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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 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…
The RollupDeFi By Design Character Series: NFTs, Alpha Searching, & Community Narratives w/ Hardwood
“Think about it. Everything is a rug” Welcome to the pure comedy gold (infotainment as I like to call it) episode that is Hardwood. Hardwood is a random degen…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP24: Bringing DeFi To The Real World
There are fewer noble quests in the crypto world than being an activist who builds products to bridge the gap between irl & bripto. Brippppptooooooo. Really, a…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP23: The History Of Money
Martin Ploom, founder of Smartcredit.io, is one of the smartest & strongly opinionated men I’ve ever really spoken to. He was adamant on detailing the history…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP22: Web 3 Data Economy
Ocean Protocol has been BUIDLing for years now albeit a very niche’d operation, they have a grand vision to fulfill: Giving the power back to the people of the…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP21: Insuring DeFi 101
Cover Protocol has had a helluva ride the last few months…with an epic launch and collaboration with Yearn to a major smart contract hack & drain. I mean. This…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP20: 2021, The Year Of The Stablecoin?
While many will be overly excited about the bull run that we will see in 2021, so much of the activity and innovation will be happening in stablecoins. Yes…
The RollupDeFi By Design Special Episode: Perfecting Token Distributions w/ Gysr.io
Happy friggen New Years, what a year we’ve had! Its been a week or so since we’ve posted any content here! I’ll tell ya its a good superpower to completely…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP19: Bringing Billions of Funds Onboard DeFi w/ Enzyme Finance
Whattttttta week we have had in crypto. DeFi has blossomed further and there are more innovations happening than ever. Thats exactly what Mona El Lisa (pretty…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP18: Unleashing Leveraged Yield Farming with Alpha Finance
Amidst a sea of new DeFi projects which have launched in the last 3 months, there have been a few notable standouts. We definitely think Alpha Finance fits…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP17: Securing Billions With Nexus Mutual Cover
DeFi TVL just crossed $15B TVL and is now above $17B. Seventeen billion dollars. And if the trend is any indicator of what’s to come $100B TVL is simply just a…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP16: Ushering In A New Era Of Decentralized Fund Managers
There is literally a whole new world being built on top of Ethereum right now, its nuts. Absolutely nuts. In today’s episode of the cast, Robbie had the chance…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP15: The Future; Open On-Chain Data Analytics
We don’t even have to say it. You’re all thinking it. Yeah, new portfolio ATH is fun isn’t it? Let’s not get rekt. Today we’ll uncover a way to help analyze…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP14: Building Web 3 & Mobile Friendly DeFi
We’ve recently seen all the proof that we need as a world to understand why we NEED Web 3.0 sooner than later. Fake news, Twitter censorship, data hacking and…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP13: The Inevitable Rise of Anonymous Developers
Think of every large company or corporation that you know of… There’s C-level executives with their names everywhere, people who work there with ID numbers and…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP12: The Institutional Wave with Qiao Wang
This one is awesome. We had the pleasure of chatting with Qiao Wang, a “semi-retired entrepreneur and quant trader, currently helping startups to grow”. Qiao…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP11: DeFi As An Evolution of Bitcoin with Antonio Gomes
A really unique episode here, our friend Antonio from the Gator Blockchain Club at the University of Florida. He pioneered the club and really myself &…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP10: L2 DEX Scaling With DeversiFi
It seems like we’ve been talking about scaling Ethereum & high gas fees for awhile now eh? L2 this, zkRollup that…StarkWare here ‘n there. The good news? These…
The RollupDeFi by Design EP9: Community, Governance, & Sustainability
There’s many sides to building a successful protocol in this new community-driven, results-based, revenue-generating DeFi world. Too often investors…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP8: L2 Scaling & zkRollups
Its happening. It really is. Ethereum is gearing up for a mainstream mania push & were at the forefront of the technology necessary to make it possible…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP7: Interoperability and Cross-Chain Future with REN Protocol
Its obvious. Bitcoin on Ethereum is absolutely blowing up. There’s no doubt about it. We are seeing massive yield farms pop up all over the place leaving the…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP6: The Future of Derivatives Trading
Derivatives trading make up one of the largest industries in the entire financial world. Would you believe Opium is working on olive oil futures? Ha, we didn’t…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP5: Making DeFi Mainstream With Zerion
The real future of the decentralized finance world is adoption, mass adoption. Aave just announced a full-on fiat on ramp, Binance has listed 10+ DeFi assets…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP4: Building The Future of DeFi Together w/ Aave
Aave is the workhorse of the DeFi space, and none better than Marc Zeller behind the scenes getting it done! Seriously though, this fella is a must follow on…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP3: DeFiner x DeFi 2020
Jason Wu is an experienced blockchain architect, project manager and digital finance entrepreneur. Jason has quickly established himself as a subject matter…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP2: DAI Deep Dive
Welcome to episode #2 of the DeFi By Design Podcast! On today’s episode we had the opportunity to host Kenton Prescott! Kenton is an Integrations Engineer at…
The RollupDeFi By Design EP. 1: Introductions & DeFi Now
Welcome to the first episode of the DeFi By Design Podcast. In this shorter-than-usual episode, you’ll meet your podcast hosts Rob & Andrew! They discuss…