Will Cosmos or Ethereum Win the Modularity War? | GG Research | EP 19

Imran and Qiao bring on Mohamed and Dmitriy to dive deep into the ongoing battle for modularity supremacy between Cosmos and Ethereum. 

No BS crypto insight for founders.

Timestamps
(00:00) Intro
(00:59) Welcome to Good Game
(01:23) Dmitriy’s background
(02:57) The modular thesis
(08:23) What does consensus mean in Ethereum
(11:15) Data Availability: What does it mean for founders?
(20:40) The current landscape for rollups
(24:30) What is L3 and why would a developer do an L3 instead of L2 appchain?
(30:15) Defining "Atomic Composability" in the context of rollups
(32:55) Shared Sequencers: What problems is it trying to solve and how does it solve them?
(40:33) Is atomic composability possible using shared sequencers?
(45:56) The future of cross-rollup bridges
(52:45) Who is running the decentralized sequencers within Astria and Espresso and how does it work?
(56:12) Dmitriy’s POV on Cosmos
(1:01:22) What pushed DyDx to do their own Cosmos chain
(1:07:23) Zaki’s tweet about Cosmos’ social capital
(1:08:33) Is Cosmos the inventor of modular architecture?
(1:10:28) Interchain vs Mesh security
(1:13:13) What is the Cosmos Hub’s role in the Cosmos ecosystem?
(1:14:05) Qiao: It’s too early to say that Cosmos is out of the question in terms of gaming
(1:16:16) The World Engine by Argus Labs
(1:17:49) Cosmos: Bullish, bearish, or neutral?
(1:19:45) Qiao’s counterargument to the bearishness toward Cosmos
(1:23:01) The differences between Ethereum and Cosmos
(1:26:18) Can Cosmos and Ethereum coexist?

The World Engine by Agus Labs: https://twitter.com/ArgusLabs_/status/1663261248119767040

Mohamed Twitter: https://twitter.com/MohamedFFouda
Dmitriy Twitter: https://twitter.com/dberenzon

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