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Zero-Knowledge Smart Contracts with Alex Pruden of Aleo Aug 26, 2022

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Consider staking your EVMOS with Interop Ventures ➡️ https://www.mintscan.io/evmos/validators/evmosvaloper1wvgslxyxtg798cwsjj9epjcxxj8xqhj4a4pfzq ------------------------------------ TOPICS 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:01:35 - Alex's background 00:04:53 - Crypto on a global scale 00:10:35 - An Aleo overview 00:15:00 - What is a fully private application? 00:17:15 - Building on Aleo 00:25:32 - Off-chain execution 00:30:31 - Code verification process 00:35:49 - Competing systems 00:44:28 - The Leo Programming Language 00:53:09 - Aleo Package Manager 00:56:46 - Regulatory compliance 01:08:03 - Interchain compatibility 01:12:07 - Roadmap to mainnet LINKS Aleo site: https://www.aleo.org/ Leo: https://leo-lang.org/ GUESTS Alex Pruden: https://twitter.com/apruden08 ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop

Smart Contracts on Interchain Security with Neutron Aug 19, 2022

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Consider staking your EVMOS with Interop Ventures ➡️ https://www.mintscan.io/evmos/validators/evmosvaloper1wvgslxyxtg798cwsjj9epjcxxj8xqhj4a4pfzq ------------------------------------ NEBULAR SUMMIT - JULY 22, 2022 - PARIS The Interop and Interop Ventures are organizing Nebular Summit in Paris on July 22. Join Cosmos ecosystem developers, researchers and entrepreneurs as they discuss the challenges facing the Interchain and envisage the expanding Internet of Blockchains. ➡️ More info: https://nebular.paris YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_HTb8y2_1EeJW348XcCKwA Nebular Summit is generously supported by: - Evmos: https://evmos.org - Anoma: https://anoma.net - Neutron: https://twitter.com/Neutron_org - Klub: https://klub.ki - Agoric: https://agoric.com - Celestia: https://celestia.org - Citadel.one: https://citadel.one - Chainflow: https://chainflow.io ------------------------------------ We're joined by the team behind Neutron, an upcoming CosmWasm smart contract chain powered by Interchain Security. The project is led by the team at P2P Validator and is funded by the Cosmos Community Poll following a resounding YES vote on Prop #72. TOPICS 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:01:44 - P2P Validator 00:04:15 - What is Lido? 00:06:16 - The Neutron vision 00:12:35 - The consumer chain 00:18:15 - Neutron vs Juno or Terra 2.0 00:25:14 - Interchain queries 00:34:12 - Queries into smart contracts 00:37:44 - Interchain queries and liquid staking 00:42:10 - Interchain accounts 00:49:00 - Business development plans 00:51:40 - Transaction fees 00:53:22 - Neutron roadmap 00:55:45 - App specific chains in Cosmos 01:04:50 - Cosmos governance 01:07:28 - Neutron token? LINKS Proposal #72: https://www.mintscan.io/cosmos/proposals/72 Bringing Liquid Staking and DeFi to the Cosmos Hub with Interchain Security: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmNeorW8npMEeo4BmJTwmqCMRsjbMJDZDfoMQvh3f1Yeop Interchain Queries Explained: https://twitter.com/P2Pvalidator/status/1544707850206908418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.notion.so%2Fseb3point0%2F97d7fb50d2784c018b2413a37bf73379%3Fv%3De7082c17bc9b4c13adcc49fead183182%26p%3Df01d62948daf460c82168293b8c1333e Interchain Security Explained: https://twitter.com/P2Pvalidator/status/1542887987213656064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.notion.so%2Fseb3point0%2F97d7fb50d2784c018b2413a37bf73379%3Fv%3De7082c17bc9b4c13adcc49fead183182%26p%3Df01d62948daf460c82168293b8c1333e GUESTS Vasiliy Shapovalov: https://twitter.com/_vshapovalov Spaydh: https://twitter.com/0xSpaydh Alex Esin: https://twitter.com/esin1alex ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop

