Citizen Cosmos

In this episode, we talk to Deborah Simpier and Justin Kilpatrick, co-founders of Althea, an Internet Service Provider (ISP) platform and blockchain that enables the coordination of multi-stakeholder networks.

Althea is built for a fast and affordable, locally run internet. Althea's unique cooperative vision for the internet brings peering from the data center to the field. Empowering communities to build multi-stakeholder ne...

In this episode, we talk to Rebecca Liao, Co-founder and CEO at Saga, a Cosmos-based protocol for automatically provisioning application-specific blockchains.

Saga is a protocol that allows developers to take a single tenant VM and automatically launch it on a dedicated blockchain, complete with fully provisioned validators and an optimally incentivized security structure.

We spoke to Rebecca about Saga, a...

In this episode, we talk to Joe Bowman, CEO at Ingenuity. Founder of Quicksilver protocol, a liquid staking zone, built on Tendermint.

A sovereign Cosmos-SDK zone, Quicksilver is a Liquid Staking zone. Through interchain accounts and the Liquid Staking Module, Quicksilver can onboard any Cosmos-SDK based zone in a permissionless manner. Quicksilver can scale to a limitless number of zones, with zero onboarding effort required from...

In this episode, we talk to Eric Chen, the co-founder of Injective Protocol, IBC-enabled DEX protocol and a decentralized exchange built with Tendermint.

Injective is providing the unrestricted and unprecedented ability to express diverse views in the decentralized financial markets, and striving to empower individuals with the ability to more efficiently allocate capital in society.

We spoke to Eric about Inj...

In this episode, we talk to Ismail Khoffi, Co-Founder and CTO at Celestia Labs, the first modular blockchain network.

Celestia is the first modular consensus and data network to power scalable, secure Web3 applications. It is a minimal blockchain that only orders and publishes transactions and does not execute them. By decoupling the consensus and application execution layers, Celestia modularizes the blockchain technology stack a...

In this episode, we talk to Mircea Colonescu, Infrastructure Engineer at Informal leading the operations of the Cephalopod Validator.

The mission of Informal Systems is a vision is an open-source ecosystem of cooperatively owned and governed distributed organizations running on reliable distributed systems to bring verifiability to distributed systems and organizations.

Cephalopod equipment operate infrastructure for decentralize...

In this episode, we talk to Jelena Djuric, Product Marketing Manager at Informal Systems, core developer of Cosmos.

The mission of Informal Systems is a vision is an open-source ecosystem of cooperatively owned and governed distributed organizations running on reliable distributed systems to bring verifiability to distributed systems and organizations.

We spoke to Jelena about Informal Systems, and:

In this episode of Citizen Cosmos, we talk to David, founder of CosmosUpLink, a web app that helps follow events, catch airdrops and save time roaming the Cosmos.

We spoke to David about the calendar app, and:

In this episode of Citizen Cosmos, we talk to Archway's core contributors. Archway is a smart contract platform that rewards developers ushering in next gen dapps.

Archway allows you to easily deploy smart contracts to Cosmos. The Archway smart contract platform is owned, operated, and governed by the developer community. As you build and launch impactful, highly used open-source dapps, you earn more.

In this episode of Citizen Cosmos, we chat to Highlander, a validator and a Cosmos ecosystem contributor.

Highlander-Nodes is a Validator and dev contributor, that highly participate in a few Cosmos projects, such as Juno, Comdex, Ki-Network. The Highlander team believes in their experience in validation, as they’re a team that has seen the ecosystem evolve across multiple phases, and saw the potential in Juno to help offload Smar...

In this episode of Citizen Cosmos, I talk with Coney Daddy, a community developer and a Cosmos rock star.

In the episode, Coney Daddy shares his thoughts on the crypto industry. And we discuss what things are worth paying attention to if you're just starting out in crypto.

We spoke to Coney Daddy about Cosmos, and:

In this episode, we talk to Federico Kunze Küllmer, co-founder Evmos - EVM on Cosmos, and CEO of Tharsis HQ - EVM and blockchain interoperability.

Evmos is a scalable, high-throughput PoS blockchain that is fully compatible and interoperable with Ethereum. Evmos is a sovereign blockchain built with the help of the Cosmos / Tendermint stack, which means it has the superpowers of IBC, the communication protocol allowing all connecte...

In this episode, we talk to Jon Farjoe, Founder and Chief Product Officer at Lunarcrush - Social Intelligence for Crypto.

Lunarcrush is building a social media tool that directly impacts cryptocurrencies. Because you can’t listen to a million different opinions a minute, LunarCrush does it for you. LunarCrush collects activity across social media for bitcoin, thousands of altcoins, crypto exchanges, influencers and more, in real-t...

In this interchain special episode of Citizen Cosmos we talk with 4 projects: Trading Strategy, Gnosis, Radicle & Gitcoin, in 4 short interviews during Liscon 2021.

Trading Atrategy is an algorithmic trading protocol for decentralized markets. It is a decentralized protocol for the next generation quantitative finance. Decentralized automated trading strategies allow investing with more profit and lower risk, as investors get...

In this episode, we talk to Ankur Banerjee, co-founder of Cheqd. The authentic data network built with the help of Cosmos-SDK and Tendermint.

Cheqd is building a secure network that enables individuals and organizations to fully control their personal data. It allows self-sovereign identity (SSI) companies to build and deliver secure solutions. Through the network, anyone can verify identities quickly and securely. Data shouldn...

In this interchain special episode of Citizen Cosmos we talk with Amir Taaki, founder of DarkFi, an anonymous DeFi network bridged to Ethereum.

DarkFi is an anonymous DeFi network. Its objective is to offer flexible private primitives that can be wielded to create any kind of application. DarkFi uses advances in zero-knowledge cryptography and creates a contracting language and developer toolkits aimed to make anonymous engineerin...

In this episode, we talk to Dan Edlebeck, cofounder of Exidio. Building a decentralized VPN solution as part of the Sentinel ecosystem.

Exidio is building decentralized and distributed networking solutions and contributing to the Cosmos open-source community by creating a resilient and robust decentralized VPN and allowing you to create your own decentralized and distributed VPN network.

The Sentinel Network hosts open-source dis...

In this episode, we talk to Henrik Aasted Sørensen, founder of E-money, stablecoins for the Internet of money.

E-money is empowering people in the digital economy with next-generation stablecoins, which are designed for financial inclusion, transparency, and instant settlement.

We spoke to Henrik about E-money, and:

In this episode, we talk to the Cyber core dev team, a decentralized superintellect.

Cyber is building a decentralized superintelligence for the new web. Their goal is to build decentralized tools that will change the way how we use the web.

We spoke to the Cyber dev team about superintelligence, and: