Anna from Metavault.Trade – a decentralized spot & perpetual exchange – joined us for an episode to discuss the basics of Metavault, how it works, the exchange market, what makes Metavault unique, current growth drivers and challenges, economic model, plans for the future, and more. Metavault’s dashboard on Token Terminal: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/metavault-trade Metavault.Trade: Site: https://metavault.trade/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MetavaultTRADE Anna: https://twitt...
Mar 01, 2023•19 min
A.J. Warner, Chief Strategy Officer at Offchain Labs, the team behind Arbitrum – a Layer 2 smart contract platform for decentralized applications on Ethereum – joined us for an episode to discuss the basics of Arbitrum, how it works, the scaling solution market, what makes Arbitrum unique, current growth drivers and challenges, economic model, plans for the future, and more. Arbitrum’s dashboard on Token Terminal: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/arbitrum Arbitrum: Site: https://arbit...
Feb 27, 2023•28 min
Coinflipcanada, a core contributor at GMX – non-custodial exchange for spot and perpetual contracts built on Arbitrum and Avalanche – joined us for an episode to discuss the basics of GMX, how it works, the exchange market, what makes GMX unique, current growth drivers and challenges, economic model, the GX and GLP tokens, plans for the future, and more. The GMX dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/gmx Site: https://gmx.io/#/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GMX_IO Coinflipcanada: ...
Feb 23, 2023•19 min
Hart Lambur, Co-Founder of Across Protocol – a cross-chain bridge for L2s and rollups secured by UMA's optimistic oracle – joined us for an episode to discuss the basics of Across, how it works, the bridge market, what makes Across unique, current growth drivers and challenges, business model, the ACX token, plans for the future, and more. Across Protocol dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/across Across Protocol: Site: https://across.to/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AcrossPro...
Feb 20, 2023•18 min
DeFi Ted from Paragons DAO – an economic and social partner-DAO to promising blockchain-powered gaming ecosystems – joined us for an episode to discuss the basics of Paragons DAO, the Parallel Trading card game, current growth drivers and challenges, Paragon’s business model, the PDT token, upcoming developments, plans for the future, community activity, and more. Paragons DAOs dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/paragonsdao Read about Paragon’s new gaming vision: https://medi...
Feb 16, 2023•12 min
Amplice from Gearbox Protocol – a composable leverage protocol that connects passive liquidity providers to active borrowers – joined us for an episode to discuss the basics of Gearbox, current growth drivers and challenges, the protocol’s economic and business models, the GEAR token and the DAO, positioning within the leverage market, upcoming developments, and more! Gearbox Protocol’s dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/gearbox Gearbox Protocol: Site: https://gearbox.fi/ Doc...
Feb 14, 2023•22 min
Seb, Founder of Gains Network which is the organization that is developing gTrade – a liquidity-efficient, decentralized leveraged trading platform – joined us for an episode to discuss the basics of gTrade, the differences between Polygon and Arbitrum, drivers behind current traction, the GNS token, and more! Gains Network’s dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/gains-network GNS NFTs: https://gains-network.gitbook.io/docs-home/what-is-gains-network/nfts Gains Network: Site: ht...
Feb 09, 2023•19 min
Anna George, Co-Founder of CoW Protocol – a meta-DEX aggregation protocol that acts as a batch settlement layer on top of all other AMMs & DEX aggregators – joined us for an episode to discuss the basics of CoW Protocol, how its positioned within the market, how it came to be, the current economic model and plan for monetization, the challenges that need to be tackled, the COW token, and more! CoW Protocol’s dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/cow-protocol CoW Protocol: Si...
Jan 13, 2023•25 min
Anna George, Co-Founder of CoW Protocol – a meta-DEX aggregation protocol that acts as a batch settlement layer on top of all other AMMs & DEX aggregators – joined us for an episode to discuss the basics of CoW Protocol, how its positioned within the market, how it came to be, the current economic model and plan for monetization, the challenges that need to be tackled, the COW token, and more! Watch the extended version of our interview with Anna here: https://youtu.be/n91Aqd7IncE CoW Protoc...
Jan 13, 2023•18 min
In this series, we interview core contributors within crypto and gain insights into their day-to-day operations. In this episode, I’m joined by Pacman – founder of Blur – the NFT marketplace for pro traders. Blur launched in October 2022 and quickly established itself as the market leader in terms of volume in the NFT space. Blur’s dashboard on Token Terminal: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/blur Blur: Site: https://blur.io/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/blur_io Pacman: https://twitte...
Jan 09, 2023•28 min
In 15-minute fundamentals, we interview core protocol contributors & together dive into the details behind the charts available on Token Terminal. In this episode, we dive into the world of Axie Infinity with Co-founder Jeff (Jiho) Zirlin. We discuss the Ronin chain, Axie's two-token model, ensuring the long-term sustainability of Axie's economy, what the future has in store, and more! Axie Infinity's dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/axie-infinity Site: https://axieinfi...
Jan 04, 2023•18 min
Michael Bentley, CEO & Co-Founder of Euler Labs – the team behind the non-custodial lending protocol Euler – joined us for an episode to discuss the latest market developments and how they’ve affected the DeFi lending market, the drivers behind Euler’s growth, what the team is currently working on, the Euler DAO, bad debt in DeFi, feeless flash loans, the Eulerswap AMM, and more. Euler's dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/euler Euler: Site: https://www.euler.finance/ Docs...
