Checkpoint Chat is an invitation to an all new gaming conversation. Hosted by seasoned writers Alessandro Barbosa (Gamespot, Critical Hit) and Matthew Figueira (Critical Hit), indulge yourself in discussion about games being played right now, weekly news and conversations with you, a listener.
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This is a show about videogames, The people who play them and the people who make them. Each week, a guest on the show talks about the games that have shaped their life in one way or another. Games that have inspired them, games that forged connections with others and games that have soothed wounds. Checkpoints!
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Whether you run, jump, cycle, swim or climb, listen in each fortnight as your hosts Mark Agnew and Mary Hui chat with key figures in trail running and adventure sports about the big issues they are facing. Brought to you by the South China Morning Post.
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Interchain.FM is the Cosmos Radio Station which shines a light on the protocols that solve the hardest problems in Web3. It's a technical podcast that uncovers the vibrant world of bleeding edge technology built in the pursuit of anti-censorship, freedom, and preserving the privacy of the sovereign individual. Become an Interchain.FM🥩 staker on Osmosis, Comdex, and Umee!
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It's preview central this week on Checkpoint Chat! Join us for early impressions of No Rest for the Wicked, Hades II, and, just for good measure, an almost-review of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.Follow Checkpoint Chat on...Twitter: https://twitter.com/CheckpointChatFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CheckpointChatInstagram: https://www.instagram.com…
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Checkpoint Chat is back after a whirlwind month, but we've brought with us a lot of games including the gigantic Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth, the ridiculously addictive Balatro, and the simple yet elegant Princess Peach: Showtime!Follow Checkpoint Chat on...Twitter: https://twitter.com/CheckpointChatFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CheckpointChatI…
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Babylon: Bitcoin Staking, 45 Cosmos Chains to Checkpoint to BTC
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Babylon Pt. 1: https://www.youtube.com/live/Zfs-RE1jUPk Updates since our last ep: timestamping testnet has 45 cosmos chains bitcoin staking, babylon's brainchild partnering with cosmos hub btc staking testnet launched with 100k nft minted for the first 100 stakers in 48 hours Guest: David TseBy Chjango Unchained
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Google Whistleblower: Climate Change is Caused by the Sun!
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The true cause of climate change, as it turns out, is not anthropogenic; it's cyclical. Zach Vorhies, the Google Whistleblower, who blew the whistle on Google's machine learning fairness algorithm in 2018 on Project Veritas, comes to Interchain.FM to discuss current events. Chjango Unchained interviews him about the Israel-Palestine conflict and wh…
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Neon EVM & deBridge - The First EVM on Solana Makes TXs Fast and Cheap $NEON
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Ethereum may not always be around but the EVM is forever. Neon EVM runs on Solana, inheriting Solana's lightning fast tx speeds and low gas costs. After having integrated with deBridge, it's now interoperable with the rest of the EVM ecosystem on the Ethereum side. We break down the precise mechanics behind the tech that enables this and address th…
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$50B Omnichain Interoperability Protocol Eyes Cosmos, LayerZero Enters the Chat $ZRO
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Bryan Pelligrino joins Interchain.FM to hint about LayerZero's plans to expand support for the Cosmos ecosystem. One of the largest bridging protocols by volume, LayerZero has amassed over $50Bn in tx volume last year alone with $200-300Mn in gas spent across all chains. LayerZero currently powers Stargate, Aptos bridge, BTC.b, DefiKingdoms, Radian…
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Asteroid - Inscriptions Take Over Cosmos Hub $ROIDS | Interchain.FM
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Asteroids hit the Cosmos Hub and spur an explosion event of mass inscriptions. But what are inscriptions and why are they so frothy? Some even say $ROIDS will flippen $ATOM! Will it? 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► App: asteroidprotocol.io #asteroidprotocol #blockchaintech #technews #web3news #interchainfm #cryptocurrency #cryptopodcasts #cosmoscrypto #inscript…
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We're back for a big blowout of recent game releases, taking a look at the incredible Helldivers 2, Tekken 8, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Ultros, and even a little sneaky Bloodborne.Follow Checkpoint Chat on...Twitter: https://twitter.com/CheckpointChatFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CheckpointChatInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/check…
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Celestia Liquid Staking, milkTIA, Goes Live on Osmosis Supercharged Liquidity Pool
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Milky Way is the first liquid staking protocol for TIA, milkTIA. And it's live on the Cosmos DeFi Hub, Osmosis exchange. #blockchaintech #technews #web3news #interchainfm #cryptocurrency #cryptopodcasts #liquidstaking 💟 SUPPORT iFM If you'd like to support our work, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing to Chjango Unchained's YouTube …
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Did the Celestia Mainnet Launch Just End the Era of Monolithic L1s?
