Citizen Web3 Podcast

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 If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Valerie Tetu.

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 If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Eric Waisanen.

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 If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Zarko Milosevic.

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 If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Jonathan Caras.

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 If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Carter Woetzel.

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 If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Phoebe Poon.

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 If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Boris Mann.

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 If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Dan Edlebeck.

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 If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Julius Scmidt.

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 If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Brian Fabian Crain.

This special episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features various web3 builders with a similar set of questions. The recording took place during Lisbon blockchain week 2022. The second part contains interviews with Felix Lutsch from Chorus one, Andres & Edouard Lavidalle from Stakin & Juri Maibaum from Frens validator and Cosmoverse. We spoke to Felix and Andres and Edouard and Juri about Motivation and: Values Goals Views on the industry Opinions about money The future and its outlook If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guests: Andres, Edouard Lavidalle, Felix Lutsch, and Juri Maibaum .

This special episode of the #citizenweb3 Citizen Web3 podcast we interview various web3 builders with a similar set of questions. The recording took place during Lisbon blockchain week 2022. The first part contains interviews with Gregory Landua from Regen network & JK , ex Stake Fish. We spoke to JK and Gregoryabout Motivation and: Crypto stories Values Goals Views on the industry Opinions about money The future and its outlook If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guests: Gregory Landua and Jun Soo (JK) Kim.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Sam Hart - Strategy lead of the Cosmos Hub & the lead author of the ATOM 2.0 whitepaper on this vision for an ATOM-centric future. We spoke to Sam Hart about Cosmos and: Sam’s path towards Atom 2.0 The white paper The future of blockchains intercommunication Art Communication Singularity Ethics Atom 2.0 Reserve assets Council assembly system Perfect blockchain governance What hampers governance? Enforcement vs free market flow Most underrated validator on the Cosmos Hub Peculiar chemistry question Top 3 projects Motivation If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Sam Hart.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Youssef Amrani - Independent Cosmos Hub contributor & Advisor to Agoric. He is an active co-author of ATOM 2.0 white paper and the initiator of a working group aimed at revamping ATOM tokenomics & growth strategy. Youssef’s area of focus: token supply, liquid staking, the role of ATOM in DeFi. At Agoric, Youssef Amrani defines economic design, evaluates new collateral types and mitigates economic & regulatory risk. We spoke to Youssef Amrani about Cosmos and: Youssef’s background Importance of education Social capital Engagement Democracy as a consensus algorithm Proof-of-stake system Rewarding contributors Why do we still use dying fiat currencies? USDC in Cosmos How should we handle experiments? Top 3 projects Motivation If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Youssef Amrani.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Kadan – CTO of Komodo, integrated ecosystem platform and developer of the AtomicDEX. Ecosystem consists of: AtomicDEX. A non-custodial wallet and atomic swap DEX rolled into one application, workshop and open technology educational hub. We spoke to Kadan about Komodo and: Kadan’s intro Cross-chain atomic swap KYC Komodo Roadmap IBC compatibility DEXes Komodo Platform history The role of blockchain in society How do we gain more decentralization? Is Komodo still a private network? The key infrastructure of the Internet Is Web3 already here? Komodo’s own Cosmos chain Incentivizing Technical singularity Top 3 projects to follow Motivation The influencer to follow If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Kadan Stadelmann.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Spaydh – manager of Neutron, permissionless smart contract platform for Interchain DeFi built with Cosmos SDK & Tendermint. Neutron is a permissionless platform that allows to deploy smart contracts to the market in a blaze. Smart contracts can query, transact and manage accounts in remote zones directly from Neutron. Neutron is the most secure CosmWasm platform as it secured by 190M+ staked ATOM. We spoke to Spaydh about Neutron and: Spaydh’s path to crypto Bitcoin School Governance Interchain security Centralization of blockchain stack CosmWasm IBC gateway Sustainability Diversification Neutron’s value Incentives Advice and precautions Motivation If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Spaydh.