Voltz Labs Presents: Future of DeFi: Recent Episodes
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In the future core financial infrastructure will be decentralised, open source and accessible to anyone in the world. In this series we speak with key innovators creating that future today, for insights and alpha from the vanguard of DeFi. Presented by Voltz Labs, creators of the Voltz Protocol.
In this episode Will hosts a conversation about DeFi derivatives with Simon Jones (Co-Founder of Voltz Labs) and Barney Mannerings (Founder of Vega Protocol).
Both Voltz are Vega are at the vanguard of DeFi derivatives with their respective founders both coming to crypto with extensive experience of TradFi all of which makes for a fascinating conversation on their viewpoints for how the emerging economy will develop.
In finance, a derivative is a contract that derives its value from the performance of an underlying entity. This underlying entity can be an asset, index, or interest rate, and is often simply called the "underlying"
In this episode we discuss building yield applications DeFi
A key driver for users in decentralised finance is finding risk adjusted yield. As much of Decentralised Finance is open source and composable the potential to reimagine finance through protocol integrations is huge.
Corbin Page from Aave Grants
Tyler Murray from Babylon Finance
Simon Jones from Voltz Labs
Hosted by Nick Martitsch from Voltz Labs
In the wake of DeFi's historic precedent set by Voltz Labs and Uniswap, code for tokens deal, we pull two of the leading figures operating with DAOs in DeFi to discuss the future of DAO2DAO collaborations.
This week we are joined by:
Simon Jones- Voltz (Co Founder)
Larry Sukernik - Reverie (Co-Founder)
Getty Hill - GFX Labs - (Co Founder)
Hosted by Nick Martitsch - Volt (Head of BD)
DAO's [Decentralised Autonomous Organisations] first came to fruition in 2016 with the now infamous 'The Dao'. Made possible by the Ethereum network DAO's are still in their infancy and improving through iteration. In essence DAO's enable a way to decentralize an organisation in a manner that is globally accessible, non-hierarchical and inter-operable.
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After catching up with some of the key players in Web3 at ETH Denver, we invite two of the leading innovators to discuss the future of DeFi as they see it.
This week we're joined by:
Simon Jones - Voltz Labs Co-Founder / CEO
Ryan Berkun - Teller Finance Founder / CEO
Joe Andrews - Aztec Protocol Founder / CPO
Hosted by:
Nick Martitsch - Voltz Labs Head of Business Development
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