Citizen Web3 Podcast

By serejandmyself

Exploring blockchain decentralization and the Web3 universe for over 5 years, through in-depth, hour-long conversations with builders, thinkers, and contributors—founders, validators, node operators, ... more

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Citizen Web3 Podcast episodes:

February 09, 2023Market Strategy, Liquid Staking and Startups with Valerie Tetu
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Valerie Tetu Go-to-Market & Marketing Strategist at Lido Finance - DeFi's leading suite of Liquid Staking protocols and assets across multiple networks, including Cosmos and Ethereum.
Lido Finance enables users to earn Proof-of-Stake rewards without compromising access to the liquidity of their funds. The Lido protocol issues its native Liquid Staking Assets to stakers on a 1:1 basis that can be used in composable DeFi strategies to earn additional rewards.
We spoke to Valerie about Lido and:
Entrepreneurship and how to find and fill a need in the market
DeFi
Liquidity as a driving force for economics
How liquid staking works
Risks of liquid staking
The plans to allocate voting rights and dilute the power of validators
How to onboard new users using empathy and need
Personal Philosophy and aligning it with the projects that we are involved with
Public Good
Record Keeping stuck in the past for legal and medical businesses, where data storage, indexing and security are key
The semantics around pegged assets vs backed assets
Startups
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Special Guest: Valerie Tetu.
Links:
Alain de Button
Axelar
Bostrom
Celsius
Cyber
Ethereum
IPFS
Laws of Human Nature by Robert Green
Lido Finance
Marcus Aurelius
Neutron
Polygon ID
Reserve Protocol
The School of Life
Uniswap
Zero Knowledge Proof
...more
48min
February 01, 2023Inflation, Game Theory and Token Value with Eric Waisanen
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Eric Waisanen, tokenomics lead at Phi Labs Global, helping to facilitate the economic innovation of Archway - a Cosmos-based L1 designed to incentivize developers.
Archway is an incentivized smart contract platform that rewards developers that build on the network with baked in incentives and rewards. The protocol gives developers the tools to quickly build and launch scalable cross-chain dapps and get rewarded for the value the dapps contribute to the network.
We spoke to Eric about Archway, and:
Atom and the search for utility and monetization
Atsrovault
Counting Cards
Economic Innovation vs Ponzi Schemes and the fine line
Economic Philosophy
Gambling and when does it become investing/Investing and when does it become gambling
Game Theory
Inflation
Liquid staking, the flaws in the current model
Optimization of existing economic systems
Stablecoins as a competitor to the FED
Stablecoins and how collateralized should they be
The structure of rewards and why do infrastructure providers get it all
Token value as it pertains to liquidity
Tokenomics
Who will make it in Cosmos
Motivation
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Special Guest: Eric Waisanen.
Links:
Archway
Area52
Astrovault
Axelar
Bostrom
Cosmos
Cosmoverse
Do Kwon
The FED
Finelabs
Griffin Anderson
Jae Kwon
Juno
Kujira
Osmosis
Secret
Tendermint
...more
51min
January 26, 2023Formal Verification, Innovation and Consensus with Zarko Milosevic
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Zarko Milosevic from Informal Systems, a core developer of the Cosmos Network.
Informal Systems makes formal verification technology more accessible by developing tools and processes to improve the quality and experience of software engineering.
We spoke to Zarko Milosevic about Informal Systems and:
The evolution of Zarko Milosevic
The growth of Informal
Zarko’s personal values and goals
Informal’s vision of the three pillars of society
Leading by example in Cosmos governance
Progress in verification tools
Quint
Working in Cosmos
How the correct development tools can revolutionize the Crypto Space
Consensus Engine stewardship
Innovation on all levels
Examples of new Use Cases that Zarko envisages
Issues with scalability with the consensus engine
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Special Guest: Zarko Milosevic.
Links:
ABCI (Application Blockchain Interface)
Apalache
Anoma
Bostrom
Bullshark
Chris Goes
Cofi
Cosmos
CosmWasm
Dan Edlebeck
Ethan Buchman