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Riley Edmund, the co-founder of Stride Labs, a liquid staking protocol built with Cosmos SDK & Tendermint. Stride allows users to liquid stake any IBC-compatible cosmos SDK native appchain token. Under the hood, Stride leverages the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol, Interchain Accounts and Interchain Queries. We spoke to Riley about Stride and: Liquid staking How to choose a validator Governance IBC Tokenomics Bridgewater Sustainable business models The path towards blockchain Blockchain Berkeley The team Issues with launching the project Advice on which mistakes to avoid Motivation If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Riley Edmunds.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Jacob Gadikian, the founder of Notional Labs, validating various networks in the Cosmos ecosystem. Notional uses in-house hardware. Validating outside the cloud increases decentralization and dramatically improves epoch time. As a validator and software developer, Notional performs IBC relayers to support the interchain and provides services for various chains in Cosmos Ecosystem, from RPC, gRPC, WebSocket and API to snapshot service uptime monitor status. We spoke to Jacob about Notional Labs and: How Notional Labs took off Sand and trucks The first server of Notion How to relay properly IBC DEXs CosmWasm integration Governance What keeps Jacob moving forward China The great firewall Gaining trust Jacob’s motivation If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Jacob Gadikian.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Ivan Shumkov and Samuel Westrich, developers of Dash Core Group (DCG) working on Tenderdash. Dash has developed a consensus, which is a fork of Tendermint - Tenderdash. Tenderdash handles state transition ordering, block creation and network communications to the platform, while the Dash Platform Protocol ensures the consistency and integrity of the data itself. We spoke to Ivan and Samuel about Tenderdash and: Latest developing updates Block execution Efficiency of centralization Decentralization Team management Pull request for tendermint Commits Aggregate signature Bridges Chain security Merkle tree Inflationary bag Probably sale week Tornado cash Quantum computers Hashes Signatures Hacks Web3 APIs Latest inspirations If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guests: Ivan Shumkov and Samuel Westrich.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Taariq Lewis, the founder of Volume finance, Secure And Scalable Blockchain Messaging For Cross Chain Developers, built with Tendermint. Volume provides blockchain messaging software that is secure, scalable allowing developers to communicate across any number of blockchains and at the lowest possible cost. It allows developers to write smart contracts that can be distributed across multiple chains but managed by one chain and could track liquidity movements across any token, blockchain, or decentralized application. We spoke to Taariq Lewis about Volume Finance and: The purpose of Volume finance What is Paloma and how it works 'How I met Tendermint' The multichain world Interchain relaying Communication Being a validator Pigeons Bridging Interchain security RnD User adoption The future of smart contracts If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Taariq Lewis.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Ivan Poon, the co-founder of Switcheo lab and Carbon, cross-chain protocol that acts as a building block for DeFi. Switcheo ecosystem consist of 3 main parts: Decentralized infrustructure (Carbon protocol), dApps (Demex & Zilswap) and White spaces (Switcheo dev funds, The bear market & Zolar). We spoke to Ivan about Carbon and: Switcheo ecosystem DEXs Difficulties of the Dex building Using cosmos SDK as solution Demex Benefits of Cosmos & IBC Limits of the ethereum Demex and other order books Meeting with blockchain and earlier crypto web sites Apps Stablecoin for Carbon Exciting web 3 technologies Tornado Cash Wen airdrops? If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Ivan Poon.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Travis (TravCrypto) & LTraveler, community members of Idena, the first Proof-of-Person blockchain based on democratic principles with equal voting powers. The project strives to perform such ideas as democratic governance, freedom of speech, universal basic income and attention economy. Idena is designed to be human-centered and community-based. Any person can become an Idena validator, no matter who they are and where they live and what machine they work on. To start mining Idena, you need to prove that you are a unique human being by completing validation ceremonies. We spoke to Travis (TravCrypto) and LTraveler about Idena and: Meeting with Idena community How to become validator of Idena Humans not AI Stages of qualifications Why only humans? Consensus mechanism Hacking the system Ways of protection against AI, bots and etc Mining Proof-of-Work Proof-of-Stake Plutocracy Community issues Quadratic staking Decentralized advertisement iDNA stakes Oracles Controversial team decisions Idena chronicles Democracy in action Motivation If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guests: LTraveler and Travis (TravCrypto) .

