Base Layer
259 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBase Layer will be providing insights from founders and investors in the base layer of cryptoassets. Simplifying complex projects and the technology being developed, from interoperability to relayers and more - who is building the future, why are they and how are they doing it.
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Base Layer Episode 212: 0xMaki from SushiSwap on DEX's moment seen around the world
June 14, 2021 13:00 - 31 minutesWhat a special show with 0xMaki, a world-renown contributor to SushiSwap which is a decentralized exchange built on Ethereum that utilizes an automated market-making system rather than a traditional order-book. Instead of matching individual buy and sell orders, users can pool together two assets that are then traded against, with the price determined based on the ratio between the two. SushiSwap began as a fork of Uniswap; however, is growing into a more diversified, more grassroots alternat...
Base Layer Episode 211: Colin Evran from Protocol. Labs on the role of decentralized storage in Web 3.0
June 07, 2021 13:31 - 31 minutesColin from Protocol Labs joins me to discuss all the work they are doing there in enabling Web 3.0. Protocol Labs is an open-source research, development, and deployment laboratory. Their projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and many more. They aim to make human existence orders of magnitude better through technology. About our sponsors: Nexo and Paraswap Nexo Try Nexo, the only instant, efficient and complete crypto banking service, featuring: savings accounts with up to 12% interest o...
Base Layer Episode 210: Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink on Hybrid Smart Contracts & DeFi
May 21, 2021 03:00 - 33 minutesSergey joins me on the show again to discuss their new 2.0 whitepaper in which they delve into hybrid smart contracts and how those go beyond smart contracts today. We talk about the technical advancements outlined in the paper and how Chainlink oracle networks abstract complexity away from existing enterprises that want to interact with smart contracts. We also discuss how Chainlink work not only within the Ethereum ecosystem but with others chains and L2's.
Base Layer Episode 209: Greg Osuri, Founder of Akash Network on Decentralizing Compute
May 12, 2021 17:44 - 32 minutesGreg joins us today for a fantastic episode of Base Layer discussing Akash Network. Akash is the world’s first decentralized cloud computing marketplace, leveraging 85% of underutilized cloud capacity in 8.4 million data centers. Akash enables anyone to buy and sell unused compute. Akash DeCloud greatly accelerates scale and price performance for DeFi, decentralized organizations, and high-growth industries like machine learning/AI. About our sponsors: Nexo: Try Next - the only instant, effi...
Base Layer Episode 208: Do Kwon, Founder of Terra Money on building one of the biggest new ecosystems in Digital Assets
April 28, 2021 12:16 - 29 minutesDo joins me on Base Layer for a epic chat. Terra is a permissionless blockchain network that is based on a suite of fiat-pegged stablecoins collateralized by the network’s native token LUNA. The idea at Terra is that the path to widespread adoption of Digital Assets is largely based on stability and composability of the underlying network, which is what Terra excels at -- providing a fast and secure settlement layer for building financial applications on top of. These applications can range f...
Base Layer Episode 207: Lucas Vogelsang, Founder at Centrifuge on real world assets bridging into Digital Assets
April 22, 2021 12:20 - 29 minutesFinancial systems rarely connect to one another directly across company boundaries. Business networks are in competition for market share and thus, do not have incentives to share user profiles, build a robust and shareable reputation system within a network, or open their data silos to others. Lucas and his team at Centrifuge believe that the time of incremental optimization of archaic processes has to come to an end. Only by collectively shaping an entirely new system for the global financi...
Base Layer Episode 206: Ganesh Swami, Founder at Covalent on bringing visibility to billions of blockchain data points.
April 14, 2021 08:00 - 27 minutesGanesh from Covalent joins me with a great discussion on Covalent which provides a unified API to bring full transparency and visibility to assets across all blockchain networks. Simply put, they have a single API which allows you to pull detailed, granular blockchain transaction data from multiple blockchains with no code. About our sponsors: Coinbase Coinbase Prime is one of the leading prime brokerages for digital assets. Coinbase provides the bridge to the crypto world for institutional ...
