DeFi Sparks Podcast

Aperture is an Intents-based architecture that helps users manage their Uniswap V3 LP positions. The protocol contains an auto-rebalance feature, automated liquidity management strategies, as well as the Aperture swap DEX on Manta network. This is all made possible through the power of Intents...

Aperture is a long ways in the making; the team is releasing their highly-anticipated Litepaper after 2.5 years of DeFi experience. Aperture is building out an Intents-based future with some innovative implementations being announced. In this video, our Founder & CEO, Nick Drakon, sits down with McDavid Stoddard, Core Contributor and Growth Lead at Aperture, to discuss everything Intents.

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⏲ Time Stamps ⏲
00:00 - Intro
03:24 - Aperture Today 
09:08 - How do Intents work?
17:09 - Aperture Whitepaper Explanation
27:58 - Aperture's view on Open-source
30:55 - Expanding to new chains?
32:19 - Best ways to use Aperture
35:48 - Outro

Mantle may have the most opportunity of any chain currently. It is a L2 built on Ethereum and may benefit from $ETH's EIP-4844 upgrade. It also uses EigenLayer's DA, making it a potential candidate for airdrops. In this video, our CEO, Nick Drakon, sits down with Jordi Alexander, Chief Alchemist at Mantle, to discuss the chain's plans going forward, exciting initiatives, and more. 

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Pyth Network is gaining market share in the oracle infrastructure category of DeFi with a robust solution to the crypto oracle problem. Nick sits down with Mike Cahill (CEO) to discuss the approach they have taken and the opportunities that lie ahead in this fast growing category.

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Accessing real world assets on chain is a narrative that is gaining a lot of traction in 2024. Land X just launched a protocol that bring the crop yield generated from real farmland on chain.

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Thorchain is the first DEX to introduce a cross-chain native-to-native asset settlements in DeFi and has survived 3 bear-bull crypto cycles. Chad Barraford (Core Dev) & Nick Drakon discuss Thorchain's approach to solving liquidity fragmentation in DeFi, their potential to grow more, and the complex but efficient products and services they have made.

On today's agenda, we discuss:
📌Thorchain's cross-chain infrastructure
📌Blockchain Integrations
📌Network Activity
📌Capital Efficiency
📌$RUNE
📌Savers Vault
📌Governance
📌$THOR Stablecoin
📌Roadmap

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Monad is new Layer 1 blockchain built for speed and high performance by utilising parallel execution and pipelining. Keone Hon (CEO & Founder) & Nick Drakon discuss Monad's approach to solving for high performance problem sets and the infrastructure choices they have made.

On today's agenda, we discuss:
📌Monad's Overview
📌Parallel Execution/Pipelining
📌How is it different from Ethereum and Solana
📌State Access being a bottleneck for executions
📌Interoperability
📌Use Cases
📌Monad's Team and Operations
📌Roadmap

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Welcome to another episode of DeFi Sparks with @NickDrakon and @ChainLinkGod!

On today's agenda, we discuss:
📌Chainlink's Overview
📌Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol
📌Oracles
📌Chainlink's Business Model & Revenue Streams
📌Data Streams
📌Automation
📌Use Cases
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📌Future of Chainlink

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Nick Drakon and Francesco Biviano discuss Arcton's overview, business model and pathways for potential adoption. Francesco also explains how advanced the Swiss regulatory framework is and if it is being talked about anywhere else in Europe. He also explains how will they facilitate high quality deal flows, and what are the reporting and disclosure requirements of the companies that are raising money through their platform.

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Nick Drakon and TN Lee discuss Pendle's overview, design and feature improvements. TN explains how they think when it comes to expanding into different verticals and blockchains. TN discusses his view on current on-chain t-bills activity. TN shares a high-level looping strategy using Pendle's products in order to maximize yield. He also gives a teaser on what their future would look like!

