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ECOSYSTEMS: The Blockchain That Runs on Gossip: Avalanche Episode 1

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Avalanche says it can finally square the circle: sub‑second finality, a large decentralized validator set, and thousands of sovereign L1s connected through native messaging for shared liquidity.

In the genesis episode of our new ECOSYSTEMS podcast, Camila Russo and guest cohost Luigi D’Onorio DeMeo of Ava Labs unpack the Avalanche story—from Team Rocket’s probabilistic consensus and the stadium sampling intuition, to today’s “city of chains” (C‑Chain liquidity hub, P/X chains, and customizable L1s). We discuss:

  • How random sampling achieves speed and safety/liveness guarantees

  • Customization without fragmentation via inter-chain messaging (ICM)

  • L1 vs L2 trade-offs: shared security vs shared risk, costs, and interoperability

  • Enterprise paths (FIFA, Toyota, fintechs), privacy options, and Ava Cloud’s “L1 in minutes”

  • Decentralization in practice: validator counts, Nakamoto coefficient, and hardware accessibility

  • What real adoption looks like for payments, DeFi, and emerging markets

If Avalanche is right, it has the chance to make finance programmable at scale. If not, we add to the L1 graveyard.

  continue reading

303 episodes

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Avalanche says it can finally square the circle: sub‑second finality, a large decentralized validator set, and thousands of sovereign L1s connected through native messaging for shared liquidity.

In the genesis episode of our new ECOSYSTEMS podcast, Camila Russo and guest cohost Luigi D’Onorio DeMeo of Ava Labs unpack the Avalanche story—from Team Rocket’s probabilistic consensus and the stadium sampling intuition, to today’s “city of chains” (C‑Chain liquidity hub, P/X chains, and customizable L1s). We discuss:

  • How random sampling achieves speed and safety/liveness guarantees

  • Customization without fragmentation via inter-chain messaging (ICM)

  • L1 vs L2 trade-offs: shared security vs shared risk, costs, and interoperability

  • Enterprise paths (FIFA, Toyota, fintechs), privacy options, and Ava Cloud’s “L1 in minutes”

  • Decentralization in practice: validator counts, Nakamoto coefficient, and hardware accessibility

  • What real adoption looks like for payments, DeFi, and emerging markets

If Avalanche is right, it has the chance to make finance programmable at scale. If not, we add to the L1 graveyard.

  continue reading

303 episodes

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