Base Layer Episode 205: Jesse Johnson from Aavegotchi on NFT's marrying DeFi
April 08, 2021 18:53 - 21 minutesSuch a fun and interesting episode! Aavegotchis are rare crypto-collectibles living on the Ethereum blockchain, backed by the ERC721 standard used in popular blockchain games such as Cryptokitties, Axie Infinity, and Cryptovoxels. We talk about the game play and what's under the hood which includes some very sophisticated DeFi tooling.
Base Layer Episode 204: Whit. Gibbs, Founder of Compass Mining on making Bitcoin mining available to the masses
April 05, 2021 16:38 - 26 minutesCompass is a bitcoin-first company on a mission to support the decentralized growth of hashrate and strengthen network security by helping more people, learn, explore and mine bitcoin. They have made it incredibly easy to start Bitcoin mining - something many have wanted to explore. We discuss this, the environmental fud that has been prominent lately and much more.
Base Layer Episode 203: Ryan Berkun, Founder & CEO of Teller Finance on creating the first DeFi protocol built to evaluate consumer credit risk.
March 29, 2021 13:25 - 28 minutesTeller Finance is a company I've been watching for almost a year; I think it could arguably become one of the most important DeFi platforms ever. Imagine something like a decentralized FICO score that is portable and universally accepted. That's kind of what Teller is up to. Listen and learn. About our sponsor, Coinbase: Coinbase Prime is one of the leading prime brokerages for digital assets. Coinbase provides the bridge to the crypto world for institutional investors, high net worth individ...
Base Layer Episode 202: Stani Kulechov, Founder at Aave on getting the next 10 million users into DeFi
March 24, 2021 13:15 - 28 minutesWelcome back! After an unexpected hiatus from yours truly we are back! What better way to come back then talking with Stani from Aave who has been instrumental in DeFi massive growth in the last year. Aave is an open-source and non-custodial protocol to earn interest on deposits and borrow assets with a variable or stable interest rate. It also enables ultra-short duration, uncollateralized flash loans designed to be integrated into other products and services. We talk about how this all work...
Base Layer Episode 201: Andrew Peel, Head of Digital Assets at Morgan Stanley on Institutions converging on Bitcoin, DeFi and more
February 01, 2021 20:56 - 25 minutesDid you know Morgan Stanley had a Head of Digital Assets? Well you do now! Such a great episode with Andrew who is incredibly knowledgeable about the space. We discuss the global macro narrative that has been the draw to Bitcoin for many institutions; going beyond Bitcoin and what DeFi's role could be in further growing; the role Corporations are playing in terms of buying Bitcoin and Digital Assets and much more.
Base Layer Episode 200: Meltem Demirors from Coinshares: "Nothing f'in matters anymore", Bitcoin Cathedrals and the world we live in now
January 25, 2021 14:35 - 48 minutesIt's been a little over two years in the making but we have reached our 200th episode! What a special one with Meltem in which we have a no holds bar conversation about the world we live in and the role Bitcoin is playing in it. **Note: unlike in previous episodes, I do drop a few curses here; it was right after the attempted insurrection at the Capitol and I was heated** We talk about the role Bitcoin is playing; is it ok to spend your Bitcoin or should it be in the narrative of store of wea...
Base Layer Episode 199: Raoul Pal on the World Burning, Bitcoin and how to apply Second Level thinking in Digital Assets
January 11, 2021 12:19 - 48 minutesThe legendary Raoul Pal joins me for an absolutely epic conversation in which we touch on global macro issues, including last week's attempted insurrection in the United States, yields and the debt markets around the world, the continued narrative of Bitcoin among institutional investors and more. We also spend a lot of time discussing second level thinking (coined by investors like Howard Marks, Ray Dalio and others) in Digital Assets; how to look beyond the meme's and those who call digital...
