Today on the DIVI Crypto Podcast we are talking with Marko Baricevic, a Developer Relations person of Interchain. Interchain GmbH is building the internet of blockchains. We are responsible for stewarding some of the most foundational infrastructure for blockchain ecosystems. Our work helps secure billions of dollars in value across a variety of major blockchain projects, including Cosmos, and we are pioneering new protocols for interoperability across the entire blockchain ecosystem. Our vision is to create a new interconnected ecosystem, a new internet of blockchains: The Interchain.

Our products include Tendermint Core, a groundbreaking, Byzantine-fault tolerant consensus protocol; the Inter Blockchain Communication protocol, a reliable, ordered, authenticated cross-ledger data transport protocol; and Gaia, the software that powers the Cosmos Hub.

Cosmos were chosen over other blockchains, like Ethereum, for Marko Baricevic because they have more of a community feel, and not as overcrowded as Ethereum.

Many blockchains—Ethereum, Solona, Avalanche, etc.—are essentially isolated. Interchain is working on building on a communication layer for these blockchains across the entire ecosystem, working with IVC (Imperial Valley College), to use the blockchain as seamlessly as one uses the internet today.

We participate in research, development, product, community, and social good initiatives which align with our vision and mandate, as well as providing funding towards these projects.

In the near to intermediate future, there can be competitions to see which protocols and which designs are used the most, without the average user giving much thought, accessing it as one accesses the internet now.

In Tendermint, with Proof of Stake, one must control two-thirds of the network, or more, as opposed to one-half of the network, as is used in Proof of Work, to convince the network something has happened. This is a guard against events such as double spending.

Tendermint itself doesn’t have a coin for staking. Instead, if one wants to stake, one would use ATOM on the Cosmos network, or Luna on the Terra network, as examples.

As the internet uses TCP/IP to communicate between severs and to communicate between the end users, ICP is used as the TCP/IP of blockchain, in that if one develops a blockchain or smart contract, one simply pulls in that module to communicate with another chain. This protocol passes token transfers, NFT transfers, do cross-chain transactions. ICP is a trustless way to communicate between the chains. It is as secure as the chains that the communications are between.

More information at https://www.interchain.berlin/

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