The DeFi Download
107 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago -“The DeFi Download” with Piers Ridyard, CEO of Radix DLT. Join the leaders of the Decentralised Finance industry as they discuss all things DeFi: Its workings, user acquisition and go-to-market strategies while simultaneously re-inventing one of the world’s most important industries.
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Synthetix: A journey through derivatives in DeFi and Synthetix's role in shaping the DeFi space
April 19, 2024 14:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard speaks with Noah Litvin, a Core Contributor at Synthetix. They talk about Synthetix's vision of revolutionizing derivatives trading in the crypto space by providing innovative solutions. Summary Synthetix tackles the challenge of trading derivatives in a crypto-native way, expanding beyond spot trading. Picture it as the derivative equivalent of Uniswap. Synthetix stands as one of the original crypto projects since 2018, playing a pivotal...
Kinto: Is a KYC L2 the way that institutional capital gets brought on chain?
February 16, 2024 16:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard speaks with Ramon Recuero, Co-Founder and CEO of Mamori Labs, which is developing Kinto. Tune in to learn how Kinto bridges TradFi to DeFi and paves the way for institutional adoption by introducing the first Layer 2 solution with chain-level KYC and addressing concerns about scams, hacks, and traditional financial institutions' perception of cryptocurrency as the "Wild West. Summary Join Piers Ridyard and Ramon Recuero as they explore t...
Will Woo: investing principles and finding your purpose.
January 12, 2024 16:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBSummary Willy Woo is managing partner at Crest and SyzCrest, a fund that builds financial products to give higher yield than T-bills by harvesting the volatility in crypto. Willy Woo and Piers discuss various aspects of trading, covering topics like price predictions, the balance between intuition and data when building predictive models, and the social value inherent in trading activities. Their conversation extends to exploring the dynamics of DeFi and altcoin markets, drawing comparison...
Boson Protocol: The universal commerce layer for Web3
December 22, 2023 17:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBSummary The Boson Protocol is a Web3 decentralized commerce layer that allows anyone to tokenize and exchange any physical thing as an NFT. Currently deployed on Ethereum and Polygon, they have recently signed a strategic partnership with WooCommerce, WordPress's eCommerce arm. Justin's journey into the DeFi ecosystem began with him wondering what happens when you transition from paper to digital to blockchain, what digitized physical assets look like on a blockchain, and what properties t...
Liquity: A new king in the decentralized stable coin arena?
October 13, 2023 16:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBThis episode of the DeFi Download with host Piers Ridyard features Robert Lauko, founder and head of research at Liquity. Tune in to discover how Liquity is addressing the stablecoin trilemma and reshaping the crypto space with game-changing innovations ranging from principal protection to improved peg stability. Summary Liquity is a pioneering DeFi protocol that is reshaping the DeFi and stablecoin landscape with its innovative approach. At its core, it prioritizes stability and scalabil...
MLABS - Building dApps on Cardano, Polkadot, Solana, and Radix
September 15, 2023 14:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard is joined by Ben Hart, CTO, and Amir, blossoming Scrypto developer at MLabs. Ben and Amir share their experience with different programming languages and platforms, such as Haskell, Plutus, Rust, and Scrypto. Summary MLabs is a Haskell, Rust, and Blockchain AI consultancy working with various industries, such as fintech and blockchain. MLabs is also the developer of the Plutonomicon library, a major contributor to it, and one of the main...
Swaap: Making Liquidity Provision Profitable in DeFi.
September 01, 2023 14:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Cyrille Pastour, co-founder of Swaap. Cyrille and Piers discuss the inner workings of the automated market maker that is designed to protect liquidity providers by dynamically responding to the market. Summary Swaap provides yield to liquidity providers by utilising cutting-edge market-making models developed in collaboration with mathematicians. They use oracles and dynamic spread to ensure real and long-term yields. Swaap's...
PsyFi: Best-in-class financial products & tools – built for everyone
August 11, 2023 12:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Tommy Johnson, Core Contributor of PsyFi, joins Piers Ridyard to discuss their two-sided DeFi marketplace for structured products, which allows users to earn yield on their assets and traders to hedge or leverage their portfolio. Summary PsyFi offers products such as covered calls, secured puts, and spread structured products, which PsyFi wraps up and tokenizes. The PsyFi team is developing a market-making vault product where users can deposit two-side...
Raft: an LSD inspired stable coin
July 28, 2023 17:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBIn this DeFi Download podcast episode, Piers Ridyard interviews David Garai, founder of Raft. Raft is a stablecoin protocol similar to MakerDAO, but it is backed by liquid staking tokens. Piers and David talk about the potential of liquid staking and its role in DeFi, as well as concerns about centralization. Summary Raft is a decentralised stablecoin protocol that uses liquid staking tokens (LSTs), such as staked ETH, as collateral. Raft requires a collateralization ratio of 120% compared...
Rarimo: an interoperability protocol for the decentralized social identity
July 28, 2023 13:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard talks with Lasha Antadze, co-founder of Rarify Labs. They explore the growing value of identity across digital ecosystems, the challenges of portable identity in the crypto space, and the benefits of Rarimo's interoperability protocol for application builders. Summary Rarify Labs focuses on creating and implementing interoperability protocols for identity and reputation. Their goal is to make identity portable across ecosystems and layer-...
Bittrex Global - Lawyers, the SEC and running exchanges
June 26, 2023 10:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBWith Oliver Linch, CEO In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard talks with Oliver Linch, CEO of Bittrex Global, about the advantages and disadvantages of centralised and decentralised exchanges, the company's history of operating in the cryptocurrency market, and its legal challenges with the SEC. Summary Bittrex Global is a successful cryptocurrency exchange that grants global users access to over 650 tokens. However, the company is currently facing legal challenges from the S...
Carbon: an order book like DEX that actually works
June 16, 2023 14:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBMark Richardson, the project lead at Bancor, joins Piers Ridyard to discuss Carbon, the next stage in DEX evolution, in this episode of the DeFi Download. Carbon provides order book-like functionality on-chain and has already seen over 100 strategies created since its launch on April 20th. Summary From Bancor V1 to Uniswap, the evolution of cryptocurrency liquidity provision has been characterised by significant innovations that sparked DeFi Summer. Although the Automated Market Maker (AMM...
Astrolescent: the first fully collateralised stablecoin launching on Radix
June 09, 2023 16:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBMichael Videtto, co-founder of Astrolescent, a decentralised exchange aggregator, is Piers Ridyard's guest on this week's episode of the DeFi Download Podcast. Piers and Michael discuss the launch of USDA, the first fully collateralized stablecoin on Radix. Summary Michael Videtto, Astrolescent's co-founder, has a background in physics and electrical engineering, as well as 15 years of investing experience in both crypto and traditional finance. He has an interest in macroeconomics and aim...
Journey to the Radix Revelation With Will Jones
June 02, 2023 16:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBSummary On this episode of the podcast, Piers talks with Will Jones, founder of Paper Street Capital, about his experiences with Scrypto and the future of decentralised development. Paper Street Capital is a crypto investor who came from TradFi and follows the same fundamental principles that worked in the traditional space, but now in Web3, betting on people. From his admiration for Radix to his experiences with Solidity and Scrypto, Will shares his insights into the challenges and oppo...
Transforming Web3 and why NFT2.0s are more than just Monkey Pictures
May 19, 2023 14:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download podcast, Piers Ridyard and Bruno Škvorc, the founder of RMRK, delve into the RMRK NFT 2.0 standard and the Singular marketplace, which is designed to showcase the possibilities of NFT 2.0s. They also talk about marketing challenges and Bruno’s hope for widespread technology adoption. Summary RMRK (pronounced “remark”) is a collection of smart contract standards and building blocks that allows NFTs to be infinitely extended and exist as NFT2.0s. It runs...
Zerion - creating a web3 wallet for the mass market
May 12, 2023 15:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard and Evgeny Yurtaev, CEO and co-founder of Zerion, discuss the importance of smart wallets that help users avoid mistakes, the upcoming Zerion extension release, and the challenges of designing a user-friendly onboarding process for Web3. Summary Zerion is a Web3 non-custodial crypto wallet and asset management platform. It is designed to provide users with a seamless and secure experience when managing their digital assets. The Zerion W...