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Celestia pioneered the modular stack, an upgrade of the monolithic stack. With 700 rollups about to be deployed on top of Celestia, will web3 live up to the promise of scaling to support hundreds of millions of new users? 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► Specs: https://github.com/celestiaorg/celest... ► Website: https://celestia.org ► GitHub: https://github.com/…
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Nomic: Bridge Bitcoin in or out of Cosmos without a CEX | Interchain.FM
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A critical onramp for DeFi just arrived. After there was Thorchain, there is Nomic. Now you can onramp directly into Cosmos DeFi by bridging in from Bitcoin, all without needing a CEX! 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► App: https://nomic.io Matt Bell: @mappum on twitter #interchainjam #blockchaintech #technews #web3news #interchainfm #cryptocurrency #cryptopodcas…
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This week on Checkpoint Chat, we check out the other big Sony roguelite in God of War Valhalla, take a look at the origins of Alan Wake 2 and Control through the lens of the underrated Quantum Break, and we have a big announcement for the future of the show. Follow Checkpoint Chat on... Twitter: https://twitter.com/CheckpointChat Facebook: https:…
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Alex Tapscott's Web3 Book Onboards Newbies to the Web 3.0 Frontier
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In Web3, award-winning author and technology investor Alex Tapscott provides a cutting-edge guide to the Internet’s next era. Covering everything from the metaverse and non-fungible tokens to DAOs, decentralized finance, and self-sovereign identity, this indispensable, forward-thinking book describes the building blocks and often hidden technologie…
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This week on Checkpoint Chat, we journey to lush space jungles in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, avoid deadly Clickers in The Last of Us Part II Remastered's new No Return roguelite mode, and ponder the possibility of Elden Ring's DLC being out within the next month.Follow Checkpoint Chat on...Twitter: https://twitter.com/CheckpointChatFacebook: h…
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This is how AI and blockchains will actually interact. It's not how you think | Interchain.FM
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This is a look into how engineers from web 2.0 are developing infrastructure to parse vast "lakes" of onchain data. With the help of AI, cross-chain communication protocols, and access to nodes storing and serving that data, will web 3.0 soon get its very own Google to index and parse this new "digital crypto ocean?" #blockchaintech #technews #web3…
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This week on Checkpoint Chat's first episode in 2024, Matty and Sandy gush over Alan Wake 2 having finished it over the break, before diving into the year's first standout surprise, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown.Follow Checkpoint Chat on...Twitter: https://twitter.com/CheckpointChatFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CheckpointChatInstagram: ht…
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IBC Moves to Unlock Binance's $2.6 Billion Onchain TVL to Cosmos | Manifest Destiny IBC
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Binance Smart Chain is the most recent blockchain to be unlocked with IBC. In total, $29+ billion has moved over IBC. With BSC joining the IBC Manifest Destiny, will Cosmos see the $2.6+ billion TVL flood into its ecosystem? #interchainjam #blockchaintech #technews #web3news #interchainfm #cryptocurrency #cryptopodcasts #binance 💟 SUPPORT iFM If yo…
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Metamask Snaps unlocks Cosmos Ecosystem to 30M+ new users?!
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✨About Cosmos Metamask Snaps ✨ Cosmos Snap for MetaMask will allow independent developers to build a feature for MetaMask, lower the barriers to entry for collaboration and integration, and move us one step closer to an interoperable future. MetaMask is enabling its 30 million+ wallet users to seamlessly and securely connect to the Cosmos ecosystem…
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As blockchains lean into modularity, are we also leaning into re-centralization?
