The Edge Podcast

Ahmad Shadid is the Founder/CEO of io.net and Tory Green is the COO/CFO. In this episode, we review into the world's largest GPU DePIN (decentralized physical infrastructure network) called io.net! This state-of-the-art decentralized computing network built on Solana is a great example to get us introduced to the fast-growing DePIN sector of crypto. With the rise of AI and the growing demand f...

Cryptovestor is an anonymous DeFi investor. In this episode, we speak with an anonymous DeFi investor, to uncover the latest DeFi alpha on a family of protocols related to Curve, including Convex Finance, Frax Finance, Prisma Finance, and f(x) Protocol. This episode is ideal for advanced users and investors looking for their own edge while using these growing veTokenomics protocols. ------ 🔗 Esse...

Trevor Bacon is the CoFounder and CEO of Parcl Labs. In this episode, we spotlight Parcl, a Solana DeFi app for trading real estate perps. Traders can speculate on rising and falling real estate markets using this decentralized perps exchange for real estate synthetics. With as little as $1, anyone can long or short city indexes that represent the aggregate value of city property prices in places...

Bosslmp is an anonymous advisor to Dopex. In this episode, we review the recently launched Dopex V2 for scaling onchain options in DeFi, including the CLAMM (concentrated liquidity AMM) and the soon to be released option AMM. Dopex is a decentralized options exchange built on Arbitrum to provide permissionless and non-custodial access to options trading. Bosslmp describes the culmination of their...

Jake Brukhman is the Founder and Managing Partner at CoinFund. Evan Fisher is the Founder and Managing Partner at Portal Ventures. In this episode, we walk through a beginner's guide to Urbit, geared towards cryptonatives. If you're into crypto, you may find a home here in Urbit! Founded in 2002 long before Bitcoin and Ethereum, Urbit is a platform that enables the creation and execution o...

Paul Frambot is the CoFounder and CEO at Morpho Labs. In this episode, we discuss the soon to be released Morpho Blue protocol, which promises to unlock a new foundation for DeFi lending. Morpho V1 is already the third largest lending platform on Ethereum with over $1B in deposited assets. However, the CoFounder of Morpho Labs explains why there are inherent limitations to the current DeFi lending...

Matthieu Gavaudan is the CoFounder and CEO at InfinityPools. In this episode, we review the up-and-coming DeFi perps protocol with 10X improvements and up to 10,000X leverage called InfinityPools. Before IF goes live in the coming months, Matthieu shares a sneak peak at the InfinityPools beta and how this zero-to-one innovation for decentralized perps trading will offer unlimited leverage on any a...

Joao Beraldo is the CoFounder and CEO of Jungle. In this episode, we uncover the art, science, and business of making Web3 games with Jungle, a new studio designed to accelerate the advent of web3 gaming. Jungle develops and publishes hybrid games that are mobile first and blockchain-enabled. Joao walks us of procuring, developing, and releasing gaming IP, including why Jungle believes Web3 elemen...

Jonathan Caras is a core contributor at Levana Protocol. In this episode, we spotlight Levana, the breakout perps trading app on Cosmos. Since launching this summer, Levana has become the fastest growing DeFi perps trading platform on Cosmos (Osmosis, Sei, and Injective), with a total trade volume of $300M. Today, Levana offers 9 crypto trading pairs with up to 30x leverage and 2 forex pairs with...

Jane Ma and Brian Fu are the CoFounders of zkLend. In this episode, we spotlight zkLend, StarkNet's native money market. zkLend is one of the new foundational DeFi applications on the Ethereum L2 StarkNet. zkLend is a money market where users can lend and borrow different assets like ETH, WBTC, stablecoins, and Lido stETH. ------ 🔗 Essential Show Links 🔗 ► Subscribe on Youtube: https://youtu...

Kamel Aouane is the CoFounder of Contango. In this Quick Hit, we spotlight a new approach to perps built on money markets, including the benefits and tradeoffs of this design in Contango V2. Kamel teaches us how cPerps are built though automating looping strategies using flash loans and how Contango can offer the most liquid futures markets, with the least volatile funding rate. ------ 🔗 Essentia...

Samyak Jain is the CoFounder of Instadapp. In this episode, we get a first look at Fluid, Instadapp's innovative, new lending, borrowing, and DEX protocol. Fluid looks to be one of the most promising zero-to-one innovations in DeFi in years! This is yet another episode where we offer listeners some real edge with access to details we would normally solicit as power-users of Instadapp. ------...

