Wallfacer Podcast

Episode Description Today’s guest is David Reising, founder and CEO of Lotus Protocol. Ryan and David get into why isolated lending markets keep converging on the same handful of pairs, how Lotus prices risk on liquidation thresholds, and why the recent string of DeFi exploits (Aave, Resolv, Stream Finance) is forcing a real rethink of how curators underwrite collateral. They also cover productive...

Episode Description Today’s guest is Joey Isaacson, co-founder and CEO of Nook, a consumer savings app that connects everyday users to DeFi lending markets on Base. Joey spent five years at Coinbase leading design on earn, staking, and lending before building Nook to reach the 99.9% of people who’ve never touched DeFi. We talk about finding users on TikTok and Reddit instead of Crypto Twitter, why...

Episode Description Today’s guests are Arthur Breitman (co-founder of Tezos), Owen (Hasheur) Simonin (CEO of Meria), and Dmitriy Kovalevskiy (founder of Hanji). Recorded live at TezDev 2026 in Cannes, the panel covers why crypto yields remain structurally higher than traditional markets, the real obstacles keeping fintechs from offering DeFi yield, and whether tokenized commodities or tokenized st...

Today’s guest is Jeremiah Smith, co-founder and CEO of OpenCover. Jeremiah explains why less than 0.05% of DeFi TVL is insured, walks through how OpenCover’s new “covered vaults” primitive eliminates the upfront cost and manual renewal problems that killed DeFi insurance adoption, and breaks down the Nexus Mutual underwriting stack that backs it all. Ryan and Jeremiah also discuss the Resolv USR f...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Today’s guest is Octave Mesnard, Head of Strategy and Consumer Products at Jumper Exchange. We discuss Jumper’s evolution from a thin cross-chain swap interface into a full on-chain consumer hub, the real challenges of building consumer DeFi products at the right time, and why Octave thinks the multi-chain future will consolidate around far fewer chains than anyone expected. G...

Today’s guest is Sébastien Derivaux, co-founder of Steakhouse Financial. We discuss the evolution of real-world assets in DeFi from MakerDAO’s pioneering experiments to today’s institutional-grade credit infrastructure, the recent mF-ONE private credit controversy and what it reveals about risk management in tokenized assets, and how Steakhouse built a $1B+ vault curation business on Morpho. Seb s...

Today's guest is Andrew Keys, co-founder and chairman of The Ether Machine and managing partner of DARMA Capital. We discuss why crypto treasury companies offer superior returns to ETFs through active yield generation, the structural limitations preventing ETFs from capturing Ethereum's full economic value, and Andrew's $654 million bet on Ethereum's future as the infrastructure for a decentralize...

Today's guest is Rob Montgomery, co-founder and CEO of InfiniFi. We discuss how fractional reserve banking principles can revolutionize DeFi yields, the symbiotic relationship between InfiniFi and Pendle, and why traditional finance assets may finally have a compelling reason to migrate on-chain. Rob shares insights on building automated asset-liability matching systems and his vision for bringing...

Today's guests are John Morrow, COO and Co-founder of Gauntlet, and Holt Butler, Product Lead for Gauntlet USD Alpha. We discuss Gauntlet's evolution from protocol risk consultants to direct vault operators managing $700M+, the emerging "vault curator" role in DeFi, and how they're bridging TradFi and DeFi through products like gtUSDa. We also explore the competitive dynamics reshaping DeFi lendin...

Today's guest is Ivan Kozlov, co-founder of Resolv Protocol. We discuss how Resolv has been successful with tranching, their yield-bearing stablecoin architecture, and why most TradFi instruments fail when transplanted to crypto. Ivan shares his contrarian take on distribution strategies and his ambitious vision to "stablecoinize" hedge funds, credit funds, and eventually everything. GUEST LINKS:...

Today's guests are @DeFi_Dad and @Nomaticcap, co-hosts of The Edge Podcast, authors of The Edge newsletter, and prominent angel investors. We discuss the foundational role of Bitcoin ideology in shaping the crypto industry, why Ethereum is "woefully undervalued," and the gap between crypto narratives and reality in today's market. Plus, where they're placing their angel investment bets in 2025. Gu...

Please like, subscribe, and leave a positive review. It helps us get the show in front of more listeners and viewers ( Apple , Spotify , YouTube ) Today’s guest is Dion Chu, Co-founder and CEO of Term Finance, a fixed-rate lending protocol. Term has raised over 7mm led by Electric Capital. Their token just recently went live and is trading on top exchanges like Kraken * Ryan: https://x.com/RyanRod...

Today’s guest is Nik Kunkel, the founder and CEO of Chronicle Labs. Nik is a long-time contributor to MakerDAO and an early builder in the oracle space. * Nik: https://x.com/nomos_paradox * Chronicle: https://x.com/ChronicleLabs * Ryan: https://twitter.com/RyanRodenbaugh * Wallfacer: https://x.com/wallfacerlabs * vaults.fyi: https://twitter.com/vaultsfyi Timestamps: * 00:00 Introduction to Nik Kun...

