Chorus One Podcast

In this episode Brendan sits down with Matt Luongo, Co-Founder of Thesis (Keep Network) to discuss tBTC during Berlin Blockchain Week. tBTC describes a way to issue a decentralized BTC-backed token as an ERC-20 token on Ethereum. The interview goes into Matt's background, how the technology and economics around tBTC work, as well as the role of the Keep Network in creating tBTC.

tBTC Whitepaper: http://docs.keep.network/tbtc/index.pdf Keep Network: https://keep.network/

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In this episode, Meher and E. Dean Tribble explore the Agoric platform and the value proposition. Dean and his team are among the first to work on smart contracts, starting in the 80s with the Agoric Open System papers.

Agoric's focus on object-capabilities security approach enables developers to write secure smart contracts in JavaScript. The episode dives into the long history of Agoric and explores the benefits of a system with object-based access control compared to the current blockchain paradigm of identity-based access control.

Agoric: https://agoric.com

Agoric Open Systems Papers: https://agoric.com/papers/markets-and-computation-agoric-open-systems/abstract/

Chorus One: https://chorus.one

Chorus One Twitter: https://twitter.com/chorusone

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In this episode, Felix walks through the history of Proof-of-Stake and explains how PoS compares to economic arrangements like surety bonds. The episode covers early examples of surety bonds, the parties in such an agreement, the analogy between Proof-of-Stake and surety bonds, as well as important dates in the history of Proof-of-Stake starting with the inception of Peercoin in 2012 over the Tendermint whitepaper in 2014 and Casper research in 2017 to the emergence of the Proof-of-Stake validation ecosystem and the many PoS innovations we are currently witnessing.

A Brief History of Proof-of-Stake Blog Post: https://blog.chorus.one/brief-history-pos

Surety Bond History: https://surety1.com/history-surety-bonds/

Staking Economy Newsletter:

Staking Economy All Issues: https://medium.com/staking-economy/tagged/blockchain

Other Proof-of-Stake explainer posts on the Chorus One blog: https://stakingeconomy.substack.com/ Framework for Classifying Staking Implementations: https://blog.chorus.one/classifying-staking-implementations-a-framework/

PoS Ecosystem 101: https://blog.chorus.one/pos-ecosystem-101/

Chorus One: https://chorus.one

Chorus One Twitter: https://twitter.com/chorusone

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This episode is a discussion on the impact of 0% fee validators between Brian Crain (Chorus One), Sunny Aggarwal (SikkaTech/Tendermint), Michael Perklin (ShapeShift), and Chris Remus (Chainflow). The discussion covers the trend towards no commission validators on the Cosmos Hub and opinions on whether this trajectory harms the network as a whole. The discussion also covers experiences on other networks, differentiation between validators, and goes into whether a protocol could or should be designed to intervene in such a market.

Links:

Signaling proposal "Are Validators Charging 0% Commission Harmful to the Success of the Cosmos Hub?": https://hubble.figment.network/cosmos/chains/cosmoshub-2/governance/proposals/12

Cosmos forum discussions on this topic: https://forum.cosmos.network/t/proposal-are-validators-charging-0-commission-harmful-to-the-success-of-the-cosmos-hub/

https://forum.cosmos.network/t/on-the-interrelationship-between-the-security-budget-and-the-business-prospects-of-the-cosmos-network/

Chorus One: https://chorus.one

SikkaTech: https://www.sikka.tech/ Shapeshift: https://shapeshift.io/

Chainflow: https://chainflow.io/

This episode is focused on our efforts to become the first climate positive, green Proof-of-Stake validator. Brian and Felix discuss the impact that operating permissionless blockchain networks has on the environement and how we estimated our company's influence on climate change by sizing our carbon emissions. We then dive into how we plan to offset these emissions and turn our validator operations carbon positive with the help of the Regen Network team. Finally, we talk about ways to expand this practice in the wider PoS validation ecosystem.

As mentioned at the end of the episode, we will use one of three pilot projects on the Regen Network to improve ecological health. Help us choose the right projects by taking the survey linked below!