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Matt Hawkins, Founder & CEO of CUDOS, a project built on the Cosmos SDK that uses the Tendermint protocol for network governance. CUDOS consists of a layer 1 network, layer 2 solutions, and an oracle network. The network provides decentralized, permissionless high performance computing at scale while enabling computing scaling up to 100,000 nodes. In particular, CUDOS aims to bridge the gap between the cloud and blockchain by utilizing the available global computing power. As a result, the project will create a more decentralized, sustainable, and interconnected world. We spoke to Matt Hawkins about Cudos and: Cloud platform Data centers and their impact on environment Sustainability Computer power Security Application Story of Cudo Crypto adn Mining Tendermint, IBC, and Cosmos SDK Possible problems Centralization in Cosmos Cudos validators, decentralization and minimum amount of stake Differences from Akash Cloud Computing projects 600k users base Impact Education Cudos Gaming NFT Playstation Wen Airdrop If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Matt Hawkins.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Will Martino (Co-Founder & President) and Randy Daal (Developer Experience Lead) from Kadena, a project proposing L1 PoW blockchain that offers users a unique combination of scalability and security. Kadena has its own ecosystem with smart contract language PACT, created to enable formal verification and upgradable smart contracts. We spoke to Will Martino and Randy Daal about Kadena and: J.P. Morgan Kadena story Enterprise blockchain SEC Multichain Scaling Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake Attracting developers What does Kadena have to do with the Cosmos ecosystem? PACT language Ecosystem development L1 blockchain Motivation If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guests: Randy Daal and Will Martino.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features CO, Co-Founder and Community Manager of Orbital Apes. It’s a NFT project that has its own ecosystem which consists of four main components, such as, NFT collections, Marketlpalce, Odyssey, etc We spoke to CO about Orbital Apes and: Plans Anonymity Community Overlord and cool nicknames Why are 10 000 NFTs Why EVMOS Solidity and Ethereum Perfect start Dream team Problem of Gas fees Orbital Apes as a validator of EVMOS Rewards from OA and OAV tokens Developing the game Release and risks of the blockchain game Motivation for playing the games & Game tokenomics Market conditions Inside information about OA launching Selfbonding of EVMOS as a validator Worst crypto investments Daily motivation If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: CO.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Mark Jackson, the founder of Microtick - a short term options and decentralized price oracle for DeFi built on Tendermint. We have discussed Mark's career journey, his work with exchanges, options, liquidity, price discovery, price manipulation, project values and coding using punch cards. The goal of the Microtick project’s is to provide a globally agreed upon, real-time consensus price - without requiring direct financial coupling to any underlying asset. The project is built on decentralized blockchain technology and the game-theoretical foundation of Schelling points. We spoke to Mark about Microtick and: Options & liquidity Miami conference & Buterin Payment channel Cooperative price discovery Stability of the market Price manipulation & market makers Mark’s career Punch cards, coding & EVM Implementation on Ethereum Problems in the Cosmos ecosystem & fundraising DiscoveryDex & stable price mechanism True values of a project The future of blockchains Daily motivation If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Mark Jackson.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Dr Shaun Convey , the founder of IXO which aims to become the internet of impact in the blockchain space. Shaun was joined by Alwyn and Mike - team members of the IXO. The non-profit foundation was formed to research and develop open-source digital technologies for human-scale development and sustainable economic growth. It was founded to build a global digital immune system for humanity. We spoke to Dr Shaun Convey and Alwyn van Wyk and Mike McCabe's about IXO and: Internet of Impact Impact Hub Consensus Cooperation with Opera Bridge between real world and blockchain Oracles Predictions Services Efficiency DeFi and ReFi Financing of the projects Social impact Alphabonds, Impact bonds and Green bonds Benefits of Web3 Implementation of IXO If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guests: Alwyn Van Wyk, Dr Shaun Conway, and Mike McCabe.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Sébastien Couture, the co-founder and the host of the Epicentr.tv and Interop podcast. Epicentr.tv is the OG of crypto podcasts, making sense of cryptocurrencies and blockchain since before they became mainstream. Epicentr explores this game-changing industry's technical, economic, and social implications through interviews with founders and builders. They have recorded more than 400 episodes. The Interop is Sébastien's new project. In this podcast, he discusses building the decentralized networks that make up the Interchain with the entrepreneurs and developers. We spoke to Sébastien Couture about Epicentr.tv and: Crypto podcasts Podcast recording Sébastien's biography Crypto regulation in France KYC Transactions Bitcoin white paper Moving to France Money making The philosophy of web3 Investments and Interop Ventures ICO Bullrun Interop Podcast Validating and delegating Nebular summit Cosmoverse If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Sébastien Couture.