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✨About Espresso ✨ The Espresso Sequencer supports the decentralization of L2s. It handles the decentralized sequencing and data availability of rollup transactions, functioning as middleware between rollups and their underlying layer-1 (L1) platforms. Guest: Jill Gunter (formerly Jill Carlson) #blockchaintech #web3 #interchainfm #cryptocurrency #cryptopodcasts #ethereum #rollups 💟 SUPPORT iFM I...

✨About Levana✨ Levana builds innovative decentralized finance solutions designed to make leverage trading accessible to everyone. Levana stands for LEV-erage AN-y A-sset. Their perpetuals product is now live on Osmosis. The most recent appchain that they added support for is Sei. In this episode, you'll get a live demo of the working product! Don't miss it. 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► Primer: https://w...

✨About Wormhole Gateway✨ Wormhole Gateway is an application-specific blockchain built with the Cosmos SDK, purpose-built for the Cosmos ecosystem with seamless composability with the Wormhole stack. It will allow fungible assets to be transferred across the Interchain via IBC. #interchainjam #blockchaintech #technews #web3news #interchainfm #cryptocurrency #cryptopodcasts 💟 SUPPORT iFM If you e...

✨About Catalyst ✨ Catalyst is the permissionless cross-chain Automated Market Maker (AMM) for the modular future. It enables easy liquidity connections and asset swaps between different blockchains, such as Ethereum, Cosmos, and rollups like Optimism and Eclipse. The goal of Catalyst is to create an interconnected ecosystem where users can effortlessly access assets and applications across multi...

✨About Akash AI Supercloud ✨ There is no denying the state of the world we live in. Just as the success of the Manhattan Project transitioned the old world into the new with the atomic bomb, AI is similarly shifting our's out of the Information Age into the AI Age. One has to wonder what this means for humanity and where blockchain technology fits into the story arc. Greg Osuri of Akash seems to...

✨About Centauri ✨ Centauri is an extension of the IBC protocol that facilitates trust-minimized cross-ecosystem communication among various blockchains; it already connects Polkadot, Kusama, and Cosmos, with plans for expansion to Ethereum, NEAR, and other ecosystems. Centauri expands the existing IBC beyond Cosmos appchains for the first time. Similar to any IBC connection between two chains, C...

✨About Duality ✨ The vision for Duality is to take a major step towards building efficient and incentive-aligned markets that realize the original vision of decentralized finance: open and fair finance without middlemen. To do so requires full-stack control: custom logic for transaction inclusion and ordering, reduced block times to improve UX, modifications to fee markets to reduce network cong...

✨About Urbit ✨ Urbit is a next generation operating system (OS) for the decentralized web. It's a fully vertically integrated stack that includes a decentralized ID layer, an OS, a fully fungible frontend that anyone can spin up, and much more. If you're interested in learning about what's in store for the dWeb, then don't miss this show. Guests: Josh Lehman, Executive Director of Urbit Foundati...

✨About Comdex ✨ Comdex is a commodities DEX that has built a vertically integrated interchain DeFi UX. It's an Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC)-enabled Cosmos appchain with a native staking token, $CMDX. In this episode, we interview Siddarth Patil about the latest developments since our first episode (linked below). Chjango Unchained presents some questions concerning Comdex's financials. A...

✨About Shade Protocol ✨ Shade protocol operates a DEX, ShadeSwap, on Secret Network. One of its killer features is asymmetric liquidity. Its multi-collateral backed reflexive stablecoin, SILK, is pegged to a basket of global currencies and commodities. You'll learn about how Shade utilizes Secret Network's secure enclaves to shield transactions and possibly even mitigate MEV, an existential thre...

✨About Game of NFTs ✨ GoN centers around testing the functionality of performing cross-chain transfers of NFTs across the Cosmos ecosystem. In having Interchain NFTs, it potentially opens up a world of novel use cases that may evolve into real-world applicability. But is the ability to move NFTs across blockchains a necessary standard, or is the future going to hold something different for NFTs?...

✨About Stride ✨ Stride is a first-mover in the LSD sector of the Interchain. It lets you stake your Cosmos tokens (e.g. ATOM) through Stride's platform which will then allow you to mint a requisite staked derivative (e.g. stATOM) that you could use for DeFi. If you've been wondering why the $STRD has gone on a rip, it's because it's the LidoDAO or RocketPool equivalent of the Cosmos. Stride will...

✨About PolymerDAO ✨ Polymer is a hub chain that converts non-Cosmos chains into single-slot finality Tendermint BFT-speak in order to make them IBC-compatible. In effect, it acts as an IBC bridge between the EVM and IBC ecosystems while cementing IBC as de facto message passing protocol. Where if they succeed, Polymer may help to usher in IBC as the cross-chain communication standard for the ind...

