aez

Eclipse Fi is a revolutionary hub for interchain token launches, bringing the value back into the hands of early communities. Eclipse Mainnet, launching in Q1 2024, is the fastest Ethereum L2, powered by the SVM. With an architecture that combines the best pieces of the modular stack, developers get all the benefits of dedicated throughput with none of the downsides. Eclipse makes it possible to build applications that can coordinate masses of people and scale with any developer’s needs.

TOPICS
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:06:46 - Terra's Collapse
00:10:27 - the next cycle of token launches
00:20:23 - Centralised vs Decentralised platforms
00:22:49 - Implementing KYC & compliance for projects
00:27:15 - The vision for eclipse
00:31:32 - Benefits of launching projects on Eclipse
00:35:16 - Supported launch mechanisms
00:37:47 - Reputation on the user side
00:41:07 - CIBIL
00:43:11 - How zkKYC works
00:47:17 - Liquidity hub
00:54:20 - Why Eclipse was built on Neutron
00:57:29 - Roadmap for Eclipse Fi

GUESTS
Simon on Twitter

SOCIAL MEDIA (Twitter)
Sebastien Couture
The Interop

Skip Protocol helps sovereign blockchain protocols supercharge their blockspace to improve user experience, enhance interoperability, and enrich network stakeholders. The protocol has recently unveiled Slinky, an “Oracle” aggregator designed for perpetual markets and DeFi as a whole.

TOPICS
00:02:10 - Major Developments at Skip
00:04:40 - The slinky announcement
00:14:15 - Use cases for Slinky
00:21:10 - The architecture and how validators are coordinating
00:25:11 - Levana Attack in relation to the architecture
00:27:14 - Pricing and Slashing
00:35:18 - Is there a compromise?
00:38:16 - What vulnerabilities and attacks can Slinky prevent
00:45:15 - The opportunity cost of using Skip
00:48:36 - How it fits in the modular stack
00:53:51 - Slinky:The Rolls Royce of Oracles
00:59:18 - Slinky's origin and potential customers
01:03:02 - Conclusion

LINKS
GitHub - Skip-mev
How Slinky can prevent Oracle Manipulation Attacks
Slinky: Twitter Announcement

GUESTS
Maghnus on Twitter
Skip's Website

SOCIAL MEDIA
Sebastien Couture
The Interop

MilkyWay is a liquid staking solution for the Celestia ecosystem, initially starting its deployment and operation on Osmosis. When individuals liquid stake their TIA coins through MilkyWay, they obtain an on-chain representation of their TIA staking position, termed as milkTIA. This allows Celestia token holders to access liquidity for their staked assets, facilitating trading or their utilization as collateral in different DeFi products.

TOPICS
00:06:27 - When did the protocol launch?
00:07:43 - Growth and support from the community
00:08:25 - Liquid staking
00:10:09 - What is liquid staking evolving into
00:12:25 - What is Milky Way?
00:14:38 - Where can people use their MilkTIA
00:17:23 - The design
00:26:13 - The agent and how it interacts with the multisig
00:31:59 - Fudding the multisig
00:34:22 - Purpose of the contract
00:38:23 - How the validators are chosen
00:47:56 - Milky Way's position in the liquid staking space
00:51:54 - Endgame for Milky Way in the Celestia ecosystem
00:55:38 - The roadmap

LINKS
Milky Way
AuthZ Delegated Multisig

GUESTS
JayB on LinkedIn
Fabo on Twitter

SOCIAL MEDIA
Sebastien Couture
The Interop

Lava is a modular data network for scaling access to any blockchain. The network can flexibly support any RPC and API. Lava works with rollups and blockchains to consolidate and improve their node infrastructure. Providers are rewarded for their quality of service, so your users can fetch data and send transactions with speed, data integrity and uptime. Lava helps developers build web3-native apps on any chain.

