This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Anton Pavlutsky and Reena Shtedle from Citadel One.
They gave insight into their vision for making crypto more accessible. They explained how validator transparency and user interface would be keys to eventual mass adoption.

Citadel One is a validator and staking platform that offers services for various blockchain networks, including Cosmos, Solana, and Polkadot. They provide a non-custodial cross-chain staking platform with Ledger and Trezor support, and are developing a Crypto SuperApp with advanced portfolio management tools. Citadel One is known for its commitment to security and decentralization.

We spoke to Anton and Reena about Citadel and:

• The importance of use cases
• Validator Transparency
• Revenue streams
• The importance of being non-custodial
• Privacy
• Making Crypto more accessible
• Data Tools for users
• Governance
• Interface the key for mass adoption
• Governance research
• Staking
• Innovation in Crypto
• Secrets to success
• Are incentives for stakers to come to a validator bribes?
• Upcoming developments

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Special Guests: Anton Pavlutsky and Reena Shtedle.

Links:

• Akash
• Axelar
• Bitcoin
• Chorus One
• Cosmos
• Cosmos SDK
• Ethereum
• Juno
• Keplr
• Kleomedes
• Metagov
• Polkadot
• Posthuman
• Quicksilver
• Rockaway Labs
• Rango
• Stride
• SUI

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Sergey from Quokka Stake. Sergey showed a great passion for privacy and the founding ethos behind Web3. They go into the need for decentralized infrastructure, values and the importance of DYOR. If you enjoy conversations with people who really mean it when they say they are in it for the tech, this is definitely an episode for you.

00:00 -- 04:56 : Intro
04:56 -- 07:42 : How important is decentralization in chain selection for Quokka Stake?
07:42 -- 11:25 : How did Sergey get into Web3?
11:25 -- 13:44 : Sergey delves into his thoughts on privacy in Web3.
13:44 -- 15:34 : What would have to happen for Sergey to leave Web3?
15:34 -- 23:26 : Decentralized infrastructure's role in Web3.
23:26 -- 34:40 : Bare Metal and key management system's.
34:40 -- 39:03 : Sergey's biggest challenge on his Web3 journey.
39:03 -- 46:06 : The secret to a better blockchain community.
46:06 -- 54:04 : The Blitz

We spoke to Sergey about Quokka Stake and:

• Privacy
• Decentralisation
• Challenges of a small validator
• Values when selecting chains
• Monitoring systems
• Being in web3 for the technology
• Free Speech
• Merits of refurbished hardware
• Blockchain protecting human rights
• Infrastructures role in decentralization
• Renewable self generated power for validators
• Points of failure
• The importance of DYOR in all things
• Bare Metal is best, but cloud is needed sometimes
• Values in education
• Motivations

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Special Guest: Sergey.

Links:

• Celestia
• Cyber
• Hetzner
• Horcrux
• Likecoin
• Neutron
• Namada
• Stride
• Ted Lasso
• Zarko Milosevic
• Nym Technologies
• Nomic
• Sentinel

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features the Bros from Bro_n_Bro.

The Bro's from Bro_n_Bro had a wonderful conversation with #citizenweb3. They brought all the energy and with that, they discussed and covered a host of serious topics that form the foundation of what Web3 should be.

Bro_n_Bro's mission is simple: to support and develop a decentralized world. They strive to maintain the highest standards for security and performance as well as providing the most accurate data to our community. They will keep building for decentralization until it comes.

We spoke to The Bros about Bro_n_Bro and:

• Building for decentralization
• Validator tools
• The importance of ease of use for adoption
• Defining Network Health
• A reality check for the Web3
• Providing real values to the builders of the blockchain
• Analytics and information
• Should Cex validators exist
• Foundation governance
• Climbing the validator ranks
• Anonymity
• Weaknesses of Cloud hosting
• How best to organise validators
• Unseen contributions of OG Validators
• Bridges
• Challenges of helping a small validator grow
• Cloud vs Bare Metal
• Hertsinger driving validators to bare metal
• The need for decentralized infra

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Special Guest: Bros.

Links:

• Axelar
• Akash
• Cosmos
• Hetzner
• Osmosis
• Restake
• Stakefish
• Evmos

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Michael Messele, CEO and co- founder at The Pillar Project.

