This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Barry Plunkett from Skip Protocol

Barry Plunkett, advocates for reclaiming digital ownership and identity from big tech through first-principles thinking and decentralized systems. He sees Cosmos as a platform offering infinite ways to solve problems, where technology, community, and values-aligned tokens converge to reshape the digital future.

Skip Protocol is a Cosmos-based infrastructure platform that helps blockchains and validators capture and distribute MEV through tools like sealed-bid auctions and block SDKs. Its mission is to democratize MEV while protecting users from harmful practices like frontrunning.

We spoke to Barry Plunkett about Skip Protocol and:

• Try to always think from first principles


• Data and our identities are in the custody by big tech


• Taking back digital ownership rights


• Communication is infinite


• Cosmos gives an infinite number of ways to solve problems


• Taking back digital property rights


• Gun to my head, I'm probably picking the community


• Arcane dark art


• We just want to crush the narrative


• Token that aligns with the technology platform and values of the ecosystem

Timestamps

00:00 – 10:32 : Intro

10:32 -- 20:10 : Coming to realization

20:10 -- 27:30 : Deleting others

27:30 -- 38:31 : Decentralized world

38:31 -- 41:40 : Developers or a large community

41:40 -- 50:30 : Things from the Cosmos

50:30 -- 55:20 : Education and leading by example

55:20 – 01:07:06 : The Blitz

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Special Guest: Barry Plunkett.

Links:

• Amazon
• Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman
• Apple
• Aragon chain
• Avalanche
• Base
• Binance
• Cardano
• Celestia
• Chorus One
• Circle
• Coinbase
• Cosmos
• Dee Hawk
• Do Kwon
• Ethereum
• Frank Slootman
• George Carlin
• Jeff Bezos
• Julia
• Linux
• Microsoft
• Near
• Nigeria
• One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization by Dee Hock
• Philippines
• Polkadot
• P2P
• Rust
• Silicon Valley
• Solana
• Stake Fish
• Tendermint
• Terra
• Washington DC