TOPICS
00:00:00 Introduction
00:05:48 Lava's USP
00:10:22 Uber for blockchain data
00:13:39 RPC and Relayers
00:23:26 Lava's paradigm and how it works
00:31:47 How does the matching happen?
00:39:48 Clustering mechanism
00:42:29 Participants in Lava functionality
00:51:55 Modular Stack - Lava's contribution
00:56:10 Light Clients
01:01:04 Road to mainnet

LINKS
Lava on Twitter

GUESTS
Omer Mishael on Linkedin
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SOCIAL MEDIA
Sebastien Couture
The Interop

Movement Labs is a modular framework to build and deploy Move-based infrastructure, applications, and blockchains in any distributed environment. They offer an open network for creators to build and grow. The team is building a suite of products and services that empower non-Move protocols to leverage the power of the Move Programming Language without writing a single lineof Move code.

TOPICS
00:00:00 Introduction
00:04:58 EVM is going to zero
00:12:33 Overview of Movement
00:16:25 M2: Roll up framework
00:18:27 Decision tree for a developer
00:20:51 Noble and Union Partnership
00:25:41 Fractal module: Backwards Compatibility
00:28:50 Risky Opcodes in Ethereum
00:31:50 Native USDC
00:33:36 How move benefits IBC
00:35:12 Future of Cosmos
00:40:08 Long term compatibility between VMs
00:42:55 Movement Labs: Parthenon Roadmap
00:44:35 Decentralised Share Sequencer
00:47:24 Validators for M1
00:48:30 Token and Air Drop?
00:48:59 Community program
00:51:33 ETF Approval

LINKS
M2 Announcement
Movement + Noble + Union Partnership
Movement Roadmap
Ethereum Opcodes

GUESTS
Rushi Manche on Twitter

SOCIAL MEDIA
Sebastien Couture on Twitter
The Interop on Twitter

Levana is a decentralized exchange protocol designed to enable leveraged positions for any asset. Levana enables permission-less, censorship-resistant Capital efficient markets. Levana is the only platform with zero insolvency risk, so your PnL is always safe. Currently market launches and configuration is permissioned, but Levana's goal is to create a permissionless protocol which enables anyone to be able to launch a leveraged market for any asset.

TOPICS
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:55 The ETF Approval
00:06:28 Ben Franklin with laser eyes
00:12:30 The token launch
00:24:23 Attack timeline
00:28:30 Details of the attack
00:29:04 Targeted pools
00:34:09 Oracle Exploitation & how it works
00:42:16 Other oracle solutions
00:46:55 Learnings from the attack
00:49:50 Mitigation and relaunch
00:57:42 Thoughts on adding LVN tokens & Staking
01:00:22 Positive outlook for Levana

LINKS
Initial Security Alert
Levana exploit postmortem
Delta price attack explained
Jacob Gabikian post on p2p storm

GUESTS
Jonathan on Twitter
Levana on Twitter

SOCIAL MEDIA
Sebastien Couture
The Interop

Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ TOPICS GUESTS ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop

Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures XION is the first L1 purpose built for mass consumer adoption through its Generalized Abstraction layer. It is a paradigm shift, paving the way for mainstream adoption of Web3 by enabling seamless user experiences for everyday users through protocol-level implementations. It focuses on accounts, signatures, payments, interoperability, devices, and pricing. TOPICS 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:09 Burnt Banksy 00:05:12 Early NFT Projects 00:07:34 Nobody gives a shit about crypto 00:12:06 What is XION 00:13:30 XION in comparison to other protocols 00:15:51 Generalized Abstraction 00:18:37 Integration with other chains 00:21:19 Advantage of integrating with XION 00:23:28 Meta accounts and how it works 00:27:50 Abstraction 2.0 do we need a wallet anymore? 00:30:59 Onboarding legacy accounts 00:38:15 Too much power to Apple and Google 00:40:20 Parameterised Fee Layer 00:47:13 The Mint module 00:54:53 Why XION chose Cosmos LINKS https://linktr.ee/burnt_ XION Whitepaper: https://xion.burnt.com/whitepaper.pdf GUESTS Burnt Banksy: https://x.com/burntbanksy ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop

Binary Builders is a leading group of builders in the Interchain ecosystem providing a range of services with the goal to help build the future of Web3. They serve as the primary maintainer of the Cosmos SDK. Binary Builders authored the Atom Alignment thesis posted to the Cosmos Hub Forum which focuses on AEZ Growth, financial alignment w/ consumer chains, and increasing decentralization of the Hub's voting power.

