticized right now. However, the is more to unpack here: not necessarily the SEC defines what a security is: congress is! The SEC only enforces the law set by congress and interprets their form...

How can you stay secure in the Web3 space, as a founder and investor? This is what we have discussed with David Schwed from Halborn. He shared a security 101 and shed some light on tricks hackers use that people think only happen in James Bond movies - but they happen in real life daily! - - - - - -  Catch up with FRENS VALIDATOR: 💻 WEBSITE: https://frens.army 📲 FOLLOW ON TWITTER:  https://twitt...

What are sector-specific blockchains? Sector-specific blockchains, such as Injective, gain a lot of traction right now. They are blockchains that are tailored to specific dApps, like DeFi dApps, to launch on them. With the launch of Astroport, formerly the largest DeFi dApp on Terra, this direction gets more obvious. So, do sector-specific blockchains represent a new crypto primitive? And what doe...

What is Soarchain? Soarchain is an upcoming Cosmos SDK-based blockchain that is about to launch. The project has built a hardware device first, which is called MOTUS. With the MOTUS device, people can collect data on the underlying road their vehicle is driving on. MOTUS brings the collected data on the $SOAR blockchain, where the data gets commercialized. The user or driver earns $MOTUS as a rewa...

How are financial institutions like Akbank, one of the largest banks in Turkey, entering Web3? This is what we discussed with Burcu Kucukunal, Digital Design & Innovation SVP at Akbank. We dived deeper into their experiences with blockchain, the landscape of the Turkish ecosystem, and so much more! - - - - - -  Catch up with FRENS VALIDATOR: 💻 WEBSITE: https://frens.army 📲 FOLLOW ON TWITTER:  ht...

Welcome back to Overrated/ Underrated with Cryptocito. In this format, we rate the valuation and potential of several Cosmos projects. Our hosts Juri Maibaum and Cryptocito will share their personal opinion on several Cosmos projects. Today they will talk about $ATOM Economic Zone | AEZ, Neutron | $NTRN, Avalanche | $AVAX, Polkadot | $DOT, Nolus, and many more. - - - - - -  Catch up with FRENS VAL...

Welcome to the first episode of our new format Builders´ Diary! Here, we will shed light on the personalities behind our favorite chains and protocols and discover what makes them so unique.  For our premiere, we welcome Griffin Anderson, CEO of Phi Labs. Phi Labs is a core contributor to Archway, a Layer-1 with novel incentive mechanisms for developers and dApp builders.  We discuss Griffin´s roa...

What does the future of Avalanche and $AVAX look like? The Avalanche ecosystem always has had strong synergies with the Cosmos ecosystem - the concept of subnets is very similar to Cosmos' appchains.  But where do the ecosystem differ from each other? What's next for Avalanche and $AVAX? What is Avalanche doing to drive mass adoption?  This and much more is what we discussed with Jay Kurahashi-Sof...