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Ivan Shumkov and Samuel Westrich, developers of Dash Core Group (DCG) working on Tenderdash aka Dashevo, a fork of Tendermint, Core (BFT Consensus) in Go. Dash has developed a consensus, which is a fork of Tendermint - Tenderdash. Tenderdash handles state transition ordering, block creation and network communications to the platform, while the Dash Platform Protocol ensures the consistency and integrity of the data itself. We spoke to Ivan and Samuel about Tenderdash and: Traveling Cultural challenges China and crypto Mt. Gox Volatility and first txs Threshold cryptography Signatures and quorum Tenderdash Metadata Logic Verification Data contracts Data structures Merkle trees Pizza and blocks Efficiency Computations SDK's Smart contracts Motivation Fun Grandmother Toys Coinjoin App specific blockchains IBC Masternodes Bounties and developers If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guests: Ivan Shumkov and Samuel Westrich.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Willy Ogorzaly, head of decentralization at the ShapeShift DAO, governing one of the oldest non-custodial exchanges, which allows users to trade crypto. ShapeShift gives you zero-commission crypto trading, and you always stay in control of your crypto private keys. We spoke to Willy Ogorzaly about ShapeShift DAO and: DAO's Memes CEX vs. DEX DeFi Financial sovereignty Community Values Market cycles Fox chain and airdrop The interchain MLE and MVP Progressive decentralization Motivation, values and goals Staking Yields Laser eyes Maximalism The best day ever Bounties If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Willy Ogorzaly.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Deborah Simpier and Justin Kilpatrick, co-founders of Althea, an Internet Service Provider (ISP) platform and blockchain that enables the coordination of multi-stakeholder networks. Althea is built for a fast and affordable, locally run internet. Althea's unique cooperative vision for the internet brings peering from the data center to the field. Empowering communities to build multi-stakeholder networks faster and more affordably than legacy telecom models. The core technology behind Althea is a price-aware routing protocol and blockchain-based payment system that debits and credits funds based on a router’s bandwidth usage. Althea decouples the service and infrastructure layers of Internet delivery and coordinates transparent and programmatic revenue sharing. We spoke to Deborah’ and Justin about Althea and: Open source Linux Engineering Impacting the world Bridges The philosophy behind building them Mesh networks Bandwidth Payment channels TCR Cryptography Working nights Delivering products Routing Decentralization Tools Libraries for web3 Economic incentives If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guests: Deborah Simpier and Justin Kilpatrick.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Rebecca Liao, Co-founder and CEO at Saga, a Cosmos-based protocol for automatically provisioning application-specific blockchains. Saga is a protocol that allows developers to take a single tenant VM and automatically launch it on a dedicated blockchain, complete with fully provisioned validators and an optimally incentivized security structure. We spoke to Rebecca Liao about Saga and: Elections Civil theory Dedicated chains Interchain security Marketing dynamics Hype Beating the drum Brotherhood Fees and tokens Deployment Scalability Gaming Web3 economics Infrastructure Developer experience Values Motivation If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Rebecca Liao.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Joe Bowman, CEO at Ingenuity. Founder of Quicksilver protocol, a liquid staking zone, built on Tendermint. A sovereign Cosmos-SDK zone, Quicksilver is a Liquid Staking zone. Through interchain accounts and the Liquid Staking Module, Quicksilver can onboard any Cosmos-SDK based zone in a permissionless manner. Quicksilver can scale to a limitless number of zones, with zero onboarding effort required from neither the zones nor their validators. We spoke to Joe Bowman about Quicksilver and: Liquid staking Governance Emotions DeFi Capital efficiency Validatros Reputation Qtoken, drop and tokenomics Goals Motivation If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Joe Bowman.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Eric Chen, the co-founder of Injective Protocol, IBC-enabled DEX protocol and a decentralized exchange built with Tendermint. Injective is providing the unrestricted and unprecedented ability to express diverse views in the decentralized financial markets, and striving to empower individuals with the ability to more efficiently allocate capital in society. We spoke to Eric Chen about Injective and: Trading & MM's DeFi & research The Cosmos ecosystem The rabbit hole DEX vs CEX Value propositions The red herring Governance & goals Bridging & relaying Research & white papers Motivation If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Eric Chen.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Ismail Khoffi, Co-Founder and CTO at Celestia Labs, the first modular blockchain network. Celestia is the first modular consensus and data network to power scalable, secure Web3 applications. It is a minimal blockchain that only orders and publishes transactions and does not execute them. By decoupling the consensus and application execution layers, Celestia modularizes the blockchain technology stack and unlocks new possibilities for decentralized application builders. We spoke to Ismail Khoffi about Celestia and: IT & programming Math & coding Merkle trees Rollups & execution Apps & fees Bots & smart contracts Adoption Simplicity DeFi The metaverse Validating Architectures Motivation If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Ismail Khoffi.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Mircea Colonescu, Infrastructure Engineer at Informal leading the operations of the Cephalopod Validator. 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. Cephalopod equipment operate infrastructure for decentralized technologies designed to support new forms of economic coordination and participant-owned networks. We spoke to Mircea Colonescu about Cephalopod and: Validating as a business Validators and operators Testing & breaking software VR Security Relaying DLT Formal verifications Gaming Motivation Cooperation Disconnecting & burnout If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Mircea Colonescu .