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⏲ Time Stamps ⏲

0:00 Intro
1:12 - Pendle Overview
3:34 - Pendle's Design
11:54 - Feature Improvements
15:43 - Pendle Metrics
26:57 - Expansion to Different Verticals
32:05 - Moving Adoption Forward
36:22 - On-chain T-bill Activity
41:42 - High-level Looping Strategy
48:13 - Cross-chain Expansion Strategies
55:00 - Binance Labs Deal
1:02:00 - OKX Wallet Update
1:02:45 - Future of Pendle
1:08:24 - Closing Remarks

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Nick Drakon and Tiago Pratas discuss the potential use cases of LSTfi and its role in spurring consolidation. Tiago explains how Lido remains dominant in the liquid staking derivatives (LSD) market. Tiago discusses ANKR's B2B services for financial institutions and get insights into their exciting roadmap, the concept of flash loan staking, and Tiago's vision for the future of liquid staking. They discuss whether Binance Smart Chain can continue its thriving journey and also explore the possibilities of ANKR expanding to more chains.

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Stader Labs is a well-known protocol specializing in liquid staking, with a multichain focus. The conversation in this episode centers on the upcoming launch of ETHx on the Ethereum network. ETHx is a liquid staking derivative designed to address several issues present in Ethereum staking. Currently, a significant amount of ETH is staked with a limited number of entities, such as Lido, Coinbase, and Binance, among others, with the top three holding around 50% of staked ETH.

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With an uncertain regulatory environment and growing interest in DeFi solutions for trading after the collapse of multiple centralized exchanges, Founder of ZKX, Eduard, recognized a significant gap in the market. Eduard saw an emerging opportunity with the adopting of CEXs int eh global markets - where there was an ease of transferring funds from user bank accounts into their CEX and back. However, users don't have custody of their accounts, which became a problem when it comes to transparency and security. ZKX aims to be a decentralized trading venue for derivatives and perpetual futures, offering self-custody and true community governance. 

This discussion covers a range of topics related to the emerging DeFi space and the challenges and opportunities that come with it. Founder of ZKX, Eduard, shares his background and the decision process behind moving away from a diversification standpoint. He also discusses Zero Knowledge Technology and the reason for building on StarkNet. The conversation then delves into the differences between DEX and CEX, and the importance of account abstraction.

Later in the video, Eduard talks about what ZKX aims to solve, including issues related to transparency, security, and regulatory compliance. The discussion also covers the concept of liquid governance and how it's implemented in the ZKX platform. Eduard outlines the company's roadmap and the milestones they hope to achieve in the future.

This is truly an interesting time to be discussing the perpetual futures in DeFi and the growth opportunity for DEXs.

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Matt Blaine, a Respond Law partner, specializes in business law & litigation. In the past 12-18 months, he has focused on DeFi protocols, tackling legal structures and compliance best practices within the vague legal landscape of DeFi. BeethovenX and ByteMasons are some of the project he has consulted.

In this episode, Matt and I dive into the crypto industry from a different perspective. We discuss the legal infrastructure necessary for setting up a protocol, the risk starting a DeFi protocol vs a traditional business, the SEC's attack on Coinbase, the intentions of the SEC harassing the crypto industry, the details of CFTC suing Binance, and more. 

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In this episode, I speak with Vasily Nikonov, the Founder & CEO of Velvet Capital, on the potential of passive investing through ETF funds on chain. Capital is a company that's building the infrastructure that allows individuals and institutions to create and manage ETF style funds in which individual investors can deploy capital into. With the success of passive investing in traditional financial markets over the last 20 years, there is no reason to believe that passive flows outstripping active flows is not going to happen in DeFi. Vasily, from Velvet Capital, is working to build an infrastructure for individuals and institutions to manage ETF style funds on-chain. If you're interested in investing in passive flows in DeFi, companies like Velvet Capital are ones that you will want to be aware of. 

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Alluo is a products that allow users to earn on-chain yield on their crypto assets in a streamlined and simple way. There exist a vast majority of users who don't want to transact on chain and manage their funds to earn yield on their assets. There is a large and continuous growing market for products like these, but the products of the recent past have given a bad reputation with the events that transpired at bankrupt firms like Celsius, BlockFi, among others. However, there is still a major opportunity for this business in the market in the future.

In this episode, I speak with Didier Baclin, co-founder of Alluo, who has experience in cutting edge financial products and was deeply involved in the P2P lending space in the UK and in working through the complex regulatory framework of that business with UK regulators.

