An Interview with the Founders of Omnia Protocol

In this episode, the yWhales team speaks with Cristian Lupascu, Co-Founder and CEO at Omnia, and Alexandru Lupascu, Co-Founder and CTO at Omnia. Omnia is a decentralized infrastructure protocol for securely accessing the blockchain so that no single point of failure will ever disrupt blockchain applications or wallets integrating with it. Focused on off-chain privacy and managing access at each phase of the interaction with the blockchain, Omnia allows individuals to anonymously trade, swap, and transact assets on the blockchain by incentivizing nodes.

 

About Guests

Cristian Lupascu is the Co-Founder and CEO at Omnia and his twin brother Alexandru Lupascu is the Co-Founder and CTO. Their experience in cryptography and DeFi spans over a decade. With a specialized military background in cyber security and national defense, Cristian went on to obtain a Ph.D. in Cryptography and Alexandru completed a Masters of Business. In 2016, their interests led them to learn more about the technical side of blockchain. They began investing in Web3 and through their own experiences discovered two specific gaps in cryptography: the lack of privacy when interacting with the blockchain and the centralization of access points. Cristian and Alexandru then founded Omnia in 2021 to provide state-of-the-art privacy solutions for users.

 

You’ll learn about:

• Cristian and Alexandru’s Web3 journey.
• On-and-off-chain privacy and why the brothers founded Omnia.
• What Omnia is and how it works.
• Mixnet technology and how the RPC works
• How Omnia is funded and staking to join
• Business Strategy: Closing the gap in privacy 
• The impact of the Web3 community
• The future of Omnia and exciting projects coming up

 

Resources: 

Connect with Cristian Lupascu: LinkedIn

Connect with Alexandru Lupascu: LinkedIn

Connect with Omnia: Twitter | LinkedIn | Medium | Telegram | GitHub

Connect with YWhales: Website | BitClout | Twitter

 

Timestamps

[01:43] Cristian’s Web3 journey

[03:52] Alexandru’s Web3 journey

[06:01] On-and-off-chain privacy

[06:52] What was the catalyst for Omnia?

[08:00] What is Omnia?

[10:28] How does Omnia work?

[12:42] The different protocol layers

[15:53] The Mixnet technology

[18:10] Demo

[20:47] How does the RPC work?

[26:12] How do you achieve scalability?

[29:55] Funding

[31:24] Staking to join

[34:16] Closing the gap in privacy

[36:24] Business strategy on customer adoption

[40:13] The number of servers and nodes

[46:06] Layman’s terms of Omnia

[48:10] Omnia’s features

[50:23] The future of Omnia

[46:06] Layman’s terms of Omnia

[51:12] People working together in Web3

[52:12] The Omnia community

[53:57] Projects Alexandru is excited about 

[55:40] Tracking IP addresses through NFTs

 

DISCLAIMER: yWhales is not affiliated with YPO but at this time only allow for YPO, YPO Gold, and YNG members due to privacy & confidentiality. Support and production for today’s episode was done by Truth Work Media. Nothing in the podcast constitutes professional and/or financial advice, nor does any information on the podcast constitute a comprehensive or complete statement of the matters discussed or the law relating thereto.