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Jelena Djuric, Product Marketing Manager at Informal Systems, core developer of Cosmos. 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. We spoke to Jelena Djuric about Informal Systems and: Interchain security Cosmos hub in a few years The value of ATOM The free market Community management Validators Blitz scaling Governance Censorship ICF & reporting IBC DAO Revolutions & psychology Local money Space & hope Motivation Dreams Memes & narratives If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Jelena Djuric .

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features David, founder of CosmosUpLink, a web app that helps follow events, catch airdrops and save time roaming the Cosmos. We spoke to David about CosmosUpLink and: His crypto story Consensus and democracy The bible Validating and staking Saving time for crypto users Burning out and working An upcoming airdrop Future chain launch Validator operators and their values Motivation If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: David Sen Com.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Archway's core contributors. Archway is a smart contract platform that rewards developers ushering in next gen dapps. Archway allows you to easily deploy smart contracts to Cosmos. The Archway smart contract platform is owned, operated, and governed by the developer community. As you build and launch impactful, highly used open-source dapps, you earn more. We spoke to Griffin about Archway and: Their crypto background Inflation and developers Additional value DAO and governance User engagement and developer experience Interchain and multichain Archway on Cosmos Ethereum Goals Distribution model and a possible airdrop Puppies If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guests: Griffin Anderson and Michael Cullinan.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Highlander, a validator and a Cosmos ecosystem contributor. Highlander-Nodes is a Validator and dev contributor, that highly participate in a few Cosmos projects, such as Juno, Comdex, Ki-Network. The Highlander team believes in their experience in validation, as they’re a team that has seen the ecosystem evolve across multiple phases, and saw the potential in Juno to help offload Smart Contract deployment from Cosmos Hub. We spoke to Highlander, about validating and: Crypto journey Ethereum and the Interchain Honest income and values Ecosystem development Decentralization and human choice Benefits of the community Airdrops Web3 for the people Development Future plans New projects in Cosmos Motivation If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Highlander.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Coney Daddy, a community developer and a Cosmos rock star. In the episode, Coney Daddy shares his thoughts on the crypto industry. And we discuss what things are worth paying attention to if you're just starting out in crypto. We spoke to Coney Daddy about Cosmos and: Ecosystem development Layer-0 and the community First steps in crypto Mining Sailboat accidents Hidden gems CryptoPunks and CryptoKitties Making videos and production NFTs and cheques StakeDaddy and validation Decentralization maximalism USD tokenomics PoW and PoS Community pools and the big money Trading and investing If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Coney Daddy.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Federico Kunze Küllmer, co-founder Evmos - EVM on Cosmos, and CEO of Tharsis HQ - EVM and blockchain interoperability. Evmos is a scalable, high-throughput PoS blockchain that is fully compatible and interoperable with Ethereum. Evmos is a sovereign blockchain built with the help of the Cosmos / Tendermint stack, which means it has the superpowers of IBC, the communication protocol allowing all connected to it, Cosmos chains to exchange data, contracts and tokens. The Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol, a.k.a. IBC; the IP layer for blockchains. IBC is currently the safest and most secure and decentralized way to move assets across different blockchains, unlocking interoperability across multiple chains. Evmos leverages the Cosmos SDK serves as the first IBC-compatible EVM-based chain, bringing composability, interoperability, and fast finality to Ethereum. We spoke to Federico) about Evmos and: Bridges & Evmos How many layers can a protocol have Cooperation with Celestia and data reliability Migrating data from web2 to web3 User motivation Decentralization The history of Evmos Incentivization of relayers Alumni group at Berkeley Rektdrop, gasdrop and the best tokenomics design The future of EVM Motivation If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Federico Kunze Küllmer.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Jon Farjoe, Founder and Chief Product Officer at Lunarcrush - Social Intelligence for Crypto. Lunarcrush is building a social media tool that directly impacts cryptocurrencies. Because you can’t listen to a million different opinions a minute, LunarCrush does it for you. LunarCrush collects activity across social media for bitcoin, thousands of altcoins, crypto exchanges, influencers and more, in real-time every single day and distills it all into bitesize, digestible data. We spoke to Jon Farjoe about Lunarcrush and: Communities What is Lunarcrush and its goals Verifiable vs non-verifireble tools Social media and crypto Twitter Social knowledge graph Governments and borders DAO's and voting UX in blockchain NFT`s and baseball cards AI and machine learning DeFi The decentralization spectrum The future of blockchains People and layer Motivation and what keeps one healthy in the crypto space If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Jon Farjo.