Keyrock: Keeping crypto liquid and the future of DeFi
April 28, 2023 12:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBThis week’s DeFi Download Podcast features Juan-David Mendieta, co-founder of Keyrock. Piers Ridyard and Juan-David discuss Keyrock's market-making services and the potential of DeFi to create a more equitable and accessible financial system. Summary Keyrock is a market maker that facilitates the adoption of tokenized economies. It trades on over 85 exchanges and in 500 markets, with a trading volume of billions of dollars. Juan David Mendieta is Keyrock's co-founder and Chief Strategy Off...
DappRadar: The World’s Dapp Store
April 23, 2023 16:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBIn the latest episode of the DeFi Download podcast, the CEO and co-founder of DappRadar, Skirmantas Januškas, was interviewed by Piers about the origins of his platform and the challenges of tracking dApps in the ever-changing landscape of the blockchain industry. Summary In recent years, the industry of Web3 decentralised applications (dApps) has exploded, reaching a tipping point of mass adoption with millions of users and hundreds of billions of dollars locked up in DeFi protocols. Dapp...
Dappnode and how to empower anyone to run a professional validator
April 14, 2023 15:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download podcast, Piers talks with Pol Lanski, Project Lead of Dappnode, about the benefits of running a validator node in a decentralised network like Ethereum or Bitcoin, and how Dappnode makes it simple for anyone to do so. Summary Dappnode is a platform that allows users to run validator nodes and participate in decentralised networks without needing technical expertise. It promotes network security and decentralisation while supporting economic accessibili...
FLUID.finance and how AI can improve investment returns in DeFi
February 24, 2023 16:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Ahmed Wael Ismail, Founder and CEO of FLUID, an AI-based liquidity aggregator for CeFi and DeFi. In the interview, Ahmed discusses FLUID's liquidity aggregation platform and how it works to solve the problem of highly fragmented liquidity in the crypto market. Summary FLUID is an AI-based liquidity aggregator for CeFi and DeFi. The platform provides a seamless and efficient solution for users to access multiple liquidity pools ...
Omar Yehia: Venture Capital and the importance of decentralisation
February 10, 2023 12:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBWith Omar Yehia In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard discusses investing with applied mathematician Omar Yehia. They explore issues in academia, the importance of trust in crypto, and how to approach investing by examining personal assumptions and moving away from biases, while considering the trade-offs of decentralisation and the concepts of ease of use, robustness, and elegance in systems. Summary Omar Yehia has a background in science and applied mathematics. He is an ...
Parallel Execution: the Radix approach vs Solana/Sui/Aptos/Fuel with Alliance DAO
February 03, 2023 17:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBWith Mohamed Fouda, Alliance DAO Contributor In this special edition of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard is joined by Mohamed Fouda, the head of research at Alliance DAO and co-founder of Volt Capital, as well as Matthew Hines, Chief Product Officer of RDX Works. The focus of the discussion is parallel execution within the realm of decentralised finance. Summary In today's episode, Piers, Matt, and guest Mohamed Fouda talk about parallel execution in blockchain and smart contracts. The...
Matty at Sino Global Capital: Macro markets, launching crypto in China & Tornado Cash
January 20, 2023 14:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard is joined by Matthew Graham, founder, and CEO of Sino Global Capital, to discuss macrotrends, the significance of the Chinese market for cryptocurrencies, the repercussions of GitHub's ban on the Tornado Cash code, and the struggles and opportunities arising from de-globalization. Chapters [01:03] How did the Matty Sino story begin? [02:55] What was it about Ethereum that convinced Matthew that it was a once-in-a-generation opportunity?...
Scaling Axie Infinity to 2.7 million daily active users with Aleksander Larsen
January 12, 2023 22:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard chats with Aleksander Larsen, co-founder of Sky Mavis, makers of Axie Infinity, the largest blockchain game to date, which at its peak had over 2.7 million daily active users. Discussion topics include the criticality of the social aspect of gaming, the challenges of creating an interoperable world within the same IP, and the revolutionary potential of NFTs. Chapters [02:33] The backstory of Axie Infinity and Smooth Love Potion [05:09] A...
Blockchain.com: building the amazon.com of crypto.
January 06, 2023 13:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBIn this week's episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard talks with Lane Kasselman, the president of Blockchain.com. They talk about Lane's experiences leading a rapidly expanding multi-services platform, the reasoning behind Blockchain.com's focus on user-friendliness, and the differences in cryptocurrency adoption across the world. Chapters 00:00 - Intro [01:15] Lane Kasselman as President of Blockchain.com and the company's growth under his direction [01:56] How does Lane describe Block...
