This week we catch up with Zaki Manian, Director at Tendermint), the company building Cosmos) architecture, and co-founder of Iqlusion) Validator. We chat about the blockchain in Silicon Valley, why SF loves DeFi, the challenge of balancing pragmatism and regulation with a decentralised ideology, the nuances of PoS systems, the wins of 2019 and what is on the horizon.
Here are links to a few things we discuss:
-Tarun Chitra's paper) on how the existance of derivatives can undermine the security of a PoS system
-Blog post summarizing Tarun's paper here)
-ZKValidator)
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