Evmos v.6.0 upgrade with Federico Kunze Küllmer Jul 12, 2022

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Consider staking your EVMOS with Interop Ventures ➡️ https://www.mintscan.io/evmos/validators/evmosvaloper1wvgslxyxtg798cwsjj9epjcxxj8xqhj4a4pfzq ------------------------------------ NEBULAR SUMMIT - JULY 22, 2022 - PARIS The Interop and Interop Ventures are organizing Nebular Summit in Paris on July 22. Join Cosmos ecosystem developers, researchers and entrepreneurs as they discuss the challenges facing the Interchain and envisage the expanding Internet of Blockchains. ➡️ More info: https://nebular.paris YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_HTb8y2_1EeJW348XcCKwA Nebular Summit is generously supported by: - Evmos: https://evmos.org - Anoma: https://anoma.net/ - Neutron: https://twitter.com/Neutron_org - Klub: https://klub.ki - Agoric: https://agoric.com - Celestia: https://celestia.org - Citadel.one: https://citadel.one ------------------------------------ Federico of Evmos is back on the show to tell us about the recent v.6.0.1 upgrade, why v5.0.0 failed to pass governance, changes to the Rektdrop decay schedule and what's coming in future network upgrades. TOPICS 00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:33 v5.0.0 governance proposal 00:09:40 Reducing Evmos block time 00:12:19 Rektdrop update 00:21:50 Liquidity & TVL challenges 00:24:40 Osmosis & Prop #35 00:33:00 Evmos bridging 00:39:20 Future roadmap LINKS Evmos Release v6.0.01: https://github.com/evmos/evmos/releases/tag/v6.0.1 Evmos Software Upgrade v6.0.1: https://commonwealth.im/evmos/discussion/5922-evmos-software-upgrade-v601 Delay Rektdrop Decay Date to Aug 1st: https://commonwealth.im/evmos/discussion/5979-delay-rektdrop-decay-date-to-aug-1st This proposal creates and registers an ERC20 representation for Osmosis: https://commonwealth.im/evmos/discussion/4969-this-proposal-creates-and-registers-an-erc20-representation-for-osmosis ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop

Modular vs. Monolithic Blockchains with Ismail Khoffi of Celestia Jul 07, 2022

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Ismail Khoffi of Celestia joins The Interop to discuss the modular blockchain design paradigm and how Celestia aims to bring more scalability to crypto by providing a generalized data availability layer for rollups. **Join Us in Paris for Nebular Summit** The Interop and Interop Ventures are organizing Nebular Summit in Paris on July 22. Join Cosmos ecosystem developers, researchers and entrepreneurs as they discuss the challenges facing the Interchain and envisage the expanding Internet of Blockchains. Tickets: https://nebular.paris Topics: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:39 Nebular Summit in Paris on July 22 00:02:54 Ismail’s background 00:09:24 Rebranding to Celestia 00:12:54 Modular vs Monolithic blockchain design 00:33:44 What is Celestia 00:44:04 How Celestia works 00:53:54 Why use Celestia over Cosmos 01:00:19 How Celestia scales 01:04:35 Mamaki testnet launch 01:09:30 How Celestia aligns with the Interchain vision Links: - Celestia: https://celestia.org - Celestia Documentation: https://docs.celestia.org/nodes/overview - Celestia Blog: https://blog.celestia.org/clusters/ - LazyLedger White Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.09274.pdf - What is Data Availability: https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-data-availability - Optimistic Rollups for the Rest of Us: https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/optimistic-rollups-for-the-rest-of-us The Interop is hosted by Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0

Self-Sovereign Coordination with Christopher Goes of Anoma Jun 17, 2022

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Christopher Goes of Anoma Network joins The Interop to explain this novel blockchain design and its applications in self-sovereign privacy preserving coordination mechanisms. We also dive into IBC and the future of blockchain infrastructure modularity. Topics: 00:00:00 Introduction and background 00:04:55 Anoma's vision and core principles 00:11:40 Statements of intent and counter-party discovery 00:17:00 Information loss in economic transactions 00:25:17 Layers of the Anoma stack 00:30:24 Privacy by design 00:33:10 Practical applications built on Anoma 00:38:45 Where Anoma fits in the modular blockchain vision 00:45:55 How blockchains will modularize 00:51:25 Cosmos stack in the modular blockchain vision 00:56:43 Will block production become commoditized? 01:00:30 Challenges with blockchain interoperability 01:07:05 Future of IBC 01:11:46 CosmWasm on the Cosmos Hub? Links: - Anoma: https://anoma.net - Anoma Specification: https://specs.anoma.net/master/architecture/namada.html - Namada: https://www.namada.net The Interop is hosted by Sebastien Couture: https://twiter.com/seb3point0

