How Osmosis Is Trying to Improve the Crypto User Experience - Ep.357

Sunny Aggarwal, co-founder of Osmosis Labs, talks about how Osmosis is being built, the innovations that are coming, the reasons to use app chains, and much more. Show highlights:

• how Sunny got into crypto 
• how the DAO hack turned him off Ethereum at first 
• how the scaling issues with Ethereum got him interested in the Cosmos vision of app-chains
• why he is interested in Proof of Stake
• what the vision of Cosmos is
• how Sunny compares the evolution of blockchains with human evolution
• why he thinks that Cosmos integrates the best of Bitcoin and Ethereum networks
• why he thinks that having more than one Proof of Work chain is fundamentally insecure
• which three technologies are necessary for Cosmos to succeed
• what IBC and the Cosmos SDK do
• why Sunny decided to build Osmosis 
• how automated market makers are massively underexplored
• why UX is such a priority for the Osmosis team
• why Sunny does not want to list the OSMO token on other exchanges
• why Osmosis has a curated dex as well as a permissionless one
• how Osmosis governance works 
• how security is provided on Osmosis
• what superfluid staking is
• how CosmWasm helps Osmosis compete with centralized exchanges
• how Osmosis is solving frontrunning with threshold encryption
• why the Osmosis team chose Axelar for bridging
• whether Yuga Labs could have used an app chain 

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EPISODE LINKS

Sunny Aggarwal

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/sunnya97
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunnya97/

COSMOS

• What is Cosmos: https://v1.cosmos.network/intro
• Cosmos whitepaper: https://v1.cosmos.network/resources/whitepaper
• CosmWasm: https://cosmwasm.com/
• Cosmos IBC: https://www.coinbase.com/es/cloud/discover/dev-foundations/ibc-protocol#:~:text=The%20Cosmos%20ecosystem%20has%20a,protocol%20(IBC)%20was%20created.
• Cosmos SDK: https://v1.cosmos.network/sdk

OSMOSIS 

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/OsmosisZone
• Website: https://osmosis.zone/
• Superfluid staking: https://medium.com/osmosis/osmosis-superfluid-staking-launch-feb-28-45f8e43064af
• Osmosis Vision: https://medium.com/osmosis/vision-for-osmosis-e68e796ff1c2
• Threshold Encryption: https://medium.com/zero-knowledge-validator/privacy-in-cosmos-defi-edition-event-summary-8cafda021aa6#:~:text=Threshold%20encryption%2C%20applied%20by%20Osmosis,of%20votes%20required%20for%20consensus.
• Osmosis Governance: https://docs.osmosis.zone/overview/governance.html

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