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⏲ Time Stamps ⏲

0:00 - Intro
1:36 - Intro to Alluo
3:12 - Intro to Didier Baclin
11:01 - Didier's experience and perspective on regulation
20:00 - The threats of crypto & DeFi
21:39 - What went wrong with Celsius, BlockFi, and others
25:52 - Risk management
28:11 - Does regulation make sense?
33:54 - How is Alluo DIFFERENT from Celsius
39:28 - Alluo's approach to governance
43:27 - Nick's understanding of Alluo
47:10 - Alluo plan to FUNDING operations
51:14 - What separates Alluo from others
56:40 - Is Alluo going cross-chain?
58:06 - Voting granularity within Alluo
59:29 - Correlation between stakers and depositors
1:01:26 - Alluo's long term ambition
1:02:40 - Misconceptions on chasing returns
1:06:49 - Closing thoughts

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As we move into 2023 Nick Drakon predicts we are going to operate in a multichain world and that the infrastructure required to facilitate the transfer of value and information between these chains is going to be a huge business. 

In this episode, Nick and Atlas, CEO of Cryptolink, discuss the value of interoperability and the impact it has on infrastructure in DeFi. Cryptolink is a project that helps users and assets move from chain to chain, and operates in this lucrative space of interoperability and attempts to capture market share, providing a vertically integrated offering with products for both the B2B and B2C markets, trying to clip the ticket from a revenue standpoint. There is a significant market opportunity in the field of interoperability and the discussion that unfolds is informative and exciting.

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Join Nick Drakon and Darren Camas, CEO of IPOR Labs, as they discuss interest rates in DeFi and explore the history and importance of LIBOR, the cost of capital, and the role of trust in finance. Learn about the potential for DeFi to disrupt traditional finance and the future of interest rates in a decentralized world.

IPOR Labs has developed and launched the IPOR Indexes, which benchmark the cost of capital that is interest rates in DeFi. Using that foundation they've started to build products and services on top of that in the form of interest rate derivatives and swaps. These are very useful in DeFi and interest free, and we're going to go into that in this video. We delve into the role of trust in centralized finance and the potential for DeFi to offer a decentralized alternative. We also explore the future of interest rates in a DeFi-dominated world and the potential impact on traditional finance.

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Souvlaki is the Head of Financial Reporting at BeethovenX, a decentralized exchange that runs on both Fantom and Optimism. Before moving to DeFi, Souvlaki spent a decade working at two of the Big Four auditing firms, and another five years at one of the largest TradFi investment banks in the world.

Souvlaki's experience makes him the perfect individual to provide insights regarding Tether in the context of the ongoing controversy that surrounds them and their stablecoin, USDT, with respect to the recent issues of financial disclosures or lack thereof. In today's episode, Souvlaki and I dive in to uncover some the following topics:

► Souvlaki's experience and misconceptions around auditing
► Tether's background and the USDT controversy
► Tether's disclosures and reports
► How to digest information from these reports with respect to the landscape post-FTX collapse
► Our thoughts on Proof-of-Reserves and the other disclosures investors need

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LandX is a protocol that allows users to directly invest in the Real Yield generated by real world farmlands and crops. LandX has found a way to bring real world productive assets onto the blockchain that are otherwise difficult to gain access to unless you physically buy farmland.

In my chat with LandWalker, we discuss what opportunities lie in the macro picture for farmland and the approach LandX has taken to bring these assets on chain along with other topics like:

► Why commodities are an interesting investment
► Economics of LandX
► When is LandX launching?
► How LandX makes money
► Macroeconomic impacts on global farmland markets


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Polysynth Protocol is a DeFi Options Vault (DOV) protocol powered by Ethereum and Polygon, enabling you to express your views on the market and earn in all market conditions. Polysynth's Options Vaults turns complicated financial instruments and derivatives into simple, easy-to-use front end offerings for users. Polysynth aims to abstract away complexity to offer a wide range of investment strategies that may otherwise be overlooked by users.

In this video, I speak with Shailesh Gupta, the co-founder and CEO of Polysynth, discussing his approach to Structured High Yield Products and how they will develop in the future. In this video we are going to discuss:

► Why the development of structured products are lagging behind
► How Real Yield is generated by real financial activity
► How we can identify true Real Yield from the "Real Yield" buzzword 
► Leveraging B2B & B2C to ensure product safety, security, and reliability
► The future of Structured Products
► Polysynth's approach to regulation

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