Death Spirals, Bridging Digital Nations and Corruption with Alexei Zamyatin

serejandmyself — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 18:00:00 +0100

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Alexei Zamyatin, Co-Founder of Interlay, a modular, programmable layer between Bitcoin and the multi-chain ecosystem that unlocks novel decentralized use cases for BTC.

Interlay utilizes an already operational, decentralized bridge to connect Bitcoin with a lending protocol and AMM decentralized exchange, enabling Bitcoin holders to access basic financial services without relying on centralized exchanges

We spoke to Alexei about Interlay and:

Payment channels
Who pays the price for decentralization?
The perfect storm leading to a death spiral
Death Spirals
How do we build trustless bridges?
Economic interests and tribalism
Economic vs statistical security
Profits at the expense of the good of the people
Centralized power corrupts
Does full decentralization exist?
One coin to rule them all
Imposter Syndrome
Early cross chain communication
Domain name squatting
Weak links in centralized systems
Should I build, just because I can?
Hostile governance attacks.
Academia and research as a launch pad for a successful project
Academia vs field work
The need for Altruism in web3
Solving a problem is a good place to start
Thesis topics as a gateway to Bitcoin
Risks of relying on bridges
Failures of bridges wiping out entire ecosystems
The importance of community in decentralization
Ethical questions around building
Ethical implications of breakthroughs
Differences between native and wrapped tokens
Diminishing trust in institutions
The future of bridging
Computer Science as a way to be a creative
Analysis and effects of merge mining

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Tokenomics, Berkley and Bridges with Federico Kunze Küllmer

serejandmyself — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 15:00:00 +0000

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Federico Kunze Küllmer, co-founder Evmos - EVM on Cosmos, and CEO of Tharsis HQ - EVM and blockchain interoperability.

Evmos is a scalable, high-throughput PoS blockchain that is fully compatible and interoperable with Ethereum. Evmos is a sovereign blockchain built with the help of the Cosmos / Tendermint stack, which means it has the superpowers of IBC, the communication protocol allowing all connected to it, Cosmos chains to exchange data, contracts and tokens. The Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol, a.k.a. IBC; the IP layer for blockchains. IBC is currently the safest and most secure and decentralized way to move assets across different blockchains, unlocking interoperability across multiple chains. Evmos leverages the Cosmos SDK serves as the first IBC-compatible EVM-based chain, bringing composability, interoperability, and fast finality to Ethereum.

We spoke to Federico) about Evmos and:

Bridges & Evmos
How many layers can a protocol have
Cooperation with Celestia and data reliability
Migrating data from web2 to web3
User motivation
Decentralization
The history of Evmos
Incentivization of relayers
Alumni group at Berkeley
Rektdrop, gasdrop and the best tokenomics design
The future of EVM
Motivation

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Death Spirals, Bridging Digital Nations and Corruption with Alexei Zamyatin

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Tokenomics, Berkley and Bridges with Federico Kunze Küllmer

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