Lunie is a multi-network wallet focused on staking networks and on-chain governance. Lunie was one of the first wallets for Cosmos (then Voyager) and has since expanded to support multiple networks from the Cosmos ecosystem (Terra, E-Money) with Polkadot and other networks coming soon. In this episode, Felix is joined by Jordan Bibla. CEO and Co-Founder of Lunie, to discuss the crypto wallet and staking ecosystems. The episode begins going into the background of Lunie and the products the team has built (web and mobile apps, as well as a browser extension). Felix and Jordan explore UX difficulties in staking networks, how newly launching networks should go about building communities, protocol governance, and insights from developing one of the most used wallets focused on staking. The second part of the episode dives into Lunie’s upcoming freemium notification feature and Jordan shares his views on the most important developments in the blockchain ecosystem.   Lunie Website: https://lunie.io Jordan’s Post on Bootstrapping a Community: https://medium.com/luniehq/how-to-bootstrap-a-proof-of-stake-community-543a29585b62 Delegations to Inactive Validators on Tezos: https://www.reddit.com/r/tezos/comments/dvucah/wake_up_delegators_dead_bakers_have_you_follow/ Chorus One: https://chorus.one Chorus One Twitter: https://twitter.com/chorusone   Chorus One Telegram: https://t.me/chorusone

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37 Lunie: Multi-Network Staking and Governance with Jordan Bibla

In this episode, Brendan and Felix are joined by Soravis Srinawakoon, Co-Founder and CEO of Band Protocol, a data governance framework for Web3. Band is soon launching its own Cosmos SDK chain focused on provisioning oracle data for blockchain applications. We cover what the oracle problem is, how Band is able to provide off-chain data to blockchain applications in a single transaction, what the team imagines the role of Band Chain to be within the ecosystem and take a look at the parties involved in Band’s ecosystem. The second part of our conversation focuses on decentralized finance and the need for reliable oracle solutions, as well as a discussion of recent events following the “Black Thursday” crash that shook the Ethereum DeFi ecosystem. We wrap up with Soravis telling us about upcoming hackathons and the current state of the network leading up to mainnet. Band Protocol Website: https://bandprotocol.com/ Cross-Chain Hackathon with Band: https://medium.com/bandprotocol/cross-chain-virtual-hackathon-w-cosmos-agoric-band-protocol-spread-the-pandemic-inside-487747e2b1e Game of Zones: https://goz.cosmosnetwork.dev/ Band x Chorus Announcement: https://blog.chorus.one/partnering-with-band-protocol-to-bring-off-chain-data-to-the-internet-of-blockchains/ Band x Chorus AMA Summary: https://blog.chorus.one/band-ama Chorus One: https://chorus.one Chorus One Twitter: https://twitter.com/chorusone   Chorus One Telegram: https://t.me/chorusone

36: Band Protocol: Off-Chain Data for the Internet of Blockchains with Soravis Srinawakoon

Centrifuge is building the operating system for trade finance. In this episode, Brian is joined by Lukas Vogelsang, CEO of Centrifuge, to speak about the technologies Centrifuge is building to enable more efficient, transparent, and privacy-preserving supply chain financing. We start by exploring the background of the idea and the founders’ decade long background in the area of trade finance with Taulia, a company focused on invoice financing and working capital management, which is currently handling over $20bn in invoices a year. Lukas then goes into how his interest in crypto and the idea for Centrifuge, which is to build to tools to bring off-chain financial assets into the decentralized finance ecosystem, came about. He goes into how Centrifuge turns off-chain documents such as invoices into NFTs and how these NFTs can be bundled into collateralized pools to enable their usage in DeFi using Centrifuge’s asset-backed lending protocol Tinlake. Lukas explains the advantages of transparency for asset-backed lending, Tinlake’s tranched two token model, and their experiments using this system in collaboration with the Maker team and other partners such as Paperchain and Shuttle One. Lukas goes into how real-world assets as collateral could bring stability to Maker’s Multi-Collateral DAI system. Finally, Lukas talks about launching their own Substrate-based chain that allows Centrifuge to mint tokenized assets using Tinlake while maintaining privacy for asset originators. Centrifuge Website: https://centrifuge.io Tinlake: https://centrifuge.io/products/tinlake/ Centrifuge Twitter: https://twitter.com/centrifuge Centrifuge Blog: https://medium.com/centrifuge Chorus One: https://chorus.one Chorus One Twitter: https://twitter.com/chorusone   Chorus One Telegram: https://t.me/chorusone