Base Layer Episode 197: Matt Cutler, CEO of Blocknative on the role mempools play
January 06, 2021 14:45 - 25 minutesMatt joins us to kick off 2021 with a great discussion on mempools; for those unfamiliar a mempool is a Digital Asset node’s mechanism for storing information on unconfirmed transactions. It acts as a sort of waiting room for transactions that have not yet been included in a block. One is able to gather very interesting observational data with this and Blocknative is at the forefront of it. Learn more about what they are doing here: https://www.blocknative.com/ About our sponsor: Coinbase Co...
Base Layer Episode 196: Peter Johnson (Jump Capital) on 2021 predictions including $50K Bitcoin and M&A "mania"
December 21, 2020 13:46 - 35 minutesLegendary recording! Peter is the Managing Director of Jump Capital, a highly seasoned investor in both traditional and digital assets. He and his team have been investing in Digital Assets for about 7 years now and he's seen it all. We talk about his 2021 predictions which include Bitcoin hitting $50,000 and why that is a more reachable target today than ever before. Additionally we talk about DeFi having a continuance of a breakout in 2021, stablecoins, will CBDC's take off and so much more...
Base Layer Episode 195: Tim Ogilvie, Founder at Staked on helping to create the Fixed Income of Digital Assets
December 18, 2020 13:48 - 24 minutesTim joins me back on the show to update everyone Staked which for the last few years has been facilitating what I call the emergence of fixed income in Digital Assets. Essentially Staked helps investors earn yield from staking and DeFi without taking custody of crypto assets; some of the yields on the platform are high 10's and 20's. We talk about the how this works, what goes into staking and the emergence of ETH2 and why this is potentially a watershed moment.
Base Layer Episode 194: Richard Craib, Founder of Numerai on what the future of Hedge Funds may look like
December 14, 2020 14:05 - 28 minutesRichard, the founder of Numerai, joins me for a great podcast to discuss how they are building a blockchain based hedge fund using crowdsourced predictions. Numerai, founded in Dec. 2015, is building a blockchain based hedge fund that utilizes artificial intelligence and crowdsourced stock market predictions. The platform relies on a monthly machine learning and data science “tournament” where users, primarily data scientists, can submit trading algorithms about the stock market. Numerai then...
Base Layer Episode 193: Joe Lallouz, CEO of Bison Trails on building the Oracle of Digital Assets
December 09, 2020 12:56 - 30 minutesJoe Lallouz, the CEO of Bison Trails, comes back on Base Layer for an epic conversation about the role Bison Trails is playing in Digital Assets; prior I've equated them to being the Wix of 2006, bringing the ability of the non-technocrat to build websites/e-commerce sites and more. Upon reflection of this chat I am now equating them to Oracle, that infrastructure layer that has been so incredibly important to the build of internet 1 & 2 that not many people non-technocratic people understand...
Base Layer Episode 192: Peter Smith, CEO of Blockchain.com on the last 10 years in Digital Assets
December 07, 2020 12:54 - 23 minutesPeter, the CEO of Blockchain.com joins me on Base Layer for a very interesting conversation about the role his company plays in the overall ecosystem as a wallet provider, a data analytic and a source of yield for those depositing their digital assets. Peter has been involved in this new emerging asset and asset class for almost 10 years - we talk about how it's changed, institutional investors, the importance of data and analytics that have matured and much more. You can find out more about ...
Base Layer Episode 191: Jack O'Holleran, CEO of Skale Labs on helping scale Ethereum to billions of users
December 02, 2020 13:05 - 37 minutesSkale is a piece of infrastructure in the Ethereum ecosystem that is designed to enable higher throughput and performance, potentially assisting in ushering in billions of users on Ethereum based applications in the coming years. Jack comes back to discuss how Skale works in the various sub sectors of Ethereum such as DeFi & Gaming. We give new comers to Digital Assets lots of metaphors and imagery on how it works and it's value proposition. Skale also announced some massive news on Dec 1st -...
