Axelar's General Message Passing Launch with Sergey Gorbunov, Zaki Manian, & Steven Goldfeder
We’re entering a new multi-chain and secure cross-bridge world very soon. With Axelar's General Message Passing launch, a new era for interoperability has been unlocked.
Tune in to hear from CEO/Co-Founder Sergey Gorbunov, Zaki Manian, Co-Founder of Sommelier Protocol, Co-Founder of Iqlusion, & Steven Goldfeder, Co-founder of Offchain Labs, and contributor to Arbitrum
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0:00 Intro 5:09 Axelar Explained 8:25 Cross-Chain Bridging 10:46 Axelar’s Announcement 15:10 Bridges of the Past & Future 19:00 General Message Passing 21:40 The New Way For Interoperability 28:42 Arbitrum’s Side 32:36 The Tech Metaphor 35:40 Multichain & Interoperable World 37:00 Bridge Security 39:05 GMP Applications & Services 40:57 Zaki’s Cosmos Vision 43:20 Why is this Bullish for Arbitrum? 47:27 Resources 48:00 Closing & Disclaimers
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Sergey Gorbunov https://twitter.com/sergey_nog
Zaki Manian https://twitter.com/zmanian
Steven Goldfeder https://twitter.com/sgoldfed
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Zaki Manian and Jack Zampolin on Why ATOM Is 'Dogecoin for Academics' - Ep. 406
Zaki Manian, cofounder of Sommelier Protocol and cofounder of Iqlusion and Jack Zampolin, founder of Strangelove Ventures, discuss everything about Cosmos, the new white paper, and how to improve MEV capture for ATOM holders.
Show highlights:
how Jack and Zaki got involved with crypto and Cosmos
what the Sommelier protocol is, the role of Iqlusion, and what Strange Love does
the basics of Cosmos and application-specific blockchains (ASB)
why would a project choose to be an ASB rather than an application on a blockchain
whether Cosmos can achieve network effects
the reasons behind launching a new white paper for Cosmos
why the team decided to pursue interchain security
whether there would be an increase in fees with so many chains relying on the Cosmos Hub for security
how much economic value the Cosmos Hub will end up securing if the proposal gets passed
how the Cosmos Treasury could be used to fund development
the role of the Interchain Scheduler to capture MEV
whether centralized exchanges are going to start trading against the customers
the new issuance model proposed for ATOM
the role of an active governance community to make Cosmos more decentralized
what problems Liquid staking solves
how USDC will launch on a consumer chain
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Episode Links
Previous Coverage of Unchained on Cosmos:
How Osmosis Is Trying to Improve the Crypto User Experience
New white paper
Document
Proposal
Interchain security
Paper
The Block article
The DeFi investor thread
ATOM 2.0
Thread by Route 2 DeFi
Youseff Amrain’s thread
Charlie Morris’ thread
Other articles
Vaneck’s article: Why we are bullish on Atom
Alex Valaitis article: A deep dive into Cosmos
Liquid Staking
Native USDC on Cosmos
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139 - The Cosmos Thesis with Sunny Aggarwal & Zaki Manian
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Sunny Agarwal and Zaki Manian are crypto OGs that have been in the Cosmos ecosystem and community from the very beginning. Sunny started the Blockchain at Berkeley, the largest student organization for crypto in the world, and also co-hosts the Epicenter podcast. Zaki is helping ship Cosmos’s IBC, is working on the validator ecosystem, and is also an advisor to the Electric Coin Company, the org behind Zcash and is also a co-founder of Iqlusion.
On today’s episode, Sunny and Zaki share what the Cosmos Thesis is, how Cosmos is similar and different to Ethereum, and what Cosmos’s ATOM 2.0 unlocks for the ecosystem.
Zero to 60 in one episode. This is the Cosmos Thesis.
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0:00 Intro 8:05 Zaki & Sunny 10:08 The Cosmosverse Conference 18:38 Cosmos’s Central Thesis 23:10 Metaphors & Ethereum vs. Cosmos 29:18 Trade-offs 36:13 Monetary Premium Thoughts 40:18 Osmosis & Power Laws 48:24 Stablecoins on Cosmos 54:13 L2s vs. Cosmos 1:09:11 Cosmos vs. Polkadot 1:14:52 MEV Problems & Solutions 1:23:24 ATOM 2.0 1:32:16 Mesh & Interchain Security 1:41:50 Does ATOM Break Top 10 Tokens? 1:43:43 Will ATOM Flip ETH? 1:44:50 The Future of Cosmos 1:49:03 How to Explore Cosmos 1:50:44 Closing & Disclosures
------ Resources:
Sunny Aggarwal https://twitter.com/sunnya97 Zaki Manian https://twitter.com/zmanian ATOM 2.0 https://forum.cosmos.network/t/proposal-draft-a-new-vision-for-cosmos-hub/7328 The Inevitability of UNIchain https://medium.com/nascent-xyz/the-inevitability-of-unichain-bc600c92c5c4
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The Cosmos App-Chain Thesis | Zaki Manian, Jack Zampolin
In this episode of Empire, Jason and Santi are joined by Zaki Manian and Jack Zampolin to explore the past, present and future of the Cosmos ecosystem and tech stack.
What are the advantages of application-specific chains? How will IBC and Interchain security shape the future of cross-chain interactions? What is ATOM 2.0? We discuss these questions and more in this Cosmos deep dive.
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(01:21) History of Cosmos & Tendermint
(18:18) App-Chain Thesis
(30:47) DyDx's Move to Cosmos
(40:57) Circle Ad
(42:39) Cosmos & ATOM Value Accrual
(50:29) ATOM 2.0 Alpha
(52:33) Asynchronous Composability, Flash Loans and New Innovations
(1:05:44) Expanding Cosmos, MEV and IBC Ethereum
(1:16:52) Pros and Cons of the Cosmos Developer Collective
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Ready Layer One: Who Competes With Ethereum? - Ep.174
This week’s Unchained is my panel at Ready Layer One! We talk everything layer one with four key players and projects -- Illia Polosukhin of NEARprotocol, Zaki Manian of Cosmos, Rob Habermeier of Polkadot, and Arthur Breitman of Tezos — to find out how these projects plan to compete with Ethereum and attract developers and users. We discuss:
What platforms they are building and at which stage in development they are
How they differentiate themselves from Ethereum, and what problems they believe need to be solved
How they plan to attract devs in an industry of network effects
Whether or not Bitcoin and Ethereum are direct competitors
Whether, in the long run, crypto will be more winner-take-all or there will be multiple, interoperable chains
How they plan to bring new users into the space
How they think the transition to ETH2.0 will shake up the existing blockchain space
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