Chorus One Podcast

Welcome to the S2 Ep 5 of the Chorus One Podcast!

Every quarter, Chorus One releases an ecosystem review of a chosen protocol we support and have confidence in. In the third quarter of 2023, our spotlight was on NEAR Protocol, and now we're thrilled to welcome Altan Tutar, Senior Technical BD at NEAR Protocol, on the Chorus One Podcast to provide further insights into the protocol's intricacies. You can read the NEAR Ecosystem Review at https://chorus.one/articles/ecosystem-review-near or peruse the complete quarterly report at https://chorus.one/reports-research/quarterly-network-insights-q3-2023-2024.

In this conversation, Altan, and our host Thalita Franklin, Research Analyst at Chorus One, delve into NEAR's strategic direction for 2024 and a succinct exploration of its technical architecture. The discussion expands to the unique challenges and approaches in business development for a Layer 1 protocol, contrasting it with the strategies employed by infrastructure providers and other entities.

Altan and Thalita share insights into how projects like KaiKai incorporate NEAR into their frameworks. Additionally, they explore the intricacies of NEAR's collaborations with major protocols and conclude with an in-depth exploration of NEAR's core thesis and vision for the future. 

Watch the video-version at https://youtu.be/vf9u35ypr50 

About NEAR Protocol
Website: https://near.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol
Discord: http://near.chat/
Blog: https://near.org/blog

About Chorus One:
Website: https://chorus.one
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChorusOne
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chorus-one/
Blog: https://chorus.one/blog

Get in Touch:
Altan: https://twitter.com/mraltantutar
Thalita: https://twitter.com/ethalita_

S2Ep #4 features Luigi D'Onorio DeMeo, Head of DeFi at Ava Labs.

In October 2023, Patrick O'Grady, Ava Labs' VP of Platform Engineering, unveiled ACP #13, proposing revamped minimum requirements for Subnet validators.

 In this podcast, our Engineering Lead Erwin Dassen and Luis Nunez of our Ventures team speak with Luigi D'Onorio DeMeo to dissect the proposed changes, how it impacts Subnet validators, the state of institutional adoption of AVAX, and more.

To Stake AVAX with Chorus One, visit here. 

In Season 2, Episode 3, we revisit Passage.io to get an update on their ecosystem roadmap. Join us in this episode as we talk to Lex Avellino, the Founder of Passage.io!

Passage.io, built on the Cosmos platform, is an innovative platform that equips creators with the tools to develop games and social experiences without the need for coding or downloads.

During this episode, Lex Avellino and our host, Thalita Franklin, delve into the current progress of Passage on the roadmap to Mainnet. Additionally, they explore the significance of creator economies and virtual experiences in establishing online communities. 

In Episode 2 of Season 2 of the Chorus One Podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Steven Gates, the Founder of GoGoPool.

In this conversation, hosts Luis Núñez Clavijo and Erwin Dassen speak with Steven about GoGoPool's primary mission, which is to simplify the process of launching a Subnet within the Avalanche ecosystem. The conversation also touches on various technical aspects of the protocol, its long-term vision, and its DAO. Furthermore, they discuss GoGoPool's latest offering, GoGoPool Pro.

About GoGoPool:

Website: https://www.gogopool.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoGoPool_

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/4fNtjkyuNw

Docs: https://docs.gogopool.com/

GoGoPro: https://pro.gogopool.com/

About Chorus One:

Website: https://chorus.one

Twitter: https://twitter.com/chorusone

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chorus-one/

Blog: https://chorus.one/blog

Get in Touch: 

Steven: https://twitter.com/stvngts

Luis: @luisnu3 (Telegram) 

Erwin: @erwindassen (Telegram)

Welcome to the inaugural episode of the freshly unveiled season two of the Chorus One Podcast!

In this episode, we welcome Griffin Anderson, the CEO of Phi Labs and Co-founder of Archway Network, for the second iteration of our conversation centered around Archway Network.

Now just a few weeks after the successful launch of Archway's Mainnet, our host, Thalita Franklin, engages Griffin in an insightful discussion about the protocol's transformative journey en route to Mainnet, shedding light on the array of fresh developments that the team has been diligently crafting.

The conversation traverses a diverse spectrum of subjects, delving into the significance of a developer-centric protocol, the advantages of building on Cosmos, the intricacies of ICS, the robustness of Replicated Security, and an array of other captivating topics surrounding the vision of Archway.

