Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ This week I sat down with Valentin Pletnev, Founder of Quasar Finance, an Interchain yield aggregator. We discuss Quasar's concentrated liquidity and staking vaults, how Quasar works with Osmosis, vault creators that provide strategies, the tech under the hood of their product, and Cosmos DeFi. We also hear Valentin's take on why he thinks the growing amount of Cosmos chains is a bearish directio...
Oct 16, 2023•1 hr 8 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ This week I sat down with Jonathan Caras, Head of Communications for Levana Protocol, a perpetual swap protocol deployed in the Cosmos ecosystem. We discuss the launch and future of Levana and dissected the ins-and-outs of DeFi yield, perpetual swap fees, and user strategies deployed on Levana. We also break down aspects of Levana's white paper, and discuss Jonathan's take on how the appchain the...
Sep 29, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures Brian Crain of Chorus One talks about his role in the Cosmos ecosystem as an early team member at Tendermint and his work structuring the ATOM token sale. He also discusses the staking economy, interoperability, and liquid staking, reflecting on the centralization-decentralization tension in these areas. He also talks about the Interchain Foundation's (ICF) role and how the organization can better steward the broader Interchain ecos...
Sep 14, 2023•1 hr 20 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS GUESTS ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop
Sep 07, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS GUESTS ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop
Aug 25, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS GUESTS ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop
Aug 25, 2023•59 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS GUESTS ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop
Aug 04, 2023•57 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS GUESTS ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop
Jul 07, 2023•1 hr 8 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS GUESTS ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop
Jun 27, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS GUESTS ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop
Jun 20, 2023•1 hr 11 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS GUESTS Fraser Edwards: https://twitter.com/fraser_again LINKS Cheqd: https://cheqd.io Creds: https://creds.xyz ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop
Jun 16, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS GUESTS ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop
May 31, 2023•58 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS 00:00:00 Techno 00:01:46 Introduction & background 00:07:52 Jim's hot take 00:16:25 Raas ecosystem 00:23:40 Catalyst product vision 00:28:45 Deploying Catalyst 00:31:44 Catalyst network architecture 00:37:30 Cross-chain messaging 00:42:40 Pricing mechanism 00:46:10 Unit of liquidity 00:48:06 Trust-minimized bridging 00:52:28 Impermanent loss 00:54:30 Capturing MEV 00:56:40 Multi-hop ro...
May 24, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS GUESTS ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop
May 16, 2023•1 hr 23 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS GUESTS ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop
May 12, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS 00:00 - Introduction 02:32 - Maghnus' background 08:49 - Sentinal Protocol 10:14 - Different types of MEV 14:10 - Liquidations 16:48 - Sandwich attacks 20:04 - What is back running? 27:36 - MEV in Cosmos 30:26 - Cosmos v Ethereum developers 32:40 - The Skip Protocol stack 37:37 - Skippy 42:25 - Good MEV 48:17 - MEV Satellite 52:02 - Previous MEV models 55:10 - Satellite data dashboard 59:1...
Apr 27, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS 00:00 - Introduction 02:50 - Barry's background 05:47 - Evolution of scaling 09:21 - Dymension’s RollApps 12:30 - Different types of rollups 16:33 - Scalability trilemma and modular blockchains 20:24 - Cosmos’ ICS scaling 23:55 - Dymension architecture and RDK 35:50 - The data availability layer 39:15 - RollApp interoperability 41:45 - Incentivising sequencer neutrality 53:14 - Network rol...
Apr 12, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS 00:00 - Introduction 02:16 - Ivan and Metodi's backgrounds 04:39 - Credissimo 09:34 - Nolus overview 11:44 - The mechanics and user experience 15:45 - How to repay a loan 19:09 - Why only stablecoins 21:56 - Difference to other lending markets 25:27 - Utility functions of the token 31:05 - Governance 33:04 - Current strategies 36:43 - Cross chain transfers 41:38 - Current and future partne...
Mar 30, 2023•1 hr
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS 00:00 Introduction 01:15 Interop Summit 03:30 Account abstraction 07:30 Axelar Update 10:11 Token fungibility 12:30 Token translation 15:30 Axelar VM 21:30 IBC vs Axelar 24:30 Wallets & interoperability 29:00 Axelar VM & CosmWasm 30:35 Axelar Maestro 34:50 Contract templates 36:07 Contract upgradability 37:50 Grants program 38:30 Cross-chain MEV 40:30 Interchain security 41:50 Exec...
