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Digital Ownership, First Principles and Arcane Dark Arts with Barry Plunkett

Author
serejandmyself
Published
Thu 19 Jun 2025
Episode Link
https://www.citizenweb3.com/barryplunkett

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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