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The Rollup
Where digital assets and finance converge. Live from the financial capital of the world. Website: https://therollup.co/
Episodes
The RollupDeFi by Design EP85: The Key to Web3 Mass Adoption w/ Mysten Labs
Welcome to the future. Blockchain infrastructure development is going into hyperdrive with innovative technology driving TPS (transactions per second) of new…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP84: Hyper-Liquid Applications w Sandcloc
We’re not out of the woods yet, but things are looking up. On the macro scale, fiat currencies are repricing based on the competency of their central banks…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP83: Proof-of-Stake Network Design w Tenderize
The historic transition to Proof-of-Stake is complete with relatively zero issues. ICYMI we'll give you the rundown. Once hashing power on the Proof-of-Work…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP82: DXDAO Podcast - Global Decentralization and Social Defense
The historic transition to Proof-of-Stake is complete with relatively zero issues. ICYMI we'll give you the rundown. Once hashing power on the Proof-of-Work…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP81: A Deep Dive into Blockchain Node Structures w Chainstack
The merge is coming! Scheduled for September 18th (or around there) the Ethereum merge to proof-of-stake is going to be a monumental moment for the entire…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP79: StarkNet Explained: JediSwap AMM
Coming off a fantastic day at StarkNet filled with lots of builders in the ecosystem and talks from highly talented developers and builders. We were able to do…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP78: The DeFi Experience w Brew Money
We are headed into a full week of ETHCC conference vibes. We have a ton of interviews lined up to share as we explore novel projects bringing ideas to life…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP77: On-Chain Networking for the Ethereum Nation
The markets never cease to entertain. CeFi is going up in flames as Celsius faces lawsuits in New York for shady hiring practices. Meanwhile, Sam Bankman-Fried…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP76: The Evolution Of Money Markets w 0vix
The growth of money markets started with the inception of Compounds yield farming back in early 2020! This was my first foray into DeFi as I saw what was…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP75: The On-Chain Era Of Sports Finance w Athlete X
The combination of sports and Web3 is making a massive splash as you read this! There are dozens of NFT projects and sports betting applications being built on…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP74: Creating Resilent DeFi Mechanisms w Sperax
The evolution of stablecoins has been a mighty topic of discussion as the crypto markets recover from the Black Swan that was LUNA/UST. We’re always interested…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP73: Cross-Chain Infrastructure w Router Protocol
The multichain ecosystem is expanding w great speed and innovation. Bridge infrastructure from one chain to another is lacking sufficient liquidity and…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP72: Building a Token Warchest w Dave Levine
The winners and losers of DeFi are separated in the trenches. As market cycles shift, we are starting to see massive opportunities for growth as market cycles…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP71: FRAX Stablecoin Strategy Debunked
Stablecoin wars are here and they are in full force. The best yields in DeFi, the strongest designs, and everything in between. One of the OG stable coins in…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP70: veTokenomics, DeFi Revival, & Sustainability with Balancer DAO
The return of veTokenomics is on the rise with new DEXs in DeFi. The idea behind vote locking is a novel, complex mechanism which attempts to build a longer…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP69: Leading The Ethereum Scaling Race with Arbitrum
Rememeber when society was racing to see who could get to the moon first? The most important tech ‘space race’ of our century is of decentralized technologies…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP68: The Future of Tickets and Events, Web3 style w token events