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✨About Mantle ✨ Mantle is a modular layer 2 scaling solution built on top of Ethereum using Eigenlayer for data availability (DA), EigenDA. It's an Optimism fork and thus is EVM-compatible and running the OVM. #blockchaintech #technews #web3news #interchainfm #cryptocurrency #cryptopodcasts #ethereum #eigenlayer #cosmosnetwork #celestia 💟 SUPPORT i…
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Risc Zero Seeks to Scale Decentralized Computing for Modular Architectures through zk
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✨About Risc Zero ✨ Risc Zero is a computational platform that brings the power of zero knowledge (zk) primitives to any onchain or offchain network. Applications using Risc Zero can range from onchain orderbooks, gamefi, RWAs, and any onchain application that needs higher throughput without the cost. They're developing the zkVM, a generalized virtu…
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I recorded this episode with Hyperlane's founder for Sovereign Radio and subsequently reposting it to my own channels. Hyperlane is an interoperability protocol and an alternative to IBC. This conversation just barely scratches the surface about Hyperlane and is in fact not about Hyperlane at all. More important than the technicals, we articulate w…
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Espresso - decentralized shared sequencer for Ethereum rollups
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✨About Espresso ✨ The Espresso Sequencer supports the decentralization of L2s. It handles the decentralized sequencing and data availability of rollup transactions, functioning as middleware between rollups and their underlying layer-1 (L1) platforms. Guest: Jill Gunter (formerly Jill Carlson) #blockchaintech #web3 #interchainfm #cryptocurrency #cr…
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Levana Finance Pt. 2 - Trade Perpetuals on Osmosis, Neutron, Sei, Injective
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✨About Levana✨ Levana builds innovative decentralized finance solutions designed to make leverage trading accessible to everyone. Levana stands for LEV-erage AN-y A-sset. Their perpetuals product is now live on Osmosis. The most recent appchain that they added support for is Sei. In this episode, you'll get a live demo of the working product! Don't…
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Wormhole Gateway - New Portal to the Interchain Unlocked
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✨About Wormhole Gateway✨ Wormhole Gateway is an application-specific blockchain built with the Cosmos SDK, purpose-built for the Cosmos ecosystem with seamless composability with the Wormhole stack. It will allow fungible assets to be transferred across the Interchain via IBC. #interchainjam #blockchaintech #technews #web3news #interchainfm #crypto…
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Catalyst AMM - Cross-chain AMM built for the modular future
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✨About Catalyst ✨ Catalyst is the permissionless cross-chain Automated Market Maker (AMM) for the modular future. It enables easy liquidity connections and asset swaps between different blockchains, such as Ethereum, Cosmos, and rollups like Optimism and Eclipse. The goal of Catalyst is to create an interconnected ecosystem where users can effortle…
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How Akash Skynet will unleash an AI future no one is prepared for
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✨About Akash AI Supercloud ✨ There is no denying the state of the world we live in. Just as the success of the Manhattan Project transitioned the old world into the new with the atomic bomb, AI is similarly shifting our's out of the Information Age into the AI Age. One has to wonder what this means for humanity and where blockchain technology fits …
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Episode 244 - Game Of The Year 2023
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It's been a fantastic year for video games, but which ones have made the top five lists for both Matthew and Sandy? Which ones have been snubbed, and which do you think were overhyped? We've checked out some of your GOTY lists too to find out!Follow Checkpoint Chat on...Twitter: https://twitter.com/CheckpointChatFacebook: https://www.facebook.com…
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Centauri - The first IBC connection made outside of the Cosmos ecosystem
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✨About Centauri ✨ Centauri is an extension of the IBC protocol that facilitates trust-minimized cross-ecosystem communication among various blockchains; it already connects Polkadot, Kusama, and Cosmos, with plans for expansion to Ethereum, NEAR, and other ecosystems. Centauri expands the existing IBC beyond Cosmos appchains for the first time. Sim…
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Episode 243 - The Game Awards 2023 Predictions
