Axelar's General Message Passing Launch with Sergey Gorbunov, Zaki Manian, & Steven Goldfeder
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🗓️ 3 May 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We’re entering a new multi-chain and secure cross-bridge world very soon. With Axelar's General Message Passing launch, a new era for interoperability has been unlocked.
Tune in to hear from CEO/Co-Founder Sergey Gorbunov, Zaki Manian, Co-Founder of Sommelier Protocol, Co-Founder of Iqlusion, & Steven Goldfeder, Co-founder of Offchain Labs, and contributor to Arbitrum
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
5:09 Axelar Explained
8:25 Cross-Chain Bridging
10:46 Axelar’s Announcement
15:10 Bridges of the Past & Future
19:00 General Message Passing
21:40 The New Way For Interoperability
28:42 Arbitrum’s Side
32:36 The Tech Metaphor
35:40 Multichain & Interoperable World
37:00 Bridge Security
39:05 GMP Applications & Services
40:57 Zaki’s Cosmos Vision
43:20 Why is this Bullish for Arbitrum?
47:27 Resources
48:00 Closing & Disclaimers
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RESOURCES:
Sergey Gorbunov
https://twitter.com/sergey_nog
Zaki Manian
https://twitter.com/zmanian
Steven Goldfeder
https://twitter.com/sgoldfed
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| 0:00.0 | Bangladesh Nation, we got an extra show for you today. |
| 0:05.0 | Here we got a panel of cross-chain experts. |
| 0:08.0 | We got Zachi Manian from Cosmos. |
| 0:09.7 | We got Steven Goldfinder from Arbatrum, |
| 0:12.0 | and new to bankless, Sergei Gorbanov from Axelar. |
| 0:15.5 | Axelar is a newer IBC chain on the scene. |
| 0:19.0 | It's been around for a while, but it's new to me. |
| 0:21.0 | And it is working on inter-chain composability. |
| 0:24.6 | So not only is the world of Cosmos and IPZ chains |
| 0:28.7 | a world of interoperable mesh network of Cosmos later ones, |
| 0:32.4 | but also Axelar specifically is working on interoperability |
| 0:36.5 | beyond the IBC realm. |
| 0:38.9 | And so the announcement going out today |
| 0:40.9 | is that Axelar's new technology, |
| 0:43.1 | what they are calling general message passing, |
| 0:46.0 | is connecting the world of Arbatrum to the world of Cosmos, |
| 0:49.6 | which is why Steven Goldfinder from Arbatrum |
| 0:51.6 | is on this panel as well. |
| 0:53.5 | So previously we have been skeptical at bankless |
| 0:56.6 | about cross-chain bridges, |
| 0:59.0 | generally the position that everyone that we've seen so far |
| 1:02.0 | is fundamentally insecure. |
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