In this episode I talk to Sam Bankman Fried from FTX.
Sam is one of the most well known figures in the crypto space. He's a notorious trader moving billions of dollars on a daily basis. He is so busy that he only sleeps a couple of hours a day on a bean bag next to his desk.
He recently got a lot of mainstream media attention for donating over $5m dollars to the Joe Biden campaign.
In the episode we talk about:
- FTX's fast growth and success reasons
- Plans for Blockfolio and Maps.me
- The FTT token
- Relationship with Binance
- His involvement in the Solana ecosystem
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In this episode we talk to Stephan Ponnet Foudner of AvadoCloud. Avado produces Blockchain Nodes which users can run at home and are extremely easy to set-up.
Using an Avado device even non-technical people can run nodes in decentralized network and earn crypto tokens for doing so.
In the episode we talk about how he got the idea for Avado, how he built the first prototypes and why he thinks everyone should run their own node. We also walk through the variety of networks that Avado supports and the long-term vision of his project.
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In this episode I talk to Alex Salnikov, who is the founder of Rarible.com one of the largest NFT marketplaces in the crypto space. We discuss how he got into NFTs, why he thinks that what we’re currently seeing with NFT art is just the tip of the iceberg and why there could be much larger technological disruption ahead, as well as the challenges that Rarible faces and how it intends to tackle them.
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In this episode we speak with Nate Hindman, Head of Growth and Mark Richardson, Lead Research from bancor.network.
We talk about the history of Bancor, how it came to develop its first AMM, why it was ultimately less successful than Uniswap in that period and how its new version solves a lot of the issues that have existed in AMMs in the last couple of years: impermanent loss and single-sided liquidity.
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In this episode we talk to Tim Beiko, who has recently become Facilitator of the AllCoreDevs call, where Ethereum Core Developers discuss the Ethereum roadmap and other important governance matters.
Tim is also the lead coordinator behind one of the most important Ethereum Improvement Proposals this year called EIP-1559.
In our conversation Tim explains in great detail how Ethereum governance works and what he sees as the main challenges today.
We also break down EIP-1559 and discuss how its going to improve the Ethereum fee market.
In this episode I talk to Dillon Kellar from Indexed Finance.
Indices are probably the hottest product category in the DeFi space right now.
Probably everyone knows indices or ETFs from the traditional world like the S&P500. They track the performance of entire market sector or baskets of assets.
By doing so they allow investors to get exposure in a passive way without having to actively manage their portfolio everyday, buying and selling various assets. An index takes care of that.
DeFi indices are even more interesting because they are decentralised and let governance token holders key factors such as which indices to deploy next, how to manage them and so on.
Indexed is one of the most interesting index projects right now - it rose from $0 to $17m in less than a month!
In this episode we talk about this incredible journey.
In this episode I talk to Jack Lipstone one of the founders behind Rari Capital
Rari is a lending protocol aggregator promising to always get the best interest rates for their for users who trust Rari with their crypto assets.
Since there are multiple lending protocols in the DeFi space, each having different interest rates, it can be quite time consuming for users to always move their assets between apps as soon as interest rates change
Rari automates this process and deposits user asset in whatever protocol delivers the best rate: whether it’s Compound, Save, DyDx or stable
That’s how it is able to consistently offer interest rates between 15-20% on dollar stable coin deposits
In the episode we talk about Jack’s experience as a 19 year old founder in DeFi, about the fierce competition among lending aggregators and what Rari has in the pipeline to get ahead of the competition in 2021.
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In this episode we talk to Kirll Kutakov from Stakewise.io, an Ethereum 2.0 staking provider.
Stakewise wants to make it as easy as possible for users to stake their Ether (ETH), participate in the validation mechanism of the Ethereum 2.0 network and earn those juicy staking rewards (5-15%).
We talk about the different staking options available to users, what their respective tradeoffs are, the competition in the staking space, especially with centralised exchanges and how Stakewise plans to attract users in this extremely competitive landscape.
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In this episode we talk to Burak Benligiray from API3, API3 is building a next-generation oracle solution. Oracles are a crucial piece of infrastructure in the nascent DeFi industry and beyond. They allow smart contracts to communicate with real world data. Currently, the most important data coming from oracles are price feeds. But tomorrow, it could be KYC, open-banking data
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In this episode I talk with Kevin Chou, the founder of Rally, a platform for creators to build next generation community economies.
Using Rally, creators can launch a token, distribute or sell it to their fans, receive donations denominated in that token and use a whole set of tools to create special experiences for their fans. For example, they can reward fans who engage a lot with them on social media, watch a lot of Twitch content or buy the creator’s merchandise.
The point is that using tokens, creators can rewards fans and align incentives. Fans become not only emotionally vested in the creators success but also financially.
In the episode, we talk about Kevin’s experience pre-Rally building a multi-million gaming company, how the Rally platforms works, the potential of creator tokens and if he foresees any negative societal implications with creator tokens.