Cross-chain Oracles with Jakub Wojciechowski of RedStone May 06, 2022

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Jakub Wojciechowski of RedStone joins The Interop to discuss cross-chain oracles and optimistic smart contracts on Arweave. Richard Caetano of Akord joins to co-host this episode as my trusted Arweave expert. Topics: 00:00:00 Introductions 00:04:47 What's unique about Arweave 00:08:43 Why build an other oracle 00:12:35 What is a cross-chain oracle 00:15:31 Challenges of building cross-chain oracles 00:18:10 Dexes as oracles 00:24:13 RedStone stack and incentives 00:31:00 Smart contracts on Arweave 00:41:07 Composability trade-offs 00:47:00 Arweave use cases 00:48:28 RedStone and the cross-chain thesis 00:59:10 Arweave economics Links: - Redstone: https://redstone.finance - Redstone Contracts: https://contracts.redstone.finance - Akord: https://akord.com The Interop is hosted by Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0

Optimistic Cross-Chain Bridging with Pranay Mohan of Nomad Apr 29, 2022

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Pranay Mohan of Nomad joins me to explain how the protocol works and the opportunity for truly cross-chain applications. 00:00:00 Intro and Pranay's background 00:06:00 The challenges of the Interchain vision 00:11:56 Semantics of blockchain interoperability 00:18:40 Nomad's architecture 00:27:00 Nomad contracts 00:28:45 Transaction finality 00:30:10 Nomad transaction example 00:34:45 Future of cross-chain apps 00:42:30 Incentivization mechanisms 00:48:30 Nomad trade-offs 00:51:03 Nomad SDK and Xapps 00:55:10 Deploying Xapps 00:59:37 IBC and EVM compatibility 01:06:46 Nomad in the EVM ecosystem 01:11:10 How to build on Nomad Links - Nomad: https://nomad.xyz - Nomad Bridge: https://app.nomad.xyz - The Nomad Design Philosophy: https://blog.nomad.xyz/the-nomad-design-philosophy-6fc0eacf3263 - Nomad Docs: https://docs.nomad.xyz The Interop is hosted by Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0

Quicksilver and Liquid Staking on Cosmos Apr 15, 2022

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Joe Bowman joins me to discuss Interchain liquid staking enabled by Quicksilver Protocol. 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:50 Joe's background 00:08:07 What is Quicksilver 00:13:17 Interchain staking landscape 00:20:12 Juno prop 16 00:24:42 Technologies behind Quicksilver 00:29:19 Quicksilver and Interchain security 00:36:59 Interchain security as a bootstrapping mechanism 00:41:25 Interchain accounts 00:44:45 Staking rewards 00:49:00 DeFi applications for liquid staking 00:50:39 UX issues with derivative assets 00:56:42 Liquidity locked in staking 01:00:06 Release roadmap More about Quicksilver: https://quicksilver.zone/ The Interop is hosted by Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0

Juno chain halt inside story Apr 13, 2022

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Jack Zampolin takes us through the Juno chain halt just hours before it was successfully relaunched. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:04:20 Sommelier update 00:12:10 Juno chain halt: what happened? 00:20:56 CosmWasm vulnerability 00:27:23 Incident response process 00:35:40 Chain restart path 00:45:30 Repercussions of the incident 00:49:50 Applications specific & smart contract chains 00:58:08 Interchain standards 01:02:30 Visions for chain dominance 01:05:50 Interchain governance issues The Interop is hosted by Sebastien Couture: https://twiter.com/seb3point0

Why Evmos HALTED an entire blockchain Apr 08, 2022

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In this inaugural episode of The Interop, I’m pleased to speak with Federico Kunze Küllmer, Co-founder of Evmos and CEO of Tharsis. We discuss: 00:00 Introducing The Interop 01:26 Federico's background 07:23 Why Evmos is hard to build 12:15 Evmos vs Polygon 13:55 Evmos & Eth 2.0 17:23 Current state of Evmos 22:40 New EVM features brought by Evmos 27:10 Asset interoperability & fungibility 36:35 Interchain accounts & Evmos 39:04 Apps launching on Evmos 42:10 Token model 52:43 Benefits to developers 58:37 Smart contracts interoperability 1:05:42 Vulnerabilities discovered after launch 1:14:29 Tombstoning validators 1:19:30 Where the chain will restart 1:21:58 Impact on the Rektdrop 1:23:14 Lessons learned Links: - Evmos: https://evmos.org - Evmos developer docs: https://evmos.dev - Evmos V2 Upgrade Incident postmortem: https://github.com/tharsis/mainnet/blob/main/incidents/postmortem-1.md - Keplr Signing Issues postmortem: https://github.com/tharsis/mainnet/blob/main/incidents/postmortem-2.md - Federico Kunze Küllmer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fekunze - Evmos on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EvmosOrg - Tharsis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TharsisHQ The Interop is hosted by Sebastien Couture: https://twiter.com/seb3point0

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