In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard speaks with Noah Litvin, a Core Contributor at Synthetix. They talk about Synthetix's vision of revolutionizing derivatives trading in the crypto space by providing innovative solutions. Summary Synthetix tackles the challenge of trading derivatives in a crypto-native way, expanding beyond spot tr…

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard speaks with Ramon Recuero, Co-Founder and CEO of Mamori Labs, which is developing Kinto. Tune in to learn how Kinto bridges TradFi to DeFi and paves the way for institutional adoption by introducing the first Layer 2 solution with chain-level KYC and addressing concerns about scams, hacks, and tra…

Summary Willy Woo is managing partner at Crest and SyzCrest, a fund that builds financial products to give higher yield than T-bills by harvesting the volatility in crypto. Willy Woo and Piers discuss various aspects of trading, covering topics like price predictions, the balance between intuition and data when building predictive models, and the s…

Summary The Boson Protocol is a Web3 decentralized commerce layer that allows anyone to tokenize and exchange any physical thing as an NFT. Currently deployed on Ethereum and Polygon, they have recently signed a strategic partnership with WooCommerce, WordPress's eCommerce arm. Justin's journey into the DeFi ecosystem began with him wondering what …

This episode of the DeFi Download with host Piers Ridyard features Robert Lauko, founder and head of research at Liquity. Tune in to discover how Liquity is addressing the stablecoin trilemma and reshaping the crypto space with game-changing innovations ranging from principal protection to improved peg stability. Summary Liquity is a pioneering DeF…

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard is joined by Ben Hart, CTO, and Amir, blossoming Scrypto developer at MLabs. Ben and Amir share their experience with different programming languages and platforms, such as Haskell, Plutus, Rust, and Scrypto. Summary MLabs is a Haskell, Rust, and Blockchain AI consultancy working with various indu…

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Cyrille Pastour, co-founder of Swaap. Cyrille and Piers discuss the inner workings of the automated market maker that is designed to protect liquidity providers by dynamically responding to the market. Summary Swaap provides yield to liquidity providers by utilising cutting-edge market-…

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Tommy Johnson, Core Contributor of PsyFi, joins Piers Ridyard to discuss their two-sided DeFi marketplace for structured products, which allows users to earn yield on their assets and traders to hedge or leverage their portfolio. Summary PsyFi offers products such as covered calls, secured puts, and spread stru…

In this DeFi Download podcast episode, Piers Ridyard interviews David Garai, founder of Raft. Raft is a stablecoin protocol similar to MakerDAO, but it is backed by liquid staking tokens. Piers and David talk about the potential of liquid staking and its role in DeFi, as well as concerns about centralization. Summary Raft is a decentralised stablec…

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard talks with Lasha Antadze, co-founder of Rarify Labs. They explore the growing value of identity across digital ecosystems, the challenges of portable identity in the crypto space, and the benefits of Rarimo's interoperability protocol for application builders. Summary Rarify Labs focuses on creati…

With Oliver Linch, CEO In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard talks with Oliver Linch, CEO of Bittrex Global, about the advantages and disadvantages of centralised and decentralised exchanges, the company's history of operating in the cryptocurrency market, and its legal challenges with the SEC. Summary Bittrex Global is a successful c…

Mark Richardson, the project lead at Bancor, joins Piers Ridyard to discuss Carbon, the next stage in DEX evolution, in this episode of the DeFi Download. Carbon provides order book-like functionality on-chain and has already seen over 100 strategies created since its launch on April 20th. Summary From Bancor V1 to Uniswap, the evolution of cryptoc…

Michael Videtto, co-founder of Astrolescent, a decentralised exchange aggregator, is Piers Ridyard's guest on this week's episode of the DeFi Download Podcast. Piers and Michael discuss the launch of USDA, the first fully collateralized stablecoin on Radix. Summary Michael Videtto, Astrolescent's co-founder, has a background in physics and electric…

Summary On this episode of the podcast, Piers talks with Will Jones, founder of Paper Street Capital, about his experiences with Scrypto and the future of decentralised development. Paper Street Capital is a crypto investor who came from TradFi and follows the same fundamental principles that worked in the traditional space, but now in Web3, bettin…

In this episode of the DeFi Download podcast, Piers Ridyard and Bruno Škvorc, the founder of RMRK, delve into the RMRK NFT 2.0 standard and the Singular marketplace, which is designed to showcase the possibilities of NFT 2.0s. They also talk about marketing challenges and Bruno’s hope for widespread technology adoption. Summary RMRK (pronounced “re…

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard and Evgeny Yurtaev, CEO and co-founder of Zerion, discuss the importance of smart wallets that help users avoid mistakes, the upcoming Zerion extension release, and the challenges of designing a user-friendly onboarding process for Web3. Summary Zerion is a Web3 non-custodial crypto wallet and ass…

