We sit down with Arjun Bhuptani and James Prestwich, founder of Connext and engineer at Nomad respectively, to discuss bridging in the multi-chain ecosystem, modular interoperability, and security assumptions with Celestia labs team members Mustafa Al-Bassam and John Adler. Moderated by Ekram Ahmed.
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0:00 Start
0:15 Introduction of speakers
5:20 Modular interoperability
10:44 Swaps and lock & mint bridges
17:23 Introduction of James
18:40 Multi-chain systems
23:15 Why modularity has emerged as a design principle
33:06 Clusters and bridging trust assumptions
40:43 Bridging security
51:08 Specifics of bridging between different chains
1:01:00 Optimistic bridging with Nomad and Connext
1:06:53 Liquidity fragmentation in a multi-chain ecosystem
1:12:30 Slashing mechanics on Celestia
1:19:33 Security considerations for celestiums
1:26:04 Multi-chain arbitrage and MEV
1:32:12 Closing thoughts
1:34:59 End
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