35 Centrifuge & Tinlake: The OS for Supply Chain Finance with Lucas Vogelsang

In this episode, Felix is joined by Dieter “dete” Shirley, CTO at Dapper Labs. The team at Dapper Labs, a spin-off from Axiom Zen, are the creators of Cryptokitties and have spent recent years to create their own blockchain optimized for decentralized applications building on their learnings of writing some of the most widely used smart contracts. The podcast begins with Dieter going into his background in crypto and how Cryptokitties emerged out of a series of ideas his former company at Axiom Zen had for blockchain applications. We then talk about how Cryptokitties helped the team realize both the benefits and shortcomings of Ethereum and Solidity development. Dieter explains how Flow is designed from the ground up with composability and developer experience in mind. We go into detail as to how Flow is able to scale by having multiple separate node roles, the interplay between them, as well as benefits that Flow tooling and the programming language Cadence provide to developers. Finally, we wrap up with a discussion of the economics in a blockchain with multiple different roles. Flow Website: https://www.onflow.org/ Playground (live version of Cadence emulator): https://www.onflow.org/play   Flow Alpha Developer Program: https://www.onflow.org/flow-alpha Chorus One: https://chorus.one Chorus One Twitter: https://twitter.com/chorusone   Chorus One Telegram: https://t.me/chorusone

34 34 Flow: A Blockchain by and for Smart Contract Developers with Dieter Shirley

One of the major factors hampering blockchain adoption is that current decentralized applications only function when all associated data is public. Many real world use cases are only possible when participating parties can be assured that their information is kept private. Oasis is a network that is focused on enabling privacy-preserving smart contracts through the use of secure enclaves. In this podcast episode, Meher and Brendan are joined by Andrew Miller and Vishwanath Raman, who are part of the Oasis Labs team working in product marketing (Andrew) and engineering (Vishwanath). The four start with a discussion of how Oasis got started and the connection to UC Berkeley. Then, in the first part of the interview, an overview of the Oasis protocol and key target markets follows. The episode discusses how the Oasis privacy protocol works technically and how it compares to other privacy-enhancing solutions. Specifically, Andrew and Vishwanath walk through a voting example and go through other use cases, features of the Oasis blockchain, the project’s go-to-market strategy, as well as the roadmap including the ongoing incentivized testnet “The Quest”. Finally, the four discuss implications of Intel security vulnerabilities and the developer experience of writing privacy-preserving smart contracts. Oasis Website: https://www.oasislabs.com/ Oasis Twitter: https://twitter.com/OasisLabs The Quest Testnet: https://www.oasis-protocol.org/quest Chorus One: https://chorus.one Chorus One Twitter: https://twitter.com/chorusone   Chorus One Telegram: https://t.me/chorusone

33 Oasis: Privacy-Preserving Smart Contracts with Andrew Miller and Vishwanath Raman

While most other upcoming smart contract platforms seem to have identified throughput as the major bottleneck for why blockchains haven’t found mass adoption yet, Coda has focused on a different part of the stack that they perceive to be a much more important issue plaguing blockchain, which is how long it takes for new participants to verify the blockchain. Coda is using recursive zk-SNARK technology which enables them to create a constant-sized blockchain, making it really easy for clients to verify the correctness of the ledger. In this episode, Meher and Felix are joined by Emre Tekisalp, director of BD, and Brad Cohn, strategy & operations from the O(1) Labs team to discuss Coda’s approach to building a new blockchain platform. The podcast starts out going into the background of the two, a high-level overview of Coda follows and we discuss what Coda’s unique design enables and cover the go-to-market strategy of the project. From there the discussion leads us to discuss monetary policy and the implications of taxes on Proof-of-Stake networks. After this quick detour, we get back to discussing how the Coda protocol technically works leading to an extensive celebration of zk-SNARK technology during which Brad and Emre explain the progress in the field and why zk-SNARKs are so exciting. Finally, we wrap up the episode with some information on Coda’s Genesis testnet program. Coda Protocol Website: https://codaprotocol.com/ Genesis Program: https://codaprotocol.com/genesis Coda Discord: https://bit.ly/CodaDiscord Chorus One: https://chorus.one Chorus One Twitter: https://twitter.com/chorusone   Chorus One Telegram: https://t.me/chorusone

