Degen Responsibly with Exponential DeFi
by Exponential DeFi
A series of live discussions between the Exponential research team and guests from the top protocols in DeFi. We talk about what makes them unique, how they are innovating in DeFi, and how users can make risk-informed decisions when investing.Follow us at @ExponentialDeFi on Twitter to listen live. Check out all episodes at exponential.fi/degen-responsibly and learn more about us at www.exponential.fi
Episodes
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Neon EVM: Bridging the gap between Ethereum and Solana
In this conversation, Yury Yurchenko discusses the Neon EVM, a project designed to facilitate the migration of Ethereum dApps to the Solana blockchain. They explore the differences between Ethereum's EVM and Solana's SVM, focusing on transaction processing, scalability, and the architectural...
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IPOR: Building the credit hub for DeFi
Our guest today is Darren Camas, CEO and co-founder of IPOR, a fixed rate lending and borrowing protocol bringing interest rate swaps to DeFi. In this episode, we exploring how IPOR is transforming the DeFi landscape with its innovative approach to interest rate benchmarks and swaps. We’re also...
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f(x): A new DeFi primitive for stablecoins and leverage
Our guest today is Tao Wang from f(x) protocol, a novel DeFi protocol enabling the creation of decentralized stablecoins and non-liquidatable leverage tokens from any yield-bearing asset. In this episode, we delve into fx's core concepts, exploring the relationship between its stablecoins and...
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The Standard: Redefining overcollateralized stablecoins
Our guest today is Joshua Scigala, co-founder of TheStandard.io, a DeFi stablecoin protocol backed by physical and digital assets. In this episode, we discuss the evolution of stablecoins and where The Standard fits with its multi-collateral model. We'll also explore novel features like…
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Revert: Unlocking liquidity for Uniswap V3
Our guest today is Mario, founder of Revert Finance, a DeFi protocol that develops analytics and management tools for liquidity providers in AMMs (automated market makers). In this episode, we dive into their latest product offering, Revert Lend. We'll explore how they enable Uniswap V3 liquidity...
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Curvance: Enabling yield in an omnichain world
Our guest today is Mai, co-founder and CTO at Curvance, a new crosschain money market platform for yield-bearing assets. In this episode, we discuss the vision and strategy behind their omnichain lending market. We'll explore the mechanics behind Curvance's protocol and its tokenomics, how they...
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Stella: Redefining leveraged yield farming
Our guest today is Apoorv, Project Lead at Stella, a new leveraged strategies protocol from the Alpha Homora team. In this episode, we discuss how Stella enables leveraged yield farming with zero borrowing costs, their realigned incentives model for lenders and borrowers, and the risks involved...
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Botanix: Building Ethereum on Bitcoin
Our guest today is Willem Schroé, founder of Botanix, the first fully decentralized Layer 2 EVM network on Bitcoin. In this episode, we discuss why Botanix chose Bitcoin as their base layer, the security and decentralization perks of this approach, and dive into their innovative Spiderchain...
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ether.fi: Innovations in solo staking
Our guest today is Rok Kopp, co-founder of ether.fi, a non-custodial liquid staking protocol that is launching the first liquid 'restaking' token, eETH. In this episode, we talked about how ether.fi enables stakers to retain control of their keys, the upcoming launch of their liquid staking token...
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ClayStack: Pioneering the next generation of liquid staking
Our guest today is Mohak Agarwal, CEO of ClayStack. ClayStack is a next generation liquid staking protocol that is launching the first DVT-based Ethereum liquid staking asset, csETH. In this episode, we talked about the current state of the liquid staking market, how ClayStack is working to…
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SynFutures: Enabling permissionless derivatives trading
Our guest today is Mark Lee, CMO of SynFutures. SynFutures is a decentralized derivatives exchange that employs an Amazon-like business model, giving users the tools to freely trade any assets and list arbitrary futures contracts within seconds. In this episode, we chatted about how SynFutures...
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Carbon: The next frontier for on-chain liquidity management
Our guest today is Mark Richardson, Project Lead at Bancor. Carbon is a new trading protocol developed by Bancor that enables advanced trading strategies through the use of on-chain limit and range orders. In this conversation, we explore the evolution of the decentralized exchange (DEX)…
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DeFi risk management: What's wrong and how can it improve?
Our guests today are Paul Frambot, co-founder and CEO at Morpho, monetsupply from Block Analitica, and Nick Cannon, VP of Growth at Gauntlet. In this conversation, we explore the current state of DeFi risk management for lending protocols, what problems have emerged from the existing DAO-based...
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Raft: The case for LSD-backed stablecoins
Our guest today is Richard, Head of Product at Raft. Raft is a governance-minimized protocol that allows users to mint a novel stablecoin, R, backed by liquid staked ETH as collateral. In this conversation, we explore the current state of the stablecoin landscape, what differentiates R from other...
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Angle V2: Building more resilient stablecoins
Our guest today is Pablo, Co-founder of Angle. Angle is an over-collateralized, decentralized and capital-efficient stablecoin protocol. It offers full convertibility between stable assets and collateral at oracle value. In this conversation, we explore the current state of the Euro stablecoin...
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unshETH: Decentralizing Validators with LSDfi
Our guest today is Wagmi, Project Lead at unshETH. unshETH aims to further validator decentralization by creating a marketplace for staked ETH liquidity in which liquid staking protocols can compete for dominance through incentive mechanisms. In this conversation, we explore the current state of...
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Pendle: Tokenizing Future Yield
Our guest today is Anton Buenavista, Ecosystem Growth at Pendle. Pendle is a novel protocol that enables the tokenization and trading of future yield via an automated market maker (AMM) design. In this conversation, we explore how you can buy assets at a discount through Pendle's unique token...
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Dolomite: A Next-Gen Protocol for Borrowing, Lending & Trading
Our guests today include Corey Caplan & Adam Knuckey, Co-founders at Dolomite, along with Bobo, Head of BD and Growth. Dolomite is a next-generation money market protocol and decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol that enables users to borrow, lend, trade and farm with leverage on various DeFi...
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Index Coop: Decentralized Crypto Indices
Our guest today is Crews, Ecosystem Growth Lead at Index Cooperative. Index Coop is a decentralized platform that creates, manages, and trades baskets of crypto assets in the form of index funds. By holding a single ERC-20 token, investors can gain exposure to a specific crypto sector or…
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Sommelier: Active investing fully on-chain
Our guest today is Josh, BD lead at Sommelier, and Sunand from Seven Seas Capital. Sommelier is a protocol that is bringing actively managed strategies to DeFi by making all operations fully on-chain. Investors can deposit into Sommelier vaults and have their capital managed with a specific asset...
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RocketPool: Decentralizing Ethereum staking
Our guest today is Maverick, BD lead at Rocket Pool. Rocket Pool is Ethereum's only permissionless and decentralized staking protocol, where anyone can start operating an Ethereum node with as little as 16 ETH (instead of the standard 32). RocketPool unlocks liquidity on the staked capital…
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Overnight: Passive stablecoin yield through USD+
Our guest today is Max, co-founder of Overnight protocol. Overnight's flagship product is USD+, a fully collateralized stablecoin that pays its holders daily yield by deploying its collateral into different strategies on-chain. In this conversation we explore, how Overnight works, what makes them...
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Angle: The Decentralized Euro Stablecoin
Our guest today is Pablo, co-founder of Angle protocol. Angle is building the decentralized infrastructure to bring DeFi to the masses, starting with its agEUR stablecoin. They are fighting for making Euro-DeFi as liquid and accessible as the popular USD-based options. In this conversation we...
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Gearbox: Composable on-chain leverage
Our guest today is Jared Hedglin from Gearbox Protocol. Gearbox is building products to allow DeFi investors lever up their favorite pools and farms directly on-chain and boost total returns. They want to provide investors with greater capital efficiency and decentralized leverage capabilities.…
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0vix: Innovating in Lending Markets
Our guest today is Jakub Warmuz from 0vix Protocol. 0vix is on a mission to help investors unlock liquidity from their assets on Polygon with greater capital efficiency. They are building a lending market that takes risk mitigation and risk management seriously. In this conversation we explore…
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Reserve: Using DeFi in the Fight Against Inflation
Our guest today is Thomas Mattimore, who heads the Platform team at Reserve Protocol. Reserve is on a mission to help people fight inflation through DeFi. They are building a protocol and an app that abstracts away the complexities of yield farming in a decentralized and transparent way. In this...
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Origin: Passive yield on stablecoins
Our guest today is Origin Protocol, the creators of the yield-bearing stablecoin OUSD. Origin is simplifying the way users can access to stablecoin yields by simply holding OUSD in their wallet, while the protocol does all the heavy lifting. In this conversation we explore, how Origin works, what...
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Morpho: Rethinking liquidity markets
Our guest today is Paul Frambot, who is the founder of Morpho Labs and the Morpho protocol. Paul and Morpho are tackling the problem of capital inefficiency in DeFi by improving lending and borrowing rates by matching both sides peer-to-peer. In this conversation we explore, how Morpho works…
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TrueFi: The rise of uncollateralized lending
Our guest today is Ryan Rodenbaugh, who leads BD at TrueFi. Ryan and TrueFi have been scaling the vertical of uncollateralized lending within DeFi, allowing institutional borrowers to tap available on-chain liquidity. In this conversation we explore, how TrueFi works, what makes them unique, how...
About this show
A series of live discussions between the Exponential research team and guests from the top protocols in DeFi. We talk about what makes them unique, how they are innovating in DeFi, and how users can make risk-informed decisions when investing.Follow us at @ExponentialDeFi on Twitter to listen live. Check out all episodes at exponential.fi/degen-responsibly and learn more about us at www.exponential.fi
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