Agoric: The Blockchain for Developer Mass Onboarding

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Claims that JavaScript opens crypto to ~17 million developers and shows concrete progress: a Cosmos SDK proof‑of‑stake chain with Tendermint consensus, an Agoric JavaScript VM, the Zoe smart contract platform for offer safety, and an interprotocol stable token (IST). Live engineering details: release candidate Pismo (bc-883b) running on devnet, multiple testnets, performance profiling, weeks of functional and adversarial security testing, and workshops. Early deployables include vault/CDP Legos, liquid staking, NFT creator/lending, and a cross‑chain Calypso dashboard.

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1. 0:00Agoric introduction
2. 2:50JavaScript for smart contracts
3. 5:44Hardened JavaScript platform
4. 7:53JavaScript-based DeFi Legos
5. 9:20Liquid staking tools
6. 11:28Workshops and community
7. 12:32Mainnet release details
8. 14:36Engineering and testing
9. 17:48Launch timeline
10. 19:11Inter Protocol summary

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