32 Coda: Sound Money and SNARKs with Emre Tekisalp and Brad Cohn

Insurance is a part of the finance stack that has received less attention in the Defi space compared to other segments like lending and derivatives. In this episode, Meher and Felix are joined by Marouane Hajji, Co-Founder at Unslashed, to talk about blockchain risk, insurance, and the protocol that Unslashed is building. We start out exploring why blockchain risks can’t yet be insured using traditional insurance methods, as well as the go-to-market approach of Unslashed and their first product: a fully collateralized slashing insurance. We also discuss the interplay between staking derivatives and insurance and the interplay of the Melon Protocol and Unslashed to manage collateral for risk underwriters. Unslashed Website: https://unslashed.finance Unslashed Twitter: https://twitter.com/UnslashedF Marouane’s Presentation on Staking x DeFi during Trust-Less 2020: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/trust-less-2020-validator-conf/21 Chorus One: https://chorus.one Chorus One Twitter: https://twitter.com/chorusone Chorus One Telegram: https://t.me/chorusone

31 Unslashed: Insuring Blockchain Risks with Marouane Hajji

In this episode Felix is joined by Gavin Birch, community analyst at Figment Networks, who has took it upon himself to improve the decentralized governance process of the Cosmos Hub. We start by going into Gavin’s background in the crypto space and how he joined the Figment team before exploring Gavin’s experience working on coordinating the upgrade to Cosmos Hub 3. Figment recently put forth a proposal to the Cosmos community pool, which is a source of capital that the Cosmos Hub is collecting by taxing block rewards and transactions fees. The proposal (#23, linked below) seeks to fund Gavin’s work to form a Governance Working Group and to create a bunch of documentation and templates that should help everyone to better understand the governance process, as well as lower the barrier of entry of filing a funding proposal to the community pool. Felix and Gavin explore the intricacies of blockchain governance and discuss controversies and learnings from this early experiment in decentralized funding. Cosmos Governance Working Group Twitter and Social Links: https://twitter.com/CosmosGov Proposal 23: https://hubble.figment.network/cosmos/chains/cosmoshub-3/governance/proposals/23 Cosmos Governance Working Group Funding Request: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmSMGEoY2dfxADPfgoAsJxjjC6hwpSNx1dXAqePiCEMCbY Chorus One: https://chorus.one Chorus One Twitter: https://twitter.com/chorusone Chorus One Telegram: https://t.me/chorusone

30 Cosmos Governance Working Group with Figment’s Gavin Birch

We took Terra passing the 1 million accounts milestones as a reason to bring Terra’s CTO Do Kwon on the podcast. Terra is a blockchain network and stablecoin system with meaningful real-world adoption through integrating their mobile payment app CHAI. In this interview, Brian talks to Do about payment processing and how Terra enables merchants in eCommerce and elsewhere to save on transaction fees. The two discuss the flow of how a transaction in the CHAI app gets included on the Terra blockchain, the regulatory landscape, as well as their metrics such as active users and transaction volume. Do also talks about plans to introduce a CHAI credit card and explains their cashback promotions. Futhermore, the two talk about the move from incentivizing validators through block rewards to a model that is solely relying on transaction fees. Remarkably, staking on Terra currently rewards stakers with an annual reward rate of 20% without inflating LUNA, Terra’s staking token, supply. This reward rate is solely based on CHAI’s $3m average daily transaction volume, out of which $150,000 are paid daily by partnering merchants as fees (0.5% per transaction). Finally, Do explains Terra’s recent move into Mongolia and future plans for on-chain foreign exchange markets using Terra stablecoins, as well as grant opportunities for developers to build on top of the Terra blockchain. Terra Money Website: https://terra.money Terra’s Year in Review: https://medium.com/terra-money/terra-2019-year-in-review-5d4fa2e38b64?source=collection_home---4------0-----------------------   Learn more about staking with the Chorus One validator on Terra: https://chorus.one/networks/terra Chorus One: https://chorus.one Chorus One Twitter: https://twitter.com/chorusone Chorus One Telegram: https://t.me/chorusone

