This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Riley Edmund, the co-founder of Stride Labs, a liquid staking protocol built with Cosmos SDK & Tendermint.

Stride allows users to liquid stake any IBC-compatible cosmos SDK native appchain token. Under the hood, Stride leverages the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol, Interchain Accounts and Interchain Queries.

We spoke to Riley about Stride and:

• Liquid staking
• How to choose a validator
• Governance
  
• IBC
• Tokenomics
• Bridgewater
• Sustainable business models
• The path towards blockchain
• Blockchain Berkeley
• The team
• Issues with launching the project
• Advice on which mistakes to avoid
• Motivation

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Special Guest: Riley Edmunds.

Links:

• Berkeley
• Bridgewater
• CoinGecko
• Cosmos
• Juno
• Osmosis
• QuickSilver
• Stride
• Tendermint

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Jack Zampolin, the Indefatigable product leader behind GOZ, about IBC as a product and product management, the latest upgrade in the IBC protocol. Pylon Validator and its story. Game of Zones and bow ties!

Jack is the co-founder of Pylon validator and is an advisor to Akash network.

Pylon Validation Services operates a secure validator node on the Cosmos network. Pylon has been running the hub software (starting with testnets) since the summer of 2018.

Akash network is the Unstoppable Cloud of the Cosmos ecosystem. The DeCloud for DeFi, and the world's first decentralized cloud computing marketplace. Akash DeCloud is a faster, better, and lower cost cloud built for DeFi, decentralized projects, and high growth companies, providing unprecedented scale, flexibility, and price performance. 10x lower in cost, our serverless computing platform is compatible with all cloud providers and all applications that run on the cloud.

We spoke to Jack about Pylon Validation Services and:

• Jack's professional path
• The importance of soft skills
• What inspires founders
• Economic models
• Zero sum game in blockchain
• Jack's dog
• Professional journalism
• Entrepreneurship culture
• Feckups
• Communities

If you like what we do at Citizen Web3:

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Special Guest: Jack Zampolin.

Links:

• Agoric
• Akash
• Cardono
• Cypherpunk Manifesto
• Ethereum
• Juno
• Evmos
• Osmosis
• Strangelove
• Tendermint
• Uniswap