Flywheel DeFi

On this special episode, we welcome back Sam Kazemian, co-founder of Frax, to dive into the Fraxtal Vision Roadmap. A plan set in 3 phases, introducing token upgrades, AIVM, and becoming the microstrategy of ETH with Frax’s Crypto Strategic Reserve. Timeline: 00:00 Introduction & Background 03:05 State of Crypto Post-Elections 08:10 Convos w/ Legislators + Staffers in DC 11:48 Reflections on F...

This week, we hosted Lord Pemberton Squigglebop, founder and chief Yeetard of Yeet, an innovative suite of products and games making DeFi more Yeetard-friendly. Timeline: 00:00 Introduction & Background 04:36 What is Yeet + Game Mechanics 08:20 Yeet Economics: Prize Pool and Taxes 13:45 Staking and Unstaking Mechanics 15:45 The Liquidity Trifecta: The Yeetwheel 23:20 Yeetard NFTs and Burning C...

This week, the legend himself Jani to dive into the role of Cybernetics in crypto and what it takes to create a meaningful, long-lasting cult(ure). Timeline: 00:00 Introduction & Background 06:00 Understanding Cults in a Crypto Context 08:30 Maintaining Fresh Perspectives 15:50 Cybernetics, Feedback Loops, and its Role in Crypto 21:19 Improving Airdrops and Incentivizing High-Value Behaviour 2...

This week, we brought on Chunda McCain to learn more about Nucleus which introduces “Yield by Default” and the financialization of infrastructure risk. Timeline: 00:00 Introduction & Background 03:44 What was Ion and its evolution into Nucleus 08:48 Financializing Infrastructure Risks 11:00 Yield by Default 15:23 Engaging User Incentives and Infra Revenue Sharing 19:37 App Chains and Ecosystem...

This week, we hosted Thad, co-founder of El Dorado, to discuss the upcoming election and its implications on Crypto and DeFi. Timeline: 00:00 Introduction & Background 04:00 US Election: Candidates and Their Stance on Crypto 08:56 The Current Political Landscape 12:33 Economic Issues: Inflation, Immigration 18:30 Bull Case for Crypto and The US 30:00 Crypto Under Different Political Outcomes 3...

This week we hosted Ryan Park, co-founder of Exponents, the first liquidation-free, oracle-less perp dex and explored how Exponents is reimagining market efficiency with its novel mathematical mechanisms. Timeline: 00:00 Introduction & Background 10:48 Lessons from Anchor 13:50 What Lido Did Right 16:46 Distribution + Growth in Terra and Anchor 19:27 “The End User is Capital” 22:30 Transitioni...

This week, we had on Jordan Prince, an OG Solana dev and co-founder of Metaplex who shared his thoughts on the evolution of the Solana ecosystem and why he believes it could overtake Ethereum's position. Timeline: 00:00 Introduction & Background 15:25 How L2s have impacted Ethereum 25:37 The Future of Solana: Flipping ETH? 30:23 The Hacker House Phenomenon 41:58 The Birth of Metaplex and Solan...

This week, Pierre Person is a former French Politician and current founder of the stablecoin protocol Usual Money. He discusses Usual’s novel mechanisms and how it aims to be a fully on-chain Tether. Timeline: 00:00 Introduction & Background 06:19 Working In French Politics 9:24 From Politics to Stablecoins 14:14 What is Usual Money 20:00 Stablecoin Lifecycle in Usual (Minting USD0) 22:48 Usua...

This week, Charlie Curran dives into how Memecoins are an avant-garde art form and what his experiences in the trenches has been like since the launch of pump(dot)fun. Timeline: 00:00 Introduction & Background 07:19 From Fashion and Film to Crypto 10:40 Finding Pump(dot)fun 13:20 Memecoins vs Culture coins 15:35 $P*SSYINBIO Lore 20:55 Community and Cult Formation 24:00 Cultural Shifts and CT B...

This week we hosted Kyle Chayka, author of Filterworld. We dive into his key findings on how algorithms flatten culture, impact the crypto industry and more. Timeline: 00:00 Introduction and Background 03:47 Writing Filterworld 05:55 Stuck Culture: The Rise of Mainstream Social Internet 08:00 Understanding How Algorithms Work 11:35 Different Flavours of Algorithms 14:47 Flattening 16:20 TikTok’s O...

This week we invited Reffo, the co-founder of Puffpaw, the only vape-to-earn crypto project with a unique gamified twist. Timeline: 00:00 Introduction and Background 07:25 Choosing to build on Berachain 12:12 Vaping-to-quit Tokenomics 15:00 The Encrypted ‘Smart Vape’ 16:55 3 Core Game Factors 17:40 What Happens When You Quit? 20:46 Cutting Out The Middle Men 22:57 How Vapes Really Work 28:32 In-Ho...

This week we dive into Initia, a permissionless interwoven system of rollups that aims to support the next generation of appchains. Timeline: 00:00 Introduction and Background 07:30 The Initia Idea 10:47 Building a Permissionless Interwoven Ecosystem 12:15 Initia’s Apple Design Influence 15:53 The 3 Pillars of Initia 19:54 Enshrined Liquidity, initUSDC Pool and Fees 24:48 Rollbacks and Fraud-proof...