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In this episode we speak with Douglas Bakkum from ShiftCrypto, a swiss hardware wallet company which is behind the BitBox02, one of the best hardware wallets on the market.
Hardware wallets are essential to securely store crypto and thus an essential belonging in the product stack of ever user. Now that so many new people are entering the space we wanted to make an episode covering the basics of how hardware wallets work but also how they’re going to evolve in the future.
Douglas is a true crypto OG and he did an excellent job at explaining everything.
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In this episode I speak with Roxana Danila. She’s the CTO of Nexus Mutual, one of the hottest projects in the growing crypto insurance vertical.
Nexus Mutual brings insurance to the frantic Wild West world of DeFi and allows users to protect themselves against hacks and smart contracts bugs in their favourite DeFi projects, while continuing to enjoy their high interest rates.
What’s interesting is that Nexus Mutual itself is also a protocol consisting of smart contracts. Nexus Mutual members pool capital together, users can then take insurance against that backdrop of capital and Nexus Mutual Members earn premiums for capitalising the Mutual. Insurance claims are equally processed by the Mutual Members as everything happens on-chain.
It is a fascinating system which Roxanna explains in very simple terms.
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In this episode Cooper Turley from Audius shares with us why he thinks the music industry is ripe for disruption. Whether it's the endless number of middlemen or a disjointed royalty system delaying payments to Artist, projects like Audius are here to make a change.
Audius is a decentralized music-sharing and streaming protocol facilitating direct relationships between artist and their fans.
We discuss what Audius is about and how to create the right and incentive designs to onboard a new wave of artists & users to the world of crypto.
We also cover what makes Audius unique, the AUDIO platform token and what to keep an eye out for in the coming weeks.
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Matthew and I discuss the landscape of Layer-2 solutions and how Loopring fits in there.
We also talked about the advantages of having launched early, the role and mechanics behind the LRC token, how Loopring plans to bring more users and liquidity onto its network and many more interesting topics.
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In this episode we speak with Antonio Juliano the Founder and CEO of DyDx.
DyDx is a decentralised exchange running on the Ethereum Blockchain. Next to conventional spot trading DyDx offers more sophisticated trading products such as margin trading and perpetuals.
If you don’t know what these terms mean this is the perfect episode you as Antonio explains it in very simple terms in the episode.
We also talked about how DyDx works, about its plans to migrate to a Layer-2 solution, about potential plans to introduce a governance token and how it views the recent crackdown of Bitmex, a crypto exchange offering similar products to Bitmex but in a centralised fashion, by the US government.
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In this episode I talk to Ravindra Kumar CEO at Frontier, a DeFi dashboard that lets users manage their funds across different Blockchains like Ethereum, Binance Chain, Kava, Cosmos and soon Solana.
As we are really interested in wallets and user experience in crypto, we had to talk to Ravindra to hear about how they intend to aggregate all these different protocols into one user interface.
I found out that they have a very ambitious roadmap with a special focus on the 1B large Indian market, interesting ideas on how to monetize and foster community engagement as well as plans to build their own decentralized key management solution.
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In this episode we talk to Jordan Lyall Founder of the MEME protocol. MEME captures the Zeitgeist of the crypto space like no other project. It started as a joke on Twitter as Jordan was mocking the yield farming craze taking place in the DeFi space. But the joke/meme attracted a community of builders who decided to use the buzz to create somehting useful and original.
Two weeks later [dontbuymeme.com](https://dontbuymeme.com/) was born: a protocol that produces rare NFTs and requires users to lock their assets in order to receive these NFTs.
Hear the incredible story behind meme, what's in the pipeline now that the dust has settled and why NFTs are exciting.
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In this episode I am talking to Stani Kulechov from Aave protocol. Aave is a lending protocol built on Ethereum. I already had a crypto lending business on the show namely Nexo but Aave is completely different. It runs on smart contracts on the Ethereum Blockchain and is completely decentralized.
I loved this episode because it clearly shows what protocols are and how they differ from traditional companies. We also talked about Aave’s roadmap, what he thinks about recent developments in the DeFi space and what is still missing for mainstream adoption and many more topics.
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In today's episode I talk to Evgeny Yurtaev, the founder of Zerion.
Zerion is one of the products or tools I use almost on a daily basis. It embodies a lot of the best properties of Web3 and Ethereum.
You can just connect any Ethereum wallet that you have in one click, and Zerion reads all the positions associated to your wallet address from the Blockchain. It displays them in a beautiful dashboard for you, which makes it super convenient to manage your funds.
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In this episode I talk to Benjamin Jones, the CEO of Bitwala. You probably know Bitwala by now as they have sponsored this podcast pretty much since the beginning. Bitwala is in a pretty unique position because they are both a bank and a crypto wallet.
They are really between the two worlds.
So I asked Ben for his thoughts on how these two worlds will co exist in the future. Because if you look at the world of Decenztralized Finance, the whole point is to remove banks. He had very interesting thoughts on this topic and how banks could adapt.