Today’s guest is Sam MacPherson, co-founder and CEO of Phoenix Labs, the core contributors to the Spark Protocol. Sam is also a long-time contributor to Sky, previously known as MakerDAO Sam: https://x.com/hexonaut Spark: https://x.com/sparkdotfi Ryan: https://twitter.com/RyanRodenbaugh Wallfacer: https://x.com/wallfacerlabs vaults.fyi : https://twitter.com/vaultsfyi Timestamps:  00:00: Introducti...

How are stablecoins reshaping the financial stack? Ryan chats with Luca Prosperi about reimagining the financial stack from first principles, why separation between money creation and distribution matters, and how M^0's enables both DeFi protocols and fintech apps to build better products. Follow our guests:  https://x.com/LucaProsperi https://x.com/m0foundation And try out Wallfacer’s latest...

How is Euler Finance becoming DeFi's global liquidity layer?  Ryan Rodenbaugh chats with Michael Bentley about reimagining DeFi infrastructure through modular design, what’s driving the protocol’s high yields, and why more builders are choosing Euler as their foundation. Follow our guests:  https://x.com/euler_mab https://x.com/eulerfinance And try out Wallfacer’s latest release: https://app....

@RyanRodenbaugh sat down with @MattFiebach of @EntropyAdvisors in our latest podcast!  They discussed how the Entropy team is accelerating the @arbitrum DAO, the current OpCo proposal, & the world of decentralized governance.  Timestamps 00:00 - What is Entropy Advisors? 01:59 - Why Arbitrum? 05:54 - Who contributes to Arbitrum today? 08:02 - Which Arbitrum competitors stand out? 12:11 - Offch...

🎙️ Join @RyanRodenbaugh and @DeFi_Made_Here in our latest podcast.  They discussed @0xFluid’s approach to DeFi, @Instadapp’s evolution, and more! Timestamps 00:00 - DMH’s background 04:40 - What is Fluid? 07:09 - Instadapp’s evolution 09:05 - Fluid’s design 10:40 - How the Liquidity Layer works 12:35 - Risk in Fluid’s ecosystem 14:55 - Fluid’s competitive rates  16:03 - How Fluid utilizes capital ...

RyanRodenbaugh caught up with @saltyfacu of @yearn/@built_by_mom in our latest podcast!  They discussed @yearn's OG culture, its evolution, future direction, and explored Facu's builder collective @built_by_mom. 00:00 - Facu’s background 03:30 - Yearn’s OG culture 05:00 - Outcomes of pseudo anonymity  07:06 - Yearn’s structure today 09:51 - How Yearn’s culture has evolved 12:00 - DeFi Su...

🎙️ In our latest episode, @RyanRodenbaugh talks with @mattimost of @ReserveProtocol.  They discuss the appeal of index products in DeFi, growing and governing a healthy stablecoin protocol, onboarding crypto-natives vs mainstream users, and more! Timestamps 00:00 - Introduction 03:03 - Index products in DeFi 07:47 - Reserve’s user profiles 12:04 - Crypto-native vs mainstream product design 15:30 -...

Today’s guest is Evgeny Yurtaev, the Co-Founder and CEO of Zerion. Zerion is a crypto wallet for everything onchain. Zerion has also recently announced that they are building ZERO, a Layer 2 network that is designed to offer zero fees 00:00: Introduction  00:40: Defining a modern crypto wallet  06:00: Views on crypto + social  09:15: Defining Zerion's target users  11:40: Wallets, wallets, wa...

In this episode, @definikola from DeFi Saver joins us to discuss balancing quality and quantity, catching blue-chip protocols early, and DeFi Saver's business model. We also touch on the dominance of blue-chip apps, the importance of user control and what’s next for DeFi Saver. 00:00 - Introduction to DeFi Saver 02:55 - Balancing quality and quantity 04:51 - New products and new users 07:07 -...

In our latest podcast, we sat down with Sefton Kincaid of @cicadacredit! We discussed the past, present and future of onchain credit, as well as Cicada’s recent partnership with @TrueFiDAO 🎙️ 00:00 - Sefton’s background 04:40 - The efficiencies of DeFi protocols 09:44 - The history of crypto credit 17:20 - Collateralized vs uncollateralized credit 18:30 - TrueFi and Maple’s appeal 21:55 - Crypto c...

Today’s guest is Regan Bozman. Regan is the co-founder of Lattice, an early-stage crypto venture fund.  Regan Bozman:  Learn more: https://twitter.com/reganbozman https://www.lattice.fund/ 00:00 - Regan’s background 01:56 - ICO takeaways 05:25 - Changes in the crypto investor landscape 13:40 - Improvements in the space 16:33 - Building for the current crypto audience 19:45 - Lattice’s founding the...

Today's guest is Wesley Pryor, the founder of Acheron Trading, a digital asset market maker.   You can learn more about Wesley on X: https://twitter.com/wes_dewayne And his firm on their blog: https://acherontrading.com/blog 00:00 - The role of market makers 06:00 - Listing tokens on exchanges 08:13 - How market makers get paid 14:06 - Market making in crypto vs traditional finance 17:25 - Th...