This week’s DeFi Download Podcast features Juan-David Mendieta, co-founder of Keyrock. Piers Ridyard and Juan-David discuss Keyrock's market-making services and the potential of DeFi to create a more equitable and accessible financial system. Summary Keyrock is a market maker that facilitates the adoption of tokenized economies. It trades on over 8…

In the latest episode of the DeFi Download podcast, the CEO and co-founder of DappRadar, Skirmantas Januškas, was interviewed by Piers about the origins of his platform and the challenges of tracking dApps in the ever-changing landscape of the blockchain industry. Summary In recent years, the industry of Web3 decentralised applications (dApps) has …

In this episode of the DeFi Download podcast, Piers talks with Pol Lanski, Project Lead of Dappnode, about the benefits of running a validator node in a decentralised network like Ethereum or Bitcoin, and how Dappnode makes it simple for anyone to do so. Summary Dappnode is a platform that allows users to run validator nodes and participate in dece…

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Ahmed Wael Ismail, Founder and CEO of FLUID, an AI-based liquidity aggregator for CeFi and DeFi. In the interview, Ahmed discusses FLUID's liquidity aggregation platform and how it works to solve the problem of highly fragmented liquidity in the crypto market. Summary FLUID is an AI-bas…

With Omar Yehia In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard discusses investing with applied mathematician Omar Yehia. They explore issues in academia, the importance of trust in crypto, and how to approach investing by examining personal assumptions and moving away from biases, while considering the trade-offs of decentralisation and the c…

With Mohamed Fouda, Alliance DAO Contributor In this special edition of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard is joined by Mohamed Fouda, the head of research at Alliance DAO and co-founder of Volt Capital, as well as Matthew Hines, Chief Product Officer of RDX Works. The focus of the discussion is parallel execution within the realm of decentralised fi…

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard is joined by Matthew Graham, founder, and CEO of Sino Global Capital, to discuss macrotrends, the significance of the Chinese market for cryptocurrencies, the repercussions of GitHub's ban on the Tornado Cash code, and the struggles and opportunities arising from de-globalization. Chapters [01:03]…

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard chats with Aleksander Larsen, co-founder of Sky Mavis, makers of Axie Infinity, the largest blockchain game to date, which at its peak had over 2.7 million daily active users. Discussion topics include the criticality of the social aspect of gaming, the challenges of creating an interoperable worl…

In this week's episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard talks with Lane Kasselman, the president of Blockchain.com. They talk about Lane's experiences leading a rapidly expanding multi-services platform, the reasoning behind Blockchain.com's focus on user-friendliness, and the differences in cryptocurrency adoption across the world. Chapters 00:…

What can we learn from the experience of a Web3 incubator and advisory firm? Find out in this episode of the DeFi Download podcast, in which Piers Ridyard interviews Gaurav Dubey, the CEO of TDeFi, a Web3 metaverse and crypto services incubator and consulting company. TDeFi is a subsidiary of a larger ecosystem, TradeDog. TradeDog is an institution…

CoinFund is a crypto-native investment firm and registered investment advisor. The team specialises in portfolio management, token design, decentralised networks, as well as research, trading, market structure, engineerings, brand strategy, law, and regulation. CoinFund has made investments in a number of different projects, some of which include D…

The CEO and founder of ShareRing, Tim Bos, is the guest on this episode of the DeFi Download with host Piers Ridyard. Some of the subjects covered include how blockchain technology may benefit identity verification, how ShareRing manages the storing of personal information, and what the future holds for digital ID. ShareRing is a digital identity b…

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard speaks with John Chen, Senior Advisor of Umbrella Network, and Philippe Engels, Partnerships and BD Manager. What sets Umbrella apart from other oracles, how it functions, and what the future has in store for it are some of the topics of their conversation. Umbrella Network is a community-owned de…

In this episode of the DeFi Download podcast, listen to Piers Ridyard and Justin Trollip discuss the development of the first DEX on Avalanche, Pangolin Exchange, the project’s mission, and the challenges the team encountered. Piers Ridyard interviews Justin Trollip, Chief Herder of Pangolin. Pangolin is a multichain Decentralised Exchange (DEX) in…

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Zaki Manian, co-founder of Sommelier and Iqlusion. They talk about his path from Cosmos to Sommelier, DeFi's revolutions and end state, and what sets this new system apart from TradFi. Zaki Manian is co-founder of Sommelier and Iqlusion. Using Cosmos technology, Sommelier makes it possi…

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Brian Pellegrino, co-founder, and CEO of LayerZero Labs, the team behind LayerZero, a generalised cross-chain messaging protocol, as well as Stargate, a cross-chain liquidity transfer layer. LayerZero is an omni-chain interoperability protocol. It is intended for lightweight message tra…

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard is joined by Florian and Lukas, co-founders of Ociswap. Ociswap is the first Radix native decentralised exchange going live with Babylon with a focus on concentrated liquidity, capital efficiency and protocol-owned liquidity. For exchanging your preferred cryptocurrencies on RadixDLT, Ociswap will…

