What is DeSci DeSci? DeSci is short for decentralized Science and aims to fix various problems that the scientific community faces today, such as poor incentives, corruption vectors, a risk-averse culture, wrong quality metrics, wrong capital deployment, bad result stigma, inefficiency, and much more. So, how can we fix science with crypto technology? In today’s episode, we will discuss what DeSci precisely is, why the incentive structure in science is broken, how crypto can fix that,...

What is Urbit? Urbit has existed for roughly twenty years and aims to rebuild the internet from scratch to get rid of intermediaries like Google and Co. Their claim: the internet can’t be saved since it is controlled by the megacorp! So, we need to start all over again! But how does Urbit work and what should the future of Urbit look like? Is this just a utopia? What about synergies between Urbit and the crypto industry? What are Urbit comets, planets, stars, and galaxies? And could Urbit...

For the sixth episode of Builders´ Diary, we welcome Straneglove & Galielo Co-Founder Jack Zampolin to the show! Builder's Diary sheds light on the famous builders behind your favorite crypto project. Jack is one of the most respected builders in the crypto industry and an early contributor to Cosmos. Besides being the Co-Founder of Strangelove and Galileo, Jack is also the godfather of IBC relayers as he designed the first IBC Go Relayer. Ever since he started contributing to the Cosmos...

What is EigenLayer and restaking? In today’s episode, we will dive deeper into EigenLayer. We will talk about what EigenLayer is, how we might see a tremendous ecosystem evolving on top of EigenLayer, how re-staking could become a common primitive in crypto, the chances of EigenLayer becoming a competitor for shared security blockchains like the Cosmos Hub and Polkadot, ways to become eligible for the EigenLayer airdrop and much more. YouTube Tutorial:  ...

For the fourth episode of Builders´ Diary, we welcome Quasar Co-Founder Valentin Pletnev to the show! Builder's Diary sheds light on the famous builders behind your favorite crypto project. Quasar is a decentralized asset management platform leveraging the Cosmos SDK and powered by IBC. It is one of the most exciting DeFi projects to look at in 2024. Valentin is one of the youngest founders in crypto, and today we will talk about his journey, how to get started in the industry at a young...

Is Solana $SOL overrated and Cosmos $ATOM underrated? Today marks the first episode of 2024 of our format Overrated/Underrated with Cryptocito in which we rate the current valuation and potential of various crypto projects. Today we will cover Solana, Sei $SEI, Celestia $TIA, $ATOM, Agoric $BLD, and many more!  0:00 Intro 5:16 Cosmos | $ATOM 12:37 Celestia | $TIA 15:43 Solana | $SOL 23:50 Nomic | $NOM 28:45 Sei | $SEI 36:25 Agoric | $BLD 40:45 Bitcoin $BTC ETF 48:40 Outro  - - - ...

The crypto airdrop season is back! Airdrops in the Solana, Celestia, and Cosmos ecosystems have treated stakers very pleasantly in the past weeks and months. But today we will ask the question of how sustainable stake-drops are, how to run a successful airdrop that drives users to your platform, how airdrops can be the ultimate go-to-market and marketing initiative, and what the perfect airdrop anticipation portfolio looks like.  - - - Catch up with FRENS VALIDATOR:  💻...

What is Passage? And is Passage the best crypto gaming and metaverse project? Today we are joined by Passage Co-Founder Lex Avelino. Passage is the metaverse project of the Cosmos ecosystem and today we will discuss the comeback of the Metaverse, how AI is transforming the gaming industry and making the production costs of games 10x cheaper, how you can create your own world and game on Passage, when you will finally be able to enter all of the Passage worlds, and so much more! - - - Catch...

For the fourth episode of Builders´ Diary, we welcome the Cosmos SDK Lead Marko Baricevic to the show! Builder's Diary sheds light on the famous builders behind your favorite crypto project. Marko is one of the most respected builders in the Cosmos ecosystem and all of crypto. In this episode, we reflect on how Marko became one of the core developers in Cosmos after learning programming only out of curiosity, the early days of Cosmos, the legendary crypto era in Berlin, the current state of...

What is the crypto investment thesis for 2024? How do I optimize my staking portfolio for airdrops? What are the top narratives, sectors, and projects to look at in 2024 and what will disappoint us? This is what we will discuss with Stakecito Co-Founder Serch today! - - - - Catch up with FRENS VALIDATOR:  💻 WEBSITE: https://frens.army  📲 FOLLOW ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/frensvalidator 🌖FOLLOW JURI: https://twitter.com/jurimaibaum Catch up with Stakecito:  💻 YOUTUBE: STAKECITO...

What is the end goal of crypto and how can we fix today's money? Dive in for one of the most dense and intense conversations ever held on our podcast! Max is joined by Ethan Buchman, co-founder of Cosmos and CEO of Informal Systems. Together, they discuss how to fix our money, and the end state of crypto, and develop a critique of major economic philosophies.  - - - - - Follow Ethan: Ethan: https://twitter.com/buchmanster Ethan´s blog (seriously, check it out!!):...

Governance Proposal 848 passed which will halve the maximum inflation rate of $ATOM, the native cryptocurrency of the Cosmos hub from 20% to 10%. But why did the Cosmos community decide to do so? Is this a bullish sign for $ATOM? What are some takeaways from the recent discussions? This and much more is what we will discuss today! - - - - Catch up with FRENS VALIDATOR:  💻 WEBSITE: https://frens.army  📲 FOLLOW ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/frensvalidator 🌖FOLLOW...

