All right, everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Crypto 101 podcast.

I desire your host, Pizza Mind, and I'm flying solo today.

And, uh, but not by myself because I have the beautiful and talented Maria

Gomez, the managing director from one of my favorite groups in all of the crypto space,

the Interchain Foundation. Maria, welcome to the Crypto 101 podcast. Thank you so much. It's

for inviting me here. Well, I couldn't have asked for a better tag team partner while we're on the podcast

today because there's so much to be excited about in the Cosmos ecosystem.

And it's been a little while since we've had someone on to kind of talk about it.

So if you would, first, let's get to know you.

What were you doing before you joined the Interchain Foundation?

And what was it about the Interchain Foundation that attracted you there?

Yeah.

Before the Interchange Foundation, I was working in a project in Ethereum that was building

tools for Daos.

The project was called Aragon.

And my background is in law.

I used to be a corporate lawyer.

So when I started working in crypto through Coinbase, that was my first work within

crypto coming from the traditional world.

And I started learning about Ethereum and like the Dow project.

I was very, as a lawyer, I was, I was very interested about Daos and what they were and how different they were from traditional organizations.

So, yeah, before coming to Cosmos and to the Interchain and the foundation,

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