Pillar aims to be an open-source, community-run wallet that serves as a gateway to DeFi and NFTs. The platform aims to be an all-in-one place for tokens, decentralized applications (dApps), NFTs, and DeFi services for users. Pillar Wallet is powered by Etherspot. Etherspot is a multi-chain #ERC-4337 developer platform that provides solutions for dApps

Our guest Michael Messele has been involved in crypto for over a decade and has witnessed many cycles repeat themselves. Michael started his journey in traditional finance and was converted to web3 by the possibility of data sovereignty. Michael also gives us a superb explaination of the differences between web2 and web3. He also gives us his secret to success with startups and how he feels it is best to manage leadership structures.

00:00 -- 01:29 : Intro
01:29 -- 05:26 : Michael gives a brief description of his journey.
05:56 -- 13:00 : Are we still on track toward a decentralized world?
13:00 -- 19:46 : Michael gives his secrets to success, logevity in the space and leadership.
19:46 -- 25:57 : Trustless systems and levels of trust in organisations.
25:57 -- 28:46 : What made Michael choose Pillar?
28:46 -- 31:47 : Michael gives great defiitions for web1, web2 and web3
31:47 -- 42:36 : Diving into account abstraction and data soverignty
42:36 -- 48:36 : Michael gives his thought on balancing UX design and decentralization at Pillar.
48:36 -- 53:51 : What is stopping adoption of Web3?
53:51 -- 58:37 : The Blitz:
58:37 -- 1:00:04 : Outro

We spoke to Michael Messele about Pillar and:

• Journeys in the Crypto Space
• The secret's of successful leadership structures
• Mass adoption
• Trustless systems
• Smart Wallets
• Account abstraction
• Empathy in leadership
• The definition of Web3
• Banking the unbanked
• The importance of communication
• Data sovereignty
• Principles versus revenue

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Special Guest: Michael Messele.

Links:

• Bitcoin
• Emperor Tewodros II
• Ethereum
• Etherspot
• Pillar Project
• Satoshi Nakamoto
• Three Arrows Capital
• What is a smart wallet

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Chris Goes, founder of the Anoma project, A blockchain protocol that is "Intent- centric", privacy preserving and decentralized.

On its white paper Anoma descirbes itself as "a unified architecture for full stack decentralised applications"

We spoke to Chris about Namada and:

• Privacy and it’s importance and in governance
• Polycentric conceptions of law
• What do people want or not want out of money?
• How money is embedded in cultural context
• How semantics could lead to dystopia
• Semantics vs syntax
• Dangers of gradient decent
• The nature of money
• Solutions to shortcomings of blockchain governance
• Democracy
• Social equilibrium using technology
• Consensus
  
• Anarchism
• Motivation

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Special Guest: Chris Goes.

Links:

• Adrian Brink
• Aleo
• All in Bits
• Anoma
• Circles Project
• Cosmos
• Cosmos SDK
• DYDX
• IBC
• Informal
• Interchain Foundation
• John Law
• Moxie Marlinspike
• Signal
• Sunscreen
• Stakefish
• Tendermint
• The End of Finance
• UniSwap
• ZKproofs

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast Jaya Klara Brekke, CSO at Nym Technologies - a decentralized privacy system, working on infrastructure at the network and application layers.

On their website Nym states that they are developing the infrastructure to prevent data leakage by protecting every packet’s metadata at the network and application layers. Nym is also combining a mixnet with a blockchain node reputation and reward system.

We spoke to Jaya about NYM and:

• Decentralization and its origins
• Trust
• Nym providing privacy at the network layer
• Should we try to save people who do not want to be saved
• Privacy as a fundmanetal right
• Pain as a catalyst for change
• Greed and how it seeps into systems and corrupts them
• Criminal activity
• Drone strikes
• Motivation

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Special Guest: Jaya Klara Brekke.

Links:

• Aztec
• Coswasm
• Cypherpunk
• Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
• George Carlin
• Manta
• Meredith Whittaker
• Nym
• Secret Network
• Tor
• Tornado Cash
• Universal Privacy Alliance
• Zcash

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Carter Woetzel, Lead researcher & economist for Shade Protocol, an app for private DeFi.

Shade Protocol is an array of connected privacy-preserving DeFi applications built on Secret Network - all accruing value back to SHD ("shade"), the treasury, and governance token.