IBC
ICF Interchain Foundation
Informal Systems
Fernando Perdone
Jae Kwon
Quint
Rust
Scala
Stride
Tendermint
TLA+
...more
55min
January 19, 2023Stablecoins, Rabbis and NFTs with Jonathan Caras
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Jonathan Caras, working for Levana Protocol, a multichain collatiralized trading platform.
Levana protocol has a fully-collateralized model, which provides users with an easier and safer access to leverage trading rewards and benefits.
We spoke to Jonathan Caras about Levana Protocol and:
Portugal as a crypto hub
How can we define Cosmos for the masses
The impressive history of Jonathan, Rabbi trained, professional magician, computer science phenom
The history and attraction of Bitcoin
Stablecoins and what they should be pegged to be truly decentralized
The rise and fall of empires (USA, FTX, Terra)
Levana and dragons on Mars
The history of the Shekel
How hyperinflation will birth a new stablecoin standard
NFT’s help to create friendships through shared interest like sports
What will final stage adoption look like
A bleak dystopian future is we do not wrest control of money away from government
Motivations and goals
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Special Guest: Jonathan Caras.
Links:
Ampleforth
Apple / Apple Pay
Bancor
Bitcoin
Bittorrent
Bored Apes
Brave
Cosmos
Crescent
Cyber Congress DAO
Delphi Labs
Dentacoin
Devon Finzer
Do Kwon
Duck Duck Go
DyDx
Elon Musk
Ethereum
Eyal Hertzog
Frax
GBG - Golos Gold
God’s Unchained
Hamstercoin
Haven
Immutable X
Instagram
Jason Choi
Kanye West
Kim Kardashian
Kujira
Levana
Lionschain Capital
LQTY
MakerDao
Mars protocol
Monero
Olympus
Opensea
Orai
Osmosis
PayPal
Rekt Gang
Sam Bankman-Fried
Sergei Lukyanenko
Snapchat
Solana
Starkware
Tendermint
Terra / Luna
Vitalik Buterin
XRP
Zcash
ZenGo
...more
42min
January 12, 2023Privacy, Silk and Encryption with Carter Woetzel
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Carter Woetzel, Lead researcher & economist for Shade Protocol, an app for private DeFi.
Shade Protocol is an array of connected privacy-preserving DeFi applications built on Secret Network - all accruing value back to SHD ("shade"), the treasury, and governance token.
We spoke to Carter Woetzel about Shade Protocol and:
Carter's book, "Building Confidence in Blockchain"
Privacy on the blockchain
Bringing privacy to smart contracts
Auditability, for regulators
How do we get people to trust blockchain
How trust in the technology is crucial for adoption by users and financial institutions
Simplifying or solving the gas token
Futuristic currencies
Non traditional stable coins
Sustainability in protocol development
Blockchain at the moment is an experiment
Privacy issues with Intel
Our perception of time in blockchain
Homeomorphic Encryption as a solution to encryption
Why removing the middlemen is always in our best interest
Motivation
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Special Guest: Carter Woetzel.
Links:
Bitcoin
Bostrom
Building Confidence in Blockchain book
Chainalysis
Cosmos
Crescent
Cyber Congress DAO
Dai / MakerDAO
David Chaum
Dero
Duality Blockchain Solutions
Ethan Buchman
Ethereum
Frax
FTX
GBG - Golos Gold
Guy Zyskind
Intel
Jack Zampolin
Juno
Kujira
Luna
Mars protocol
MetaMask
Monero
Osmosis
Satoshi
Secret Network / Tor Bair
Shade Protocol
Silk
Space Pussy
Tendermint
Umee
Uniswap
Zcash
...more
52min
December 29, 2022Democrats, Historical Content and Community with Phoebe Poon
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Phoebe Poon, Co founder at Likecoin. A decentralized publishing protocol, built on Cosmos SDK.
LikeCoin is an application-specific blockchain on decentralized publishing built on Cosmos SDK. LikeCoin provides open source products ranging from infrastructure to publishing tools for creators on board to Web3.
We spoke to Phoebe Poon about Likecoin and:
Publishing
The media
Community
Social context
The decentralization spectrum of online media
Web3 projects and tooling
Historical preservation
Content integrity
NFTs and writers
Social media
Startups
Storage
Democrats
Dinosaur extinctions
Motivation
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Special Guest: Phoebe Poon.
Links:
Arweave
Cosmos
Ethereum
Filecoin
Gatecoin
IPFS
Isaac Asimov
Kin Ko
Likecoin
MetaMask
Mirror XYZ
Patreon
Tendermint
Steemitt
Wordpress
...more
56min
December 22, 2022Storage, Web3 Marketing and Decentralized Identity with Boris Mann
