The Rollup

It’s exciting to see how the multi-chain world is shaping up for 2022. As various chains gain more traction and user activity, the ability to perform cross-chain swaps is going to be an absolute must. Today we got to chat with Philip Zentner, the CEO and Co-Founder of Li(nked).Finance (Li. Finance), a protocol that seeks to interconnect the most crucial parts of DeFi, namely DEXes and Bridges to c...

As Decentralized Finance continues to progress, we’re beginning to see more DeFi primitives pop up in the form of structured products. One of these are fixed rates, a primitive that exists on TradFi that is starting to be explored in DeFi. With yield becoming harder to find, fixed-rate products offer the ability to turn risk assets into guaranteed yield generating assets. Today we talked with Tedd...

Despite the advancements in the DeFi sector, cases of flash loans, rugpulls, private key hacks and smart contract vulnerabilities continue to increase. Despite DeFi insurance protocols having been in the space since 2020, the model still has ways to go as collateralizing risk and offering coverage isn’t as simple as it seems. Today we talked with Dan Thomson the CMO of InsurAce, one of the fastest...

We truly believe the future of finance (and France!) is DeFi and what we are seeing built now in Web3. Its truly exciting and captivating at the same time, the Wild Wild West. The problem right now is the products we have built are insanely tough to use and interact with. We are seeing massive growth and we need to onboard the bigger part of the market, the boomers. We will do this with the help o...

The DEX space has seen a lot of changes since DeFi Summer. A lot of positive ones and some interesting experiments for sure. An OG in the DeFi space is Bancor who are working on their V3 protocol. Now, in this podcast we don't talk just about Bancor, we go over DEX tokenomics, the creation of proper emissions and inflation schedules, and how overall DeFi as a whole can create long-term sustain...

Scaling has often been a major pain point of Ethereum, the largest smart contract platform. However, the future is going to be a hotbed of innovation as Layer 2 scaling solutions such as Arbitrum, Optimism, Metis and Boba have been on the rise. Today we sat down and caught up with Jagdeep Sidhu, a core developer for Syscoin and Bradley Stephenson, a Syscoin Foundation Board Member. We discussed Sy...

The deployment of various scaling solutions has brought us an inch closer to on boarding the next wave of users to Ethereum. Today, we spoke with Will Harborne, an Ethereum OG whose worked on scaling Ethereum for years & also the Founder of DeversiFi, a layer 2 hub for DeFi built on top of StarkX, that allows users to trade, send funds, borrow & lend all without paying gas costs from your...

In the past couple of months, there’s been an explosion of DeFi projects. However, integrations between protocols are lacking and the current set of financial instruments are relatively simple compared to what we see in TradFi. One of these include, variable interest rates. Today, we got to talk to QiDao, one of the newer DeFi primitives that introduces fixed interest rates. Compared to variable i...

Lending & Borrowing has always been the very roots of Decentralized Finance. Combined with a multichain world and the numerous protocols to generate yield from, tracking and managing all these positions can be a pain, especially during volatile periods. Today we talked with Nikola Jankovic, an Ethereum OG and the Community Manager of DeFi Saver, an advanced one-stop management dashboard for cr...

As you know, there is a flock of capital coming into Web3 at an astounding pace. This is coming from institutions, high networth individuals, retail and more. Why? Because of the VIBES. Legit, web3 has been so much fun lately and everyone can see it. In this episode, we speak with serial internet entrepreneur Taylor Welch who is known for his online marketing empire. He is now absolutely enthralle...

It is no doubt that the crypto space has been growing at a tremendous rate this year with DeFi at the center of it all. Today we get to hear from Evgeny, the Co-Founder of Zerion, a platform that first started as a portfolio tracker and has since expanded to support numerous protocols and over a hundred thousand tokens. Currently, Zerion is one of the most used mobile applications allowing crypto...

NFTs continue to bask in the limelight with Twitter recently announcing its plan to allow users to showcase their NFTs on their profile and TikTok’s move towards launching its first ever NFT collection. These altogether have contributed to the massive inflow of users into crypto NFT space. Today, Andy and Rob interview Deeze, a crypto trader turned NFT trader turned community manager for Fractiona...

