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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 Cosmoverse in Medellin, Colombia. Tune in for war stories about the very early days of Twitter.

✨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? 

Guest: David Tse 

🔗 Useful Links 🔗 

► Primer: https://blog.cosmos.network/consensus...

 ► Socials: https://twitter.com/babylon_chain

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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 to the exchange logic that depend on it. This is a deep dive into the technicals so strap in. 

Guest speaker: Jay Jog 

🔗 Useful Links 🔗 

► Socials: https://twitter.com/SeiNetwork 

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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 public service rather than as a private enterprise. 

From Messari: 

- Canto is a general-purpose Proof-of-Stake blockchain that embeds a decentralized exchange, lending market, and overcollateralized currency into the network. 

- These three core DeFi primitives are offered to users as Free Public Infrastructure — public utilities that are free to use in perpetuity. 

- Canto’s design choices represent a radically different approach to building blockchain applications that could catalyze an organic wave of developer adoption. 

However, a concentrated token distribution and reliance on liquidity mining could hinder the network’s long-term growth. Two important trends are occurring across crypto right now: 

Blue-chip DeFi application business models are converging. Rather than offering a single service in isolation, protocols are beginning to package exchange, lending, and stablecoin services together in one unified stack. 

Applications are choosing to leave generalized smart contract networks to create their own application-specific blockchains. While this approach forces applications to bootstrap their own network security, it allows for greater customizability and control over network incentives. Canto is an experimental smart contract network that combines both of these ideas together. Built on the Cosmos SDK, Canto is a general-purpose Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain that embeds a decentralized exchange (DEX), lending market, and overcollateralized currency into the network. Canto views these three core DeFi primitives as public goods that should be offered to users for free. Altogether, Canto provides a unique approach to both application and network design that is aligned with the permissionless ethos of public blockchains. 

🔗 Useful Links 🔗 

► App: https://canto.io/ 

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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 clear winning stack. dYdX is the largest derivatives exchange in DeFi in terms of volume, having over $300M DAV, which merits the need to move onto its own sovereign appchain. 

Guest: Nathan Cha, dYdX marketing lead 

🔗 Useful Links 🔗 

► Follow: https://dydx.exchange/blog

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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 of the 2000s, was no longer "just a phone"—it became your access to the internet as you know it. Well, we're right at the precipice of yet another similarly paradigm-shifting moment as Web2 evolves into Web3. 

Guest: Josh Lee, aka "Dogemos", co-founder of Chainapsis, the startup behind Keplr wallet, the Interchain wallet

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: neither one of our guests thinks BTC will win out.) And much more! One of the most fun times I've had interviewing our guests. You won't want to miss it! 

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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 more distributed set of validators while securing the interchain. (Disclosure: Chjango Unchained is an angel investor in Skip).)

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► Socials: https://twitter.com/skipprotocol 

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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 Cosmos, what are the good parts of Prop 82, as well as legitimate criticisms of some bad parts that have a rising number of people concerned. There's a lot to unpack and if you're unsure about how to vote or would like to think deeper about what's being proposed, then this episode is for you! 

Also, is Jae Kwon officially back in action? Stay tuned... 

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► Atom Zero Constitution: https://www.mintscan.io/cosmos/propos... 

► ATOM 2.0: https://www.mintscan.io/cosmos/propos... 

► Atom One Constitution: https://www.mintscan.io/cosmos/propos... 

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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, secured by Cosmos Hub Interchain Security. If you're not familiar with Interchain Security, I recommend you to watch a primer about it under the Chjango Unchained YouTube episode with Sunny Aggarwal covering Mesh Security vs Interchain Security. 

🔗 Useful Links 🔗 

► Primer (Mesh Security vs Interchain Security): • Sunny Aggarwal Ex...  

 ► Circle's USDC Website: https://www.circle.com/en/usdc

 ► Announcement: https://twitter.com/circle/status/157...

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