Welcome to the future of tickets and events, web3 style. Say goodbye to scalpers, crazy price increases, and absurd lines and welcome in a new way of obtaining…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP67: Multichain Yield Optimization with Beefy Finance
In today’s installment of the podcast, we are having a chat with Weso who is in charge of strategic partnerships and development at Beefy Finance. We discuss…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP66: Global Reserve Currencies and Smart-Contracts in Politics w Greg Tanaka
In today’s episode of a podcast, we talk about the future of DeFi and Bitcoin with the Palo Alto Councilman, US Congress Candidate and tech entrepreneur Greg…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP65: Building on Layer 2 in 2022 w Metis
2022 is all about the layer 2s and MetisDAO has a huge head start against the other rollups with their launched token and native project deployment happening…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP64: GameFi Liquidity & Scalability w Pangolin
With subnets on the horizon, and an abundance of projects set to launch, 2022 is going to be an exciting year for Avalanche. However, one of the main issues…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP63: Cross-Chain Swaps Made Easy w Li Finance
It’s exciting to see how the multi-chain world is shaping up for 2022. As various chains gain more traction and user activity, the ability to perform…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP62: Interest Rate Environment Impacts on DeFi w Notional Finance
As Decentralized Finance continues to progress, we’re beginning to see more DeFi primitives pop up in the form of structured products. One of these are fixed…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP61: InsurAce As A Core Building Block To DeFi
Despite the advancements in the DeFi sector, cases of flash loans, rugpulls, private key hacks and smart contract vulnerabilities continue to increase. Despite…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP60: Onboarding Your Grandma Into DeFi with GOGOCoin
We truly believe the future of finance (and France!) is DeFi and what we are seeing built now in Web3. Its truly exciting and captivating at the same time, the…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP59: Building Sustainable Yields in DeFi w Impermanent Loss Protection
The DEX space has seen a lot of changes since DeFi Summer. A lot of positive ones and some interesting experiments for sure. An OG in the DeFi space is Bancor…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP58: Exploring Zk-Rollups & Modular Blockchains w Syscoin
Scaling has often been a major pain point of Ethereum, the largest smart contract platform. However, the future is going to be a hotbed of innovation as Layer…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP57: Decongesting Ethereum through DeversiFi
The deployment of various scaling solutions has brought us an inch closer to on boarding the next wave of users to Ethereum. Today, we spoke with Will…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP56: New Era of Money Markets in DeFi
In the past couple of months, there’s been an explosion of DeFi projects. However, integrations between protocols are lacking and the current set of financial…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP55: Automated Risk Management w DeFi Saver
Lending & Borrowing has always been the very roots of Decentralized Finance. Combined with a multichain world and the numerous protocols to generate yield…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP54: Strong Vibes on Web 3 with Taylor Welch
As you know, there is a flock of capital coming into Web3 at an astounding pace. This is coming from institutions, high networth individuals, retail and more…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP53: Beyond the DeFi Horizon
It is no doubt that the crypto space has been growing at a tremendous rate this year with DeFi at the center of it all. Today we get to hear from Evgeny, the…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP52: Discovering NFT Gems w Deeze
NFTs continue to bask in the limelight with Twitter recently announcing its plan to allow users to showcase their NFTs on their profile and TikTok’s move…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP51: Coordinating the Metaverse
DAOs have been a hot topic as of late. As more people pour into the crypto space and learn how Web 3.0 works, the more users there are that begin to explore…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP50: What is Cosmos?
