This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Wilson Withiam, senior research analyst at Messari, one of the largest research firms in the crypto space.

Messari bring transparency to the crypto space by providing an insightful and in depth analytics tools. Their aim is to help investors, regulators, and the public to make sense of this revolutionary new asset class. Messari are building data tools that will drive informed decision-making and investment.

We spoke to Wilson about Messari and:

• Favorite analytical resources for crypto
• The importance of crypto communities
• The philosophy of finance
• Decentralization and philosophy
• A16Z and education
• DeFi, web3 and research
• Cosmos and interoperability
• Shared security and IBC
• Urbit and Hoon
• NFTs and market fit
• Kinesiology

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Special Guest: Wilson Withiam.

Links:

• Bankless
• Binance
• Chai
• Compound
• Cosmos
• DeFi Lama
• DeFi Pulse
• DeFi Station
• Delphidigital
• Ethereum
• IBC
• Kava
• Map of Zones
• Messari
• Polkadot
• Solana
• Tendermint
• Terra
• Uniswap
• Urbit

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Sunny Aggarwal. Sunny is the chief of research at Tendermint, founder of the Sikka.tech validator and a very profound thinker. We will discuss validating on GPUs, money as a religion, economic incentives in blockchains, validator security, teaching at Berkley and Switzerland, GTP-2 and, of course, Sunny's AI twitter.

Tendermint, a core contributor to the Cosmos Network. Building the most powerful tools for distributed networks. Tendermint is the gateway to the Cosmos ecosystem. Building critical infrastructure for open networks, like the Cosmos SDK, Tendermint Core, and Gaia. And leading developer experience by providing best-in-class tools to peer into an ever expanding Cosmos.

Sikka is a company focused on building and operating secure infrastructure for blockchains and other decentralized networks. With a firm commitment to integrity of vision and a promise to only run and promote infrastructure for projects we believe help the cause of decentralization and push the space forward.

We spoke to Sunny about Sikka validator and:

• Validating on GPUs
• Money as a religion
• Economic incentives in blockchains
• Validator security
• Teaching at Berkley and Switzerland
• GTP-2
• Sunny's AI Twitter

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Special Guest: Sunny Aggarwal.

Links:

• Agoric
• Aragon Protocol
• Avalanche
• Corda
• Edgeware
• Ethereum
• IBC
• Kava
• Maker Protocol
• Sikka
• Solana