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

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19 June 2025

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About this Episode

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

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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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