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The Edge Podcast

Join two seasoned crypto investors and DeFi power-users as they dive into the biggest (and often untold) stories shaping the future of digital assets—covering all you need to know about Ethereum, Bitcoin, and DeFi. Gain your own edge as an investor from comprehensive interviews with leading founders, investors, and developers you won’t hear elsewhere. For exclusive content, market updates, and DeFi yield opportunities, sign up for our free newsletter at the-edge.xyz.

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01:02:34

GMX V2: A Guide for Traders and Liquidity Providers

The Edge Podcast ·

2023/08/21

Fredegar Christensen is a BD Contributor at GMX. In this episode, we cover what's new in GMX V2 for traders and liquidity providers. Given its reputation as the top decentralized leverage perps trading platform on Arbitrum, with over $140B in trading volume since 2022, we walk through a bit of DeFi history on GMX V1. Afterwards, we walk through a detailed guide on all the improvements made in V2 including isolated GM Pools, new collateral asset support, longing/shorting markets with the same

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00:42:25

Timeswap, Unlocking Oracle-Free Lending and Borrowing...

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2023/08/17

Ameeth Devadas is the CoFounder of Timeswap. In this episode, we cover how oracle-free lending and borrowing works with Timeswap. Similar to how Uniswap enabled the permissionless creation of trading pools, Timeswap is a fully decentralized money market protocol, aiming to make possible the permissionless creation of lending and borrowing markets, for any tokens, without the need for oracles. If Timeswap is successful, we could see tens of thousands of lending and borrowing markets emerge for long

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00:54:01

Pendle Finance: A Guide to DeFi Yield Trading Strategies

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2023/08/11

TN Lee is the CoFounder of Pendle Finance and a CoFounding member of Kyber Network. In this episode, we explain Pendle Finance and provide a rare guide to DeFi yield trading strategies within the increasingly popular protocol. Pendle was a breakout star in DeFi during the doldrums of the crypto bear market, and if you listen to the ethos behind TN Lee, you'll soon understand why. Pendle aims to reimagine the traditional finance interest derivative market, worth over $400 trillion in notional value,

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00:57:01

Can Zapper Make The Blockchain Social?

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2023/08/04

Seb Audet is the CoFounder of Zapper. In this episode, we discuss how can Zapper make the blockchain social. For years, Zapper has been a well known gateway to millions of users in DeFi and Web3. From DeFi Summer to now, Seb shares his experience and insights from the evolution of Zapper into a social web3 explorer, which allows users to follow the blockchain journey of other people in NFTs, DeFi and DAOs. While Seb sees the future of crypto in Web3 social networks, he explains his thesis for why we

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00:35:23

Pioneering Fixed Rate Loan Auctions on Ethereum with...

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2023/08/01

Dion Chu is the Founder and CEO of Term Finance. In this Quick Hit, we review a new fixed rate auctions protocol on Ethereum, launching today (August 1st) on Ethereum. DeFi is known for its volatile variable interest rates. Term offers a new non-custodial fixed rate lending and borrowing protocol for a maturing DeFi markets that demand more predictable fixed rates, like those we find in traditional finance. With Term Finance, borrowers and lenders are matched through a unique recurring auction

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00:30:24

Atlas, ChatGPT for Smart Contracts | Quick Hit

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2023/07/27

Samee Siddiqui is the CoFounder and CEO of Atlas. In this Quick Hit, we review Atlas and their new ChatGPT tool for writing smart contracts. Atlas is self-described as the fastest way to build on Ethereum, L2s, and any EVM chain. Samee gives us a live demo and talks about why it's so crucial that we radically lower the barrier to building protocols and dApps with tooling like Atlas. ------ 📺 If you prefer video, watch episodes of The Edge Podcast on YouTube:

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01:05:10

Velodrome Finance: How They DeFi'ed The Bear Market...

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2023/07/21

Alex Cutler and TaoWatts are Core Contributors at Velodrome Finance. In this episode, we discover how Velodrome defied all odds in the bear market to become a DeFi darling and recently shipped Velodrome V2. Launched in June 2022, just weeks after the Terra UST collapse, Velodrome has managed to not only survive, but gone on to thrive as the most popular DEX to deposit liquidity on Optimism. The first half of the pod explores the remarkable story of how they built a popular DeFi product during the

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00:41:53

Will Prisma Finance Ignite The LST Wars? | Quick Hit

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2023/07/15

Our guest today is the anonymous cofounder of Prisma Finance. In this Quick Hit, we spotlight a new LSTfi protocol called Prisma Finance. We discuss will Prisma ignite the LST Wars, referring to the Curve Wars among protocols competing to capture voting power to allocate Curve liquidity rewards and bootstrap early DeFi protocols. Self-described as "the end game for LSTs," Prisma will offer a highly anticipated non-custodial and decentralized Ethereum LST-backed stablecoin. Prisma's

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00:46:21

Ether.fi's ETH Staking Loyalty Program, Ether.fan |...

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2023/07/13

Mike Silagadze is the Founder and CEO of EtherFi. In this Quick Hit, we review EtherFi's Ethereum staking loyalty program: Ether.fan. EtherFi is a newer ETH liquid staking protocol launched in 2023 with a novel twist called their Early Adopter Program, which led the protocol to quickly attract $40M in staked ETH within the first 2 months on Ethereum Mainnet. EtherFi is the only ETH liquid staking protocol where stakers retain control of their keys, which means that even if the protocol gets

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00:38:11

Stader's New Ethereum LST, ETHx | Quick Hit

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2023/07/10

Amit Gajjala is the CoFounder of Stader Labs. In this Quick Hit, we review ETHx, Stader's new Ethereum LST just in time for its official launch today. Since 2021, Stader has developed 6 liquid staking solutions for Proof of Stake networks, including Polygon, BSC, Hedera, Fantom, and Near and once held just under $1B in staked LUNA prior to the collapse of UST. As a multichain liquid staking protocol, Stader spent the crypto bear market developing their flagship Ethereum LST--ETHx. Given our

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00:53:25

Can Stacks Scale Bitcoin?

