Zaki Manian and Jack Zampolin on Why ATOM Is 'Dogecoin for Academics' - Ep. 406

Unchained

Laura Shin

News, Tech News, Business News

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Zaki Manian, cofounder of Sommelier Protocol and cofounder of Iqlusion and Jack Zampolin, founder of Strangelove Ventures, discuss everything about Cosmos, the new white paper, and how to improve MEV capture for ATOM holders. Show highlights: how Jack and Zaki got involved with crypto and Cosmos what the Sommelier protocol is, the role of Iqlusion, and what Strange Love does the basics of Cosmos and application-specific blockchains (ASB) why would a project choose to be an ASB rather than an application on a blockchain whether Cosmos can achieve network effects the reasons behind launching a new white paper for Cosmos why the team decided to pursue interchain security whether there would be an increase in fees with so many chains relying on the Cosmos Hub for security how much economic value the Cosmos Hub will end up securing if the proposal gets passed how the Cosmos Treasury could be used to fund development the role of the Interchain Scheduler to capture MEV whether centralized exchanges are going to start trading against the customers the new issuance model proposed for ATOM the role of an active governance community to make Cosmos more decentralized what problems Liquid staking solves how USDC will launch on a consumer chain Thank you to our sponsors! Crypto.com Chainalysis web3 with a16z Jack: Twitter Zaki: Twitter Episode Links Previous Coverage of Unchained on Cosmos: How Osmosis Is Trying to Improve the Crypto User Experience New white paper Document Proposal Interchain security Paper The Block article The DeFi investor thread ATOM 2.0 Thread by Route 2 DeFi Youseff Amrain’s thread Charlie Morris’ thread Other articles Vaneck’s article: Why we are bullish on Atom Alex Valaitis article: A deep dive into Cosmos Liquid Staking Native USDC on Cosmos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:23.6	or wherever you get your podcasts. Today's topic is Cosmos. Here to discuss our Zuckie Monian,
1:30.5	co-founder of Smully A Protocol, and co-founder of Ecclusion, and Jack Zamblin, founder of Strangel
1:36.3	Adventures. Welcome, Jack and Zuckie. Great to be here. Yeah, thanks, Laura. Let's start with each
1:42.6	of your backgrounds. Zuckie, you've been with Cosmos for a while. Can you tell us how it is that
1:47.4	you got involved and what your history is with the protocol? Yeah, so my involvement with
1:53.2	Cosmos started, as many of these things do, with the open source project, Tenderman.
2:01.4	So I met Jay back in, like, I think late 2013, maybe early.
2:06.4	Take one. The co-founder. Yeah. The co-founder of Cosmos, the creator of Tenderman.
2:13.6	And he had this, you know, I was just getting into cryptocurrency. Everyone was talking about proof
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