Informal Conversations

Join Thyborg and Nicholas Evans as they discuss Duality, a next-generation decentralized exchange with a unique AMM design. Combining the best of AMMs and Orderbooks, Duality offers increased flexibility, and improved prices, while minimizing MEV. Duality will leverage replicated security from the Cosmos Hub! Informal Systems Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/informalinc Informal Systems Website 👉 https://informal.systems/ Informal Systems GitHub 👉 https://github.com/informalsystems Duality Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/dualityxyz Duality Website 👉 https://duality.xyz/
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Stride is the biggest liquid staking protocol in the Cosmos ecosystem. In this interview, Stride founders explain how Stride brings liquid staking to Cosmos chains, the goals in 2023, and how Interchain Security advances their goals. Stride proposal: https://forum.cosmos.network/t/proposal-draft-stride-to-join-atom-economic-zone-and-adopt-ics/10418 Liquid Staking Module: https://forum.cosmos.network/t/signaling-proposal-draft-add-liquid-staking-module-to-the-cosmos-hub/10368 Informal Systems Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/informalinc Informal Systems Website 👉 https://informal.systems/ Informal Systems GitHub 👉 https://github.com/informalsystems

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In Episode 4 of "Informal Conversations," host Thyborg welcomes back Ethan Buchman, Cosmos co-founder, for an in-depth discussion about Informal Systems, their contributions to the Cosmos ecosystem, and the innovative use of formal methods in cosmos technology and engineering in general.

Apalache: https://github.com/informalsystems/apalache Quint: https://github.com/informalsystems/quint Hermes: https://github.com/informalsystems/hermes Comet BFT: https://github.com/cometbft/cometbft Informal Systems Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/informalinc Informal Systems Website 👉 https://informal.systems/ Informal Systems GitHub 👉 https://github.com/informalsystems Disclaimer: The views expressed in this video do not necessarily reflect the views of any particular person or organization. No endorsement is intended by the content of this video. No representations or warranties regarding the completeness, accuracy, applicability, or fitness are intended by the content of this video.

In this episode of our series on the origins of Cosmos, Thyborg interviews Ethan Buchman, Cosmos co-founder, to discuss starting Informal Systems and the terms of the spin-out from the Interchain Foundation, the role Informal played in the ecosystem and the benefits of formal methods in software engineering. For more detail, see the accompanying blog post: https://informal.systems/blog/informa... Informal Systems Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/informalinc Informal Systems Website 👉 https://informal.systems/ Informal Systems GitHub 👉 https://github.com/informalsystems Disclaimer: The views expressed in this episode do not necessarily reflect the views of any particular person or organization. No endorsement is intended by the content of this episode. No representations or warranties regarding the completeness, accuracy, applicability, or fitness are intended by the content of this episode.

In the second episode of Informal Conversations, Thyborg sits down with Ethan Buchman, Cosmos co-founder, to discuss the goals of the creation of the Interchain Foundation, its role of the ICF in supporting the growth and development of the Cosmos ecosystem, the early community of validators, and more Gaia genesis files: https://github.com/cosmos/gaia/blob/m... Interchain Foundation medium: https://medium.com/the-interchain-fou... Informal Systems Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/informalinc Informal Systems Website 👉 https://informal.systems/ Informal Systems GitHub 👉 https://github.com/informalsystems Disclaimer: The views expressed in this recording do not necessarily reflect the views of any particular person or organization. No endorsement is intended by the content of this episode. No representations or warranties regarding the completeness, accuracy, applicability or fitness are intended by the content of this episode.

In the first part of a series on Cosmos history, Ethan Buchman shares his incredible journey into the world of cryptocurrency and how he came to know Jae Kwon, Zaki Manian, and the rest of the Proof-of-Stake crew. Discover the groundbreaking moments, challenges, and successes that have shaped Cosmos into what it is today! To learn more about the history of Cosmos, check out this insightful blog post: https://blog.cosmos.network/cosmos-hi... Informal Systems Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/informalinc Informal Systems Website 👉 https://informal.systems/ Informal Systems GitHub 👉 https://github.com/informalsystems Disclaimer: The views expressed in this recording do not necessarily reflect the views of any particular person or organization. No endorsement is intended by the content of this video. No representations or warranties regarding the completeness, accuracy, applicability or fitness are intended by the content of this video.

In this episode, Thyborg, Informal's head of business development, interviews Jehan, product manager of the Cosmos Hub, about the upcoming launch of Replicated Security. 

Igor Konnov is a Principle Scientist at Informal who works on the Apalache model checker. We chat with him about what it's like doing R&D work at Informal, as well as what being a scientist outside of an academic institution is like. 

Soares Chen is a Rust engineer on the ibc-rs team at Informal. He works on improving the Hermes relayer and is interested in functional programming and how money works. 

We sat down with Informal's COO Arianne Flemming to discuss her background in finance, how she pivoted to working in tech, and how she thinks about financing a workers' cooperative in the blockchain space.