Podcast Episode : Sunny from Osmosis

Speaker 0: Hi. This is the Deco podcast, and I'm your host, Saurabh. Before we begin, views expressed here are personal opinions. None of this is any kind of advice, let alone financial or legal. It's a conversation about things we find interesting.

I'm absolutely thrilled to talk to our guest, Sunny Agarwal. Sunny is a cofounder of Osmosis. He was on Tendermint team that helped create one of the earliest versions of the proof of stake consensus mechanism. He's helped build Cosmos SDK, IBC, and the Cosmos Hub. He's created a company named Sitka that runs validator services for the Cosmos Hub.

He's also an adviser to Kava and Akash Network. It's not very often that I get to talk to people who've worn so many hats. So I'm just gonna try to sit back and learn as much as I can during this conversation. And I hope that you too learn a few things along the way. Like, did I miss out anything out of your introduction?

I mean, it's a long list. I've tried to cover as much as I can, but if I've missed Yeah. No. I think that's right.

Speaker 1: I also helped start this club called Blockchain at Berkeley. That's how I got my original start in crypto. We're still pretty proud of that one just because I think that, you know, I really like the educational resources we put out. But no. Yeah.

I think I think you I think you hit most of them.

Speaker 0: You wanna start there? Blockchain at Berkeley?

Speaker 1: Yeah. Sure. This is, like, years ago. This was, like, you know, when I was just first getting into the space is, like, 20 15, 2016, I get 2015 when I first got into Bitcoin, and then 2016, like, I helped start this club at Berkeley. I was learning Bitcoin stuff myself, but then it's like what happened was, like, me and 2 of my friends at Berkeley, we were like, why is no one else, like, learning about Bitcoin stuff?

This is so the stuff is so interesting. And then we're like, okay. Maybe it's because no one understands how it works. And so we decided to teach a class. And at Berkeley, we had this, like, cool thing where, like, students could teach courses.