Interview @ DeFi Blog

Interview with Joe Sticco, co-founder of Cryptex Finance

KyberSwap is a DEX aggregator designed to provide the best token prices for traders across multiple exchanges, and maximizing earnings for liquidity providers using capital efficient AMM, in one decentralized platform

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Potion is a web3 dapp that helps create automatic insurance markets where buyers and sellers come together and trade at mathematically sustainable prices

Co-founder of Phuture, Oliver talks about the challenges of developing a rebalancing engine when you have to find equilibrium between cost and decentralized execution

Solend founder on how they went from an idea to mainnet in 3 months, with the lending protocol built on top of Solana.

Pascal explained how Synthereum protocol enables 0-slippage swaps with deep liquidity and scalability

Sergey about building a one-click DeFi asset manager, on top of Ethereum and Polygon, that would enable an easy purchase and getting a yield for already purchased assets

Founders of APWine shared how they get into crypto and what we could do when we can tokenize the yield

Joe shared TCAP backstory and told us how the market of basketed derivatives looks like in 2021

George told us how Step Finance team building the first Solana-based DeFi portfolio manager

0xJohnny told us how they are building the first DeFi 401(k) pension service on Ethereum

Today, we talked with Charles about his journey from the Fintech industry to DeFi and how Shield is building a one-of-a-kind decentralized protocol for future derivatives infrastructure

Robert told us about Liquity - governance free and censorship-resistant interest-free borrowing protocol

daVinci is an eco-friendly NFT marketplace platform on Harmony, where the user can create NFT with 2 seconds finality

Ororo shared Sovryn backstory, and told us how they are building a bitcoin-based DeFi platform for seamless lending and borrowing

Claude told us about Euro stablecoin and token issuance protocol they are building at Mimo

What are privacy-preserving smart contracts? Find it out in our interview with Secret Network co-founder

What're NFT Index Funds? Find it out in our interview with NFTX core contributor ChopChop.

Stefan told us how he turned an old idea from a DAI Purple Paper into a new DeFi protocol

Patryk shared Spendless backstory and told us how Spendless with the help of DeFi protocols let us donate an interest earned to the causes that matter

Dennison Bertram talks about how Tally empowers user-owned governance through a voting dashboard, governance tooling, and real-time data for research and analysis

Dillion shared Indexed Finance backstory, explained DeFi index investing niche and capitalization-weighted index pools

Yaron told us how B.Protocol eliminating the gas wars and shifting the miner’s profit to the protocol users

James told us how mStable started, why they choose guarded launch for mUSD, and where is mStable’s protocol business model

Guillaume talks about 88mph backstory, community building, DeFi structured products, and how we could derisk lending

SynLev core-developer Carl, told us Synlev backstory and dipped into a decentralized synthetic assets space

We sit with Ahmed Al-Balaghi to talk about gasless trading experience and abstracting away blockchain complexities through gas-efficient meta-transactions

Sergej told us PEAKDEFI backstory and how revolution against traditional financial markets going, and what's the goal for PEAKDEFI Protocol in 2021

Tascha Punyaneramitdee about leveraged yield farming product and what's coming next at Alpha Finance Lab

Aparna told us about Opyn backstory, state of defi options market and what's new in Opyn v2

We talked with Frax Finance founder Sam Kazemian about algorithmic stablecoins and how fractional-algorithmic mechanism is different

Alan told us what is Cover Protocol, how peer-to-peer coverage marketplace different, and who determining coverage premiums in decentralized protocol

Do Kwon talks about Terra blockchain and a new Mirror Protocol that lives on Terra and Ethereum and enables access to global financial markets

Alex talks about R&D lab building novel stablecoin exchange xSigma DEX, and how they are going to create a unified DeFi ecosystem with their own stablecoin

Harsh Rajat talks about future of banking, EPNS protocol incentives and where is a business model for decentralized push notifications

Henrik talks about decentralised asset management and how dHEDGE going to democratise investing and level the playing field

Sean Qian shared OpenDAO backstory and told us how real world assets could be tokenzied and used in DeFi ecosystem

CryptoWarsOU co-founder told us about gamification of liquidity farming mechanics, and how they built a novel project on the intersection of DeFi and gaming industry

We talk with Leonard about zero-knowledge proofs oracle, 'Snarks as a Service', and where is room for competition in the crowded DeFi oracles market

With Diane Dai, we discussed AMM's exchanges market, Proactive Market Maker algorithm, and what's coming next in DODO 2.0

Xiaohan Zhu talks about Meter's hybrid consensus mechanism, Meter-Ethereum bridge, sidechains and Ethereum gas fees

Romain talks about decentralization, derivatives trading and building product on Lightning Network