This interchain special episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features 4 projects: Trading Strategy, Gnosis, Radicle & Gitcoin, in 4 short interviews during Liscon 2021. Trading Atrategy is an algorithmic trading protocol for decentralized markets. It is a decentralized protocol for the next generation quantitative finance. Decentralized automated trading strategies allow investing with more profit and lower risk, as investors get direct access to high quality investing strategies and real-time control over their assets. Gnosis builds new market mechanisms for decentralized finance. Our three interoperable product lines allow you to securely create, trade, and hold digital assets on Ethereum. Radicle adopts the Scuttlebutt social overlay paradigm by establishing a peer-to-peer replication layer on top of distributed version control systems, starting with git. User accounts and login is replaced by public key cryptography, hosted issue trackers are replaced by local peer replication, and the idea of a single canonical upstream is replaced by a patch-based peer-to-peer or "bazaar" model. Gitocin is a platform where you get paid to work on open source software in Python, Rust, Ruby, JavaScript, Solidity, HTML, CSS, Design, and more. Gitcoin is the community of builders, creators, and protocols at the center of open web ecosystems. We spoke to Mikko, Richard, Lucas, Abbey and Kevin about web3 and: Crypto Twitter Communication Open source tech Centralization and decentralization Hedge funds and greed Efficiency and mass adoption Product market fit DAO's and tools for the people Software and control Ordinary citizens and the blockchain If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guests: Abbey Titcomb, Kevin Owocki, Lukas Schor, Mikko Ohtamaa, and Richard Meissner.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Ankur Banerjee, co-founder of Cheqd. The authentic data network built with the help of Cosmos-SDK and Tendermint. Cheqd is building a secure network that enables individuals and organizations to fully control their personal data. It allows self-sovereign identity (SSI) companies to build and deliver secure solutions. Through the network, anyone can verify identities quickly and securely. Data shouldn't be in silos waiting to be leaked or stolen. Companies shouldn't make money selling data without consent. Cheqd network allows SSI companies to build and deliver secure solutions to the user. We spoke to Ankur Banerjee about Cheqd and: Digital identities What is Cheqd and its goals What is Digital Identity Digital print VS your Soul Standards in the digital world Signatures and keys Ankur's personal story The work of a CTO Motivation If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Ankur Banerjee.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Amir Taaki, founder of DarkFi, an anonymous DeFi network bridged to Ethereum. DarkFi is an anonymous DeFi network. Its objective is to offer flexible private primitives that can be wielded to create any kind of application. DarkFi uses advances in zero-knowledge cryptography and creates a contracting language and developer toolkits aimed to make anonymous engineering highly accessible to developers. Anonymity as a design space has been hitherto unexplored. DarkFi is blowing the door to this wide open. In the open air of a fully dark, anonymous system, cryptocurrency has the potential to birth new technological concepts. This can be a creative, regenerative space – the dawn of a Dark Renaissance. We spoke to Amir Taaki about DarkFi and: What is DarkFi Cyberpunks Digital dictatorship Passion RegFi and DarkFi Gambling The modern political system Social credit score If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Amir Taaki.