We spoke to Carter Woetzel about Shade Protocol and:

• Carter's book, "Building Confidence in Blockchain"
• Privacy on the blockchain
• Bringing privacy to smart contracts
• Auditability, for regulators
• How do we get people to trust blockchain
• How trust in the technology is crucial for adoption by users and financial institutions
• Simplifying or solving the gas token
• Futuristic currencies
• Non traditional stable coins
• Sustainability in protocol development
• Blockchain at the moment is an experiment
• Privacy issues with Intel
• Our perception of time in blockchain
• Homeomorphic Encryption as a solution to encryption
• Why removing the middlemen is always in our best interest
• Motivation

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Special Guest: Carter Woetzel.

Links:

• Bitcoin
• Bostrom
• Building Confidence in Blockchain book
• Chainalysis
• Cosmos
• Crescent
• Cyber Congress DAO
• Dai / MakerDAO
• David Chaum
• Dero
• Duality Blockchain Solutions
• Ethan Buchman
• Ethereum
• Frax
• FTX
• GBG - Golos Gold
• Guy Zyskind
• Intel
• Jack Zampolin
• Juno
• Kujira
• Luna
• Mars protocol
• MetaMask
• Monero
• Osmosis
• Satoshi
• Secret Network / Tor Bair
• Shade Protocol
• Silk
• Space Pussy
• Tendermint
• Umee
• Uniswap
• Zcash

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Amir Taaki, founder of DarkFi, an anonymous DeFi network bridged to Ethereum.

DarkFi is an anonymous DeFi network. Its objective is to offer flexible private primitives that can be wielded to create any kind of application. DarkFi uses advances in zero-knowledge cryptography and creates a contracting language and developer toolkits aimed to make anonymous engineering highly accessible to developers. Anonymity as a design space has been hitherto unexplored. DarkFi is blowing the door to this wide open. In the open air of a fully dark, anonymous system, cryptocurrency has the potential to birth new technological concepts. This can be a creative, regenerative space – the dawn of a Dark Renaissance.

We spoke to Amir Taaki about DarkFi and:

• What is DarkFi
• Cyberpunks
• Digital dictatorship
• Passion
• RegFi and DarkFi
• Gambling
• The modern political system
• Social credit score

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Special Guest: Amir Taaki.

Links:

• Alongside Night - the movie
• DarkFi
• Ethereum
• Silkroad

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Dan Edlebeck, cofounder of Exidio. Building a decentralized VPN solution as part of the Sentinel ecosystem.

Exidio is building decentralized and distributed networking solutions and contributing to the Cosmos open-source community by creating a resilient and robust decentralized VPN and allowing you to create your own decentralized and distributed VPN network.

The Sentinel Network hosts open-source distributed and decentralized applications that provide users with assurance that their session information is not being logged, their communication is not being stored, and that not even the creator of the application can view any of their data. Sentinel Network is a network layer that enables a true p2p and decentralized applications and resources marketplace. Sentinel enables anyone to create Public and Private networks that provide access to both free and incentivized, and also payment method agnostic (pre-paid/escrow/post-paid) services (dApps) & distributed resources, enabling its clients to become both producers and consumers in the network.

We spoke to Dan Edlebeck about Exidio and:

• What is Exidio and Sentinel?
• How do decentralized VPNs work?
• The DVPN token
• IBC
• Liquidity in a project
• PR and marketing in a project
• Memology and the BlueFrenGang
• Content: is it good or bad?
  
• Web3 and frontend
• VPN as a neutral technology
• Can web3 change the world?
• Who can be the face of a crypto brand?
• Daily motivational resources
  

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Special Guest: Dan Edlebeck.

Links:

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• BlueFrenGang
• Cosmos
• Ethereum
• Exidio
• IBC
• Sentinel
• Sentinel Ambassador Program
• Sentinel's Telegram
• Tendermint

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Dan Edlebeck, Co-Founder and CEO at Exidio. A project that is creating a resilient and robust decentralized VPN solutions on Sentinel. A protocol for dVPN built with the help of Cosmos-SDK and Tendermint.

Exidio is building decentralized and distributed networking solutions and contributing to the Cosmos open source community by creating a resilient and robust decentralized VPN and allowing you to create your own decentralized and distributed VPN network.

The Sentinel Network hosts open-source distributed and decentralized applications that provide users with assurance that their session information is not being logged, their communication is not being stored, and that not even the creator of the application can view any of their data. Sentinel Network is a network layer that enables a true p2p and decentralized applications and resources marketplace. Sentinel enables anyone to create Public and Private networks that provide access to both free and incentivized, and also payment method agnostic (pre-paid/escrow/post-paid) services (dApps) & distributed resources, enabling its clients to become both producers and consumers in the network.