29 Terra: Payment Processing on the Blockchain with Do Kwon

This episode covers the Stake Capital DAO, an interesting project aiming to form a revenue-sharing staking and DeFi DAO that also issues tokenized staking positions called LTokens. The Stake Capital DAO is a project by Stake Capital, a staking service provider operating on various networks including the Cosmos Hub, Livepeer, Tezos, and Loom. In this episode, Felix is joined by Stake Capital founders Julien and Leopold to discuss the recently revealed plans to launch a DAO. It dives into their backgrounds in the Ethereum community working on Flyingcarpeth and other projects leading up to the forming of Stake Capital and their decision to turn their business into a DAO. We explore the relationship between Stake Capital and the DAO, the DAO’s token SCT, the innovative way in which SCT tokens are issued to delegators of Stake Capital, as well as governance questions and other technicalities of the Stake Capital DAO approach. The second part dives into liquid staking tokens (LTokens) that the DAO plans to issue to enable stakers to circumvent locking periods and to enable a more efficient use of staked capital. Finally, the episode wraps up with a discussion of the next steps and long-term plans for the Stake Capital DAO. Stake Capital DAO Light Paper: https://github.com/stake-capital/research/blob/master/Stake%20Capital%20DAO%20Light%20Paper.pdf Medium Post on Stake Capital DAO:https://medium.com/stakecapital/introducing-stake-dao-by-stake-capital-claiming-future-yield-revenue-7059e0781328 Stake Capital Website: https://www.stake.capital/ Liquid Staking Working Group: https://github.com/ChorusOne/liquid-staking   Chorus One: https://chorus.one Chorus One Twitter: https://twitter.com/chorusone Chorus One Telegram: https://t.me/chorusone

28 Stake Capital DAO: Revenue-Sharing and Liquid Staking with Julien Bouteloup and Leopold Joy

This episode is a re-upload of recent roundtable hosted by Chris Remus of Chainflow that featured multiple validator team members to discuss the future of business models for operators of staking node infrastructure. The roundtable discussion starts with introductions to the participants before going straight into the current state of the validator space and approaches to business models for node operators. Make sure to check out Chris Remus’ conclusion post that features questions, key takeaways, as well as a video recording of the discussion: https://chainflow.io/validator-business-model-discussion/ Participants: Adrian Brink, Cryptium Labs Chris Remus, Chainflow and Staking Defense - Moderator Edouard Lavidalle, POS Bakerz Gleb Dudka, Staking Rewards JK, Stake.fish Konstantin Richter, Block Daemon Meher Roy, Chorus One Mira Storm, Ztake We would like to thank Chris Remus from Chainflow for hosting this valuable discussion and for allowing us to publish this recording as a Chorus One Podcast episode. Chainflow: https://chainflow.io Staking Defense: https://forum.stakingdefense.org/ Chorus One: https://chorus.one Chorus One Twitter: https://twitter.com/chorusone Chorus One Telegram: https://t.me/chorusone

27 Validator Business Model Discussion with the Decentralized Staking Defenders

There’s a long standing argument about the wastefulness of Proof-of-Work mining. To some, Proof-of-Stake is a viable, less wasteful alternative to achieve distributed consensus in a permission-less setting. In this episode, Brian is joined by Eric Wall, Fund Manager at Arcane Assets, to discuss the thought process that brought Erik, who is a strong Bitcoin advocate, to re-consider Proof-of-Stake as a potential alternative to Proof-of-Work. The conversations starts by going into Eric’s background in the traditional financial exchange market working with Cinnober on their blockchain strategy. Eric also explains how he got involved with Bitcoin, his approach to Crypto Twitter, and his new fund Arcane Assets. The two then cover what attracted Eric to Bitcoin before they transition to discuss Proof-of-Stake. The discussion goes into different arguments related to the social costs of both PoW (electricity) and PoS (locked up capital). In the final part of the conversation they also discuss tokenization of staked assets and the interplay with decentralized finance protocols, as well as the role of custodial players. You can find a summary of Eric’s thoughts on the topic in his blog post linked below. The Chorus One Podcast will go on hiatus the coming week. We wish our listeners happy holidays and a great start into the new year!  "Proof-of-Stake is less wasteful" Blog Post: https://medium.com/@ercwl/proof-of-stake-is-less-wasteful-b2854a191766 Arcane Assets: https://arcaneassets.io Chorus One: https://chorus.one Chorus One Twitter: https://twitter.com/chorusone Chorus One Telegram: https://t.me/chorusone