✨About ZetaChain ✨ ZetaChain is a Cosmos-SDK PoS chain that aggregates the state of all of its supported chains like Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ethereum, Eth L2s, Solana, Terra, and Algorand. It's a smart contract-enabled chain that does wrapping and unwrapping of tokens similarly to wrapped BTC or tBTC to allow for bridge-less trading of wrapped tokens across the Cosmos. 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► GitHub: ht...

✨About Noble ✨ Noble is an asset issuance Proof-of-Authority special-purpose chain for the minting/burning of Circle's USDC. It is intended for injecting native USDC liquidity directly into the IBC ecosystem without the latter relying on EVM bridges to import with. 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► TWITTER: @noble_xyz ► WEB: nobleassets.xyz 💟 SUPPORT iFM If you enjoy this content, please give it a thumbs up...

Interchain Jam is the latest segment brought to you by Cosmos and hosted by Chjango Unchained to distill the rapidly expanding Cosmos ecosystem down into pure signal. It will be a segment that augments the current Cosmos Radio Station, Interchain. FM, starting in April 2023. In this inaugural episode, we will be bringing on the builders who were integral to the success of the TCP/IP layer of the I...

I sat down with Haseeb Qureshi, MP of Dragonfly Capital, and Emin Gun Sirer, Co-founder of Avalanche, to discuss crypto macro. We ran through a wide range of discussions covering regulations in the US, China, Singapore, HK, and the Middle East before moving on to speculate what will ultimately happen to SBF and Do Kwon. We go in-depth about Balaji's bet against the USD and for Bitcoin. (Hint: neit...

✨About Quasar ✨ Quasar is to Cosmos as Yearn is to Ethereum. The difference is, since Quasar is one of the first cross- chain yield aggregators, it will be leveraging Interchain Accounts to do much of the heavy-lifting for optimizing yield strategies that will allow you to farm efficiently across the IBC ecosystem. 💟 SUPPORT iFM If you enjoy this content, please give it a thumbs up and consider...

✨About Squid Router ✨ Squid router can be thought of as a bridge and DEX aggregator in one. It uses Axelar under the hood. Axelar is one of the most popular bridging options when you want to bridge between the EVM and IBC ecosystems. If you haven't watched it already, I did two interviews with Sergey, the co-founder of Axelar, so be sure to check those out. Squid does the manual labor of perform...

✨About Zo ✨ Zo is a chat app, like Signal, built with web3 in mind. Despite being in the modern era of social and chat, the underlying infrastructure is frustratingly antiquated. Using SMS to log in to any platform is extremely insecure and it's akin to driving a horse-drawn cart across an interstate highway—antiquated. But with the advent of web3 identity, now you can drive a Tesla across that...

✨About Near protocol's Blockchain Operating System ✨  There's the Linux operating system and the iOS, but is there such thing as a blockchain operating system (bOS)? Near is building in that direction. If you are to live in a future world where 99% of consumer applications will be running on decentralized infrastructure, then this must be where it starts. At the very least, you will have decentr...

✨About Eclipse ✨  There seems to be a Cambrian explosion of alternative VMs (e.g. Move VM, Gno VM, Solana VM, Fuel VM). But the execution layer is not the only layer that's being reimagined. Up until the advent of Celestia, the crypto research space has only ever thought of consensus/security, data availability, and execution as one single monolithic stack—a Layer 1 (L1). In 2023, that all chang...

✨About Rollkit ✨  Rollkit is a new application development framework that lets developers roll their own L2 rollup on top of any data availability (DA) layer that they choose. Going forward, developers could deploy a rollup on top of Celestia, Cosmos Hub, Osmosis, or any compatible underlying Cosmos chain. Rollkit is a watershed tool for building next generation blockchain applications within a...

✨About Interchain NFTs ✨  An Interchain NFT has been formally specified as an Interchain token standard (ICS721) for the Cosmos ecosystem. What implications does this have for Cosmos appchains? Will it drive new demand for the ecosystem? Stay tuned for news about a new incentivized testnet game, the Game of NFTs! 🔗 Useful Links 🔗  ► More info about Game of NFTs: https://interchainnfts.dev/gon/...

✨About Mars Hub ✨  Mars Hub was launched on January 31, 2023. The Hub acts as the canonical chain where major decisions governing the Hub and its various outposts will take place, enabled by its native staking token, $MARS. In this episode, we will cover the airdrop details, the lending and borrowing product (Red Bank) on Osmosis, and what you can do to best leverage this protocol.  🔗 Useful Li...