DAOs have been a hot topic as of late. As more people pour into the crypto space and learn how Web 3.0 works, the more users there are that begin to explore, contribute and even create DAOs of their own. Today, Andy and Rob interview Spencer Graham, product manager for DAOHaus, a platform that facilitates individual DAOs and supercharges what they can accomplish by creating a supportive ecosystem...

2021 has really been the year of cross-chain solutions. Amongst all the chain-specific liquidity mining incentive programs, few seem to realize that there is one chain in particular whose ecosystem is far bigger than most realize and has been influential in the creation of most of the chains we know now. Today, Andy and Rob interview Peng Zhong, the CEO of Tendermint, a core contributor to the Cos...

DeFi has always been about creating open and decentralized financial systems with transparency at the very core of it. However, it should not come at the cost of everything having to be transparent. Today, Andy and Rob have a chat with Tor Bair from the Secret Foundation to discuss why privacy is the next phase of Web3 and DeFi, how the Secret Network is best positioned to fulfill user’s demand fo...

The #Rush is here.  Avalanche is the Layer 1 blockchain competing alongside Ethereum for liquidity in DeFi. With billions of dollars in TVL, Avalanche is one of the most trusted sources for consistent DeFi transactions. Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, co-founder of Avalanche, unpacks his multichain thesis for why Avalanche is poised for long-term success.  Despite all the recent interest around Avalanche pro...

It’s a rockstar week in DeFi as several chains surge in activity. Incentive programs across the multichain are motivating users to cross bridges and try out new farms. While innovation in DeFi pushes new heights, lets not forget what started it all… Bitcoin is the core of our industry and its resilience keeps the crypto world spinning. Badger Finance is led by a tenacious community of honey badger...

Multi-chain Season is rockin n rollin.  The institutional wave of liquidity is pushing DeFi to new levels. In this one we catch up with Will Harborne, from one of the OG Layer 2 DEX’s, DeversiFi.   DeversiFi brings a system of DEX contracts on a robust Layer 2 network. Check out updates on DAO governance and instant instant polygon transfers below: 𝗪𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝗯𝗶𝗮𝘀...

The world is waking up to DeFi.  Recent news in the political sphere has elevated cryptocurrencies to a new, more significant, place in the minds of everyday folks. Crypto is now gaining the attention of legislators, for better or worse. There has never been a more opportune time for education.  Our mantra across the ecosystem is Collaboration over Competition; through this mentality we bring the...

August is off to a bangin’ start! EIP1559 went off without a hitch yesterday. Stay connected on Twitter to keep up with all the updates as we follow this historic Ethereum Hard Fork.  DeFi continues to flourish at an increasing pace and shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, adoption of EIP1559 shows the network is as resilient as ever.  Now, applications of DeFi primitives are spreading into mo...

If you’re a crypto native you know how the game works by now. We saw Bitcoin and Ethereum spark an initial wave of innovation. Now, DeFi is leveraging these early blockchains to unlock nascent markets with additional tools. Baked into these early blockchains are certain ecosystem standards. Agoric is breaking these standards to bring a blockchain with a coding language familiar to traditional prog...

Navigating DeFi is increasingly difficult as the ecosystem evolves with more complex products. Advanced AMM tech, scalable smart contracts - all that’s great but it gets overwhelming for a newcomer. OH! Finance takes all the best parts of DeFi (high yield, verifiable liquidity) and bundles them into 1 universal button for easy access. This all-in-one DeFi platform makes crypto digestible for the p...

It’s middle of the Summer and no doubt cryptocurrencies are starting to heat up again. NFT’s are continuing their blazing pace, and Layer 2 networks are anticipated to make a splash towards the end of this month. The transition from Centralized Finance (CeFi) to Decentralized Finance (DeFi) sometimes looks like a revolution. We picture the flow into DeFi as a peaceful transfer of capital simply fo...

A major part of the ethos in DeFi is Collaboration over Competition. As the native DeFi protocols grow more and more complex, collaboration amongst founding teams, educators, and users becomes increasingly more important. It is from this collaborative intuition that we have seen some teams grow into flourishing communities with massive TVL, while other teams remain isolated in their niche. Althoug...

This might be hard to believe… but we are still early. Bitcoin has taken on the role of Digital Hard Money, however Ethereum has the potential to tap into the gigantic structured product layer of Traditional Finance. The Perp Fi team is bridging the transfer of wealth between Traditional Finance and DeFi. Its no secret — the derivatives market far outweighs the volume of capital stored in hard mon...