Tde.fi: Lessons from 50 DeFi and Web 3.0 businesses.
December 17, 2022 13:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBWhat can we learn from the experience of a Web3 incubator and advisory firm? Find out in this episode of the DeFi Download podcast, in which Piers Ridyard interviews Gaurav Dubey, the CEO of TDeFi, a Web3 metaverse and crypto services incubator and consulting company. TDeFi is a subsidiary of a larger ecosystem, TradeDog. TradeDog is an institutional grade financial services firm in crypto that offers services such as research and advisory, as well as token and treasury management. The TDe...
CoinFund: picking the best investments in Web 3.0 with Jake Brukhman
December 11, 2022 16:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBCoinFund is a crypto-native investment firm and registered investment advisor. The team specialises in portfolio management, token design, decentralised networks, as well as research, trading, market structure, engineerings, brand strategy, law, and regulation. CoinFund has made investments in a number of different projects, some of which include Dapper Labs, Upshot, The Graph, Balancer, and Fuel Labs. Chapters [01:23] Why Jake decided to start CoinFund and how he got his start in the inve...
ShareRing: making identity and Web 3.0 work together.
December 04, 2022 15:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBThe CEO and founder of ShareRing, Tim Bos, is the guest on this episode of the DeFi Download with host Piers Ridyard. Some of the subjects covered include how blockchain technology may benefit identity verification, how ShareRing manages the storing of personal information, and what the future holds for digital ID. ShareRing is a digital identity blockchain system with features that enable its users to utilise their digital ID in the real world. The ShareRing platform does this by provid...
Umbrella: The first truly decentralized oracle service
November 19, 2022 16:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard speaks with John Chen, Senior Advisor of Umbrella Network, and Philippe Engels, Partnerships and BD Manager. What sets Umbrella apart from other oracles, how it functions, and what the future has in store for it are some of the topics of their conversation. Umbrella Network is a community-owned decentralized data oracle that powers anything from DeFi to decentralized applications more broadly. Umbrella accomplishes this on a massive scal...
Scale Your DeFi Trading with Pangolin
November 13, 2022 10:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download podcast, listen to Piers Ridyard and Justin Trollip discuss the development of the first DEX on Avalanche, Pangolin Exchange, the project’s mission, and the challenges the team encountered. Piers Ridyard interviews Justin Trollip, Chief Herder of Pangolin. Pangolin is a multichain Decentralised Exchange (DEX) in the Avalanche Multiverse and has an intriguing backstory. Pangolin currently has a volume of about $16 billion and a total liquidity of over...
Sommelier: DeFi Yields, Perfectly Served
October 22, 2022 15:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Zaki Manian, co-founder of Sommelier and Iqlusion. They talk about his path from Cosmos to Sommelier, DeFi's revolutions and end state, and what sets this new system apart from TradFi. Zaki Manian is co-founder of Sommelier and Iqlusion. Using Cosmos technology, Sommelier makes it possible for decentralised actively managed DeFi strategies to be used throughout the Ethereum DeFi ecosystem. Sommelier is developed on the Cosmos S...
LayerZero & Stargate: connecting all blockchains together via the omni-layers.
October 08, 2022 11:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Brian Pellegrino, co-founder, and CEO of LayerZero Labs, the team behind LayerZero, a generalised cross-chain messaging protocol, as well as Stargate, a cross-chain liquidity transfer layer. LayerZero is an omni-chain interoperability protocol. It is intended for lightweight message transmission across chains. It provides authentic and guaranteed message delivery with trustlessness that may be configured. Stargate launched on t...
Ociswap: bringing concentrated liquidity to Radix
September 25, 2022 17:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard is joined by Florian and Lukas, co-founders of Ociswap. Ociswap is the first Radix native decentralised exchange going live with Babylon with a focus on concentrated liquidity, capital efficiency and protocol-owned liquidity. For exchanging your preferred cryptocurrencies on RadixDLT, Ociswap will offer a secure, trustless, and self-custodial environment. On the very first day of the Babylon update, it will debut as the first pairwise DEX ...