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Dan Edlebeck, cofounder of Exidio. Building a decentralized VPN solution as part of the Sentinel ecosystem. Exidio is building decentralized and distributed networking solutions and contributing to the Cosmos open-source community by creating a resilient and robust decentralized VPN and allowing you to create your own decentralized and distributed VPN network. The Sentinel Network hosts open-source distributed and decentralized applications that provide users with assurance that their session information is not being logged, their communication is not being stored, and that not even the creator of the application can view any of their data. Sentinel Network is a network layer that enables a true p2p and decentralized applications and resources marketplace. Sentinel enables anyone to create Public and Private networks that provide access to both free and incentivized, and also payment method agnostic (pre-paid/escrow/post-paid) services (dApps) & distributed resources, enabling its clients to become both producers and consumers in the network. We spoke to Dan Edlebeck about Exidio and: What is Exidio and Sentinel? How do decentralized VPNs work? The DVPN token IBC Liquidity in a project PR and marketing in a project Memology and the BlueFrenGang Content: is it good or bad? Web3 and frontend VPN as a neutral technology Can web3 change the world? Who can be the face of a crypto brand? Daily motivational resources If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Dan Edlebeck.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Henrik Aasted Sørensen, founder of E-money, stablecoins for the Internet of money. E-money is empowering people in the digital economy with next-generation stablecoins, which are designed for financial inclusion, transparency, and instant settlement. We spoke to Henrik Aasted Sørensen about E-money and: What stablecoins are for How to verify E&Y as an auditor Keeping a project on the verge of the traditional and the crypto worlds IBC and the importance of connections between zones Business development DeFi and Stablecoins Liquidity in a system Cosmos and blockchains Economic incentives and interest Crypto Yuan USDT Motivation If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Henrik Aasted Sørensen.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features the Cyber core dev team, a decentralized superintellect. Cyber is building a decentralized superintelligence for the new web. Their goal is to build decentralized tools that will change the way how we use the web. We spoke to the Cyber core dev team about Cyber and: Superintelligence What's wrong with Web 2.0 Cyber and AI How Cyber works and how can you use it The importance of distribution The IKP module Self-executable programs If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guests: Dima Starodubcev and Valery Litvin.

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features the Juno core dev team, an interoperable smart contract network. Juno is built on Cosmos-SDK, which ensures high throughput and fast contract execution. Juno offers a blockchain network that scales to 10000 TPS & and provides an environment for cost-effective deployment at -99% reduced cost. Juno is an interoperable smart contract network. We spoke to the Juno core dev team about Juno and: What is Juno Why do we need a dedicated smartcontracts platform Why Juno Financial sources for the project CosmWasm Projects on Juno Juno's tokenomics Distribution and its problems Staking and exchanges Motivational resources If you like what we do at Citizen Web3: Stake with Citizen Web3 validator Listen to the YouTube version Follow us on Twitter Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guests: Andrea Di Michele, Immasssi, and Jake Hartnell.