This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Ethan Buchman, about the current design of the Cosmos ecosystem and plans for the future. During our conversation, we discuss the differences between finance and money. We go deep into the topic of DeFi and other use cases. We talked a lot about system structuring for biological systems, informal systems, distributed systems and organizations. And finally, we discuss hummus, the proof of stake palace and the scam train single.

Cosmos is a decentralized network of independent parallel blockchains, each powered by BFT consensus algorithms like Tendermint consensus. Cosmos is an ecosystem of blockchains, the TCP/IP of the space, that can scale and interoperate with each other.

The mission of Informal Systems is a vision is an open-source ecosystem of cooperatively owned and governed distributed organizations running on reliable distributed systems to bring verifiability to distributed systems and organizations.

Special Guest: Ethan Buchman.

Links:

• Cosmos
• Cosmos' 1st Birthday
• Informal Systems
• Luni
• Polkadot
• Solana
• Tendermint
• Uniswap

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Special Guest: Ethan Buchman.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Jorge, CEO of Aragon One & with Aidan and Colin from ChainSafe.  We discussed the future Aragon Chain on Cosmos, talked about the main concerns for Aragon DAOs, the social issues that may arise from managing communities on multiple chains for one project, American-centric infrastructure and whether it’s possible or not to create a DAO without a jurisdiction.

Aragon One is a Swiss company formed by the founders of the Aragon project, building tools and services related to Aragon. The company is funded primarily through grants given by the Aragon Association, the non-profit steward of the Aragon project.

Aragon gives internet communities unprecedented power to organize around shared values and resources by providing DAO tools.

ChainSafe is a global leader in blockchain protocol and infrastructure development. With a team of software engineers with diverse technical backgrounds and skill sets. That allowed to collaborate and push the limits of nascent technology.

Special Guests: Aidan Hyman, Colin Schwarz, and Jorge Izquierdo.

Links:

• Aragon Chain development update
• Aragon Protocol
• Cosmos
• Cyber~Congress DAO
• Decentraland
• Ethereum
• Filecoin
• Kusama
• Polkadot
• 1 Hive

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Adriana Mihai, community advocate at Tendermint. Adriana is the founder of the KalpaTech validator and the creator of Today in Cosmos. We chat about the importance of the ecosystem, followers, diversified funding, how to quit your day job and sleepless nights.

Tendermint, a core contributor to the Cosmos Network. Building the most powerful tools for distributed networks. Tendermint is the gateway to the Cosmos ecosystem. Building critical infrastructure for open networks, like the Cosmos SDK, Tendermint Core, and Gaia. And leading developer experience by providing best-in-class tools to peer into an ever expanding Cosmos.

Special Guest: Adriana Mihai.

Links:

• Celo
• Cosmos
• Dokia
• E-Money
• Keep
• Nervos
• Nucypher
• Solana

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features JK from Stake Fish staking service provider. We discuss the recipe needed to become the biggest fish among Cosmos validators. About languages, location, difficult decisions, the origins of the naming of the fish, the criteria needed for Stake Fish to validate your project and Children of the Earth.

Stake Fish are a leading staking service provider for blockchain projects, that invest a lot of time and effort to set up robust validator nodes and put security measures around nodes. On top of just the infrastructure, stake fish eat lunch by having tokens staked on their own validators.

Special Guest: Jun Soo (JK) Kim.

Links:

• Audius
• Bitcoin
• Cosmos
• Ethereum
• Kava
• Stake Fish
• Tendermint
• Zoom

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Lee Hyung Yeon from Bharvest validator and staking services provider. We discuss a risk managers view on the world of blockchain, cryptonomics and Web 3 projects.  We also touch on data privacy aspects of the Cosmos protocol.

B-Harvest, from Seoul, South Korea, provides validation services for multiple dPoS networks and is actively engaging in decentralized governance. Among them, such web3 blockchain networks as, Cosmos, Polkadot, etc

Special Guest: Lee Hyung Yeon.

