Unlocking the Power of UTXO Lending & Staking with FluidTokens - Matteo Coppola & Raul Antonio

Today, Matteo & Raul join me to discuss how Fluid Tokens is revolutionizing decentralized finance (DeFi) on Bitcoin. As pioneers in leveraging Bitcoin’s UTXO model with Ordinals & Runes, they’re building innovative DeFi primitives like staking, lending, and decentralized exchanges (DEXs) in a trustless and permissionless way.

In this episode, we explore:

• [00:00] Surviving the Bear Market and Building in Web3

• [07:00] Matteo & Raul’s Journey into Crypto

• [13:00] Understanding UTXO: Why It’s Better for DeFi

• [23:30] Fluid’s Current Products: Lending, Staking, and DEXs

• [30:00] The Future of Bitcoin OS and ZK Bridges

• [37:00] Pushing Bitcoin Script to Its Limits

• [45:00] The Role of Account Abstraction in DeFi’s UX Evolution

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