Base Layer Episode 190: Sid Jha, Founder & CEO of Arbol on the intersection of Risk Markets & Smart Contracts
November 25, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutesSid joins me from Arbol in what I think is one of the most interesting conversations I've had in a while. Arbol utilizes decentralized blockchain technology for parametric insurance. Parametric insurance pays out based on the value of predetermined metrics, instead of based on damages measured by physical inspections. Hence, blockchain technology is used to ensure that predetermined metrics are transmitted from a range of third-party data providers in an immutable, reliable and transparent ma...
Base Layer Episode 189: Chris Wood, COO of Pixelmatic on the future of Bitcoin based gaming
November 16, 2020 14:33 - 23 minutesChris, the COO of Pixelmatric, joins me for a great show to discuss the work this studio is doing to bring the future of Bitcoin gaming to the masses. We discuss the history of blockchain based gaming, the current phase and what the future holds. We also discuss an important split in gaming: the pay to play and the play to earn; Pixelmatic and there new MMO Infinite Fleet is an example of this powerful play to earn model.
Base Layer Episode 188: Kevin Chou, Founder at Rally on building the new Chain Economy
November 09, 2020 13:15 - 36 minutesKevin joins me on Base Layer to discuss Rally, an emerging blockchain ecosystem focused on giving Creators new ways to build their businesses and achieve deeper engagement with their communities, with better fan alignment and more control than they have ever had before. The Rally Network is providing Creators with tools to build virtual economies that extend their brands while also providing community benefits and new economic incentives for fans to engage with their favorite Creators. We dis...
Base Layer Episode 187: Fredrik Haga, Co-Founder of Dune Analytics on trends in Digital Asset analysis
November 02, 2020 10:00 - 23 minutesFredrik, the co-founder of Dune Analytics joins me on Base Layer to discuss how they have become one of the key players in Digital Asset data analysis. With their boards that are created by community members they have been a flash point of analysis on DeFi and many of the sub sectors of Digital Assets. We discuss this and much more.
Base Layer Episode 186: Aleksander Larsen, Co-Founder of Axie Infinity on creating the Pokemon of Digital Assets
October 30, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutesAleksander joins me on Base Layer for one of the most interesting conversations we've had about the intersection of digital collectibles, gaming and digital asset based ecosystems that are becoming incredibly mature. We discuss how Axie Infinity was born, how it's becoming the Pokemon of Digital Assets and what the future has in hold for the game and its community participants. Must listen to episode!!
Base Layer Episode 185: Diane Dai, Co-Founder of DODO on Proactive vs Automated Market Makers & more
October 28, 2020 08:00 - 30 minutesDiane joins me to discuss one of the most talked about new projects in DeFi: DODO. After raising a round led by some of the biggest investors in Digital Assets DODO is working to build upon their next generation on-chain liquidity provider platform which leverages the Proactive Market Maker algorithm (PMM) to provide pure on-chain and contract-fillable liquidity for everyone. Great conversation on what could be one of the key pieces to the future of DeFi.
Base Layer Episode 184: Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink on the role of Smart Contracts and connecting real world data to them
October 26, 2020 12:24 - 37 minutesSergey, the Co-Founder of Chainlink, joins me again for a tremendous conversation about the role smart contracts are beginning to play in society, helping unbanked people become banked, helping those with identification become part of a larger technological society and much more. We also discuss the evolution of smart contracts and the need for real world data to make them work and the role Chainlink plays in that very important part of the equation.
