The Rollup

While many will be overly excited about the bull run that we will see in 2021, so much of the activity and innovation will be happening in stablecoins. Yes, just plain ol’ stablecoins… …or, economically complex systems designed to reward liquidity providers using elastic supply mechanisms to keep incentives aligned so market participants naturally act to maintain stability of the token. A massive...

Happy friggen New Years, what a year we’ve had! Its been a week or so since we’ve posted any content here! I’ll tell ya its a good superpower to completely turn business ‘off’ for a week and do nothing. That’ll clear your brain out and get you focused. Anywho, today’s NYE and you know were about to get into some shenanigans this evening…lets first educate ourselves on a token distribution platform...

Whattttttta week we have had in crypto. DeFi has blossomed further and there are more innovations happening than ever. Thats exactly what Mona El Lisa (pretty dope name, eh?) is building at Enzyme Finance. What used to be Melon Protocol before the new rebrand and upcoming v2 release is now Enzyme Finance . Its lit. In this episode, we dive into the capabilities of on-chain asset management and wha...

Amidst a sea of new DeFi projects which have launched in the last 3 months, there have been a few notable standouts. We definitely think Alpha Finance fits that category as its launched a game changing product: Leveraged yield farming. (Like we weren’t already taking enough risks…lol) Seriously though, $ALPHA token has seen a 10x price appreciation since our explainer video 2 months ago. TVL in th...

DeFi TVL just crossed $15B TVL and is now above $17B. Seventeen billion dollars. And if the trend is any indicator of what’s to come $100B TVL is simply just a matter of time. However being in a nascent industry led by coding genius’ and TradFi traders, the risks are aplenty. So, we sat down with Roxana Danila , CTO of Nexus Mutual, to discuss securing the DeFi space with Nexus Mutual Insurance Co...

There is literally a whole new world being built on top of Ethereum right now, its nuts. Absolutely nuts. In today’s episode of the cast, Robbie had the chance to catch up with Henrik Andersson from dHedge , the decentralized fund management platform. Decentralized asset management is really an insane concept. Its non-custodial. Its trustless. Its permissionless. Its accessible to ANYONE in the wo...

We don’t even have to say it. You’re all thinking it. Yeah, new portfolio ATH is fun isn’t it? Let’s not get rekt. Today we’ll uncover a way to help analyze data on-chain and make educated decisions. A very in-depth deep dive into on-chain analytics, growing startups, and building open source projects with Dune Analytics co-founder, Fredrik Haga . Fredrik’s a dope dude and Dune is a paradise platf...

We’ve recently seen all the proof that we need as a world to understand why we NEED Web 3.0 sooner than later. Fake news, Twitter censorship, data hacking and selling, market manipulations, Apple kicking Fortnite off the app store (lol come on now)… We are currently living in a world where our digital freedoms are being taken. I don’t blame the companies which are doing so, it aligns with their ca...

Think of every large company or corporation that you know of… There’s C-level executives with their names everywhere, people who work there with ID numbers and name tags. But something has been changing in the crypto space that could be a monumental shift in the way we do business. First we have psuedonymity, where your name or face is somewhat real but its not fully you. Going even deeper there’s...

This one is awesome. We had the pleasure of chatting with Qiao Wang , a “semi-retired entrepreneur and quant trader, currently helping startups to grow”. Qiao is able to formulate his ideas and thoughts on the greater markets into easy to understand bits and pieces for anyone to learn from. We know we did! In this episode we dive into the ins and outs of DeFi markets a whole, institutional interes...

A really unique episode here, our friend Antonio from the Gator Blockchain Club at the University of Florida. He pioneered the club and really myself & Robbie’s interest in the decentralized finance world. Now, Antonio is working on Bittips & trying to educate as many as he can on the new era of digital assets. In this episode, Robbie & Antonio dive into the applications of Bitcoin int...

It seems like we’ve been talking about scaling Ethereum & high gas fees for awhile now eh? L2 this, zkRollup that…StarkWare here ‘n there. The good news? These guys Ben & Ross understand the L2 landscape better than most & shared a helluva lot of great info with us on this episode. The bad news? We only did 40 mins of recording…feel like we could’ve gone on for hours! In this episode w...

There’s many sides to building a successful protocol in this new community-driven, results-based, revenue-generating DeFi world. Too often investors, speculators, and users drink the Kool-Aid and focus on ‘changing the world’ rather than ‘building a good product and massive community’. But ultimately thats what were after here: Long term sustainability through a killer product. And that’s exactly...

Its happening. It really is. Ethereum is gearing up for a mainstream mania push & were at the forefront of the technology necessary to make it possible. Welcome to the new world of L2 scaling, a much needed relief. See here’s the thing, when new people learn about DeFi and see the 500+ gwei gas prices ($40 for a simple Uniswap tx), there’s no way in hell they are going to participate. Introduc...

Its obvious. Bitcoin on Ethereum is absolutely blowing up . There’s no doubt about it. We are seeing massive yield farms pop up all over the place leaving the the Bitcoiners hanging out on the BTC chain wondering what they’re doing leaving their BTC unproductive while everyone else is farming food coins. More important than the flashy, short-lived xx,xxx% APYs is the ability to use assets cross-ch...

Derivatives trading make up one of the largest industries in the entire financial world. Would you believe Opium is working on olive oil futures? Ha, we didn’t either until we realized what Opium is trying to do can totally change the way derivatives are looked at. The integrations between CeFi and DeFi are coming & Opium is at the ground floor. Learn what Andrey and the Opium Team are prepari...

The real future of the decentralized finance world is adoption, mass adoption. Aave just announced a full-on fiat on ramp , Binance has listed 10+ DeFi assets in the last few weeks, and Coinbase has been offering steady 1.25% APYs on USDC for months now. The hype is here already. Now, we build the stepping stones and pave the foundation for the future. Still, though, one of the biggest challenges...

Aave is the workhorse of the DeFi space, and none better than Marc Zeller behind the scenes getting it done! Seriously though, this fella is a must follow on Twitter. In this episode we chat about what makes Aave so special, the future of DeFi, and more. We learned a lot and you will too. Remember why we do this: Were on the route to take the power back into our hands once and for all. We’re optin...

Jason Wu is an experienced blockchain architect, project manager and digital finance entrepreneur. Jason has quickly established himself as a subject matter expert and adviser to numerous organizations in the areas of token economics, smart contact integration and blockchain architecture. In 2018, Jason established Definer.org lending platform to simplify the process of decentralized digital curre...

Welcome to episode #2 of the DeFi By Design Podcast! On today’s episode we had the opportunity to host Kenton Prescott ! Kenton is an Integrations Engineer at the  Maker  Foundation, which developed the Maker Protocol and is actively contributing to the MakerDAO ecosystem. Dai is an Ethereum-based stablecoin, pegged to the USD. It’s the world’s first global unbiased digital cash and is the core fe...

Welcome to the first episode of the DeFi By Design Podcast. In this shorter-than-usual episode, you’ll meet your podcast hosts Rob & Andrew! They discuss governance tokens, lending protocols and what they expect to see in the near future. Tune in now! 𝗪𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝗯𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱, 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺. 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻...