The DeFi Download
“The DeFi Download” with Piers Ridyard, CEO of Radix DLT. Join the leaders of the Decentralised Finance industry as they discuss all things DeFi: Its workings, user acquisition and go-to-market strategies while simultaneously re-inventing one of the world’s most important industries.
Episodes
105 episodes
Maple Finance: A Story of Redemption and Growth in Institutional DeFi
SummaryPiers and Martin dive into the world of Maple Finance and Syrup Finance, tracing their journey from the wild days of DeFi Summer to their current status in the crypto space. They talk about the benefits to using Maple's pla...
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SummerFi - $4.7Bn of Aggregated Crypto Lend/Borrow
In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Chris Bradbury, CEO of SummerFi. They discuss Chris's journey from MakerDAO to SummerFi, and the development of user-friendly financial tools and innovative features aimed at making...
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Barter: powering the $100Bn decentralised order routing ecosystem
In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard talks with Nikita Ovchinnik, Co-Founder of Barter, a smart router for DeFi swap routes. They delve into Nikita's foray into crypto, the inner workings of Barter, the MEV problem and its possib...
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Gnosis: the unsung titan of building crypto products with real usage
In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Friederike Ernst, co-founder of Gnosis and Gnosis Pay. They cover Gnosis's evolution from foundational blockchain infrastructure like Gnosis Safe and CoW Swap, to user-friendly apps...
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Synthetix: A journey through derivatives in DeFi and Synthetix's role in shaping the DeFi space
In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard speaks with Noah Litvin, a Core Contributor at Synthetix. They talk about Synthetix's vision of revolutionizing derivatives trading in the crypto space by providing innovative solutions.
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Kinto: Is a KYC L2 the way that institutional capital gets brought on chain?
In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard speaks with Ramon Recuero, Co-Founder and CEO of Mamori Labs, which is developing Kinto. Tune in to learn how Kinto bridges TradFi to DeFi and paves the way for institutional adoption by intro...
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Will Woo: investing principles and finding your purpose.
SummaryWilly Woo is managing partner at Crest and SyzCrest, a fund that builds financial products to give higher yield than T-bills by harvesting the volatility in crypto.Willy Woo and Piers discuss various aspects of trading, cov...
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Boson Protocol: The universal commerce layer for Web3
SummaryThe Boson Protocol is a Web3 decentralized commerce layer that allows anyone to tokenize and exchange any physical thing as an NFT. Currently deployed on Ethereum and Polygon, they have recently signed a strategic partnership with...
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Liquity: A new king in the decentralized stable coin arena?
This episode of the DeFi Download with host Piers Ridyard features Robert Lauko, founder and head of research at Liquity. Tune in to discover how Liquity is addressing the stablecoin trilemma and reshaping the crypto space with game-changing in...
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MLABS - Building dApps on Cardano, Polkadot, Solana, and Radix
In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard is joined by Ben Hart, CTO, and Amir, blossoming Scrypto developer at MLabs. Ben and Amir share their experience with different programming languages and platforms, such as Haskell, Plutus, Ru...
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Swaap: Making Liquidity Provision Profitable in DeFi.
In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Cyrille Pastour, co-founder of Swaap. Cyrille and Piers discuss the inner workings of the automated market maker that is designed to protect liquidity providers by dynamically respo...
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PsyFi: Best-in-class financial products & tools – built for everyone
In this episode of the DeFi Download, Tommy Johnson, Core Contributor of PsyFi, joins Piers Ridyard to discuss their two-sided DeFi marketplace for structured products, which allows users to earn yield on their assets and traders to hedge or le...
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Raft: an LSD inspired stable coin
In this DeFi Download podcast episode, Piers Ridyard interviews David Garai, founder of Raft. Raft is a stablecoin protocol similar to MakerDAO, but it is backed by liquid staking tokens. Piers and David talk about the potential of liquid staki...
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Rarimo: an interoperability protocol for the decentralized social identity
In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard talks with Lasha Antadze, co-founder of Rarify Labs. They explore the growing value of identity across digital ecosystems, the challenges of portable identity in the crypto space, and the bene...
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Bittrex Global - Lawyers, the SEC and running exchanges
With Oliver Linch, CEOIn this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard talks with Oliver Linch, CEO of Bittrex Global, about the advantages and disadvantages of centralised and decentralised exchanges, the company's history o...
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Carbon: an order book like DEX that actually works
Mark Richardson, the project lead at Bancor, joins Piers Ridyard to discuss Carbon, the next stage in DEX evolution, in this episode of the DeFi Download. Carbon provides order book-like functionality on-chain and has already seen over 100 stra...
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Astrolescent: the first fully collateralised stablecoin launching on Radix
Michael Videtto, co-founder of Astrolescent, a decentralised exchange aggregator, is Piers Ridyard's guest on this week's episode of the DeFi Download Podcast. Piers and Michael discuss the launch of USDA, the first fully collateralized stablec...
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Journey to the Radix Revelation With Will Jones
SummaryOn this episode of the podcast, Piers talks with Will Jones, founder of Paper Street Capital, about his experiences with Scrypto and the future of decentralised development. Paper Street Capital is a crypto inve...
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Transforming Web3 and why NFT2.0s are more than just Monkey Pictures
In this episode of the DeFi Download podcast, Piers Ridyard and Bruno Škvorc, the founder of RMRK, delve into the RMRK NFT 2.0 standard and the Singular marketplace, which is designed to showcase the possibilities of NFT 2.0s. They also talk ab...
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Zerion - creating a web3 wallet for the mass market
In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard and Evgeny Yurtaev, CEO and co-founder of Zerion, discuss the importance of smart wallets that help users avoid mistakes, the upcoming Zerion extension release, and the challenges of designing...
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Keyrock: Keeping crypto liquid and the future of DeFi
This week’s DeFi Download Podcast features Juan-David Mendieta, co-founder of Keyrock. Piers Ridyard and Juan-David discuss Keyrock's market-making services and the potential of DeFi to create a more equitable and accessible financial system.
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DappRadar: The World’s Dapp Store
In the latest episode of the DeFi Download podcast, the CEO and co-founder of DappRadar, Skirmantas Januškas, was interviewed by Piers about the origins of his platform and the challenges of tracking dApps in the ever-changing landscape of the ...
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Dappnode and how to empower anyone to run a professional validator
In this episode of the DeFi Download podcast, Piers talks with Pol Lanski, Project Lead of Dappnode, about the benefits of running a validator node in a decentralised network like Ethereum or Bitcoin, and how Dappnode makes it simple for anyone...
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FLUID.finance and how AI can improve investment returns in DeFi
In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Ahmed Wael Ismail, Founder and CEO of FLUID, an AI-based liquidity aggregator for CeFi and DeFi. In the interview, Ahmed discusses FLUID's liquidity aggregation platform and how it ...
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Omar Yehia: Venture Capital and the importance of decentralisation
With Omar Yehia In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard discusses investing with applied mathematician Omar Yehia. They explore issues in academia, the importance of trust in crypto, and how to approach investin...
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