Professor Harvey: Lessons for the future in DeFi
September 09, 2022 18:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Professor Campbell Harvey, Professor of Finance at Duke University, and co-author of DeFi and the future of finance. Campbell R. Harvey graduated from the University of Chicago with a PhD in finance. He held the position of Editor of The Journal of Finance, one of the most prestigious journals in the field of economics, from 2006 to 2012. He presided over the American Finance Association in 2016. More than 150 scholarly articl...
Mirror World: Making assets universal in Metaverse gaming with Chris Zhu.
August 27, 2022 17:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBPiers Ridyard is joined by Chris Zhu of Mirror World, in this episode of the DeFi Download. Piers and Chris examine interoperable gaming through the use of blockchain technology. Chris Zhu is the founder and CEO of Mirror World. Mirror World is a game matrix powered by a mobile SDK layer that accelerates Web3 game development. Mirror World essentially functions as a Web3 overlay to game engines, making it easier for developers to bring interesting Web3 games to market. [1:06] Mirror World ...
Rekt, Curve.Finance and new threats to DeFi
August 13, 2022 11:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBWith Julien Bouteloup, Founder of Stake Capital Group, Stake DAO, BlackPool Finance, rekt.news, and Curve core team member In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard of RDX Works and Julien Bouteloup of Stake Capital and Rekt News discuss his background and experience in the crypto space and analyse the current threats to DeFi governance, such as bribery and lobbying. Julien Bouteloup is the creator of the first ever flash loan. He is also the founder and CEO of Stake Capital Grou...
Rekt, Curve.Finance and new threats to DeFi
August 13, 2022 11:00 - 1 second - 28.4 MBWith Julien Bouteloup, Founder of Stake Capital Group, Stake DAO, BlackPool Finance, rekt.news, and Curve core team member In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard of RDX Works and Julien Bouteloup of Stake Capital and Rekt News discuss his background and experience in the crypto space and analyse the current threats to DeFi governance, such as bribery and lobbying. Julien Bouteloup is the creator of the first ever flash loan. He is also the founder and CEO of Stake Capital Grou...
Meet the Team - Josh Primero from machine code to front end. A full stack journey.
July 01, 2022 18:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MBJosh is one of Radix’s most senior and longest-standing developers. Piers sits down with him for a chat, just like they did at South by Southwest in Texas, only this time in the studio. [0:47] Where did Josh go to university and what did he study there? [3:47] What courses or subjects stand out the most in terms of teaching Josh principles that he has applied throughout his career? [6:19] The cost of rushing the manufacturing process [13:00] Josh's experience at his first job after grad...
Reggie Middleton - What if someone had a patent on DeFi?
June 17, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard and Reggie Middleton debate the concept of patents and how they fit into the ethos of open source in the world of DeFi. Reggie Middleton is Disruptor in Chief, 2013 founder of DeFi, holding active patents in bothJapan and the USA. He is also a predictor of booms and busts and an inventor of P2P capital markets and self-sovereign finance. [00:43] Reggie talks about his background in investment and projects he has been involved with, such...
Tascha Che - a macroeconomics view on creating competitive digital nations.
June 10, 2022 14:00 - 48 minutes - 33 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard is joined by Tascha Che, macroeconomist and founder of Soundwise. They discuss the enormous potential of Web3 from a macroeconomic standpoint. Tascha holds a PhD in macroeconomics and has extensive experience in macroeconomic consultancy. She advises countries on their economic policies as part of her job. She is also a technology investor and a founder of a start-up. She is the creator of Soundwise, which can be accessed at mysoundwise.co...
View from the top - Alex Mashinsky (CEO of Celsius) on the current state of the crypto market.
May 27, 2022 14:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBAll view expressed by Alex are their own and are not endorsed by Radix Publishing; please note, this interview was filmed prior to allegations being made against the interviewee In this special edition of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Alex Mashinsky, CEO of Celsius, about what's going on in the market today. Alex addresses everyone's concerns and interest in learning more about why things are happening the way they are, what people believe will happen in the future, and what l...
Potion Finance revisited (NtropikaLabs): decentralising a codebase and launching derivatives.
