Sunny Aggarwal: Osmosis – The AMM Protocol Built for Liquidity Providers #400
Channel: Epicenter Podcast
Date: 2021-07-17

Recently launched Osmosis is a Cosmos based and IBC enabled AMM protocol that allows for a high level of customization by liquidity providers. As the main dex on the Cosmos network, Osmosis provides liquidity for IBC-enabled Cosmos assets like AKT and ATOM for the first time.

Head of the Osmosis development team, Sunny Aggarwal, joined us for a chat about why the protocol was built and the problem it solves, the wider Cosmos ecosystem, and the roadmap for the protocol.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- Why the Osmosis project was built
- How Osmosis works on Cosmos
- What is IBC?
- What the ecosystem looks like
- What the AMM landscape looks like on Cosmos
- What the roadmap of Osmosis looks like
- The Gravity Bridge
- How was the chain bootstrapped?
- What is the ION?
- The Osmosis community

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Osmosis: https://bit.ly/3wJBdna
- Cosmos: bit.ly/2iVTXvp
- Osmosis on Medium: https://bit.ly/3eqDxJA
- Osmosis on Twitter: https://bit.ly/2URikkU
- Sunny on Twitter: http://bit.ly/2YNhIdU

Sponsors: 
- Solana: Solana is the high performance blockchain supporting over 50k transactions per second to power the next generation of decentralized applications. - https://solana.com/epicenter

This episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst & Zubin Koticha. Show notes and listening options: https://epicenter.tv/400