Interchain.FM is the Cosmos Radio Station which shines a light on the protocols that solve the hardest problems in Web3. It's a technical podcast that uncovers the vibrant world of bleeding edge technology built in the pursuit of anti-censorship, freedom, and preserving the privacy of the sovereign individual. Become an Interchain.FM🥩 staker on Osmosis, Comdex, and Umee!
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USDC Cosmos Hub Interchain Security launch postponed amidst new Noble chain direction
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✨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 e…
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Interchain Jam - 2 years, 274 appchains, $178B AUM later, Cosmos IBC turns 2!
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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 int…
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Haseeb Qureshi, Emin Gun Sirer, Chjango Unchained: Will Crypto Survive or will AI eat its lunch?
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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'…
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✨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 c…
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Not clickbait! Squid will revolutionize DeFi, bi-directional trade from EVM to Cosmos in 20 seconds
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✨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 t…
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Zo - Web3 chat app powered by decentralized digital ID seeks to disrupt SMS based identity
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✨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 …
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Near protocol's Blockchain Operating System - An operating system for blockchains. What this means for consumer dApps
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✨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 s…
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Eclipse - Could 90+% of blockchain activity happen on (zk)rollups within a few years?
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✨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 monolithi…
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Celestia Rollkit: Modular frameworks—the future of blockchains or just another narrative?
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✨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 ne…
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Interchain NFTs - This lets you trade NFTs across the Cosmos Network
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✨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 G…
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Mars protocol is bringing borrowing/lending of native Cosmos tokens on Osmosis
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✨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 d…
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Ex-Twitter Exec Joins Osmosis Labs to Take DeFi to the Next 100M Users
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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…
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Babylon - How Babylon Will Turn Bitcoin into the Cosmos Settlement Layer
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✨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…
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Sei Network - lets you build high throughput DEXs on its base layer
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✨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 …
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Canto DEX - liquidity rails but make it public
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✨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 pub…
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dYdX - Largest derivatives DEX in DeFi picks Cosmos over ETH scaling solution for scaling?
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✨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 cle…
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Interchain name service - How crypto wallets can unlock web3 access via sovereign digital identities
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✨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 …
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Haseeb Qureshi, Emin Gun Sirer, Chjango Unchained - Will Crypto Survive or will AI eat its lunch?
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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'…
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Skip protocol - Frontrunning the frontrunners? MEV Flashbots for the Cosmos
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✨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 m…
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ATOM 2.0 - Why the Founder of Cosmos Opposes a Proposal to Improve $ATOM Utility
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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 Co…
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Circle - Native $USDC Comes to Cosmos Amid Silicon Valley Bank Uncertainty
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✨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, s…
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Interchain Accounts - Deep Dive: Understand ICA in Under 30 Min
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✨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 verific…
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Sunny Aggarwal Explains the Difference between Mesh Security vs Atom 2.0 Interchain Security
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✨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…
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Levana Finance - Trading Options and Perpetual Swaps on JUNO
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✨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 …
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Galois - How Galois Capital Made the Big $LUNA Short, is One of a Few Crypto Hedge Funds Who Came out on Top
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✨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…
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Comdex - Interchain DeFi, $CMST Stablecoin + Airdrop Alpha?
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✨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 va…
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Crescent DEX - to create DeFi blue chip derivatives to let you trade options
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✨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 …
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Composable Finance - Building cross-ecosystem contract calls (XCVM) b/w the Interchain & Polkadot
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✨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 betan…
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Wynd - an autocompounder to double your staking APY & lower unbonding period to 0 days
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✨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 mathemati…
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Quasar - Cross-chain Yield Aggregator for the Interchain
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✨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 infrast…
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Thorchain - $RUNE Mainnet Launch, Security Model and Tokenomics Deep Dive
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✨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 protoc…
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Celestia Rollkit - Modular frameworks, for real or for narrative?