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Boris Mann, Co founder at Fission codes. Building protocols for the future of the Internet and web3.
Fission codes are a development team powering up decentralized web applications. They build various open source tools to help bring decntralization to web technology.
We spoke to Boris Mann about Fission Codes and:
Goals and values in work
How far are we in our web3 journey?
The required steps to get further away from web2
Web3 marketing
Europocentrizm vs technology
What is the future of the Internet?
Interoperability
Storage and related issues
IPFS: pros and cons
Decentralized storage
DID's
Motivation
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Special Guest: Boris Mann.
Links:
Amazon S3
Binance
Coin Network
Cosmos
Cyber
Dogecoin
Ethereum
Filecoin
Fission codes
Functionland
IPFS
Tendermint
Wallet Connect
...more
53min
December 15, 2022Adoption, Airdrops and Decentralization with Dan Edlebeck
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Dan Edlebeck, CEO at Sei network. First sector-specific Layer 1 blockchain, specialized for trading to give exchanges an unfair advantage. Built with Cosmos-SDK.
A Decentralized NASDAQ Specialized for Exchanges. Sei is the first sector-specific Layer 1 blockchain, specialized for trading. Every aspect of the blockchain has been optimized to help exchanges run better and offer the best UX for their end users.
We spoke to Dan Edlebeck about Sei and:
DeFi's current situation and the challenges it faces
Centralized exchanges: how much longer people will use them and why?
Layer 1 blockchains
Argument on trends in decentralization
How do we change the industry and onboard more people to the ecosystem?
Fastest blockchain
How will ecosystems interact with each other in future?
dVPNs
Order books for bandwidth
Censorship and self-sovereignty
Connie Daddy
Airdrops
Motivation
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Special Guest: Dan Edlebeck.
Links:
Archway
Binance
Cosmos
Ethereum
Exidio
FTX
IBC
ICF
Iqlusion
Keplr
Luna
Mt Gox
Notional
Osmosis
Sei
Sentinel
Skip.Money
Tendermint
TeraBlock
Vitalik Buterin
...more
53min
December 08, 2022Validation Management, the Engine of Progress and Liquid Staking with Julius Schmidt
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Julius Schmidt - COO of Staking Facilities, staking service provider on Cosmos, Ethereum, Solana, Polkadot and other networks.
Stakign Facilities strives to develop industry standards for convenient staking with compelling project selection while retaining outstanding security standards. They have been running secure, available and performant staking infrastructure since 2017.
We spoke to Julius Schmidt about Staking Facilities and:
Staking Facilities values
The socio-economical side of crypto
Incentives
Blockchain as one of the most important engine of progress
Validation and staking infrastructure
Atom 2.0
Team structures
Institutionals vs non-institutionals
Validation management
Transparency in desicion making
Liquid staking design
Motivation and goals
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Special Guest: Julius Scmidt.
Links:
Cosmos
Ethereum
Figment
FTX
Google
Solana
Staking Facilities
Tendermint
PolkaDot
...more
49min
December 01, 2022DAOs, the Beauty of Blockchain and the Journey of a Validator with Brian Crain
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Brian Crain – co-founder of Chorus One, which provides staking solutions on over 30 decentralized networks and builds core infrastructure for blockchain protocols.
Chorus One also brings to their stakers such services as Whitelabel staking and Liquid staking.
We spoke to Brian Crain about Chorus One and:
Brian's path
The story behind Chorus One
The beauty of blockchain
Chorus One's contribution to the building of the freer world
Urbit
How can we improve the current state of affairs in blockchain?
DAO's
DeFi
Freedom vs. safety
Crypto vs. cash
Tendermint experience
Validation journey: expectation vs. reality
Atom 2.0
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Special Guest: Brian Fabian Crain.
Links:
Anoma
Bitcoin
Chorus One
Cosmos
Epicenter tv
Ethereum
Penumbra
Regen network
Tendermint
Urbit
...more
48min

FAQs about Citizen Web3 Podcast:

How many episodes does Citizen Web3 Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 190 episodes available.