How Osmosis Is Trying to Improve the Crypto User Experience

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