TOPICS

00:00:00 Introduction

00:05:20 What is Binary Builders?

00:08:54 Interchain Builders Program

00:11:28 Business development in Cosmos

00:16:52 Areas of research

00:21:51 Atom Alignment - 3 modules

00:26:02 Growing Atom & AEZ

00:30:15 KPI's to look for

00:33:41 Details of the treasury

00:39:02 Should all proposals go through governance?

00:45:54 Voting on Telegram - IBC Bot

00:48:01 Drip Module - How it works

00:51:32 Building on Cosmos SDK vs Cosmwasm

00:56:13 The Hub, AEZ & the future

01:00:11 Chain features & Atom as money

01:00:58 The Hub's most valuable attribute

01:02:26 Thoughts on Sunny's take?

01:07:56 Next steps with alignment treasury

LINKS

• Binary Builders
• Messari State of Cosmos Hub: https://messari.io/report/state-of-cosmos-hub-q3-2023
• Atom Alignment Forum Post: https://forum.cosmos.network/t/discussion-aez-growth-the-atom-alignment-treasury/11467
• Onchain Governance Proposal for Atom Alignment: https://www.mintscan.io/cosmos/proposals/864
• IBC Bot: https://ibc.bot

GUESTS

Creators & Guests

• Noam Cohen - Guest
• Sebastien Couture - Host

Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures Osmosis is an Interchain DEX that lets you swap, earn, and build on the leading decentralized Cosmos exchange. Building Interchain-native apps and smart contracts, as well as analyzing assets and liquidity, are all made possible by Osmosis's tools. ------------------------------------ TOPICS 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:38 The Mars-Neutron merger 00:12:10 Sunny’s take on Mars leaving Osmosis 00:17:01 Competition & stealing liquidity 00:21:33 Osmosis and Umee’s merger 00:23:05 Appchains merging & becoming rollups 00:25:03 Proposal #858 & AEZ 00:33:27 Community’s reaction to the proposal 00:34:40 Atom is money 00:44:46 What’s the vision & the plan? 00:50:18 Views on Atom1 & LSDs 00:57:07 Osmosis 2.0 - CL hooks & smart accounts 01:04:48 Exciting Osmosis applications LINKS Osmosis: https://osmosis.zone Proposal #858: https://wallet.keplr.app/chains/cosmos-hub/proposals/858 GUESTS Sunny on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sunnya97 ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop

Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures Celestia is a modular data availability (DA) network that securely scales with the number of users, making it easy for anyone to launch their own blockchain without having their own validator set. Celestia recently launched on Mainnet, going from white paper to protocol. Many exciting applications are being built with Celestia and new primitives are being discovered in the realm of Data availability sampling (DAS), Light nodes, DA narratives and more. ------------------------------------ TOPICS 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:38 Celestia's Launch: white-paper to protocol 00:03:35 Crypto community's reaction to the launch 00:07:39 Will app-chains supplement security with Celestia? 00:11:23 What's the deal with "build whatever"? 00:16:06 Light node meme 00:28:03 The two other nodes that exist in Celestia 00:31:55 Name spaces - what are they? 00:35:49 Ethereum x Celestia - Blobstream 00:41:32 Can Existing L2's leverage this DA? 00:49:49 Future of modular security 00:59:00 The DA narrative with relation to security 01:04:28 Exciting things being built on Celestia 01:10:53 The modular era & sovereign rollups LINKS Celestia: https://celestia.org/ Introducing Blobstream: https://blog.celestia.org/introducing-blobstream/ GUESTS Nick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nickwh8te/media ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop

Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures Atom Accelerator DAO (AADAO) is a grant focused DAO for the Cosmos Hub, funded by the Hub. AADAO currently focuses on ecosystem initiatives and public goods with the goal of aligning the ecosystem and driving value for ATOM. AADAO has been around for 9 months and been giving grants for 6 months. AADAO is also actively working towards wrapping the DAO in a legal structure in order to have a cohesive onchain and offchain existence. ------------------------------------ TOPICS 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:28 Youssef's background 00:05:30 Atom 2.0 whitepaper and lessons learned 00:14:04 What is AADAO? 00:18:41 Mandate and funding of AADAO 00:22:23 AADAO's objectives and accomplishments 00:25:25 AADAO's grants 00:39:19 Research areas of AADAO + outcomes 00:50:05 Prop 848 00:54:40 Is the Cosmos Hub overpaying for security? 01:03:47 Should the ICF be funding AADAO? 01:08:55 Hot take - will ATOM be a top 5 chain? LINKS Website: https://www.atomaccelerator.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ATOMAccelerator 2024 Funding Proposal for AADAO: https://forum.cosmos.network/t/funding-atom-accelerator-dao-for-2024/12249 Atom Accelerator 2023 Impact Report: https://www.atomaccelerator.com/blog/2023-impact-report Grants issued by AADAO: https://www.atomaccelerator.com/grant-issued GUESTS Youssef Amrani, Co-Founder: https://twitter.com/youssef_amrani ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop

Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures This episode is all about Polymer's shift to the OP stack. Polymer just announced they will transition to operate as a rollup leveraging the OP stack, and build Ethereum's interoperability hub. Polymer will no longer build a Cosmos app-chain secured by Cosmos validators. Polymer will use Ethereum for security, and the Eigen Layer for for data availability. ------------------------------------ TOPICS 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:38 Polymer's IBC Summit 00:04:43 Polymer's shift to Ethereum 00:08:10 High level vision of Polymer 00:11:58 Connecting EVM chains to IBC 00:17:30 Futures contract and perpetuals 00:16:55 OP stack + Polymer 00:21:25 How Polymer's rollup will implement IBC 00:27:34 Bringing IBC to Ethereum 00:29:50 Challenges of implementing IBC + fraud proof layer 00:34:33 Cosmos Hub running Ethereum clients? 00:37:37 Multihop channel IBC 00:40:03 Benefit of bringing Polymer to ETH as a rollup 00:46:28 Polymer using Ethereum for security and Eigen for DA 00:48:05 Polymer's use of OP 00:53:42 Monomer SDK 01:00:11 Go to market strategy 01:01:52 Merging Ethereum and Cosmos 01:04:52 Road to mainnet LINKS Website: https://www.polymerlabs.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Polymer_Labs Blog: https://polymerlabs.medium.com/ Bo's Talk at Nebular Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmZiHj8lbrg GUESTS Bo Du, Technical Lead: https://twitter.com/0xshake ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop

Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures In 2017 dYdX was launched as a decentralized exchange protocol. Fast forward to 2023 and dYdX has reached over 1T in total trading volume and commands a TVL of over $300m. Just last month dYdX released dYdX V4 which is a standalone open-source blockchain built on the Cosmos SDK. With dYdX V4 the product development and governance is in the hands of the respective subDAOs, validators, dYdX stakers, and community members contributing to its future development. This was originally recorded for the Epicenter podcast ------------------------------------ TOPICS 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:40 Charles Background 00:05:03 How did Charles join dYdX Foundation as CEO? 00:06:45 Decision making process for moving dYdX to its own chain 00:13:06 Is it an issue that the dYdX Cosmos chain isn't EVM compatible? 00:17:30 Futures contract and perpetuals 00:20:30 Permissionless markets 00:31:10 Can DeFi compete with CEXs? 00:38:04 Current state of dYdX post launch 00:41:15 Validator voting challenges 00:44:52 Challenges of dYdX's decentralization 00:48:41 Different entities that govern dYdX 00:52:14 MEV in dYdX? 00:54:44 Charles' opinion on MEV in dYdX 00:57:10 Working with the Cosmos ecosystem 01:01:40 Astropolis and Charles' vision for the future 01:06:45 Does Urbit tie into dYdX? 01:08:40 AI's agents role in crypto LINKS Website: https://www.dydx.foundation/ dYdX Exchange: https://dydx.exchange/ dYdX Foundation Twitter: https://twitter.com/dydxfoundation Charles' Talk at Cosmoverse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNM7rO1Nwas GUESTS Charles d'Haussy, CEO: https://twitter.com/charlesdhaussy ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop

Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ Squid was built out of the need to communicate with multiple blockchains when there is not just one dominant chain. Squid is the router for moving assets across different chains, utilizing Axelar as the underlying layer. Squid does the work of figuring out the best path and rates for swapping assets across ecosystems, and simplifies this into a one-click process for the user. Squid has packaged swaps, bridges, and message transfer into one router. TOPICS 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:55 Fig's background 00:06:18 What is Squid? 00:11:11 Pain points for developers Squid is solving 00:13:20 Squid's relationship to Axelar 00:17:50 Message passing layer 00:20:30 Gas management in Axelar 00:22:40 Atomicity guarantees between chains 00:25:55 Will intents lead to everything going off-chain? 00:33:20 User considerations using Axelar over other interoperable solutions 00:41:56 Longterm view of $AXL and $USDC 00:45:20 Squid integration with Noble and dYdX 00:48:07 Bridge asset fungibility and liquidity fragmentation 00:54:02 ETH stake used to secure Cosmos chains? 00:55:51 What would a Squid token be used for? 00:57:55 Squid business model LINKS Website: https://www.squidrouter.com/ Squid dApp: https://app.squidrouter.com/ Squid Twitter: https://twitter.com/squidrouter GUESTS Fig, Co-Founder: https://twitter.com/ecdsafu ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop

Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ Union builds Zero Knowledge infrastructure for interoperability that will enable permissionless and trust minimized message passing between the Interchain and Ethereum. Union is based on consensus verification and has no dependencies on trusted third parties, oracles, multi-signatures, or MPC. Union is the first messaging protocol with an IBC connection between Ethereum and their testnet. TOPICS 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:45 Karel's background 00:06:25 Karel's take on Cosmos ecosystem 00:08:08 Union product & mission 00:10:45 Verifying the state between chains 00:15:30 Consumer hardware generated proofs 00:17:25 Union architecture 00:21:30 Comet BLS 00:27:30 What are storage/state proofs? 00:29:15 How does BLS enable more validators? 00:32:49 Relayer architecture - Galois and Voyager 00:36:46 Realyers for sending/receiving messages cross-chain 00:42:38 Why Unions doesn't use governance proposals to run chains 00:46:30 Need for packet forward middleware? 00:49:48 Union & Celestia 00:53:04 Leveraging Interchain security across Ethereum 00:57:50 Union enables BTC transfers into IBC 01:02:46 Union roadmap LINKS Website: https://union.build/ Blog: https://union.build/blog/ Unioned FAQ: https://docs.union.build/ Union Twitter: https://twitter.com/union_build GUESTS Karel Kaiser, CEO: https://twitter.com/0xkaiserkarel ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop

Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ Avail is a modular blockchain built to scale other blockchains, spun out of Polygon. It provides a fast, secure data and consensus layer for launching a sustainable blockchain. Avail is part of a growing modular ecosystem in the ongoing effort to increase data availability for blockchains. Avail's final incentivized testnet is starting in the end of October with final audits by the end of the year, and mainnet launch expected in 2024. TOPICS 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:13 Introduction to Anurag 00:04:18 Starting Avail while at Polygon 00:07:19 Tradeoffs when choosing security layers 00:16:15 Longterm viability of EVM Rollups 00:24:00 Avail's stack 00:29:22 Avails vs Celestia 00:40:10 Data Availability Sampling 00:49:45 Tradeoffs in increasing block size 00:54:24 Economics of Avail 01:04:10 Avail roadmap, milestones, and challenges LINKS Website: https://availproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.availproject.org/ Blogpost on data availability layer: https://blog.availproject.org/a-guide-to-selecting-the-right-data-availability-layer/ Avail Twitter: https://twitter.com/AvailProject GUESTS Anurag Arjun, Founder: https://twitter.com/anuragarjun ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop

Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ Hyperlane is an interoperability protocol enabling permissionless connectivity between blockchains. Hyperlane is unique in that it provides a modular framework allowing developers to build interoperability solutions that fit the needs of their applications. Their recent v3 upgrade solves developer pain points, including the release of Hooks, which allows you to customize message routing. TOPICS 00:00:00 Intro 00:04:20 Jon’s interest in interoperability 00:09:00 How are interoperability protocols competing? 00:14:05 What are modular blockchains? 00:19:15 Making modularity accessible and secure 00:22:55 Hot take: Decentralized shared sequencers are not real 00:29:22 Tradeoffs for optimizing Hyperlane 00:34:02 Hyperlane’s architecture 00:44:45 Difference between IBC and Hyperlane 00:48:10 Application layer interoperability 00:50:15 Role of validators and relayers 00:54:50 Security modules 00:56:25 Gas module 01:00:48 What’s new in Hyperlane V3 01:03:50 Who’s building on Hyperlane? 01:07:10 Who should be using Hyperlane? LINKS Hyperlane: https://www.hyperlane.xyz/ Hyperlane FAQs: https://docs.hyperlane.xyz/docs/introduction/readme Hyperlane Explorer: https://explorer.hyperlane.xyz/? GUESTS Jon Kol, CEO: https://twitter.com/thePalenimbus ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop

Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ This week I sat down with Valentin Pletnev, Founder of Quasar Finance, an Interchain yield aggregator. We discuss Quasar's concentrated liquidity and staking vaults, how Quasar works with Osmosis, vault creators that provide strategies, the tech under the hood of their product, and Cosmos DeFi. We also hear Valentin's take on why he thinks the growing amount of Cosmos chains is a bearish direction for the ecosystem. TOPICS 00:00:00 Intro 00:04:15 Valentin's Background 00:07:53 Deploying Capital on Asset Management Platforms vs. Protocols 00:14:04 Liquidity Concentration and Community Governance 00:18:35 Early Yield Aggregation Products 00:22:46 Quasar and Sommelier Differences 00:27:52 How Quasar Vaults Work 00:37:35 Growing Amount of Cosmos Chains Makes Valentin Bearish 00:41:50 Osmosis Merging with the Cosmos Hub? 00:44:29 Flow of Transactions on Quasar 00:50:30 How Do Vault Creators Interact with Quasar? 00:55:09 How DLL Interacts with Quasar 00:58:10 Quasar Expansion Plans 01:02:23 User Risks for Using Quasar LINKS Quasar Finance: https://www.quasar.fi/ CL Vault Launch: https://www.quasar.fi/blog/quasar-vaults-for-concentrated-liquidity Quasar Rundown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpxN6Inoz3A Roadmap: https://www.quasar.fi/blog/the-quasar-roadmap GUEST Valentin Pletnev: https://twitter.com/valeyo777 ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop

Consider staking with Interop Ventures https://interop.ventures ------------------------------------ This week I sat down with Jonathan Caras, Head of Communications for Levana Protocol, a perpetual swap protocol deployed in the Cosmos ecosystem. We discuss the launch and future of Levana and dissected the ins-and-outs of DeFi yield, perpetual swap fees, and user strategies deployed on Levana. We also break down aspects of Levana's white paper, and discuss Jonathan's take on how the appchain thesis has failed. TOPICS 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:20 Jonathan's background 00:05:48 Best Non-Finance User Products 00:12:15 Why has the Appchain Thesis Failed? 00:17:16 Sovereignty as an Appchain 00:24:00 Levana Background and Deployment 00:26:38 What is Real Yield? 00:31:52 What is a Perpetual Swap? 00:38:50 Perpetual Swap Fees 00:44:44 Levana Users, Use Cases, & Strategies 00:52:00 How is Levana well-funded? 00:59:11 Insolvency Protection & Mark Price 01:03:01 Future of Levana LINKS Levana: https://levana.finance Levana Roadmap: https://blog.levana.finance/levana-is-headed-for-the-skies-check-out-our-roadmap-ad1f1328cb98 GUEST Jonathan Caras: https://x.com/madcapslaugh ------------------------------------ SOCIAL MEDIA Sebastien Couture: https://twitter.com/seb3point0 The Interop: https://twitter.com/TheInterop