Connect with Thalita: https://twitter.com/ethalita_

Connect with Griffin: https://twitter.com/andergri

About Archway Network
Website: https://archway.io
Twitter: https://twitter.com/archwayHQ
Medium: https://medium.com/@archwayHQ
Github: https://github.com/archway-network
Docs: https://docs.archway.io
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/5FVvx3WGfa
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Archway/
Telegram: https://t.me/archway_hq

About Chorus One
Website: https://chorus.one
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChorusOne 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chor...
Github: https://github.com/ChorusOne
Telegram: https://t.me/chorusone

The highly anticipated ATOM 2.0 whitepaper was released at Cosmoverse 2022 and it proposes a swathe of changes to the way we currently know Cosmos Hub as. We talk to Sam Hart from Interchain Foundation who's also one of the authors of the whitepaper to understand the proposed changes in more detail and their possible impact on the Cosmos ecosystem.

Read the ATOM 2.0 whitepaper here - https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmWXkzM74FCiERdZ1WrU33cqdStUK9dz1A8oEvYcnBAHeo

Connect with Sam Hart - https://twitter.com/hxrts

Connect with Interchain Foundation -

https://interchain.io/

https://twitter.com/interchain_io

Connect with Chorus One -

https://chorus.one/

https://twitter.com/chorusone

https://chorus.one/telegram

https://medium.com/chorus-one

https://discord.gg/bQ6JWVa

Blockchains generate loads of data and tackling the issue of data availability and validity is an important one. KYVE is a Proof-of-Stake network that uses Arweave to facilitate data storage and data retrieval.

Connect with KYVE -

https://www.kyve.network/

https://twitter.com/KYVENetwork

https://blog.kyve.network/

Connect with Chorus One -

https://chorus.one/

https://twitter.com/chorusone

https://chorus.one/telegram

https://medium.com/chorus-one

https://discord.gg/bQ6JWVa

In this episode, we talk to Vasiliy Shapovalov, Alex Esin, and Spaydh from team Neutron. The new smart contract chain aims to be the best platform for smart chain developers to build a wide range of apps in Cosmos, by maximising interoperability with the rest of the ecosystem and minimising overheads for developers.

Connect with Neutron -

https://twitter.com/Neutron_org

Connect with Chorus One -
https://chorus.one/

https://twitter.com/chorusone

https://chorus.one/telegram

https://medium.com/chorus-one

https://discord.gg/bQ6JWVa

Evmos is a decentralized proof of stake blockchain in the Cosmos ecosystem, that is also Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible. Evmos’ goal is to bring the world of Ethereum-based applications and assets to the Cosmos ecosystem. In this episode, we talk to Federico, co-founder of Evmos, about what differentiates Evmos from other chains, its ambitions and much more.

Archway is a smart contract platform that aims to reward its developers that build on the network with baked in incentives and rewards. In this episode, we talk to Michael & Griffin to understand Archway's mission, how it's different from other smart contract platforms, and a lot more.

In this episode, we talk to David and Oak from Autonolas. Autonolas has been conceptualised with a vision to 'make DAOs autonomous again'. It does that by providing a software stack to help DAOs with their off-chain operations and also with the help of an on-chain protocol. We discuss David and Oak's history, how Autonolas came about, its journey, and more. Dig in! 

In this episode, we talk to Billy Rennekamp, Cosmos Hub Product Lead at Interchain GmbH. As of May 2022, there is an ongoing governance vote on Cosmos to add CosmWASM to Cosmos Hub. The vote right now is leaning towards no, however some people in the Cosmos ecosystem feel like this vote is a mistake. Billy is one of those in the Cosmos ecosystem that believes adding CosmWASM to the Hub is a good move. We have Billy on the show to express his views about Cosmos Hub, CosmWASM, interchain security, liquid staking and a lot more.

In this episode, we talk to Ganesh Swami, co-founder of Covalent. Covalent provides a unified API that brings visibility to billions of blockchain data points. There are over 500 cryptocurrency projects using Covalent's API currently. We talk to Ganesh about Covalent's origins, technology, and its future.