Mar 17, 2023•47 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:03:10 - Gregory and Regen's background 00:05:11 - Carbon credits overview 00:10:24 - The carbon costs 00:14:30 - Fungibility of carbon credits 00:23:20 - Accuracy of carbon reduction methods 00:27:10 - Government driven carbon incentives 00:34:26 - The relationship with crypto 00:38:14 - The Nature Carbon Ton token 00:40:21 - The interoperability challenges 00:44...
Feb 28, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:01:47 - Dohko's background 00:04:41 - Mars and Delphi Labs 00:07:17 - Background of Mars Protocol 00:11:53 - Opportunities unique to Cosmos 00:19:06 - Synchronous composability 00:20:37 - The outpost model 00:29:34 - Liquidity on the outpost model 00:38:29 - Price coordination on the hub 00:40:14 - The Red Bank and The Fields of Mars 00:43:10 - A borrower's user ...
Feb 17, 2023•1 hr 21 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures Nebular Summit draft proposal: https://commonwealth.im/juno/discussion/9988-grant-for-nebular-summit-in-paris-in-july-interchain-builders-conference ------------------------------------ TOPICS 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:01:58 - Jake's background 00:06:46 - The transition to his work today 00:12:20 - Jake's views on IBC 00:14:59 - Is Juno dead? 00:19:18 - DAO community governance 00:34:28 - Quadratic voting 00:38:48 - DAO DAO 00:46:5...
Feb 15, 2023•1 hr 17 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS 00:00 - Introduction 01:34 - Susannah's background 06:09 - Views on veganism! 11:37 - History of IBC 17:47 - Susannah's role 26:34 - IBC component flow 38:03 - Post token transfer 40:04 - Preventing malicious incidents 50:30 - Interchain Accounts and Queries 01:03:42 - Audience Question! 01:05:36 - IBC solidity implementation GUESTS Susannah Evans: https://twitter.com/susevans ------------...
Feb 13, 2023•1 hr 24 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS 00:57 - The last 4 months 02:48 - Evmos' role in the ecosystem 09:28 - The future technical vision 16:25 - Launching a chain 19:02 - Cevmos 23:22 - Life expectancy of EVM 31:40 - Recent uses of Ethermint 37:49 - Licensing models 43:34 - Benefit of Evmos SDK to Evmos holders 47:20 - Evmos governance 50:19 - The Evmos roadmap GUESTS Federico Kunze Kullmer: https://twitter.com/fekunze -------...
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:01:26 - Griffin's background 00:06:35 - Tendermint's influence 00:09:08 - Ethereum Enterprise Alliance 00:15:15 - What is Archway? 00:22:42 - Fees 00:29:55 - Interaction between modules 00:35:56 - CosmWasm SDK 00:39:57 - Differences between Archway and Juno 00:48:41 - Development of infrastructure 00:54:35 - Moving up the Archway stack 00:59:55 - Confio's halt on...
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 11 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:00 - Shane's background 00:05:00 - What led to Stargaze 00:09:26 - Overview of Stargaze 00:10:32 - Generating revenue 00:13:29 - The Stargaze stack 00:19:20 - What are validators doing? 00:23:50 - Comparison to KYVE 00:27:42 - What contracts are being uploaded? 00:29:47 - Striking a balance between NFT users 00:35:58 - NFT Interoperability 00:40:40 - NFT trading 00:4...
Feb 02, 2023•1 hr 25 min
00:Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:33 - Tendermint's early days 00:10:33 - The biggest challenges in Web3 00:14:49 - Biggest technical challenges in crypto 00:16:57 - Making compromises 00:22:32 - Why do we need Laconic 00:25:53 - Uniswap 00:30:45 - Who's building models for the data 00:38:50 - How watchers work 00:53:44 - Why 7 validators 00:55:44 - Relationship with L2s 00:57:42 - Predicting reor...
Jan 27, 2023•1 hr 24 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS 00:00 - Intro 02:26 - Meet Roea and Vish 05:30 - How important was Quicksilver's launch 09:30 - Quicksilver's vision 11:02 - Launch 13:53 - Chain Halt 17:16 - Governance Proposal 19:31 - Audits 22:49 - The hub running on a version 25:09 - What do we learn from here 30:17 - What are the constraints 32:07 - Difference between Ethereum and Cosmos 39:16 - Different approaches to liquid staking...
Jan 18, 2023•1 hr 16 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS GUESTS ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop
Jan 06, 2023•1 hr 25 min
Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS GUESTS ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop
Dec 22, 2022•1 hr 12 min
