We sit down with Ethan Buchman, Co-founder of Cosmos and CEO of Informal Inc, to discuss sovereignty in the personal computing revolution with Celestia labs CEO Mustafa Al-Bassam. Moderated by Ekram Ahmed.
Timestamps 🕐
0:00 Start
0:12 Intro
2:54 The community computer
7:33 Sovereignty in the community computing revolution
11:45 Tensions with the status quo
16:47 Digital colonialism
25:02 Blockchains as top-level social contracts
30:40 Why does web3 drive you?
38:31 Why is privacy a necessity for web3?
44:25 What is a sovereign blockchain?
45:52 What are sovereign rollups?
48:24 Governance with blockchains?
52:57 Difference between sovereign L1 vs sovereign rollup
58:50 The visions of Celestia and Cosmos
1:03:05 Implications of private permissioned chains
1:06:15 Use cases of non-financial applications on blockchains
1:10:30 Integrating communities with Celestia
1:13:00 Frictions that restrict adoption
1:18:25 Closing remarks
1:21:21 End
Ethan Buchman on twitter
Mustafa Al-Bassam on twitter
Resources 📋
What is Celestia? ✨
Celestia is the first modular blockchain network. By decoupling consensus from execution, Celestia enables anyone to easily deploy their own blockchain, without the overhead of bootstrapping a new consensus network. Blockchains on Celestia are free from constraints. They are simultaneously scalable, sovereign and secure. Developers want Celestia over monolithic architectures for more flexibility and the freedom to build on their own terms.