May 20, 2022 16:00 - 52 minutes - 35.8 MBPiers Ridyard is joined by Jordi and Guillem, the founders and CEO and CTO of Potion.Finance, in this episode of the DeFi Download. They talk about automated risk management, the Kelly criterion, and how an automated strategy can be embedded into the bonding curve. Potion.Finance is democratizing risk management. Potion safeguards the DeFi ecosystem from risk and ensures its sustainability. It is simple to access, open and transparent. In a previous DeFi Download episode, Piers spoke to J...
SupraOracles: the hard problem of getting fast, trustworthy data on ledger
May 13, 2022 15:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Josh Tobkin, CEO of SupraOracles. SupraOracles is supercharging oracles for a better, decentralised future by building better, faster, more accurate, and more secure on-chain sources of off-chain data. Josh's background in supply chains and start-ups, as well as his blockchain research, prompted him to speculate on how to make it possible to securely get external data on-chain. As a result, Josh and his team devised a novel cr...
RedFoo - from Party Rock Anthems to falling in love with coding. An epic ongoing journey!
May 09, 2022 08:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBPiers Ridyard interviews Redfoo, a multi-award-winning artist best known for being a member of the musical duo LMFAO, in this episode of the DeFi Download. In this interview, Redfoo dissects his journey into coding, his passion for programming, the crypto, blockchain, and DeFi space, and building with Radix and Scrypto. In the middle of June 2022, Redfoo will host a three-day hackathon at his home in Malibu, California. Four lucky members of the Radix Developer community will team up to cr...
Celsius - $23Bn and more Bitcoin than Michael Saylor
April 29, 2022 16:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Alex Mashinsky, co-founder and CEO of Celsius. Alex shares his vision for Celsius, as well as his passion for value creation and giving back to the people who couldn’t make it. Celsius is a yield and loan platform that allows users to earn interest on their crypto assets as well as receive a loan in one click. Celsius has had an incredible five-year run, with $23 billion in assets under management, including 2 million ETH and ...
Patrick Hansen - why the EU should embrace crypto, and what is getting in the way.
April 22, 2022 15:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBPiers Ridyard interviews Patrick Hansen, Head of Strategy & Business Development at Unstoppable Finance, the wallet that aims to bring DeFi to the masses, in this episode of the DeFi Download. Patrick analyses why the EU should fully embrace crypto and Web3, as well as the current regulatory environment, which is stifling progress. The Unstoppable Finance team is developing a DeFi investing app, attempting to natively integrate DeFi applications into a mobile app that is extremely simple t...
Digivault - institutionals are getting serious about crypto
April 15, 2022 18:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBDigivault - institutionals are getting serious about crypto With Robert Cooper, CEO of Digivault In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Robert Cooper, CEO of Digivault. Their conversation covers institutional digital asset custody, private key multi-layer security, and the current interest institutions have in crypto. Digivault is a back-end service that the average cryptocurrency user is unlikely to be aware of. Most crypto users are familiar with the Ledger Nano,...
DeFi Plaza - The cost of gas is too damn high! Engineering better DEXs.
April 02, 2022 11:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Jazzer, the founder of DeFi Plaza. Jazzer discusses his path to developing DeFi Plaza, his engagement with Radix, and his efforts to create a highly optimised DEX with the lowest gas costs per trade. DeFi Plaza is an Ethereum-based decentralised exchange that is 50 to 65 per cent cheaper to trade on than Uniswap and other similar DEXs. DeFi Plaza will also be deploying their DEX on Radix. [0:58] Jazzer's history and involvemen...
Fetch.ai: train AI to avoid rugpulls! Democratising AI's predictive power in complex systems.
March 18, 2022 20:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Humayun Sheikh, co-founder, and CEO of Fetch.ai. They discuss the role of Fetch.ai in democratizing AI, as well as machine learning and automation tools in blockchain and DeFi platforms. Fetch.ai is an artificial intelligence and machine learning based blockchain platform populated with intelligent digital twins, who learn and deliver solutions that aid decision-making. Originally based on Ethereum, Fetch.ai quickly shifted to C...
Boto: Making Web3.0 and crypto bots that anyone can use, not just the pros.
March 11, 2022 19:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Breno, founder of Boto, a platform for building bot-based automations for both developers and non-developers in DeFi and Web3. Boto's goal is to democratise bots by establishing a community in which both developers and non-developers can create and share automation. To accomplish this, the platform is a simple drag-and-drop block-based one, with no code required to build the automation logic. [0:37] The field of bot-based auto...