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2023/07/07

Muneeb Ali is the Co-Creator of Stacks. In this episode, we discuss whether Stacks can scale Bitcoin. Stacks can be thought of as a Bitcoin layer for smart contracts to build decentralized applications. Muneeb guides us through everything you need to know as a new DeFi user on Stacks, including the hot debate over whether Stacks is an L2 or not, how to earn BTC by stacking STX, and the massive Nakamoto upgrade which will enable trustless bridging of native BTC from the Bitcoin network directly to

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00:44:44

Unlocking LSTfi with Gravita Protocol | Quick Hit

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2023/06/30

Rhett Shipp is the Founder of Gravita. In this episode, we discuss how to get started with LSTfi using Gravita Protocol. Gravita is a friendly fork of Liquity, designed to provide users with interest-free loans backed by ETH Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) such as rETH by Rocket Pool and stETH by Lido. Rhett guides us through the mechanics of Gravita including how to open a vessel, the GRAI stablecoin, the Stability Pool, Recovery Mode, and what's next in terms of growing Gravita and GRAI on

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01:21:02

Prepare For The Crypto Bull Run with Austin Barack

The Edge Podcast ·

2023/06/25

Austin Barack is a Partner in Venture & Liquid Investments at CoinFund. In this episode of The Edge Podcast, we interview a crypto veteran and full-time investor about all the emerging sectors in DeFi and Web3 you need to know about next crypto bull run including Ethereum L2s, ETH LSTs, LSTfi, the ETH burn (EIP-1559 and its impact on the future ETH supply), Bitcoin DeFi, and the intersection of crypto and AI. Having begun investing at the age of 10 back in 2001, Austin is a rare breed who has

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00:36:31

The Ethereum AMM for All Market Conditions with...

The Edge Podcast ·

2023/06/16

Bob Baxley is a Core Contributor at Maverick Protocol. In this episode of The Edge Podcast, we cover a rising star among new AMMs on Ethereum Mainnet and zkSync Era--Maverick. Maverick has earned a spot as a top 5 DEX on Ethereum based on daily trading volume and the 2nd highest traded DEX on zkSync Era. Since launching in March 2023, Maverick has introduced new innovations to the AMM sector with automated directional liquidity provisions. Bob drops all the alpha on different liquidity strategies

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00:53:41

The Future of Cryptocurrency and AI with Emad Mostaque

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2023/06/13

Emad Mostaque is the Founder and CEO at Stability AI. In this episode of The Edge Podcast, we interview one of the most sought after AI experts in the world! Emad's team at Stability AI is building the world’s leading open source generative AI company, which is known for their flagship Stable Diffusion, first released in August 2022. Stable Diffusion text-to-image model is widely used to generate detailed images based on text descriptions. Just one month after the release of StableDiffusion

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00:37:44

The Ultimate Guide to Trading Perps on Kwenta | Quick...

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2023/06/10

Andrew Trudel is a Core Contributor at Kwenta. In this episode of The Edge Podcast, we cover one of the top decentralized perps trading protocols in DeFi by trade volume. With over $3.7B in lifetime trade volume, Kwenta is on a path to realizing Synthetix Founder Kain Warwick's original vision for DeFi leverage trading to outcompete crypto centralized exchanges and legacy finance. Given the launch of a 20-week program for Synthetix Perps Optimism Trading in April, we break down all you need to

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00:54:34

KyberAI: A DeFi Trading Supertool | Quick Hit

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2023/05/31

Imran Mohamad is the Head of Marketing at KyberSwap. In this episode of The Edge Podcast, we cover Kyber's newest supertool for DeFi traders, built on a lifetime trading volume of $19B in data--KyberAI. Using AI, machine learning, and on-chain data, KyberAI assigns a score to how bullish or bearish a token might be over the short term (hours or days). It's an excellent example of the DeFi OG team at Kyber Network continually building to empower the average DeFi user with the most

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00:53:58

Scaling Web3 Social Media with Stani Kulechov

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2023/05/26

Stani Kulechov is the Founder of Aave and Lens protocols. In this episode of The Edge Podcast, we interview this legendary DeFi founder. Having built Aave into one of the world's largest DeFi protocols with an all-time high of $30B TVL, Stani made the bold move in 2021 to jumpstart another wildly challenging Web3 startup that would deliver a self-sovereign alternative to social media–called Lens. Lens is a decentralized composable social layer. You can think of it as "not your keys, not

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01:09:59

Why India Is Poised For A Gaming Boom

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2023/05/21

Roby John is the CoFounder and CEO of SuperGaming. In this episode of The Edge Podcast, we interview the founder of the "Epic Games of India," SuperGaming. Roby explains how India's population of 1.4 billion with 450 million gamers playing battle royale games, and the most accessible cheap internet in the world has delivered the perfect storm for India to be the epicenter of the next gaming boom! When you talk with Roby, it feels like his career has been building towards this moment

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00:44:39

Instadapp's New Avocado Wallet

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2023/05/10

Samyak Jain is the CoFounder of Instadapp. In this episode of The Edge Podcast, we interview one of the earliest and most respected builders in DeFi. Sam and his brother Sowmay Jain have an epic story to tell going back to 2019, when they won an ETHGlobal hackathon building what is now known as Instadapp. Instadapp is a rich platform for both users and developers to leverage the full potential of DeFi. With Instadapp, you have access to the most powerful flashloan recipes allowing users to create

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