interoperability

In today's episode, David delves into the interesting dynamics between Ethereum and Celestia. While Ethereum and Solana are often seen as the main rivals, Celestia shares similar design philosophies and goals but with notable differences. Is it Ethereum's true competitor? Joining us to help answer that question and much more is Nick White, COO of Celestia Labs.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
5:28 Celestia 2 Years Ago
6:30 Build Whatever & DA
11:29 Celestia Design Architecture
19:15 Ethereum vs. Celestia
22:26 Celestia No Virtual Machine Trade-Offs 
29:57 Sharing DA Layers & Blockchain Interoperability
37:23 Celestia Trustlessness
42:09 DA as a Commodity? 
54:09 Network Effects of DA
57:35 $TIA’s Role in Celestia Ecosystem
1:01:50 Lightnodes 
1:04:57 $TIA’s Moneyness
1:10:20 Execution & Settlement Layers
1:16:46 Cosmos & Celestia & Ethereum
1:21:56 Sovereign Endgame 
1:26:42 Closing & Disclaimers
 
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RESOURCES

Nick’s 1st Bankless Episode 
https://youtu.be/bmSU3cZhe3U  

Nick White
https://twitter.com/nickwh8te  

Celestia
https://twitter.com/CelestiaOrg  

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The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft last week for copyright infringement. Kevin Roose and Casey Newton walk through the lawsuit and discuss the stakes for news publishers. Then, they talk about Apple’s “walled garden,” which is facing threats from both regulators and 16-year-olds. Finally, we set our tech resolutions for the new year.

Today’s guest: Eric Migicovsky, co-founder of Beeper

Additional Reading:

• The New York Times sued OpenAI.
• Apple’s latest headache in the debate over blue vs. green bubbles.

We want to hear from you. Email us at hardfork@nytimes.com. 

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The European Commission has designated six of the largest tech companies on the planet as the “gatekeepers” of online services. You’ll know these names: Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft. Facebook parent Meta. Google and YouTube parent Alphabet. And, maybe you’re less familiar with this one: ByteDance, which owns TikTok. They’ve all got until March to comply with the continent’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA), which aims to give users more choice. For more, Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Sumit Sharma, a competition and antitrust senior researcher at Consumer Reports, who explained what the term “gatekeeper” refers to.

Sometimes, the frontier is at a crypto conference. One of the most prestige being, ETHDenver! We’re back with a handful of exclusive interviews with some of the most fascinating minds in crypto. 

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In this episode, we’re talking to Fig from Squid, a crosschain swap protocol built on top of Axelar. Is Squid finally the interoperability solution we’ve all been waiting for? Tune in to find out! 

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
3:09 What is Squid? 
4:26 Squid vs. Previous Interoperability Solutions
7:52 Fig’s Chain Fatigue Response 
9:04 Squid’s Use Cases
11:15 Closing & Action Items

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Resources: 

Fig
https://twitter.com/ecdsafu 

Squid 
https://twitter.com/squidrouter  

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Sometimes, the frontier is at a crypto conference. One of the most prestige being, ETHDenver! We’re back with a handful of exclusive interviews with some of the most fascinating minds in crypto. 

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In this episode, we’re talking to Sunny Aggarwal of Osmosis Labs and Cosmos. Sunny and David chat about how Osmosis and Axelar are working together, what’s new in the Cosmos ecosystem, and how Cosmos isn’t solely DeFi-focused. 

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
3:11 The Interoperability Meta
4:05 Axelar vs. THORChain
5:15 Osmosis & Axelar 
6:50 Bridge Risk
8:43 The Cosmos Ecosystem
10:11 AppChains 
12:00 Is Cosmos Only DeFi-Focused? 
13:00 State of the Cosmos Community
14:25 Sunny’s ETHDenver Agenda
15:08 Sunny’s Sweater
15:30 Closing

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Resources: 

Sunny Aggarwal
https://twitter.com/sunnya97  

Osmosis
https://twitter.com/OsmosisZone  

Cosmos
https://twitter.com/Cosmos  

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Sometimes, the frontier is at a crypto conference. One of the most prestige being, ETHDenver! We’re back with a handful of exclusive interviews with some of the most fascinating minds in crypto. 

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In this episode, we’re talking to Sergey Gorbunov about the purpose of the Interoperability Summit at ETHDenver, the interoperable frontier, the differences between the Axelar and Cosmos and so much more. 

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
4:33 Interoperability Summit Vibe
5:20 Communities Represented
6:05 The Interoperable Frontier 
6:56 Axelar Explained 
8:00 Axelar Blockchain
8:37 Axelar vs. Cosmos
9:41 Chain Fatigue 
11:20 Lessons Learned 
13:03 Closing & Action Items

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Resources: 

Sergey Gorbunov
https://twitter.com/sergey_nog 

Axelar Network
https://twitter.com/axelarcore  

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Co-Founder & President, Robbie Ferguson and Co-Founder & CTO, Alex Connolly join us to reveal something very important: the next chapter of Immutable.

Tune in to find out what it is and what it means for the NFT space!

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
6:15 What’s Holding GameFi Back?
12:00 Immutable’s BIG Release
15:32 Why Multichain?
20:27 The Interoperability Layer
23:11 Network Effects, Security, & Fractal Scaling
45:15 Liquidity, Multichain & Bridging Dynamics
53:41 Wen Games?
58:00 Rarible x Immutable

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Resources:

Robbie Ferguson
https://twitter.com/0xferg 

Alex Connolly
https://twitter.com/0xconnolly 

Immutable
https://www.immutable.com/ 
https://twitter.com/immutable 

Spectrum of Chain Chart
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Unified Ecosystem Diagram
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First, we cover the news of Ex-Meta crypto chief David Marcus launching a Bitcoin payments startup backed by a16z & Paradigm (02:05). Then, Jack Mallers, the CEO of Strike joins (8:13) to discuss the lightning network & the history of payment networks (12:10), why companies use the Strike API (24:42), why he thinks Visa and Mastercard can't compete (31:24), Strike unlocking Bitcoin’s potential (34:40) and more!

(00:00) Jason and Molly tee up today’s show
(02:05) Ex-Meta crypto chief David Marcus launches Bitcoin payments startup backed by a16z & Paradigm
(08:13) Molly interviews Jack Mallers, CEO of Strike
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(12:10) The lightning network & the history of payment networks, how Strike disrupts them
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How are Aave and Lens Protocol bringing this inevitable future to reality sooner than expected?  What is the current state of the DeFi landscape? Buckle up because Stani will unpack these questions and so much more. 

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
7:00 What's New With Stani
10:15 DeFi in 2021
14:13 Aave Portals
23:00 Maintaining Market Share
27:25 Forecasting the Future of Chains
32:57 Bridging & Security
37:38 Efficiency Mode
40:23 Isolation Mode
44:20 Stani's Thoughts on Rari
48:18 Future Aave Versions
54:30 Stani's PFP
57:15 Lens Protocol & Web3 Social
1:10:00 Lens Protocol All-Star Team & Roadmap
1:14:09 Rapid Fire Questions

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Resources:

Stani Kulechov:
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Aave:
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Lens Protocol: 
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