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Award season is back! This week on Checkpoint Chat, we look into our crystal balls to offer (hopefully) accurate predictions on this year's The Game Awards. Who will come out on top between Alan Wake 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Resident Evil 4, Spider-Man 2, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and many, many more?Follow Che…
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Duality - 2nd Chain to Launch on Replicated Security to Join Atom Economic Zone
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✨About Duality ✨ The vision for Duality is to take a major step towards building efficient and incentive-aligned markets that realize the original vision of decentralized finance: open and fair finance without middlemen. To do so requires full-stack control: custom logic for transaction inclusion and ordering, reduced block times to improve UX, mod…
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Episode 242 - Bottomless Bacon Milkshakes
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This week on Checkpoint Chat is chockfull of games as we uncover disappointment in Modern Warfare III, thick atmosphere in Alan Wake 2, more distractions in Tears of the Kingdom, and undiluted joy in Super Mario Bros. Wonder! Follow Checkpoint Chat on... Twitter: https://twitter.com/CheckpointChatFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CheckpointChatI…
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Urbit-pilling Cosmonauts: How Osmosis will act as the gateway to the Decentralized Web
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✨About Urbit ✨ Urbit is a next generation operating system (OS) for the decentralized web. It's a fully vertically integrated stack that includes a decentralized ID layer, an OS, a fully fungible frontend that anyone can spin up, and much more. If you're interested in learning about what's in store for the dWeb, then don't miss this show. Guests: J…
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How Comdex plans to go Interchain Security
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✨About Comdex ✨ Comdex is a commodities DEX that has built a vertically integrated interchain DeFi UX. It's an Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC)-enabled Cosmos appchain with a native staking token, $CMDX. In this episode, we interview Siddarth Patil about the latest developments since our first episode (linked below). Chjango Unchained presents …
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This week on Checkpoint Chat, we've finally wrapped up Spider-Man 2 so enjoy a deep, spoiler-riddled dive into one of this years biggest games. Elsewhere, Grand Theft Auto 6 is about to be announced, and Modern Warfare III cut corners where?Follow Checkpoint Chat on...Twitter: https://twitter.com/CheckpointChatFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/C…
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Shade Protocol - ShadeSwap, $SILK stablecoin & asymmetric liquidity
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✨About Shade Protocol ✨ Shade protocol operates a DEX, ShadeSwap, on Secret Network. One of its killer features is asymmetric liquidity. Its multi-collateral backed reflexive stablecoin, SILK, is pegged to a basket of global currencies and commodities. You'll learn about how Shade utilizes Secret Network's secure enclaves to shield transactions and…
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This week on Checkpoint Chat, we've finally finished Ghostrunner 2, and Spider-Man 2 continues to keep us entertained. What's up with all that Bungie drama though?Follow Checkpoint Chat on...Twitter: https://twitter.com/CheckpointChatFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CheckpointChatInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/checkpointchatYouTube: https…
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This week on Checkpoint Chat, the splendor of Super Mario Bros. Wonder still has us enthralled, while the precise action of Ghostrunner II has our blood pumping. Neither of them has durians so are they even that good?Follow Checkpoint Chat on...Twitter: https://twitter.com/CheckpointChatFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CheckpointChatInstagram: …
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Evolution of incentivized testnets, from Proof of Stake to NFTs
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✨About Game of NFTs ✨ GoN centers around testing the functionality of performing cross-chain transfers of NFTs across the Cosmos ecosystem. In having Interchain NFTs, it potentially opens up a world of novel use cases that may evolve into real-world applicability. But is the ability to move NFTs across blockchains a necessary standard, or is the fu…
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Stride - Liquid Staking Derivatives (LSD) for Cosmos Appchains
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✨About Stride ✨ Stride is a first-mover in the LSD sector of the Interchain. It lets you stake your Cosmos tokens (e.g. ATOM) through Stride's platform which will then allow you to mint a requisite staked derivative (e.g. stATOM) that you could use for DeFi. If you've been wondering why the $STRD has gone on a rip, it's because it's the LidoDAO or …