Trent talks about YAM Finance backstory, community ownership economy, and decentralized governance

Alexei Falin discusses Rarible and the marketplace’s mission to bring the next million users to DeFi through NFTs

Yaniv talks about how The Graph Protocol is helping to make building on Web3 accessible to anyone

Adelyn Zhou shared Chainlink Network backstory and future goals, and how Chainlink going to build truly chain-agnostic oracles

Alex told us how data science helps surface the signal from the noise when it comes to blockchain data

Anton told us the 1inch backstory from a hackathon project to a leading DeFi aggregator, and how's new Mooniswap AMM is different

Bancor’s head of growth Nate about AMMs, Bancor Protocol backstory and what is new in Bancor v2

Ingamar told us about DXdao and where is Omen prediction market platform stands in decentralization spectrum

Michael Egorov talks about Curve, the decentralized stablecoin exchange that’s taken DeFi by storm

The Lien Protocol team talks about their new stablecoin system, which doesn’t require over-collateralization or governance

Thomas Bertani told us pTokens backstory and shared his vision of the future of cross-chain DeFi interoperability

Sandeep Nailwal told us how L2 Scaling works on Matic and why Matic Network is an ideal platform for DeFi DApps

Thibaut about Multis backstory, YCombinator experience and DeFi markets

JellySwap's co-founder Tito about atomic swaps, JellySwap backstory and how's multichain future could look like

Today, we are talking with Zerion's co-founder Evgeny about a series of iterations that lead to the creation of the first DeFi interface

In our interview Antonio shared dYdX backstory and told us why BTC Perpetual fits really well in DeFi space

Simon told us Liquality backstory, and shared his thoughts on complexities of a cross-chain swap for end users

Talking with Andrey Belyakov about DeFi, derivatives market, and why interest rate swaps it is one of the most important instruments in the fixed income market

Laurynas Jokubaitis on non-zero sum games, DeFi perspectives in global economies, and Voluto backstory

Alex Wearn told us about hybrid model DEX challenges, regulation, backstory, and what’s coming next for IDEX

Ouriel Ohayon shared his thoughts on crowded wallets space, ZenGo backstory and what it takes for DeFi to grow up

Tellor team shared Minable Oracle Contract backstory, and how Daxia pivoted into Oracle space

Stani talks about undercollateralized flashloans, interest bearing aTokens, the long way Aave Protocol came and global DeFi challenges

Leighton Cusack, shared the PoolTogether backstory starting from ETHDenver 2019, and told us about the future plans

Paul shared the story of building a protocol for real-time finance

Max, the co-founder of Money On Chain, shared the story of building a stable asset platform using RSK

Nodar told us how he started DeFiZap, shared his future plans and thoughts on global challenges and opportunities for the DeFi space

Shannon Wu, on building an identity solution for private data verification, sharing, and aggregation

Christophe told us Request' backstory and shared his thoughts on the future of DeFi markets

Atomex co-founder Igor Matsak explained how Atomic Swaps could help solve interoperability between blockchains

Caleb on challenges of communicating and distilling information about Uniswap liquidity pools, and Ethereum business models

OpenSea co-founder Devin Finzer shared his thoughts on what it takes to build a decentralized market place, and intersection of gaming and DeFi

Fredrik told us the backstory of Dune Analytics and shared plans for lowering the bar for anyone who wants to explore aggregated on-chain data insights for Ethereum smart contracts.

Philip on real-world assets tokenization, bridging the gap between traditional finance and web3, and the promise of DeFi

Jordan shared the backstory of MyCrypto and talked about what the next steps for the Ethereum will look like

Igor Barinov, the founder of POA Network, told us backstory of xDAI and shared his thoughts on blockchain interoperability, regulation, and the future of DeFi

Alexandre Bourget told us how dfuse going to empower developers around the world to integrate blockchain into their applications easier.

Federico told us about DAO and decentralized justice for DeFi that uses cryptoeconomics to incentivize users to become jurors and vote honestly on disputes.

Nick Spanos from Zap.org on oracles, bonding curves, decentralized economic ecosystem and future of crypto and DeFi.

John Wong from the Switcheo team shared the backstory of multichain DEX and talks about perspectives of DeFi.

Doug from the StablePay team talks about building DeFi enabled payment solution for content creators.

Ashok shared his thoughts on cross-platform blockchain analytics, and challenges Chainbeat team faced while building Google Analytics for the dApps world

Itamar talks about building a new smart contract based Ethereum wallet with native DeFi integrations.

Matteo told us how Idle tokenizing the best interest rate across different DeFi lending protocols

Max told us about what it looks like being a managing partner with $2M AUM and what's the goals SODA see in the future.

Carlo talks about switching career from Wall Street investment banker to open-source market making bot developer.