Base Layer Episode 183: Mounir Benchemled, Founder of Paraswap on creating gateways to DeFi
October 23, 2020 12:33 - 28 minutesMounir joins us to discuss Paraswap, a new platform that aggregates multiple decentralized exchanges into one place so that the rates often beat the market price. We discuss the role that aggregators are beginning to play in DeFi, how the incentive models work for liquidity providers and the underlying technology that makes this work. You can find more about Paraswap here: https://paraswap.io/#/
Base Layer Episode 182: Amrit Kumar, Co-Founder of Zilliqa on creating a high throughput blockchain
October 21, 2020 15:27 - 27 minutesAmrit joins me on Base Layer to provide insight into Zilliqa, a high-throughput public blockchain platform designed to scale to thousands of transactions per second. Zilliqa aims to drive the blockchain industry forward by developing the highest quality technology infrastructure which can create measurable and real-world impact. To that end, we have sought to establish partnerships across industry verticals that have emerged as clear beneficiaries to innovative, decentralised technologies, wi...
Base Layer Episode 181: Artur Sychov from Somnium Space going deep into the Metaverse
October 19, 2020 12:57 - 32 minutesArtur joins me on the show from Somnium Space, an open and social virtual reality world built on the Ethereum blockchain. You can buy land, build or import objects, and instantly enjoy or monetize assets. Somnium space is a universe shaped entirely by its community of users. This world continues to fascinate me as what our potential future may be (or is becoming already) so enjoy! Check it out here: https://somniumspace.com/
Base Layer Episode 180: Devin Finzer, Co-Founder of Opensea on building the Amazon of NFT's
October 13, 2020 15:15 - 29 minutesDevin, the co-founder of Opensea, joins me on Base Layer for a great review of how they are building what I am calling the Amazon of NFT's. OpenSea is a marketplace for digital goods, including collectibles, gaming items, digital art, and other digital assets that are backed by a blockchain like Ethereum. On OpenSea, you can buy, sell, and trade any of these items with anyone in the world. OpenSea is currently the largest general marketplace for user-owned digital goods, with the broadest set...
Base Layer Episode 179: Matthew Edwards, CEO of Dalpha Capital on the Institutionalization of Digital Assets
October 08, 2020 13:13 - 39 minutesMatthew joins me on Base Layer for a great conversation about the furthering of the institutionalization of Digital Assets. Matthew spent a large percentage of his career at GCM Grosvenor, a global alternative asset management firm started in 2971 that currently has around $55 billion in assets. We talk about his transition to Digital Assets, especially the 'why'. You will also hear a great conversation around: Active versus Passive investing, why a FOF approach makes sense for digital assets...
Base Layer Episode 178: JP Baric, CEO of Aurum Ventures on the state of Bitcoin mining in the United States
October 06, 2020 12:37 - 25 minutesJP joins me for an excellent show in which we delve deep into the state of the state of Bitcoin mining, hitting on the health of mining here in the United States and also on the technological aspects associated with it. For those learning about digital assets, Bitcoin and this ecosystem we also give a primer on hash rate, discuss the use of renewal energy associated with mining and discuss where in the technology curve the equipment associated with mining is.
Base Layer Episode 177: Andrew Steinwold from Sfermion on the world of NFT's
September 30, 2020 11:48 - 30 minutesAndrew, the Managing Partner at Sfermion, joins me for a comprehensive discussion on the entire world of NFT's and the "Metaverse". There has been a shift from all things DeFi to the world of NFT's where art and gaming is taking a whole new shape. For anyone trying to understand what is happening in this sub sector of Ethereum based platforms this is a must listen. Also check out Andrew's blog: https://andrewsteinwold.substack.com/people/1809735-andrew-steinwold
Base Layer Episode 176: Alex Salnikov, Co-Founder of Rarible with a master class in NFT's
September 28, 2020 12:06 - 32 minutesAlex joins me on Base Layer for what I can describe as a master class in NFT's. What is an NFT and why is everyone talking about it? Alex answers that and much more and tells us what Rarible is; one of the best marketplaces today for this world of art, gaming and more intersecting. It allows people with no experience create NFT's and really experience this world. Must listen to episode!