26 Economics of Proof-of-Stake versus Proof-of-Work with Eric Wall

Multicoin Capital is one of the best known crypto-focused funds worldwide. The team subscribes to three major theses in the space: open finance, Web3, and stateless currencies. In this episode Brendan is joined by Kyle Samani from Multicoin to dive into how Kyle sees the future for the crypto space play out. The interview goes into the role of centralized exchanges and implications for the ecosystem, starting with taking a look at Binance’s approach that Multicoin has dubbed “blitzscaling”. Brendan and Kyle further explore networked liquidity and the DeFi ecosystem discussing who might dominate in the space of protocols, aggregators and robo-advisors if non-crypto players with better distribution channels join the space. During the second part of the podcast, Kyle and Brendan dive into Multicoin investments like Torus and Solana and the role that Kyle sees these projects playing in advancing crypto adoption. Finally, Kyle shares his views on a multi-chain environment and the two discuss shared security approaches and associated challenges.   Multicoin Website: https://multicoin.capital/ Kyle's Twitter: https://twitter.com/KyleSamani Binance Blitzscaling Blog Post: https://multicoin.capital/2019/11/07/binance-is-blitzscaling/ Torus Blog Post: https://multicoin.capital/2019/07/09/our-investment-in-torus/ Kyle’s Argument against Sharding: https://multicoin.capital/2019/07/30/the-world-computer-should-be-logically-centralized/   Chorus One: https://chorus.one Chorus One Twitter: https://twitter.com/chorusone Chorus One Telegram: https://t.me/chorusone

25 Crypto Mega Theses with Multicoin’s Kyle Samani

In this episode Felix is joined by Illia to discuss NEAR’s economic model, its trade-offs and advantages. NEAR is a sharded blockchain with a unique economic model that seeks to unify gas cost across shards through load balancing. With this model, NEAR is able to significantly improve the user and developer experience for cross-shard applications. The episode walks through the founding story of NEAR, what dynamic sharding is and how it works and NEAR’s fee model for computation and state storage. Furthermore Illia explains validator selection, incentives and penalties, including NEAR’s plans to incentivize smart contract developers by sharing a part of the generated gas fees. NEAR Economics Whitepaper: https://near.ai/economics NEAR Economics Lunch & Learn Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhQi2nAd-r0 NEAR Website: https://near.ai Chorus One: https://chorus.one Chorus One Twitter: https://twitter.com/chorusone Chorus One Telegram: https://t.me/chorusone

24 NEAR: Sharding Economics and Developer Business Models with Illia Polosukhin

Microtick is an innovative protocol designed to foster global price agreement for any type of asset through an economic game between market makers providing quotes and traders placing bets. Microtick is a ShapeShift research project that is currently live in the form of a Cosmos SDK testnet. In this episode, Meher and Felix are joined by Mark and Kent, who are leading Microtick’s research and development. We dive into the background of Microtick and how the project developed inside of ShapeShift. Mark and Kent explain Schelling points, how the protocol works at a high-level, the notion of a short-term options market and Microtick’s use cases, which range from Microtick as a price oracle, over Microtick as a product to hedge price exposure, to Microtick as a tool to build synthetic assets.   Microtick Website: http://microtick.com Microtick Testnet: http://microtick.zone ShapeShift: https://shapeshift.io/   Chorus One: https://chorus.one Chorus One Twitter: https://twitter.com/chorusone Chorus One Telegram: https://t.me/chorusone

23 Microtick: Price Oracles and Short-Term Options with Mark Jackson and Kent Barton

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