Episode 239: IST and Designing Stablecoins in Cosmos

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) catches up with Zaki Manian (https://twitter.com/zmanian) from Sommelier (https://twitter.com/sommfinance) and Dean Tribble (https://twitter.com/deantribble) from Agoric (https://twitter.com/agoric). They check-in with the latest project news, recap about the UST collapse, and look into IST - Inter Stable Token - a project by the Agoric team that aims to become the Cosmos native multi collateral stablecoin. Here are some links for this episode: * Ep 218: Hardened JS and the Architecture of Agoric with Dean Tribble (https://zeroknowledge.fm/218-2/) * Ep 201: DeFi’s Multichain Future with Zaki Manian from Sommelier (https://zeroknowledge.fm/episode-201-defis-tichain-future-with-zaki-manian-from-sommelier/) * Ep 174: Through the Cosmos Stargate Upgrade (https://zeroknowledge.fm/174-2/) * Ep 108: Catch up with Zaki Manian from Tendermint (https://zeroknowledge.fm/108-2/) * Inter.Trade (https://inter.trade/) * Gaunlet (https://gauntlet.network/) * Agoric (https://agoric.com/) * Agoric Signs on Gauntlet for Inter Protocol Stablecoin Risk Optimization on Cosmos (https://medium.com/gauntlet-networks/agoric-signs-on-gauntlet-for-inter-protocol-stablecoin-risk-optimization-on-cosmos-df1fe738d42f) We're excited to announce ZK Whiteboard Sessions (https://zkhack.dev/whiteboard/) – a weekly educational video series focused on the building blocks of ZK. Produced by ZK Hack (https://zkhack.dev/) and powered by Polygon (https://polygon.technology/). zkSummit 8 (https://www.zksummit.com/) is happening in Berlin on Sept 15th during Berlin Blockchain Week! Apply to attend: https://www.zksummit.com/ (https://www.zksummit.com/) Today’s episode is sponsored by Aleo (https://www.aleo.org/). Aleo is a new Layer-1 blockchain – if you’re building private applications then check out Aleo’s programming language called Leo which enables non-cryptographers to harness the power of ZKPs. Visit leo-lang.org (https://leo-lang.org/) to start building. You can also participate in Aleo’s incentivized testnet 3 by downloading and running a snarkOS node. No sign-up is necessary to participate. For questions, join their Discord at aleo.org/discord (https://discord.com/invite/aleohq) If you like what we do: * Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree (https://linktr.ee/zeroknowledge) * Subscribe to our podcast newsletter (https://zeroknowledge.substack.com) * Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) * Join us on Telegram (https://zeroknowledge.fm/telegram) * Catch us on Youtube (https://zeroknowledge.fm/) * Head to the ZK Community Forum (https://community.zeroknowledge.fm/) * Support our Gitcoin Grant (https://zeroknowledge.fm/gitcoin-grant-329-zkp-2)