In this inaugural episode of The Interop, I’m pleased to speak with Federico Kunze Küllmer, Co-founder of Evmos and CEO of Tharsis.

We discuss:

00:00 Introducing The Interop

01:26 Federico's background

07:23 Why Evmos is hard to build

12:15 Evmos vs Polygon

13:55 Evmos & Eth 2.0

17:23 Current state of Evmos

22:40 New EVM features brought by Evmos

27:10 Asset interoperability & fungibility

36:35 Interchain accounts & Evmos

39:04 Apps launching on Evmos

42:10 Token model

52:43 Benefits to developers

58:37 Smart contracts interoperability

1:05:42 Vulnerabilities discovered after launch

1:14:29 Tombstoning validators

1:19:30 Where the chain will restart

1:21:58 Impact on the Rektdrop

1:23:14 Lessons learned

Links:

- Evmos: https://evmos.org

- Evmos developer docs: https://evmos.dev

- Evmos V2 Upgrade Incident postmortem: https://github.com/tharsis/mainnet/blob/main/incidents/postmortem-1.md

- Keplr Signing Issues postmortem: https://github.com/tharsis/mainnet/blob/main/incidents/postmortem-2.md

- Federico Kunze Küllmer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fekunze

- Evmos on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EvmosOrg

- Tharsis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TharsisHQ

The Interop is hosted by Sebastien Couture: https://twiter.com/seb3point0