In this episode, we talk to Lex Avellino, founder of Passage, a platform that will enable people to build virtual worlds on Cosmos. Metaverses have been the talk of the town since 2021 and Passage is its torch-bearer on Cosmos. We deep dive into Lex's history, Passage's roadmap and much more.

On the show today, we have Bijan Sharohki, Head of Product and Brandon Case, Head of Product Engineering from O1 labs, the development company working on Mina. Mina is the first protocol to use recursive zero-knowledge proofs to track the entire state of a blockchain. Using zero-knowledge proofs to track states rather than a full ledger of transactions, Mina is able to keep their blockchain to a fixed size of ~22kb. Mina enables a new category of applications called ‘Snarkified Applications’ or ‘Snapps’. Snapps get executed once by developers and thereafter nodes verify associated SNARK proofs, making these new types of applications highly scalable on Mina’s recursive blockchain. Snapps are going live on testnet by the end of 2021, so we caught up with Brandon and Bijan to discuss what problems Snapps can solve that dApps as they exist today can’t solve. The podcast forays into how Mina snarks can be used as a bridging tool, the dynamics of their snarketplace and future Mina scaling solutions, plus so much more.

On the show today, we have Arjun Bhuptani, founder of Connext. Connext is an interoperability network, which is going to market with NXTP, a non-custodial cross-chain protocol. Connext is trustless, meaning there is no trust placed in external validators outside 2 native blockchains where a cross-chain transaction is occurring. Connext makes use of ‘routers’, which are nodes that facilitate cross-chain transfers and hold liquidity of different assets on multiple chains. If a user wants to move from Chain A to Chain B, they would signal their desired route to Connext network. Connext then broadcasts a user’s desired route across chains for routers to submit the best price they can give the user (like Uber). A user would then receive the cheapest route possible to transfer their assets across chains, from routers that have the most available liquidity and most competitive fees. We talk to Arjun about the trustlessness nature of Connext, how it locally verifies transactions versus other possible models, how routers facilitate transfers, the intricate economics of Connext, how Connext ecosystem actors interact with each other, plus so much more.

On the show today, we have Hendrik Hofstadt, director of digital assets at Jump Trading and core contributor to Wormhole. Wormhole is a simple, generic protocol that delivers a pathway for any kind of information—funds, votes, programs and more—from any blockchain in the network to any other. In short, Wormhole acts as a notary that allows message passing between networks. Recently, Wormhole announced they would launch version 2 of their network, which will go-live connecting four networks - Ethereum, Terra, Solana and Binance Smart Chain. Wormhole has a set of 19 validators known as guardians, which attest to finalised chain state in a p2p network that is verifiable. 19 guardians publish a signature if they see a finalised message being posted on a network and Wormhole network aggregates the signatures to produce verifiable action approvals to be consumed on other networks. In a way Wormhole acts as a light client itself on networks it connects to. This podcast is a deep-dive into one of the hottest networks of 2021, tune-in to hear all about the origin story, the intricacies of the network, how it can be used, what’s to come in the future and so much more.

On the show today we have Brent Xu, founder of Umee. Umee is a suite of cross-chain DeFi protocols that interconnects between Cosmos and Ethereum. Umee takes inspiration from Brent's experience in DeFi, Proof-of-Stake and Fixed Income. Umee has 3 core products at launch, multichain staking, cross-chain DeFi rates and interchain leverage. The podcast explores Brent's background in TradFi and some TradFi concepts such as the term structure of interest rates and covers how Umee is bringing a lot of TradFi concepts to DeFi such as a term structure of interest rates. We discuss everything from why time-values are important in crypto, Umee 2-token model for cross-chain lending/borrowing, how Umee builds yield curves for staking rates and much more.

On the show today, we have Sergey Gorbunov, co-founder of Axelar. Axelar network is a decentralized state machine responsible for facilitating cross-chain requests. Axelar’s gateway protocol is a delivery and routing protocol that can work with any arbitrary blockchain regardless of consensus. This means any decentralised network can plug-in to Axelar seamlessly to access liquidity amongst other things from all other decentralised networks. Axelar also gives developers the freedom to connect their dApp into external networks that might have been previously inaccessible to them without redesigning the smart contracts. The show with Sergey covers his previous experience, how Axelar is different from Cosmos and Polkadot, what validators do for the network, their solution for scaling threshold cryptography and their vision for an interoperability network that is consensus and state transition agnostic.