Aaron McDonald is the Founder and CEO of Futureverse. In this episode, we review Futureverse, where storytelling, AI, and the Metaverse collide! Futureverse is a leader in revolutionary metaverse and AI technologies that will enable open, scalable and interoperable apps, games, and experiences. If you’re familiar with the most popular NFT collections since 2021, Futureverse is the umbrella entity...

Gautham Santhosh is the CoFounder of Polynomial Protocol. In this episode, we review a rising contender in the DeFi perps trading sector--Polynomial Protocol. This spring, Polynomial launched its decentralized perps exchange on Optimism using Synthetix as its source of liquidity. Since then, Polynomial has seen enormous growth to become one of the top Synthetix perps trading frontends with a total...

Robert Lauko is the Founder and Head of Research at Liquity. Michael Svoboda is CEO at Liquity. In this episode, we dive into what we anticipate to be one of the most radical decentralized stablecoin upgrades–Liquity V2. Two years after launching what most of us regard as the most decentralized stablecoin in DeFi, LUSD, and having issued over $4.5b worth of interest free loans, it was recently ann...

Cooper Scanlon and Rushi Manche are CoFounders at Movement Labs. In this episode, we discuss how Movement Labs is helping to solve the cold start problem for non-EVM blockchains such as Aptos and Sui. Having recently come out of stealth, Movement Labs is building a modular framework to build and deploy Move-based infrastructure, applications, and blockchains in any distributed environment. If they...

Crouguer and Kmets are anonymous core contributors at AladdinDAO, which created f(x) Protocol. In this episode, we cover the newest ETH purist stablecoin and leverage tokens, fETH and xETH by f(x) Protocol. Over the last few years, many have learned how unreliable it is holding stablecoins backed by fiat currencies in a sovereign banking system. The team at AladdinDAO have recently launched a new...

Chef Mochi is the CoFounder and Head Chef of PancakeSwap. In this episode, we review PancakeSwap, the DeFi super-app and its expansion to Ethereum L2s. PancakeSwap has remained the most dominant DEX on BSC but in the past year, it has strategically begun to expand its reach to L2s and other chains such as, Arbitrum, zkSync Era, Base, and Linea. Chef Mochi is a legendary builder in DeFi and one of...

MrGone and Kalos are CoFounders of Parallel. In this episode, we dive into the origin story of Web3's breakout game--Parallel! Join us for a tour of the captivating sci-fi universe of Parallel and its digital trading card game (TCG), which has been in development for over 2 years. Having recently launched in closed beta, Parallel's flagship TCG is getting rave reviews with over 100k matche...

Simon Schaber is the Chief Commercial Officer of Spool DAO. In this episode, we cover how Spool V2 is automating DeFi returns all, including retail investors, banks, and institutional investors. Launched on Ethereum Mainnet in 2022, Spool is a fully permissionless and non-custodial DeFi middleware serving as the ultimate backend for your cryptoasset-based yields, with programmable risk models. Wit...

Fredegar Christensen is a BD Contributor at GMX. In this episode, we cover what's new in GMX V2 for traders and liquidity providers. Given its reputation as the top decentralized leverage perps trading platform on Arbitrum, with over $140B in trading volume since 2022, we walk through a bit of DeFi history on GMX V1. Afterwards, we walk through a detailed guide on all the improvements made in...

Ameeth Devadas is the CoFounder of Timeswap. In this episode, we cover how oracle-free lending and borrowing works with Timeswap. Similar to how Uniswap enabled the permissionless creation of trading pools, Timeswap is a fully decentralized money market protocol, aiming to make possible the permissionless creation of lending and borrowing markets, for any tokens, without the need for oracles. If T...

TN Lee is the CoFounder of Pendle Finance and a CoFounding member of Kyber Network. In this episode, we explain Pendle Finance and provide a rare guide to DeFi yield trading strategies within the increasingly popular protocol. Pendle was a breakout star in DeFi during the doldrums of the crypto bear market, and if you listen to the ethos behind TN Lee, you'll soon understand why. Pendle aims to re...

Seb Audet is the CoFounder of Zapper. In this episode, we discuss how can Zapper make the blockchain social. For years, Zapper has been a well known gateway to millions of users in DeFi and Web3. From DeFi Summer to now, Seb shares his experience and insights from the evolution of Zapper into a social web3 explorer, which allows users to follow the blockchain journey of other people in NFTs, DeFi...

Dion Chu is the Founder and CEO of Term Finance. In this Quick Hit, we review a new fixed rate auctions protocol on Ethereum, launching today (August 1st) on Ethereum. DeFi is known for its volatile variable interest rates. Term offers a new non-custodial fixed rate lending and borrowing protocol for a maturing DeFi markets that demand more predictable fixed rates, like those we find in traditiona...