Crypto.com is a centralized exchange (CEX) that offers crypto-backed debit cards to allow you to spend your crypto without ever cashing out. What’s more, as you’ll learn in this episode, you will soon be allowed to borrow money by collateralizing your crypto asset in order to spend from your debit card—all without incurring any capital gains tax—a killer application to bridge DeFi to the real world. Chjango interviews Eric Anziani, COO of crypto.com, and Leslie Cheung, Head of Developer Relations, to unwind everything they’ve been building since 2018. Crypto.com was one of the earliest adopters of Cosmos SDK. They were the alpha testers of the framework and even debugged a critical DoS vector in Tendermint. Fast forward to March 2021, they launched their EVM-chain, the crypto.org chain. This episode covers the rise of DEX coins like CRO, UNI, SUSHI and BNB, and the subsequent price action that followed because of Coinbase’s IPO. Moreover, the guests predict what can happen to the crypto market after crypto derivatives eat the market.

About Greg:As co-founder and CEO of Akash Network, Greg has transformed the future of cloud computing. Prior to Akash, Greg founded AngelHack, the world's largest hackathon organization with over 150,000 developers across 50 cities worldwide. A renowned open source, distributed systems, and blockchain developer and thought leader, and applied economist, Greg has helped launch multiple developer companies including Firebase, acquired by Google in 2014, while he was at AngelHack. He launched his career at IBM and later designed Kaiser Permanente's first cloud architecture. Greg is a frequently featured speaker, and was instrumental in the passing of California's first Blockchain law, providing the first expert-witness testimony at the Senate.About Akash Network:Akash Network, the world's first decentralized and open-source cloud, accelerates deployment, scale, efficiency, and price performance for high-growth industries like blockchain and machine learning/AI. Known as the "Airbnb for Cloud," Akash Network provides a fast, efficient, and low-cost application deployment. Developers leveraging Akash Network can access cloud computing at up to 3x less than the cost of centralized cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Utilizing containerization technology, Akash Network leverages 85% of underutilized cloud capacity in 8.4 million global data centers, enabling anyone to buy and sell cloud computing. For more information visit: https://akash.network/.

About Sentinel:Sentinel is decentralized VPN (dVPN) project. It is a peer to peer bandwidth marketplace: Anyone can offer bandwidth to the network and earn income doing so. And anyone can use that bandwidth from a dVPN application. Sentinel is Cosmos-based is a Web 3.0 infrastructure layer focused on privacy and security. Any company or individual can build their own custom decentralized VPN on top of the Sentinel network.About Chjango Unchained:Chjango started Interchain.FM to fill the cross-chain interoperability niche, as the wider narrative was being discovered. Find her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/chjangoAbout Dan Edlebeck:For the past four years, Dan has been running around in blockchain. He led crypto marketing at Blockparty and founded deedle connects, bringing three blockchain projects to market and helped build four cryptocurrency communities. Prior, Dan led nonprofits in their growth at  Cara Chicago and while serving in the US Peace Corps. He's a proud Badger (BBA at UW-Madison) and Beaver (MBA at Babson College).

In this episode of Interchain.FM, we talk to Erik Voorhees, founder of ShapeShift, to cover his thoughts about big tech censorship surrounding the Parler incident, the right of private companies to exercise what they want—as long as they are free from coercion—and where the road leads heading into decentralized technologies as they become cornerstones of a new, online schelling point.

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This episode's for the crypto-insiders who are deep in the weeds of thinking through how to solve Miner Extractable Value (MEV). We sit down with Sunny Aggarwal and Dev Ohja of Sikka Tech during a live broadcast at the Interchain Unconference to unpack the on-chain frontrunning problem that's currently plaguing Ethereum 1.0 before diving into the exhaustive list of solutions being proposed to solve it. Finally, we end on a note about how a frontier approach at the bleeding edge of cryptography research, threshold decryption, could potentially be the most viable solution to tackle MEV before closing on a thought-provoking note about what the Interchain world could look like once every layer 1 chain has been connected through Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC).

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In this episode, we talk to Marguerite deCourcelle, also known as Coin Artist, about her experience with early concepts of personal tokens that led her to prove the big idea behind what became $COIN, her own experiment into social influencer tokenization. We discuss gaming use cases of blockchain technology and leveraging second layer solutions to push the boundaries of NFTs (non-fungible tokens).

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