Josh Lee is the Co-Founder of Osmosis Labs, the team behind Osmosis, a decentralized exchange (DEX) on the Cosmos blockchain. He is also the Co-Founder of the Osmosis Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the growth and development of the Osmosis ecosystem. ^[1]

Career

Josh Lee is the Co-Founder / CEO of Chainapsis. the company building Keplr wallet, the most versatile wallet service for Cosmos ecosystem blockchain. He has worked as an Ecosystem Development Analyst at Tendermint from 2019 to 2021 and Project Manager at Lunamint from 2018 to 2019.^[1]

Josh has been involved in the cryptocurrency space since 2017. He is a passionate advocate for the Cosmos ecosystem and believes that it has the potential to revolutionize the way that people interact with the internet.^[2]

Osmosis

Osmosis was created by Singapore-based Osmosis Labs, founded in 2021. Osmosis Labs is the company behind the Osmosis. Sunny Aggarwal and Josh Lee are the leading founders, and they both built the Byzantine-Fault Tolerant engine Tendermint technology, which governs the platform. Osmosis Labs is responsible for the protocol’s initial code development. However, a decentralized validator set runs Osmosis. ^[2][3]

The Osmosis AMM allows users to create new and unique liquidity pools that are controlled and voted on by participants. Users are able to natively trade assets from more than 47 different chains within Cosmos. Osmosis self-governing liquidity pools are not hard-coded and users can use the OSMO to vote on pool parameters. The Osmosis token (OSMO) is used to vote, stake, and provide liquidity throughout its pools.[1]