The Multi-Interchain World with Osmosis
Sunny Aggarwal, co-founder of Osmosis and early contributor to Cosmos, shares his journey from UC Berkeley student to blockchain builder. He recalls discovering Bitcoin through a small campus club and eventually teaching a student-led course to help others learn. That hands-on experience led him to intern at ConsenSys and later join the Tendermint team, where he fell in love with the protocol layer. Faced with a choice between school and DevCon, Sunny made the leap of dropping out to build full-time.
The conversation dives into Cosmos’ vision, i.e., a network of sovereign blockchains connected through IBC. Sunny breaks down the stack—Tendermint for consensus, Cosmos SDK for chain-building, and IBC for interoperability. Osmosis was built to showcase this new paradigm, enabling seamless cross-chain token swaps. He also touches on NFTs, the future of coding, and why community is the real value of college.
In this podcast episode, Sunny Aggarwal, discusses how he got into the blockchain field and how Cosmos is taking a different direction from other networks. Instead of every application running on one blockchain, there can be many different chains that have sovereignty over themselves but can still connect and talk to each other. Osmosis is one of the first big users of the IBC protocol that allows chains to talk to each other.
What is Osmosis?
Osmosis is an advanced AMM protocol built using the Cosmos SDK that will allow developers to design, build, and deploy their own customized AMMs. Heterogeneity and sovereignty are two core tenets of the Cosmos ecosystem, and Osmosis takes these two values and extends them into core characteristics of this AMM protocol.
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