Alex Melikhov shared his thoughts on stablecoins and DeFi and told us the backstory of building the first crypto-backed stablecoin based on the EOS blockchain.

Wang Chun, founder of stake.fish talks about PoS staking, security-first mindset, and where is an intersection of DeFi and staking-as-a-service providers.

Soravis shared his thoughts on DeFi core values and told us how Band Protocol bring data available on-chain.

Tobias from the Gnosis Team told us how to securely store funds on Ethereum, with multiple signatures to authenticate transactions and an extra layer of security, and about a future of DeFi.

Matt Taylor from the 0x Core Team told us how they built a decentralized exchange protocol, and what comes next for DeFi dApps.

Allison Lu on the future of DeFi and what it's takes to build decentralized financial contracts platform enabling Universal Market Access

Thomas Bertani talks about building blockchain-agnostic oracle service for dApps developers.

Will Harborne, told us backstory of building Ethfinex including recent rebranding it into DeversiFi, and shared his thoughts on the future of DeFi.

Mark from Hydro Labs told us backstory of Hydro project, and their new gasless app Hydro Pay.

Michael Foster, talks about building decentralized fiat on-ramp for ETH and the future of decentralized finances.

Matt Peterman, co-founder of VouchForMe, shared his thoughts on using social proof and blockchain in the insurance industry.

Nick Pai, from Carbon team, told us how they built Stripe for Crypto and how they deal with regulatory compliance when building Fiber.

Maxime Bucaille from AirSwap team, talks about exploring new ways to bring legacy financial structures onto the blockchain

Oliver, co-founder of StakeWith.Us talks about infrastructure and scalability built around adoption driven projects, staking-as-a-service providers and the future of DeFi.

Issuing and managing team equity on Ethereum with Quidli. Interview with founder, Justin Ahn

Brian Norton talks about building a new version of MEW and sharing thoughts on the future of DeFi and dApps space at Ethereum.

Benedict Chan, CTO of BitGo talks about origins of WBTC, delivering trust in digital assets and exploring the depth of the programmable ecosystem.

Hugh Karp talks about Nexus as a part of the best practice standard for smart contract security.

Zefram Lou, co-founder of Betoken, talks about fundraising difficulties for DeFi projects in an uncertain regulatory environment and how they build a decentralized fund that invests in crypto-assets.

Rachael McCrary, COO of Button Wallet talks about messenger-based banking, and how cryptocurrency landscape will shift over the next five years.

Mounir Benchemled talks about building Crypto Startup, DeFi regulation, and what efforts needed to make blockchain technology mainstream.

Fred Krueger, CEO of EOS Lynx talks about building consumer-grade wallet for mass adoption.

Stakin team shared their expertise as an infrastructure operator for Proof-of-stake blockchains and thoughts on defi projects.

Loong Wang, CTO and co-founder of Ren, talks about privacy and interoperability between blockchains.

Philipp Seifert from imToken team talks about building mobile wallet, and what users look for at dApps and DeFi.

Co-founder of Dolomite, Adam Knuckey, talks about decentralization and KYC compliance for DEXes.

Nenad Palinkašević, сo-founder of CDP Saver talks about shipping all-in-one DeFi assets management tool in 6 months.

Fortmatic co-founder, Sean Li talks about building an SDK that enables users across the globe to interact with dApps using just their phone number.

David Bleznak, founder of Totle talks about building non-custodial, peer-to-peer, transparent, and KYC-free access point for all decentralized liquidity.

Inje Yeo, Co-Founder of Set talks about a mission to make wealth management accessible to the world.

Loi Luu talks about long term objectives, and how Kyber Network is going to become the transaction layer for the decentralized economy.

Tian Li, co-founder of DDEX exchange talks about scaling Ethereum DEXs and Hydro protocol.

Newdex's team talks about building the first EOS-based Decentralized Exchange.

Daniel Wang talks about Loopring Protocol and the future of decentralized exchanges.

Stani Kulechov talks about ETHLend, the first decentralized lending marketplace built by DeFi OGs.

Today we talking with Ron Gierlach from Tokensoft about ERC-1404, an open standard for enforcing restrictions on token transfers.

Kain Warwick, founder of Synthetix talks about on-chain synthetic assets.

Nelson from Neutral talks about the first meta-stablecoin, Neutral Dollar (NUSD), and use cases for basketing stablecoins.

Mona El Isa, Co Founder at Melonport talking about building a new infrastructure for asset management at Melon Protocol.

Ryan Berkun, Founder & CEO of Fabrx talking about building on the new decentralized web.

Nicola Di Marco Founder & Designer from DexWallet talking about building mobile wallet for the decentralized finance with integrated borrowing, lending, exchange, and native in-wallet Staking for everyone.