The Threat to Liquid-Staking in the Ethereum Ecosystem

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LIDO has such, you know, overwhelming dominance. There's only 29 provider node providers that are operating the stake behind that ecosystem. So do you think like there's a possible solution would be other liquid-staking providers kind of coming to market and helping balance that back out? I think that's one thing that we're starting to see in Ethereum. Rocketpool and CBE are beginning to provide reasonable competition to LIDO but we'll see.

Sunny Aggarwal joins us to discuss how Osmosis is building the liquidity hub of Cosmos. We cover why Osmosis launched CosmWasm, how the ProtoRev module captures MEV, why Osmosis turned on the fee switch, the future of active vs passive liquidity provision, the AEZ growth strategy, ICS vs Mesh Security and more!

And as usual, we start the episode with our analyst bullpen to discuss why all FDVs aren't created equal, the end of PFP NFTs, Coinbase ETF news, Rob Leshner's new venture and more!

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(01:34) Governance Updates

(08:29) Hot Seat/Cool Throne

(32:48) Interview Start: Osmosis

(36:09) Why Osmosis Launched CosmWasm

(39:35) Decentralized Stables

(43:23) What is the ProtoRev Module?

(46:55) Osmosis’ New Protocol Fee

(49:52) Balancing Incentives: Stakers vs LPs

(51:44) Active vs Passive LPs, Dynamic Fees & Toxic Flow

(1:02:39) Cosmos DEX Competition

(1:05:14) Thoughts on the Atom Economic Zone

(1:07:14) ICS vs Mesh Security

(1:13:25) “Proof of Stake Was A Mistake”

(1:21:40) ABCI++ Use Cases

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