2021 has really been the year of cross-chain solutions. Amongst all the chain-specific liquidity mining incentive programs, few seem to realize that there is…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP49: The Next Wave of Web 3 and DeFi: Privacy
DeFi has always been about creating open and decentralized financial systems with transparency at the very core of it. However, it should not come at the cost…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP48: DeFi for Everyone w Avalanche Rush
The #Rush is here. Avalanche is the Layer 1 blockchain competing alongside Ethereum for liquidity in DeFi. With billions of dollars in TVL, Avalanche is one of…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP47: Earn Interest On Your Bitcoin w Badger
It’s a rockstar week in DeFi as several chains surge in activity. Incentive programs across the multichain are motivating users to cross bridges and try out…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP46: Rolling Out Layer 2 with Deversifi
Multi-chain Season is rockin n rollin. The institutional wave of liquidity is pushing DeFi to new levels. In this one we catch up with Will Harborne, from one…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP45: Paving the New World Way With DeFi Masterclass
The world is waking up to DeFi. Recent news in the political sphere has elevated cryptocurrencies to a new, more significant, place in the minds of everyday…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP44: Exploring the Metaverse with Charged Particles
August is off to a bangin’ start! EIP1559 went off without a hitch yesterday. Stay connected on Twitter to keep up with all the updates as we follow this…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP43: The Next DeFi Boom: JavaScript Development with Agoric
If you’re a crypto native you know how the game works by now. We saw Bitcoin and Ethereum spark an initial wave of innovation. Now, DeFi is leveraging these…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP42: Oh! Finance! The Lightbulb Moment in DeFi
Navigating DeFi is increasingly difficult as the ecosystem evolves with more complex products. Advanced AMM tech, scalable smart contracts - all that’s great…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP41: Merging Centralized and Decentralized Liquidity w/ CCAI
It’s middle of the Summer and no doubt cryptocurrencies are starting to heat up again. NFT’s are continuing their blazing pace, and Layer 2 networks are…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP40: Uniting Content Creators in DeFi w Kris Kay
A major part of the ethos in DeFi is Collaboration over Competition. As the native DeFi protocols grow more and more complex, collaboration amongst founding…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP39: The Power of DeFi in Unbanked Countries w/ Akin Sawyer
This might be hard to believe… but we are still early. Bitcoin has taken on the role of Digital Hard Money, however Ethereum has the potential to tap into the…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP38: Bringing the Trillion Dollar Derivatives Market to Ethereum
This might be hard to believe… but we are still early. Bitcoin has taken on the role of Digital Hard Money, however Ethereum has the potential to tap into the…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP37: Community Investing for Passive Crypto Enthusiasts
One of the long anticipated community led applications is hitting the Ethereum mainnet. Babylon is a protocol by the people and for the people. With Web3…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP36: Spotting Signals in the DeFi Ecosystem
It's been a great week coming off Bitcoin Miami. The world is rallying around El Salvador as they become the first country to certify Bitcoin as legal tender…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP35: The Bullish DeFi Thesis with George Harrap
Despite the wicked upgrades coming to Ethereum's mainchain, DeFi is a multichain world.Polygon and Binance Chain have shown that liquidity mining incentives…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP34: How Argent Mobile Wallet Will 10x User Growth
Its been a rollercoaster week. Clearly, there has been some market turbulence but what remains - believers are unbothered. DeFi is largely a bundle of web…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP33: Explaining Yield Farming Aggregators
Yield farming on Ethereum main-chain is very expensive at the moment, especially if you’re looking to compound your LP positions or do any rapid farming: A few…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP32: STOP PAYING GAS: Feelless L2 Swaps w/ DeGate
The scaling revolution is upon us. Binance Smart Chain has been popping off. Matic/Polyogon has seen exponential growth in activity and users. Ethereum 2.0 is…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP31: Solving the Ethereum Scaling Crisis in 2021
The current state of DeFi is on the edge of a massive shift to layer 2 & available scaling solutions. We’re so so close. And its the most exciting time to be…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP30: Building Flexible Distributions & Incentives with GYSR V2
Our friends at GYSR are at it again. This team embodies the ship ‘n drip philosophy. Tons of awesome upgrades coming with their new V2 release. The familiar…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP29: Is POKT The Missing Piece of Web3.0?
This podcast was a trip. It’s rare that we discuss the entire spectrum of consequences around crypto — economical, financial, political, and personal. The…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP28: Creating Stable Yield on Composable Assets w James Simpson
It may sound surprising, but investing in crypto is still far too risky for many investors and market participants. More specifically, the risk here is…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP27: Building the DeFi Safety Net w/ Hugh Karp founder, Nexus Mutual
Insurance is a $1.3T+ market in the US alone. As more assets transition on-chain there is more and more value to protect. Just like insurance in traditional…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP26: What You Need To Know About Scaling Ethereum L2
The scaling focus has become so important, entire teams and projects have tossed out their roadmaps and now are dedicated to trying to help Ethereum become…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP25: Building Your Investing Edge
‘Alpha’ is tossed around as the extremely desirable and most sought after investment information. Despite what you may think this podcast will not share CMS…