May 31, 2022
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