Base Layer Episode 175: Tor Bair from Secret on privacy's role in our Digital lives
September 25, 2020 09:00 - 36 minutesTor rejoins us on Base Layer to discuss Secret Network, the first blockchain to allow privacy-preserving smart contracts. That means applications built on Secret can utilize encrypted data without revealing it to anyone, even the nodes in the network. By supporting encrypted inputs, encrypted outputs, and encrypted state for smart contracts, Secret Network allows for new kinds of powerful decentralized applications to be built. This can unlock substantial value across multiple verticals and i...
Base Layer Episode 174: Rich Rosenblum from GSR on narratives in the digital asset market during the summer
September 21, 2020 12:59 - 30 minutesRich joins me on Base Layer for a great conversation about some of the macro trends in Digital Assets throughout the summer; we discussed Bitcoin and spent a good amount of time on DeFi, what's happening in that world and the opportunity set. We discussed some of the solutions GSR provides investors such as growing the size of your balance sheet with customized yield enhancing strategies such as lending and call overwriting. Great overview and discussion from a team with years of experience f...
Base Layer Episode 173: Tegan Kline from The Graph on their role in Web3 becoming a reality
September 17, 2020 12:06 - 32 minutesTegan joins me for a great episode of Base Layer to discuss all the things The Graph are working on. The Graph Network is core infrastructure for Web3—a necessary component for delivering decentralized applications with consumer-grade performance. The Graph is a decentralized protocol for indexing and querying data from blockchains, starting with Ethereum. We discuss the complexity of completely re-inventing the web as we know it using distributed & decentralized layers and busting some of th...
Base Layer Episode 172: Nodar Janashia, Co-Founder of Zapper on abstracting away the complexities of DeFi
September 14, 2020 18:38 - 38 minutesNodar joins me on Base Layer to talk about his exciting project, Zapper which aims to increase the GDP of DeFi by abstracting the complexities of accessing unique opportunities faced by retail investors, fund managers and builders around the world. We had a detailed conversation about how current DeFi works, yield farming and all the nuisances involved to participate. Zapper is a project a lot of people are talking about because it connect a lot of the disparate pieces in DeFi in one location...
Base Layer Episode 171: Sam Kazemian, from co-founder of Everipedia to looking to revolutionize Stablecoins
September 11, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutesSam joins me on Base Layer and it's a really interesting chat! From his days at Everipedia all the way to Frax we discuss a full body of work in Digital Assets. Frax is the first stablecoin with an end goal of fully algorithmic mechanism that seeks to achieve this goal by beginning fully collateralized and slowly removing the collateral through on-chain smart contracts as long as the price remains stable at $1. According to Sam and the the team the Frax Protocol is the first ever stablecoin t...
Base Layer Episode 170: Richard Byworth, CEO of Diginex on their future Nasdaq Listing & building Institutional grade Capital Markets Infrastructure
September 09, 2020 12:04 - 38 minutesRichard joins us on Base Layer for a great show! During the later part of a 17 year career at Nomura, Richard began to see the potentiality of Digital Assets and pursued multiple venues to participate, including being an investor in Diginex. He saw the institutional grade infrastructure they were building and their focus on Compliance, Trust and having the best security available for custody that even garnered the highest rating that the Ministry of Defense provides to security companies. We ...
Base Layer Episode 169: Camila Russo from The Defiant on the cold hard facts of DeFi
September 02, 2020 10:00 - 43 minutesCamila joins me on the show for one of the most truthful and sometimes raw takes on what's happening in DeFi. We talk about everything from yield farming and some of the blow up's that have happened to metrics we should be using to evaluate success. We discuss some possible ways that the DeFi community could self govern and what happens if that doesn't happen. This was one of my favorite conversations - unscripted, raw and getting to the nitty gritty on DeFi.