In this week’s episode, Stuti from Kraken Ventures shares her journey into crypto and what winning GTM strategies for stablecoins looks like. Timeline: 00:00 Introduction and Background 10:00 Go-to-Market Strategies for Stablecoins 13:00 The Signal Waterfall 19:09 DeFi Builders and Apps 21:00 The Brain Surgeons of DeFi 22:04 Crypto Institutions 26:19 The Degens 32:46 General Consumers 38:25 How to...

This week we hosted Joey Roth, the founder of Dyad, “The first capital efficient overcollateralized stablecoin”. We dive into Joey’s journey in building DYAD througout the bear and its unique stablecoin design. We dive into the the Kerosene flywheel, building a user friendly platform, how DYAD plans to scale in the future. Timeline: 00:00 Introduction 03:00 Building Dyad in the Bear Market 13:30 I...

This week we hosted Anon of Apollo DAO. He shares his origin story, his involvement in the Cosmos ecosystem, and much more. He discusses the challenges he faced during the fall of Terra his spot-on predictions of the collapse of FTX, and what he is up to now in the land of Cosmos. Timeline: 00:00 Introduction and Background 02:59 Into the Cosmos and Apollo DAO 10:00 Challenges and Decisions During...

In this week’s episode Sam Williams, founder of Arweave & AO, dives into the the concept of permanent storage on blockchains and the importance of user rights in cyberspace. Sam explains how Arweave was built to provide decentralized replication of data sets that can't be easily censored. In addition, Sam shares some spicy takes on Ethereum and restaking. Timeline 00:00 Introduction to Arweave...

In this week's episode, Cindy shares her journey from prop trader to builder and all the trials and tribulations that come with being a founder. She goes into what Drift is, how it works, and the future roadmap they have in store. Timeline 00:00 Introduction to Drift and Solana DeFi 03:04 Building on Solana and the Challenges Faced 07:21 Early Days of Building on Solana 09:54 Navigating the Bear M...

In this week's episode, 0xSami reveals the first major news in Redacted's metamorphosis into Dinero with ipxETH, a first-of-its-kind income fund from Nomura's Digital Asset Unit, Laser Digital Group. 0xSami reveals how the collaboration was forged and emphasizes the importance of distribution for DeFi. Follow Flywheel Twitter: https://twitter.com/FlywheelDeFi Telegram: https://t.me/FlywheelDeFi Yo...

Watch the full EP to dive into how Ostium is bringing the “perpification” of RWAs to the masses 🥇 Timestamps 00:00 Introduction and Background 15:08 Tokenization vs. Purpification 21:12 Focus on FX, Commodities, and Indices 26:12 The Role of Oracles 28:35 Building Ostium’s Oracles 35:09 Consensus and Verification 38:33 Settlement in Ostium 45:41 Challenges in Scaling RWA Perp Dex’s 54:16 Integrat...

Jay from Royco discusses the background and motivation behind the creation of Royco. He shares his journey in the DeFi space and how it led to the development of Rari Capital and eventually Royco which aims to bring efficiency to liquidity on-chain by creating a two-sided marketplace for liquidity providers and seekers. Royco is set to launch soon, and the team is focused on finalizing the protoco...

In this conversation, DeFi Dave interviews Rishi, the founder of Movement, a layer two solution on Ethereum. They discuss Rishi's background, the development of Movement, and the applications being built on the platform. Rishi highlights the importance of security in DeFi and the need for a high-throughput virtual machine. The conversation also touches on the challenges of grants and airdrops in t...

In this episode of Flywheel, host DeFi Dave engages with Jack and Cami from BeraChain. The groups talks about Bera’s proof of liquidity system, contrasting its functionalities with traditional DeFi protocols like Curve. They also discuss validator rewards, ecosystem incentives, and optimizing BGT rewards. Additionally, the talk extends to unlocking capital efficiency, leveraging assets, and bridgi...

In this episode of Flywheel, hosts DeFi Dave and Kapital K delve into the innovative world of ERC-6551 and Token Bound Accounts. The discussion features Benny, the author of the ERC-6551 standard, along with Jimmy and Greg from Agent. They explore the intricacies of token-bound accounts, their potential applications, and how they could significantly enhance the utility of NFTs. The guests share in...

In this episode of Flywheel, hosts DeFi Dave and Kapital K dive deep into the world of Asymmetry Finance with special guests Justin and Hannah. They explore the technical intricacies of Asymmetry's innovative yield products, including their staking, restaking, and synthetic dollar solutions. The conversation highlights the challenges and strategies around scaling liquidity, leveraging other protoc...

Watch the full EP to learn about Gammi's legendary lore as well as his adversity and triumphs from 13+ years being in crypto 🙌 Timestamps ⏱️ (00:00) Introduction to Flywheel (02:46) Guest Introduction (03:50) Gammi’s Crypto Journey Begins (04:14) Early Bitcoin Mining Days (06:50) The Rise and Fall of Early Crypto (17:01) Discovering Chainlink (21:59) Chainlink and Synchronicities (37:02) Regrets...