We spoke to Dan Edlebeck about Exidio and:

• Encryption and security,
• The Encrypted hub,
• P2P connections and proof of bandwidth.
• Costa Rica
• The sounds of a blockchain transaction.

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Special Guest: Dan Edlebeck.

Links:

• Tendermint
• Cosmos
• Exidio
• Sentinel Network
• Filecoin
• Akash Network
• Tor
• WireGuard
• SOCKS5
• Open VPN
• Orchid
• Mysterium
• Bitcoin
• DVPN Alliance
• Mullvad
• Block Party
• MetalPay
• Paypal
• IBC
• Messari
• Solana
• Polkadot
• Neo
• Cardano
• EOS
• Tony Stark
• Nathaniel Whittemore
• Laura Shin
• Jameson Lopp
• The Breakdown
• Into the Ether
• Outlier ventures
• Unconfirmed
• Unchained
• The Delphi Podcast
• Sharing Podcast
• Epicenter
• FTX

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Ian and Jacob, the founders of secretnodes.org and the puzzle report explorer for Secret network, a Cosmos-SDK blockchain with privacy-preserving smart contracts.

The Secret Nodes project was established in 2018, we're a grassroots organization that believes society is facing a fork in the road in regards to privacy, security, data rights and their trend towards further degradation. Its aim is to be a refuge at this impasse, and are committed to supporting the enigma ecosystem by helping to empower its stakeholders.

The puzzle report is an open source blockchain explorer made by the Secret Nodes project and, currently, support Enigma, Kamut and Secret.

The Secret Network is a blockchain with privacy-preserving smart contracts. That means applications built on Secret can utilize encrypted data without revealing it to anyone, even the nodes in the network.

We spoke to Ian and Jacob about Secret Nodes and:

• what the lack of privacy may lead to
• the “old” days of blockchain
• hidden dev taxes
• what Secret Nodes are all about
• decentralization of POS stakes
• fundamental flaw with relation to POS economies.
  

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Special Guests: Ian and Jacab S.

Links:

• Big dipper
• Bitcoin
• Cosmos
• Enigma
• Enigma forums
• Ethereum
• Etherscan
• Into the block
• Orchid
• Puzzle report explorer
• Secret Network
• Secret Network Discord
• Secret Nodes
• Tendermint
• Tor

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Tor Bair from Secret Network. The episode contains plenty of secrets, just make sure to pay attention. We talk about privacy, trust, Amazon drones, privacy by design and learn how to lay out the foundation for privacy projects. We go to depth about more technical things, such as, privacy preserving smart contracts, transactional privacy vs programmable privacy and learn how to get involved in Secret Network for those who are interested.

Secret Network is a first-of-its-kind, open-source blockchain that provides data privacy by default. Secret is a decentralized network that solves the problem of privacy, helping to secure and scale the decentralized web. As the first blockchain to support encrypted inputs, encrypted outputs, and encrypted state for smart contracts, Secret Network allows for new kinds of powerful decentralized applications to be built. This can unlock substantial value across multiple verticals and industries.

We spoke to Tor Bair about Secret Network and:

• Data privacy
• Trust
• Amazon drones
• Blockchain privacy by design
• Foundation for privacy projects
• Privacy preserving smart contracts
• Transactional privacy vs programmable privacy
• Privacy gurus

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Special Guest: Tor Bair.

Links:

• Ann Cavoukian
• Andreas Antonopoulos
• Bruce Schneier
• Enigma
• Jameson Lopp
• Josh Cincinnat
• Kyber Network
• Ledger
• Ocean Protocol
• Secret Network
• Podcast: Decentralize This
• Z Cash

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Lee Hyung Yeon from Bharvest validator and staking services provider. We discuss a risk managers view on the world of blockchain, cryptonomics and Web 3 projects.  We also touch on data privacy aspects of the Cosmos protocol.

B-Harvest, from Seoul, South Korea, provides validation services for multiple dPoS networks and is actively engaging in decentralized governance. Among them, such web3 blockchain networks as, Cosmos, Polkadot, etc

We spoke to Lee Hyung Yeon about Bharvest validator and:

• Staking
• Decentralisation
• Risk managers in blockchains
• Cryptonomics
• Data privacy aspects of the Cosmos protocol

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Special Guest: Lee Hyung Yeon.

Links:

• BHarvest
• Cosmwasm
• Enigma
• Figment Network
• Forbole
• Hyperledger
• IBC
• Metamask
• Nucypher
• Oasis
• Polkadot