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Professor Campbell Harvey, Professor of Finance at Duke University, and co-author of DeFi and the future of finance. Campbell R. Harvey graduated from the University of Chicago with a PhD in finance. He held the position of Editor of The Journal of Finance, one of the most prestigious j…

Piers Ridyard is joined by Chris Zhu of Mirror World, in this episode of the DeFi Download. Piers and Chris examine interoperable gaming through the use of blockchain technology. Chris Zhu is the founder and CEO of Mirror World. Mirror World is a game matrix powered by a mobile SDK layer that accelerates Web3 game development. Mirror World essentia…

With Julien Bouteloup, Founder of Stake Capital Group, Stake DAO, BlackPool Finance, rekt.news, and Curve core team member In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard of RDX Works and Julien Bouteloup of Stake Capital and Rekt News discuss his background and experience in the crypto space and analyse the current threats to DeFi governance, …

Josh is one of Radix’s most senior and longest-standing developers. Piers sits down with him for a chat, just like they did at South by Southwest in Texas, only this time in the studio. [0:47] Where did Josh go to university and what did he study there? [3:47] What courses or subjects stand out the most in terms of teaching Josh principles that he …

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard and Reggie Middleton debate the concept of patents and how they fit into the ethos of open source in the world of DeFi. Reggie Middleton is Disruptor in Chief, 2013 founder of DeFi, holding active patents in bothJapan and the USA. He is also a predictor of booms and busts and an inventor of P2P ca…

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard is joined by Tascha Che, macroeconomist and founder of Soundwise. They discuss the enormous potential of Web3 from a macroeconomic standpoint. Tascha holds a PhD in macroeconomics and has extensive experience in macroeconomic consultancy. She advises countries on their economic policies as part of…

All view expressed by Alex are their own and are not endorsed by Radix Publishing; please note, this interview was filmed prior to allegations being made against the interviewee In this special edition of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Alex Mashinsky, CEO of Celsius, about what's going on in the market today. Alex addresses everyone's …

Piers Ridyard is joined by Jordi and Guillem, the founders and CEO and CTO of Potion.Finance, in this episode of the DeFi Download. They talk about automated risk management, the Kelly criterion, and how an automated strategy can be embedded into the bonding curve. Potion.Finance is democratizing risk management. Potion safeguards the DeFi ecosyste…

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Josh Tobkin, CEO of SupraOracles. SupraOracles is supercharging oracles for a better, decentralised future by building better, faster, more accurate, and more secure on-chain sources of off-chain data. Josh's background in supply chains and start-ups, as well as his blockchain research,…

Piers Ridyard interviews Redfoo, a multi-award-winning artist best known for being a member of the musical duo LMFAO, in this episode of the DeFi Download. In this interview, Redfoo dissects his journey into coding, his passion for programming, the crypto, blockchain, and DeFi space, and building with Radix and Scrypto. In the middle of June 2022, …

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Alex Mashinsky, co-founder and CEO of Celsius. Alex shares his vision for Celsius, as well as his passion for value creation and giving back to the people who couldn’t make it. Celsius is a yield and loan platform that allows users to earn interest on their crypto assets as well as rece…

Piers Ridyard interviews Patrick Hansen, Head of Strategy & Business Development at Unstoppable Finance, the wallet that aims to bring DeFi to the masses, in this episode of the DeFi Download. Patrick analyses why the EU should fully embrace crypto and Web3, as well as the current regulatory environment, which is stifling progress. The Unstoppable …

Digivault - institutionals are getting serious about crypto With Robert Cooper, CEO of Digivault In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Robert Cooper, CEO of Digivault. Their conversation covers institutional digital asset custody, private key multi-layer security, and the current interest institutions have in crypto. Digiva…

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Jazzer, the founder of DeFi Plaza. Jazzer discusses his path to developing DeFi Plaza, his engagement with Radix, and his efforts to create a highly optimised DEX with the lowest gas costs per trade. DeFi Plaza is an Ethereum-based decentralised exchange that is 50 to 65 per cent cheape…

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Humayun Sheikh, co-founder, and CEO of Fetch.ai. They discuss the role of Fetch.ai in democratizing AI, as well as machine learning and automation tools in blockchain and DeFi platforms. Fetch.ai is an artificial intelligence and machine learning based blockchain platform populated with…

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Breno, founder of Boto, a platform for building bot-based automations for both developers and non-developers in DeFi and Web3. Boto's goal is to democratise bots by establishing a community in which both developers and non-developers can create and share automation. To accomplish this, …

Lisk: a multi-year journey through the early layer 1 wars and the lessons learnt. With Max Kordek, CEO & Co-Founder of Lisk In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Max Kordek, co-founder of Lisk. Lisk, a blockchain application platform founded in 2016, is a decentralised public Layer-1 that aims to make blockchain technology …