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✨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 ne…
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WosmosNFT - Osmosis Alpha Leak: Native Wosmongton NFTs & NFT Marketplace $OSMO
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✨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 collecti…
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Juno - The real story behind Juno's controversial Prop 16 vote & next-gen governance tooling w/ DAO DAO
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✨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 DA…
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Cosmos Q&A - How Kevin Smith can Disrupt Hollywood's Model
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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 …
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Legendao - Hollywood will be radically disrupted in the next 5 years because of this technology
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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 th…
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✨The Graph ✨ Guests: Tegan Kline, Joseph Al-Chami 0:00 intro 0:19 Tegan high-level overview 5:59 Joseph technical overview Please excuse the extensive background noise, as interviews were conducted in the middle of a press room in the middle of a lot of action. ______________ 💟 SUPPORT INTERCHAIN.FM If you enjoy this content, please give it a thumb…
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Mars Protocol: How you can borrow and lend Cosmos assets on Osmosis
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Mars Protocol is a DeFi product to come out of Delphi Labs. Jose Macedo and Larry Engineer explain what's on the roadmap for Mars. Hint: they're launching their own hub alongside multiple "outposts" on various Cosmos L1s like Osmosis to offer borrowing and lending of Cosmos assets across the Interchain. Mars protocol was previously deployed on Terr…
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Erik Voorhees, Sunny Aggarwal, Chjango, Haseeb discuss Web3's Lehman Moment w/ CoinDesk
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The following is recorded from a twitter spaces co-hosted by CoinDesk and Interchain.fm. The conversation was moderated by Sam Kessler, a CoinDesk journalist, and Chjango Unchained spoke alongside Erik Voorhees, Haseeb Qureshi, and Sunny Aggarwal on the ongoing topic of FTX and our latest main character, Sam Bankman Fried. We discussed the failings…
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FTX Contagion: Is Crypto Dead? How does it affect Cosmos?
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With $10B of value evaporating nearly overnight, was crypto all a scam or has the space simply shed itself of the grifters, leaving room for the legitimate technical progress to make headway? Chjango Unchained explores these questions alongside Cephii, Nick Tomaino, and Tor Bair.By Chjango Unchained
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MakerDAO: Multichain Expansion Plans, $DAI on Osmosis
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MakerDAO is the godfather of the stablecoin application, with the introduction of DAI to the blockchain space. Now they're aggressively expanding to address a multichain economy. DAI is a Collateralized Debt Position (CDP) based stablecoin that has recently been bridged over to the Cosmos ecosystem via the Osmosis DEX. Axelar has announced a retroa…
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Nomad: Bridge Security Model and Thoughts About the ETH Merge
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🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► Everything: linktr.ee/nomadxyzBy James Prestwich, Chjango Unchained
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Desmos: Incentivized Engagement Farming in Onchain Social Networks
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✨About Desmos ✨ Desmos is a Cosmos SDK appchain whose application serves the social token market. It brings decentralized identity solutions to market where your Desmos address serves as your social handle that could be used across the Interchain ecosystem. Tune into this podcast to build your mental model about what's coming next in the decentrali…
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Laconic: EIP-1559 Origins & Rick Dudley's Cosmos Spin on Ethereum Scaling
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Stargaze: Cosmos NFT Platform and On-chain Marketplace
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Website: app.stargaze.zoneBy Shane Vitarana, Chjango Unchained
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Injective Pt 2: Token Burns, Auctions & Liquidation Insurance
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🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► Watch Injective Pt. 1 from the first interview I had with Eric for a primer: https://youtu.be/NBN9Cnj35nABy Eric Chen, Chjango Unchained
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Evmos Brings Ethereum POS to Cosmos, Radically Reduces Fees
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App: app.evmos.orgBy Federico Kunze, Chjango Unchained
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Osmosis: Cosmos DEX to Take DeFi to the Next Level, Interchain DeFi
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🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► Socials: https://twitter.com/osmosiszone ► App: https://app.osmosis.zone/By Sunny Aggarwal, Chjango Unchained
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Metarats: 2nd Largest NFT PFP Project on Secret Network
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Gravity Bridge Launches Two-way Peg Chain from Cosmos to Ethereum
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🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► Website: www.gravitybridge.netBy Deborah Simpier, Chjango Unchained
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