For this episode I spoke to Ethen Buchman (@buchmanster) and Tomaž Fleischman (@T_Fleischman) in person while at the Commons Hub in Austria from May 22nd to 28th for the Collaborative Finance event with the Crypto Commons Association, one of the projects part of the Breadchain Cooperative. Ethan is one of the co-founders of Cosmos and works at Informal Systems, a workers cooperative that focuses on building Cosmos infrastructure with Tomaž.

A big theme of the Collaborative Finance event was about the paper Tomaž co-wrote while working with Sardex about multilateral trade clearing setoffs, or giving the ability of credit clearing to everyone rather than it being just something banks get to do. During the interview we spoke about what happened at the event, the political implications of giving credit clearing to everyone, and how this type of system could be implemented in Cosmos.

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