Links:

• BHarvest
• Cosmwasm
• Enigma
• Figment Network
• Forbole
• Hyperledger
• IBC
• Metamask
• Nucypher
• Oasis
• Polkadot

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Sunny Aggarwal. Sunny is the chief of research at Tendermint, founder of the Sikka.tech validator and a very profound thinker. We will discuss validating on GPUs, money as a religion, economic incentives in blockchains, validator security, teaching at Berkley and Switzerland, GTP-2 and, of course, Sunny's AI twitter.

Tendermint, a core contributor to the Cosmos Network. Building the most powerful tools for distributed networks. Tendermint is the gateway to the Cosmos ecosystem. Building critical infrastructure for open networks, like the Cosmos SDK, Tendermint Core, and Gaia. And leading developer experience by providing best-in-class tools to peer into an ever expanding Cosmos.

Sikka is a company focused on building and operating secure infrastructure for blockchains and other decentralized networks. With a firm commitment to integrity of vision and a promise to only run and promote infrastructure for projects we believe help the cause of decentralization and push the space forward.

Special Guest: Sunny Aggarwal.

Links:

• Agoric
• Aragon Protocol
• Avalanche
• Corda
• Edgeware
• Ethereum
• IBC
• Kava
• Maker Protocol
• Sikka
• Solana

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Kwun Yeung. Kwun is the Founder of the Forbole validator, the creator of BigDipper explorer and the mastermind behind Desmos. We will discuss next-generation social networks and how your background can help you run a validator business. We also touch on decentralised politics, using GPUs in validating and guitar brands.

Forbole are Co-building Interchain. They are validators, builders & contributors, that provide enterprise-level staking service to both whales and fish. Providing All-in-one non-custodial wallet Staking, Governance, asset Managing.

Desmos, from the ancient Greek δεσμός (“bond, relationship"), is a blockchain built on top of the Cosmos SDK and based on the Tendermint consensus engine specific for social networking apps. It uses game theory and on-chain governance to decentralize the business model of social networks prioritizing the interests of users.

Special Guest: Kwun Yeung.

Links:

• Akash
• Cosmos
• Game of Zones
• Ethereum
• Solana
• Steemit
• Tendermint
• The Big Dipper Explorer

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Jack Zampolin, the Indefatigable product leader behind GOZ, about IBC as a product and product management, the latest upgrade in the IBC protocol. Pylon Validator and its story. Game of Zones and bow ties!

Jack is the co-founder of Pylon validator and is an advisor to Akash network.

Pylon Validation Services operates a secure validator node on the Cosmos network. Pylon has been running the hub software (starting with testnets) since the summer of 2018.

Akash network is the Unstoppable Cloud of the Cosmos ecosystem. The DeCloud for DeFi, and the world's first decentralized cloud computing marketplace. Akash DeCloud is a faster, better, and lower cost cloud built for DeFi, decentralized projects, and high growth companies, providing unprecedented scale, flexibility, and price performance. 10x lower in cost, our serverless computing platform is compatible with all cloud providers and all applications that run on the cloud.

Special Guest: Jack Zampolin.

Links:

• Agoric
• Akash
• Cardono
• Cypherpunk Manifesto
• Ethereum
• Juno
• Evmos
• Osmosis
• Strangelove
• Tendermint
• Uniswap

In this episode of #citizenweb3, we talk to Gavin Birch, the Community Analyst at Figment Network, and discuss the governance behind the Cosmos Ecosystem.

Figment network is a web 3 provider that allow you to stake tokens, build applications, and participate in blockchain governance. Based in Canada, serving customers worldwide, Figment is the country’s largest blockchain infrastructure, and services provider. Figment's mission is to support the adoption, growth and long term success of the Web 3 ecosystem. Figment provides enterprise grade node and staking infrastructure, the Hubble Web 3 explorer, and developer tools while also actively participating in community & governance.

Special Guest: Gavin Birch.

Links:

• Cosmos
• Ethereum
• Figment Network
• IrisNet
• Tendermint
• Kava
• Terra