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Guest: Rob Benson  Rob Benson was previously Sr. Dir. of Engineering at Twitter right before Twitter rocketed into the pockets of 450M users. He recently joined Osmosis Labs to head up engineering to bring the promise of DeFi into the hands of the next hundreds of millions of the unbanked. Rob onboarded the Cosmos ecosystem rapidly, donning his very own Bad Kid and met all the players at his first...

✨About Babylon ✨  Babylon chain offers checkpointing to the Bitcoin blockchain for Cosmos appchains. This can possibly reduce the standard 14-day unbonding period you must wait to securely unbond from any Tendermint-based chain by leveraging the security of the Bitcoin blockchain. Does this potentially turn Bitcoin into the de facto settlement layer for Cosmos where there wasn't one before?  Gue...

✨About Sei ✨  Sei is a Cosmos-based platform that enables dApps, specifically DEX applications, to be hosted on its layer 1. It offers high throughput and data availability for the DEXs that run on it. Sei leverages the power of parallelization and transaction batching in the mempool through Narwhal in order to achieve the high TPS that it promises to the exchange logic that depend on it. This i...

✨About Canto✨  Canto is a decentralized exchange built with Cosmos SDK that runs the EVM on its execution layer. The primary difference between Canto and most other DEXs is that it doesn't charge the user LP fees to make swaps, which means that LPs don't earn additional swap fees. This is in line with Canto's vision of providing an exchange as a public service rather than as a private enterprise...

✨About dYdX ✨  dYdX is a perpetuals DEX that started on an ETH L2, Starkware, that has since made the strategic decision to migrate their DEX to becoming fully onchain. Because Cosmos allows dYdX to customize the product experience for their users while achieving the scalability needed for the volume their users demand, they picked Cosmos as the clear winning stack. dYdX is the largest derivativ...

✨About ICNS ✨  How will onchain digital identities like your ENS, ICNS (Interchain Nameservice), Handshake names and the like become your gateway into what lies ahead in Web3 UX? When a new person gets onramped into crypto, they all have to download wallets. What if your wallet will no longer be "just a wallet", the same way your phone, at the turn of the 2000s, was no longer "just a phone"—it b...

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 Skip Protocol ✨  Skip protocol can be likened to flashbots of the interchain. With mainnet outposts deployed on juno and evmos so far, they're getting ahead of the specter of mev seekers profiteering risk-free in attempts to pillage the value from within the cosmos network. Here's a deep dive into how Skip redistributes mev profits across a more distributed set of validators while securin...

ATOM 2.0 is the latest and greatest development to come out of Cosmos as of late. It proposes an updated roadmap for $ATOM, the token housed on the Cosmos Hub. So why does the very creator of Cosmos, the visionary behind BFT Proof-of-Stake itself, vehemently oppose this new roadmap for the Cosmos Hub? We explore what's at stake for the future of Cosmos, what are the good parts of Prop 82, as well...

✨About USDC ✨  $USDC is the second most liquid stablecoin that powers crypto asset-to-stablecoin swaps for both CeFi and DeFi protocols alike. USDC will be a keystone stablecoin for the Interchain, especially as it emerges from the ashes of the $UST de-peg. As part of the go-to-market plan, Circle will be issuing USDC from an asset issuance chain, secured by Cosmos Hub Interchain Security. If yo...

✨About Interchain Accounts ✨  ICA unlocks a greater surface area for designing cross-chain applications. Cross-chain TXs currently speak very basic language: token swaps. But by being able to control an account of another chain, you can potentially unlock a vibrant multichain world of dynamic DAO management, file transfers, KYC-less identity verification, and whatever else imaginable. We're only...

✨About mesh security✨  It's just an idea for now! Mesh security is a bi-lateral agreement between two chains agreeing to secure the other chain with its native staking token. Network topology of a mesh secured network looks like a distributed set of chains rather than hub and spoke, arguably a more decentralized architecture.  🔗 Useful Links 🔗  ► Blog post ELI5: https://medium.com/osmosis/bloc...

✨About Levana✨  Levana builds innovative decentralized finance solutions designed to make leverage trading accessible to everyone.  🔗 Useful Links 🔗  ► Socials: https://twitter.com/levana_protocol   ______________  💟 SUPPORT iFM  If you enjoy this content, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing to my channel.  If you use Osmosis, Umee, and/or Comdex, you can support by delegating...