Links:

Green Validator Announcement Post: https://blog.chorus.one/green-validator

Green Validator Pilot Program Survey: https://form.jotformeu.com/91782610629361

Podcast Episode with Gregory Landua from the Regen Network: https://chorusone.libsyn.com/5-regen-networks-balance-sheet-for-earth-with-gregory-landua

Chorus One: https://chorus.one

Regen Network: https://regen.network Chorus One Community: https://chorus.one/telegram

Regen Network Community: https://t.me/regennetwork_public

In the fifth Chorus One Podcast episode Brian is joined by Gregory Landua, Co-Founder of the Regen Network. They cover why and how an immutable, transparent blockchain ledger could help to reverse the effects of climate change.

Gregory also introduces two pilot programs the Regen team is working with and explains how the Regen Network is designed to allow parties to enter into economic agreements between land stewards such as farmers and entities seeking to improve ecological health.

Links:

Regen Network Website: https://www.regen.network/

Chorus One Website: https://chorus.one

Pilot Program - Stewardship of the Amazon Rainforest: https://www.regen.network/rainforestfoundation.html

Gregory's Talk at DevCon3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXVcuWvR5Z0&feature=youtu.be&t=2643

More infos on Pilot Programs and Development Progress of the Regen Network: https://medium.com/regen-network/regen-network-q2-development-update-da562ef886b2

Regen Network Community: https://t.me/regennetwork_public

Chorus One Community: https://chorus.one/telegram

This episode features Brian and Meher discussing delegation vouchers. Delegation vouchers are a Proof-of-Stake design concept that would enable staking positions to unlock their full economic potential by becoming useable in decentralized finance applications (#StakingIsDeFi). Chorus One and Sikka implemented a version of delegation vouchers using the Cosmos SDK at a Cosmos Hackathon. In this podcast episode, Brian and Meher discuss the need for alternative staking designs and the advantages of the delegation voucher system in comparison to the current implementation.

Links:

Delegation Vouchers Writeup: https://blog.chorus.one/delegation-vouchers/

Delegation Vouchers Hackathon Github Entry: https://github.com/joe-bowman/cosmos-sdk/tree/hackatom-master

Delegation Voucher Hackathon Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MyPN76q4mc#t=46m45

Chorus One Website: https://chorus.one/

In this episode, Meher is diving deep into the Terra protocol with Nicholas Platias. Nicholas is the Head of Research at Terraform Labs, the company implementing the technology behind the Terra network.

The interview covers how Nicholas got to work with the Terra team, the stability mechanism behind Terra's stablecoins, as well as the research that went into designing the system. Chorus One operates a validator node on the Terra Network. Stake your LUNA with us and earn rewards! Go to https://chorus.one/networks/terra to learn more.

Links:

Terra Money Website: https://terra.money

Terra Money Blog: https://medium.com/terra-money

Chorus One Terra Website: https://chorus.one/networks/terra

Chorus One Terra blog: https://blog.chorus.one/tag/terra

In this interview, Felix is joined by Alfonso Cevallos. Alfonso is a researcher at the Web3 Foundation mainly working on optimizing Polkadot's Nominated Proof-of-Stake (NPoS) incentive mechanism. NPoS is based on a novel algorithm that seeks to optimize decentralization across validating nodes in a PoS network.

The interview covers Alfonso's background and his work at the Web3 Foundation, staking in Polkadot, as well as details and implications of the NPoS mechanism.

Links:

NPoS Introduction Blog: https://medium.com/web3foundation/how-nominated-proof-of-stake-will-work-in-polkadot-377d70c6bd43

NPoS Documentation: https://research.web3.foundation/en/latest/polkadot/NPoS/

Web3 Research: https://research.web3.foundation

Polkadot Specs and Documentation: https://wiki.polkadot.network

Chorus One Website: https://chorus.one

This is the first episode of the Chorus One Podcast. In it, our team (Brian Fabian Crain, Meher Roy,Brendan Dillon, and Felix Lutsch) introduce themselves, Chorus One, the topics we plan to cover in this podcast, and the things we are most excited about in the crypto space today. We talk about topics like staking, decentralized finance, interoperability, network governance, DAOs as new organizational structures, and blockchain education. Have fun listening and subscribe if you want to learn more about projects and protocols working to create a more sustainable and open financial system using blockchain technologies.

Links:

Website: https://chorus.one Telegram Channel: https://chorus.one/telegram YouTube Channel: https://chorus.one/youtube