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This week on Checkpoint Chat, two of the biggest games of the year have stolen our attention as we share impressions of both Spider-Man 2 and Super Mario Bros. Wonder. We also hope you enjoy some in-person blinds action. Follow Checkpoint Chat on... Twitter: https://twitter.com/CheckpointChat Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CheckpointChat Inst…
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PolymerDAO - How the IBC Standard Will be Exported to non-Cosmos Chains
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✨About PolymerDAO ✨ Polymer is a hub chain that converts non-Cosmos chains into single-slot finality Tendermint BFT-speak in order to make them IBC-compatible. In effect, it acts as an IBC bridge between the EVM and IBC ecosystems while cementing IBC as de facto message passing protocol. Where if they succeed, Polymer may help to usher in IBC as th…
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This week on Checkpoint Chat, Sandy and Matty delve into another 2023 indie darling as the pair gush over Cocoon. Elsewhere, Matty has finished and enjoyed Assassin's Creed Mirage, while Sandy is just starting out and having some difficulty with it. Follow Checkpoint Chat on...Twitter: https://twitter.com/CheckpointChatFacebook: https://www.faceb…
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✨About ZetaChain ✨ ZetaChain is a Cosmos-SDK PoS chain that aggregates the state of all of its supported chains like Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ethereum, Eth L2s, Solana, Terra, and Algorand. It's a smart contract-enabled chain that does wrapping and unwrapping of tokens similarly to wrapped BTC or tBTC to allow for bridge-less trading of wrapped tokens ac…
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This week on Checkpoint Chat, Sandy and Matty revisit their thoughts on Forza Motorsport and Assassin's Creed Mirage respectively, while also checking-in again on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Mortal Kombat 1. Follow Checkpoint Chat on... Twitter: https://twitter.com/CheckpointChatFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CheckpointChatI…
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Bonus Episode - Assassin's Creed Mirage & Forza Motorsport Reviews
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On this bonus episode of Checkpoint Chat, Matty explores the origins of Basim and the shift back to basics in Assassin's Creed Mirage, while Alessandro hits the tarmac in one of the most exhilarating racing games in some time with Forza Motorsport. Follow Checkpoint Chat on... Twitter: https://twitter.com/CheckpointChatFacebook: https://www.fa…
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USDC Cosmos Hub Interchain Security launch postponed amidst new Noble chain direction
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✨About Noble ✨ Noble is an asset issuance Proof-of-Authority special-purpose chain for the minting/burning of Circle's USDC. It is intended for injecting native USDC liquidity directly into the IBC ecosystem without the latter relying on EVM bridges to import with. 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► TWITTER: @noble_xyz ► WEB: nobleassets.xyz 💟 SUPPORT iFM If you e…
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Episode 235 - Transformer Procreation
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This week on Checkpoint Chat, the avalanche of games is just getting started as we wrap up thoughts on Starfield, Mortal Kombat 1, El Paso, Elsewhere, and Monster Hunter Now before the party on October.Follow Checkpoint Chat on...Twitter: https://twitter.com/CheckpointChatFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CheckpointChatInstagram: https://www.ins…
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Interchain Jam - 2 years, 274 appchains, $178B AUM later, Cosmos IBC turns 2!
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Interchain Jam is the latest segment brought to you by Cosmos and hosted by Chjango Unchained to distill the rapidly expanding Cosmos ecosystem down into pure signal. It will be a segment that augments the current Cosmos Radio Station, Interchain.FM, starting in April 2023. In this inaugural episode, we will be bringing on the builders who were int…
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This week on Checkpoint Chat, khaos ensues as the kombatants of Mortal Kombat 1 reconvene for another outlandish tale, Cyberpunk 2077 and its 2.0 update make a strong first impression, and Microsoft is planning what for their next console?Follow Checkpoint Chat on...Twitter: https://twitter.com/CheckpointChatFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Che…
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Haseeb Qureshi, Emin Gun Sirer, Chjango Unchained: Will Crypto Survive or will AI eat its lunch?
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I sat down with Haseeb Qureshi, MP of Dragonfly Capital, and Emin Gun Sirer, Co-founder of Avalanche, to discuss crypto macro. We ran through a wide range of discussions covering regulations in the US, China, Singapore, HK, and the Middle East before moving on to speculate what will ultimately happen to SBF and Do Kwon. We go in-depth about Balaji'…
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