Base Layer Episode 168: Jed McCaleb & Denelle Dixon on Stellar and it's role in the Digital Assets ecosystem
August 30, 2020 22:10 - 33 minutesJed and Denelle join us for a full review of Stellar; an open-source payments network that serves as a distributed intermediary blockchain for global financial systems and circulates a native asset, Stellar Lumens (XLM). Before co-founding Stellar, Jed also co-found Ripple -- he has been an integral part of Digital Assets for nearly a decade. Before joining Stellar's Foundation, Denelle spent 8 years at Mozilla and has years of experience in the legal and regulatory landscape. We had a detail...
Base Layer Episode 167: Garry Tan from Initialized Capital on Paradigm shifts in Tech & Digital Assets role in a new world
August 27, 2020 23:28 - 36 minutesGarry Tan is a legend...end of story. Listen why here. No seriously, Garry is a designer, engineer, and investor in early stage startups. Cofounder and managing partner of Initialized Capital, an early stage venture capital fund that was earliest in Coinbase and Instacart. They are a team of 6 investing partners with over $770M in assets under management and our startups have created more than $40 billion in market value in the past 8 years. They focus on pre-product-market-fit seed and seek...
Base Layer Episode 166: Nate Maddrey from Coin Metrics on the Rise of Stablecoins
August 23, 2020 14:20 - 27 minutesNate joins us for a great conversation on the work he took part in to analyze the stablecoin market (report found here). In this podcast we discuss the rise of stablecoins, their purpose in digital assets, the velocity and growth of them in 2020 as a function of global economic issues and the rise of DeFi and much more. If you're learning about stablecoins or just want to make sure you're up to date on great analysis check this one out!
Base Layer Episode 165: Hart Lambur, Co-Founder at UMA; Can you create Synthetic Tokens that can Track Anything?
August 20, 2020 12:32 - 23 minutesHart joins me on Base Layer to discuss his journey from Goldman to start his company, UMA which is designed to power the financial innovations made possible by permissionless, public blockchains, like Ethereum. Using concepts borrowed from fiat financial derivatives, UMA defines an open-source protocol that allows any two counterparties to design and create their own financial contracts. But unlike traditional derivatives, UMA contracts are secured with economic incentives alone, making them ...
Base Layer Episode 164: Anton Bukov, Co-Founder of 1inch on what DEX aggregation is and it's importance in DeFi's explosion
August 17, 2020 13:57 - 35 minutesAnton joins me for a great episode of Base Layer as we learn all about 1inch after news of the $2.8M investment round closure with some significant investors in Digital Assets. For those unfamiliar, DEX's are Decentralized Exchanges vs what we call CEX's (Centralized: Coinbase, Kraken, etc). 1inch has recently surpassed the landmark figure of one billion USD! Real-time stats are available here: http://duneanalytics.com/1inch. We talk about how the team met and colloborated at hackathon's and ...
Base Layer Episode 163: Tom Trowbridge on transitioning from traditional finance to the early day of Hedera Hashgraph
August 13, 2020 15:35 - 27 minutesTom Trowbridge is former President of Hedera Hashgraph, a public distributed ledger based on the Hashgraph consensus algorithm. Mr. Trowbridge has been advising and investing in technology companies since 1996. He started his career in 1996 as an investment banker in the telecom group at Bear Stearns & Co., and subsequently spent three and a half years at the telecom and media private equity firm Alta Communications, where he executed ten deals in technology, telecom, and media and served on ...
Base Layer Episode 162: Fernando Martinelli, CEO & Co-Founder of Balancer; is it an inverse ETF, what are Smart Pools & their role in DeFi
August 10, 2020 11:41 - 39 minutesFernando joins me on Base Layer at such an amazing time in the growth of DeFi, where the total value locked (TVL) was $830M end of April 2020 to almost $5B as this podcast gets released. Balancer is a n-dimensional automated market-maker built on Ethereum so we learn what that means, what's being done via Balancer in platforms such as Smart Pools, what their native token BAL provides participants and how some out there believe Balancer eliminates "“impermanent loss". So much in this one -- ch...