Federico Kunze Küllmer is a Co-Founder of Evmos, an EVM stack designed for seamless cross-chain dApp development that leverages the Inter-Blockchain Communications (IBC) protocol. This latest effort is part of his multi-year work building the foundations of the Internet of Blockchains, a new and hyper-scalable paradigm that sees blockchains as independent projects to be connected in a web. Fede has been a core contributor to a number of Cosmos projects including Tendermint, the Cosmos SDK, IBC, Gravity Bridge and Sommelier and has been building in the blockchain space since 2017 when he was an exchange student at UC Berkeley, where he joined Blockchain at Berkeley.
What is Evmos? And what is the Evmos airdrop called "rektdrop" all about? This is what we will discuss with Evmos Co-Founder Federico Kunze Küllmer in today's episode of "This Week In Cosmos".
Leveraging the Cosmos SDK, Evmos is the first IBC-compatible EVM-based blockchain, bringing composability, interoperability, and fast finality to Ethereum. While much of the Cosmos ecosystem has embraced CosmWasm to deploy smart contracts, Evmos brings EVM capabilities to the Interchain and allows developers to write contracts in Solidity, the most widely used language in crypto. While the Evmos launch was halted in early March due to a critical vulnerability and a failed chain upgrade, the project is highly anticipated by the Cosmos community as it promises to bring speed, scale, and interoperability to Ethereum. This week, Sebastien was joined by the co-founder of Evmos, Federico Kunze Küllmer, to chat about the innovation that Evmos is bringing to the EVM ecosystem and the long-term vision for the project. This episode is an excerpt of an extended interview with Federico released on The Interop, a new podcast hosted by Sebastien Couture.
Evmos is a decentralized proof of stake blockchain in the Cosmos ecosystem, that is also Ethere differentiates Evum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible. Evmos’ goal is to bring the world of Ethereum-based applications and assets to the Cosmos ecosystem. In this episode, we talk to Federico, co-founder of Evmos, about whatmos from other chains, its ambitions and much more.