
Will Cosmos or Ethereum Win the Modularity War? | GG Research | EP 19
About this episode
Imran and Qiao bring on Mohamed and Dmitriy to dive deep into the ongoing battle for modularity supremacy between Cosmos and Ethereum.
No BS crypto insight for founders.
Timestamps
(00:00) Intro
(00:59) Welcome to Good Game
(01:23) Dmitriy’s background
(02:57) The modular thesis
(08:23) What does consensus mean in Ethereum
(11:15) Data Availability: What does it mean for founders?
(20:40) The current landscape for rollups
(24:30) What is L3 and why would a developer do an L3 instead of L2 appchain?
(30:15) Defining "Atomic Composability" in the context of rollups
(32:55) Shared Sequencers: What problems is it trying to solve and how does it solve them?
(40:33) Is atomic composability possible using shared sequencers?
(45:56) The future of cross-rollup bridges
(52:45) Who is running the decentralized sequencers within Astria and Espresso and how does it work?
(56:12) Dmitriy’s POV on Cosmos
(1:01:22) What pushed DyDx to do their own Cosmos chain
(1:07:23) Zaki’s tweet about Cosmos’ social capital
(1:08:33) Is Cosmos the inventor of modular architecture?
(1:10:28) Interchain vs Mesh security
(1:13:13) What is the Cosmos Hub’s role in the Cosmos ecosystem?
(1:14:05) Qiao: It’s too early to say that Cosmos is out of the question in terms of gaming
(1:16:16) The World Engine by Argus Labs
(1:17:49) Cosmos: Bullish, bearish, or neutral?
(1:19:45) Qiao’s counterargument to the bearishness toward Cosmos
(1:23:01) The differences between Ethereum and Cosmos
(1:26:18) Can Cosmos and Ethereum coexist?
The World Engine by Agus Labs: https://twitter.com/ArgusLabs_/status/1663261248119767040
Mohamed Twitter: https://twitter.com/MohamedFFouda
Dmitriy Twitter: https://twitter.com/dberenzon
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