Levana: The Breakout Perps Trading App on Cosmos

Jonathan Caras is a core contributor at Levana Protocol. In this episode, we spotlight Levana, the breakout perps trading app on Cosmos. Since launching this summer, Levana has become the fastest growing DeFi perps trading platform on Cosmos (Osmosis, Sei, and Injective), with a total trade volume of $300M. Today, Levana offers 9 crypto trading pairs with up to 30x leverage and 2 forex pairs with up to 100x leverage. Jonathan explains the improvements they've made on popular perps trading models such as GMX, and how they plan to keep growing Levana to achieve multibillion-dollar daily trading volume. ------ 🔗 Essential Show Links 🔗 ► Subscribe on Youtube: https://youtube.com/@defidad ► Subscribe on Apple: https://tinyurl.com/edgepod ► Subscribe on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/edgepodspotify ► Subscribe on Linktree: https://linktr.ee/edge_pod ► Follow DeFi Dad: https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ► Follow Nomatic: https://twitter.com/Nomaticcap ► Learn about DeFi and Web3: http://defidad.com/ ------ The Edge Podcast Sponsor Resources 🦊 METAMASK PORTFOLIO | TRACK AND MANAGE YOUR WEB3 EVERYTHING 🥑 INSTADAPP | THE NEW AVOCADO WALLET AND MULTISIG ⚖️ KYBERSWAP | DEX AGGREGATOR, AMM, AND KYBER AI TRADING ANALYTICS 🙋‍♀️ Interested to sponsor The Edge Podcast? Fill this out! ------ Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 4:16 - Jonathan's background 12:23 - What is Levana? 14:22 - Who is Levana built for? 21:19 - How Levana perps differ 27:28 - How big is the perps TAM? 33:10 - Levana fee structure 39:58 - Building vaults for Levana 41:08 - Strategies on Levana 43:29 - Process for listing trading pairs 49:08 - Future Levana token 53:28 - Closing 54:13 - Jonathan's alpha ------ 🔗 Guest Links 🔗 ► Levana Website: https://trade.levana.finance/osmosis/trade/BTC_USD?utm_source=defidad&utm_campaign=pod ► Levana Twitter: https://twitter.com/Levana_protocol ► Jonathan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/madcapslaugh ------ 🙏 The Edge Podcast is produced by 4RC Labs. If you're a DeFi/Web3 builder, contact our team at: https://fourthrevolution.capital/ All opinions expressed by hosts and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and not necessarily those of Fourth Revolution Capital. Podcast guests and 4RC may have positions in the assets or other matters discussed in this podcast. 4RC invested in Levana in 2021. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions. Do your own research. This is not a recommendation or endorsement to buy any token(s) related to any platform(s) discussed.