Governance proposal 853 aims to allocate 600k $ATOM to pStake. The pStake protocol is built on top of Persistence. Persistence is a liquid staking blockchain in Cosmos. The proposal aims to make stkATOM more liquid and available across the Cosmos and counter-fight centralizing forces coming from one dominant liquid staking protocol only. But what are the other arguments speaking for and against allocating 600K $ATOM to pStake? What is Persistence V8? Today we sit down with Mikhil Pandey to...

The highly anticipated dYdX chain is finally here! At Cosmoverse 2023, we sat down with David Gogel to teach you everything you need to know about the dYdX chain. - - - - - Catch up with FRENS VALIDATOR:  💻 WEBSITE: https://frens.army  📲 FOLLOW ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/frensvalidator 🌖FOLLOW JURI: https://twitter.com/jurimaibaum  - - - - DISCLAIMER All information presented in this podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be treated as financial, legal,...

For the third episode of Builders´ Diary, we welcome 0xJim from Catalyst to our show! Builder's Diary sheds light on the famous builders behind your favorite crypto project. 0xJim has had an extensive journey in the crypto industry so far. He was an early contributor at Ripple and ENS, then joined AAVE, and is now a builder in the interchain. His newest project is called Catalyst and aims to unleash the full potential of IBC, the communication standard of the Cosmos ecosystem that makes...

We welcome Jeffrey Hu, Tech Lead at Hashkey Capital for the second episode of Speculators' Demise. He is also an ambassador of the Cosmos Chinese community, co-hosting several Cosmos dev events.  Previously, he was research director at IRIS Network (the first mainnet launched in Cosmos and running Cosmos Chinese community) and chief technical analyst at Huobi Research. He also drafted several blockchain standards and led blockchain project development in China. Together, we discuss due...

What is Celestia and why is everyone so excited about Celestia's recent mainnet launch? Celestia is the first-ever modular blockchain. Modular blockchains separate the consensus and data availability layer from the execution layer. Therefore, modular blockchains differ significantly from today's monolithic blockchains.  But how does Celestia's launch shape the rest of the crypto industry? What are the challenges for Celestia to overcome to become successful? And what about Celestia's native...

Should the Cosmos Hub acquire blockchains? This discussion emerged at Cosmoverse'23 when Stride ($STRD) proposed to merge with the Cosmos Hub. But what would such an acquisition look like? And what about other chains like $OSMO and $STARS? And generally, what is a good strategy for the Hub if it decides to acquire blockchains? This is what we will discuss today! - - - - Catch up with FRENS VALIDATOR: 💻 WEBSITE: https://frens.army 📲 FOLLOW ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/frensvalidator 🌖...

How can we make $ATOM successful and find a set role for the Cosmos Hub in the Interchain and the broader crypto industry? And how can we make sure that teams are incentivized to stay in the AEZ and build successful projects? This is what we discussed with Noam Cohen from Binary Builders, a team that is thinking about and working on optimizing the hub's expenditures and making sure it spends its money more wisely and sustainably to set the stage for the AEZ and Cosmos. - - - - - Catch up...

For the second episode of Builders´ Diary, we welcome Dean Tribble to our show! Dean has been working on smart contracts since before you were even born, and he is the CEO of Agoric, which aims to onboard millions of JavaScript developers to crypto.  Tune in to learn Dean's unique take on crypto´s largest challenges, if there is more to our space than speculation, and what we can learn from the Web2 world. No matter if you are a developer or care more about the sociological impact of crypto,...

The Deutsche Telekom AG has become a crucial infrastructure provider in the crypto industry. The enterprise offers Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service and also allows you to stake your crypto assets via their own infrastructure. So far, the enterprise supports infrastructure with validators on the following networks: Ethereum ($ETH), Polkadot ($DOT), Polygon ($MATIC), Celo ($CELO), Chainlink ($LINK), and Flow ($FLOW). But how will this development continue? Does the enterprise plan to onboard...

What is the status of the $NEAR ecosystem and where will $NEAR go next? This is what we discussed with Metapool founder Claudio. We also talked about lessons learned from the $800 million $NEAR grant, staking on Aurora, pain points in the NEAR ecosystem, the Rainbow bridge, roadmap, and much more! - - - - - - Catch up with FRENS VALIDATOR: 💻 WEBSITE: https://frens.army 📲 FOLLOW ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/frensvalidator 🌖 FOLLOW JURI: https://twitter.com/jurimaibaum Check out...

What exciting developments are occurring in the Avalanche ecosystem and where will it go next? We sat down with Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, VP of Marketing at Ava Labs, discussing these questions, similarities with the Cosmos ecosystem, scalability and interoperability of subnets, how Avalanche boards big players from Web2 and traditional finance, and much more! - - - - - -  Catch up with FRENS VALIDATOR: 💻 WEBSITE: https://frens.army 📲 FOLLOW ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/frensvalidator 🌖...

The SEC just declared a basket of assets as securities, such as $ATOM, $ADA, and more! Besides, under the lead of Gary Gensler, sued Binance and Coinbase.  This is why Gary Gensler and the SEC get heavily criticized right now. However, the is more to unpack here: not necessarily the SEC defines what a security is: congress is! The SEC only enforces the law set by congress and interprets their formulations. Also, there has been a communication gab between the CFTC and SEC - that said,...