Basic Financial Services is a 21st-Century Fundamental Human Need
The internet of money is being built with blockchain technology and without banks. We call it DeFi, short for Decentralized Finance, and this is where you can hear the builders and users of this cutting edge world tell their stories first hand. Hosted by Camila Russo.
This week’s interview is with Vansa Chatikavanij , the CEO of OMG Network. The Bangkok-based project formerly known as OmiseGo has spearheaded research and work on a scaling technology for Ethereum called Plasma. Scaling solutions will be key for Ethereum and therefore DeFi, to continue growing. The network is already at capacity, and gas prices are getting prohibitively high, especially for complex DeFi transactions. In this interview we talk about OMG’s beginnings, the changes the project went through from conception until shipping, realizing that marketing should come after the project’s launch, and the different Ethereum scaling solutions. Most interesting to me is Vansa’s big vision of global value transfer as a basic human right and how she wants to help make that a reality.
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Have you noticed the last few months just how rapidly the AMM and DEX space has been evolving? There has been an explosion of new products and innovations which are helping to move these products into a new era of capital efficiency. Uniswap’s v3 launch was the most eye-catching with the provision of concentrated liquidity where individual positions can be aggregated together in a single pool, forming one price curve for users to trade against.
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While your regular crypto asset will fling you around like a ragdoll and reduce your life expectancy by double digits at least twice a month, stablecoins wrap us in a warm embrace and whisper in our ears that maybe, just maybe, things will be okay. They’re an anchor, a refuge and they too come in an abundance of flavours. And by far the sauciest of them, right now, are those known as algorithmic stablecoins. But the irony of algorithmic stablecoins is that… they aren’t stable.
References
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Down down down. No, this isn’t a chart of your favourite shitcoin. This isn’t a rug .This is the Rouble and it is… in no uncertain terms. Rekt. Obviously this is a dramatic reflection of the ongoing escalation in sanctions towards Russia, specifically aimed at strangling the country’s ability to prop up its economy. The Russian Central Bank more than doubled its key interest rate from 9.5% to 20% to and ordered companies to sell 80% of their foreign currency revenues. In the press release this simple phrase ‘External conditions for the Russian economy have drastically changed.’ No shit. We’ll dig it what all this means and try to remember that while the Ukraine is of course the victim here, nobody in Russia voted for this war and these crippling economic conditions will come with a heavy price tag of their own.
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Ethan Buchman is co-founder of Cosmos, vice president of Interchain Foundation and CEO of Informal Systems. Cosmos is an ecosystem of Interoperable blockchain which include terra, osmosis and crypto.org. He is heading one of the most value locked after ethereum. But how does this ecosystem work what was Ethan’s background before coming into the space?
Timestamps:
0:00:00 Section 1 Intro
0:00:27 Ethans background
0:03:32 How did Ethan connect with crypto?
0:06:25 Transitioning from Proof of Work
0:08:09 Is Bitcoin still a big part of the ecosystem?
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0:10:00 Section 2 Cosmos
0:13:58 Cosmos vs Tendermint, whats the difference?
0:16:33 Is Cosmos a standalone programme or a network?
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0:22:32 Chains connected to IBC, what can they do?
0:26:08 How much flexibility is available through IBC?
0:27:47 What are the validators of Osmosis? Is it secure?
0:30:07 Is Osmosis susceptible to attack?
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0:33:57 Section 3 Does flexibility mean less security?
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0:48:39 Section 4 The Atom token & long term vision
0:51:49 What is governance look like?
0:54:16 Key lessons thus far
0:56:31 Future milestones
0:58:20 Where does Cosmos fit in the space?
1:04:34 How is Ethan defiant?
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Bitcoin had its best January since 2013 and markets are responding positively to Jerome Powell’s FOMC announcement. The cryptocurrency market cap has grown from $795bn on January 1st to just over $1tn over a month, and both majors and alt coins have seen considerable recoveries in the past two weeks. So what could all of this mean looking forward, and where can we begin looking for DeFi opportunities??
As you’ve likely heard, Layer 2’s have been gaining significant traction lately. So today, as part of our quest to bring you up to date on Layer 2 developments, we’re diving into the biggest L2 player Arbitrum’s DeFi ecosystem.
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We’ve had yet another turbulent week in the DeFi space as four projects were exploited or hacked - on the same day. Let’s dive in!
Considering the amount of DeFi hacks tripled in 2021 with no sign of slowing down in 2022, the real question here is WHY have there been so many hacks in the first place? It’s down to many factors including lack of necessary audits, relying on oracles, and using untested technology like blockchain bridges and complex smart contracts. Some are even speculating these hacks are inside jobs, from devs who purposely leave a loophole in the code they can come back to exploit.
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