✨About Galois✨   Galois Capital is a long-standing crypto hedge fund run by a Bitcoin OG, Kevin Zhou. He goes over his highly controversial takes about Ethereum moving to PoS, base layer neutrality, his framework for reasoning about different classes of tokens, and where he believes the space is headed should there be an OFAC chain and permissionless chain paradigm. ______________  💟 SUPPORT iF...

✨About Comdex✨  Comdex is a commodities DEX that's rapidly building a vertically integrated DeFi experience in the Interchain. It's an Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC)-enabled Cosmos appchain with a native staking token, $CMDX. In this episode, we're interviewing Siddarth Patel about their upcoming stablecoin, Composite ($CMST), yield bearing vaults (Harbor protocol), lending/borring app (Co...

✨About Crescent Network ✨  Crescent is a Cosmos DEX appchain that is designed as a hybrid orderbook/automated market maker (AMM). Hyung from B-Harvest talks to Chjango Unchained about the problem that Crescent DEX solves and what they're building to improve the DeFi speculating experience. 🔗 Useful Links 🔗  ► Socials: https://twitter.com/CrescentHub   ► Website: https://app.crescent.network/  ...

✨Composable Finance ✨    In this livestream, Chjango will be interviewing 0xbrainjar at Composable Finance to discuss their bridging technology between two of the largest ecosystems in blockchain. We'll cover Composable Finance, a parachain on Polkadot, and Picasso, their canary network for a suite of DeFi apps hosted on Kusama. Picasso is their betanet to Composable Finance's mainnet. With Comp...

✨About Wynd ✨  Wynd is a smart contract that autocompounds your staking yield so that you can set it and forget it. Any CosmWasm-enabled layer 1 blockchain that has Wynd smart contract deployed can offer this feature to its users. This new dApp can lower your unbonding time to 0 while allowing you to maximize your rewards by abusing a neat mathematical trick as long as there is no mass unbonding...

✨About Quasar ✨  Quasar is the home of next-generation DeFi investment opportunities, powered by expert and community driven strategies. For the everyday person, Quasar is the gateway to multi-chain DeFi Investment opportunities, offering sustainable, sovereign, and ergonomic investment vehicles. For experts, Quasar offers powerful tools and infrastructure to create vaults based on unique invest...

✨About Thorchain✨  Thorchain (RUNE) is one of the earliest Cosmos-based DEXs aimed at solving decentralized BTC exchange on Bitcoin L1. In this Thorchain 201 deep dive, I try to poke holes in the Thorchain security model. My guest is Chad Barraford, the technical lead at Thorchain, who breaks down RUNE tokenomics and safety short circuits the protocol has in place to prevent exploits and protect...

✨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 WosmosNFTs✨ Many of you long-time listeners of this show are well familiar with the iconic Wosmongton figurehead—the mad scientist of the Osmosis Lab. Well, to no one's surprise, this in-demand icon will be turned into a native NFT PFP (profile pic) project to Osmosis. There's a caveat though. Unlike your garden variety NFT PFP jpeg collection, the WosmosNFT collection will be—you guessed...

✨About Juno✨ Juno is Cosmos L1 that acts as generalized smart contracting layer for CosmWasm dApps. Juno had undergone a controversial governance proposal (Prop 16) which forked out a whale's tokens and redistributed them in an unprecedented move we've not seen done in web3.  Our guest on this episode is Jake Hartnell, the founder of Juno and DAO DAO. Jake talks about the behind-the-scenes story...

Kevin Smith recently announced his launch of his "Killroy Was Here" NFT collection, slated to mint on Secret Network. The big idea? The pain point that many Hollywood directors have had with Hollywood has long been about Hollywood taking the lion's share of the profits on any successful film they produce. Meanwhile, their fanbase get a cut of none of the profits while they get a small percentage o...

A new platform built on Secret Network specialized in minting NFTs. An early pioneer of this technology, Quentin Tarantino, followed by Kevin Smith, are proving that Legendao could be the choice platform for minting and trading NFTs that will be used to democratize the movie making process. While Hollywood traditionally takes the lion's share of the cut of profits and maintains a very tight-knit a...