Sunny Aggarwal, co-founder of Osmosis Labs, talks about how Osmosis is being built, the innovations that are coming, the reasons to use app chains, and much more. Show highlights:
- how Sunny got into crypto
- how the DAO hack turned him off Ethereum at first
- how the scaling issues with Ethereum got him interested in the Cosmos vision of app-chains
- why he is interested in Proof of Stake
- what the vision of Cosmos is
- how Sunny compares the evolution of blockchains with human evolution
- why he thinks that Cosmos integrates the best of Bitcoin and Ethereum networks
- why he thinks that having more than one Proof of Work chain is fundamentally insecure
- which three technologies are necessary for Cosmos to succeed
- what IBC and the Cosmos SDK do
- why Sunny decided to build Osmosis
- how automated market makers are massively underexplored
- why UX is such a priority for the Osmosis team
- why Sunny does not want to list the OSMO token on other exchanges
- why Osmosis has a curated dex as well as a permissionless one
- how Osmosis governance works
- how security is provided on Osmosis
- what superfluid staking is
- how CosmWasm helps Osmosis compete with centralized exchanges
- how Osmosis is solving frontrunning with threshold encryption
- why the Osmosis team chose Axelar for bridging
- whether Yuga Labs could have used an app chain
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