#382: Sunny Aggarwal, Co-Founder of Osmosis, on The Cosmos Ecosystem, Bitcoin Based DeFi, and The Future of Decentralized Exchanges


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Oct 28 2024 37 mins   2

Sunny Aggarwal is the Co-Founder of Osmosis, the premier DEX and DeFi hub for the Cosmos ecosystem and beyond. To date, the Osmosis DEX has facilitated over $35 Billion in trading volume, and more than 100 separate blockchains have connected to the Osmosis blockchain. At Tendermint, Sunny served as a Core Developer of the Cosmos SDK and contributed to the development and launch of Cosmos and IBC. Sunny then decided to build on top of the foundation he had developed at Tendermint and co-founded Osmosis to develop an appchain and DEX that rivals even the most robust centralized exchanges.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Present day and future of the Cosmos ecosystem
- Bitcoinization of the Cosmos eco
- How Cosmos is uniquely positioned to serve as the application layer for Bitcoin
- Facilitating over $35B in trading volume to date
- Alloyed Assets: Osmosis’s solution for improving UX and reducing liquidity fragmentation
- Smart Accounts + 1-Click Trading, Spurring Adoption via UX Improvements
- The backstory behind Cosmos
- Bitcoin-based DeFi
- Proof of Stake
- Bringing privacy to a DEX
- Polaris

Osmosis
Website: osmosis.zone
X: @osmosiszone
Telegram: t.me/osmosis_chat

Sunny Aggarwal
X: @sunnya97
LinkedIn: Sunny Aggarwal

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