Dec 08, 2022•22 min
Miller Whitehouse-Levine, Policy Director at DeFi Education Fund (DEF) – a non-profit organisation that explains decentralized finance to policymakers around the world and advocates for policies welcoming of decentralized financial infrastructure – joined us for an interview to walk through the basics of DEF and the important role that Policy work plays within crypto. DeFi Education Fund: https://www.defieducationfund.org/ Twitter (DEF): https://twitter.com/fund_defi Twitter (Miller): https://tw...
Dec 01, 2022•14 min
Smit Vachhani, Head of DeFi at OP Labs, the team behind Optimism – a Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum – joined us for an interview to dive into the details behind the charts available on Token Terminal. In this interview with Smit we discuss the basics of what Optimism is, how it works, how it's positioned within the Ethereum ecosystem and broader Layer 2 landscape, current growth drivers, challenges, and plans for the future. Optimism’s dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/project...
Nov 24, 2022•17 min
JD Gagnon, Co-Founder & CEO of BENQI – a lending and liquid staking protocol on Avalanche – joined us for an interview to dive into the details behind the charts available on Token Terminal. In this interview with JD we discuss the basics of what BENQI is, how it works, how it's positioned within the market, growth drivers and challenges, and plans for the future. BENQI’s dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/benqi (note that the dashboard currently only tracks the metrics f...
Nov 17, 2022•20 min
Justin Trollip, CEO of Pangolin Exchange – a multi-chain decentralized exchange – joined us for an interview to dive into the details behind the charts available on Token Terminal. In this interview with Justin, we discuss the basics of what Pangolin is, how it works, how it's positioned within the exchange market, growth drivers and challenges, and plans for the future. Pangolin’s dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/pangolin Pangolin: https://pangolin.exchange/ Twitter: https...
Nov 11, 2022•16 min
Paul Frambot, Founder & CEO of Morpho Labs – the company behind the lending pool optimization protocol Morpho – joined us for an interview to dive into the details behind the charts available on Token Terminal. In this interview with Paul we discuss the basics of what Morpho is, how it works, how it's positioned within the lending market, growth drivers and challenges, and plans for the future. Morpho’s dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/morpho Morpho: https://www.morpho....
Nov 04, 2022•17 min
Krunal Amin, Founder & CEO of UniDex - a non-custodial exchange and aggregator for perpetual contracts - joined us for an interview to dive into the details behind the charts available on Token Terminal. In this interview with Krunal we discuss the basics of what UniDex is and how it's positioned within the exchange market, current products and their features, growth drivers and challenges, and plans for the future. UniDex’s dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/unidex UniDe...
Nov 03, 2022•15 min
Kirill Kutakov, Co-founder of StakeWise - an Ethereum liquid staking protocol - joined us for an an episode of 15-minute fundamentals to discuss the basics of; what StakeWise is and how it's positioned within the liquid staking market, onboarding institutions,plans for the future, and more. You can also tune in to the extended version of our interview with Kirill here: https://youtu.be/BMXdfci9geA StakeWise’s dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/stakewise StakeWise: https://sta...
Oct 27, 2022•18 min
Kirill Kutakov, Co-founder of StakeWise - an Ethereum liquid staking protocol - joined us for an interview to dive into the details behind the charts available on Token Terminal. In this extended version of our interview with Kirill we discuss the basics of what StakeWise is and how it's positioned within the liquid staking market, current and previous products, onboarding institutions, addressing the centralization risks that come with liquid staking, and plans for the future. StakeWise’s dashb...
Oct 27, 2022•28 min
Julian Koh, Co-Founder & CEO of Ribbon Finance joined us for another episode of 15-minute fundamentals to discuss the past 3 months at Ribbon. In this episode, we dive into the current state of Ribbon and discuss recently launched products Ribbon Earn and Ribbon Lend, and the soon to be launched options exchange Aevo. Ribbon Finance is a suite of DeFi protocols that help users access crypto structured products. By combining derivatives, lending and a proprietary on-chain options exchange (Ae...
Oct 14, 2022•16 min
Miles Anthony from Decentral Games joined us for an episode of 15-minute fundamentals to dive into the details behind the charts available on Token Terminal. Decentral Games is a web3 gaming company building ICE Poker; a metaverse-native play-to-own poker game. In this episode, we speak about the past 6 months at Decentral Games, dive into the current state of the business, new game modes for ICE Poker, the ICE Merge, and what effects the recent changes have had on the Decentral Games ecosystem....
Oct 04, 2022•17 min
Jamie Holmes from Perpetual Protocol joined us for an episode of 15-minute fundamentals to dive into the details behind the charts available on Token Terminal. Perpetual Protocol is an on-chain perpetual futures DEX with deep liquidity and builder-ready composability. Perpetual Protocol's dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/perpetual-protocol Perpetual Protocol: https://perp.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/perpprotocol Make sure to leave a comment if you have any questions �...
Sep 23, 2022•15 min
Lito, from Hop Protocol, joined us for an episode of 15-minute fundamentals to dive into the details behind the charts available on Token Terminal. Hop is a scalable rollup-to-rollup general token bridge. It allows users to send tokens from one rollup to another almost immediately without having to wait for the rollup’s challenge period. Hop's dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/hop-protocol Hop: https://hop.exchange/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/HopProtocol Lito's Twitter: ht...
Sep 21, 2022•18 min
Adam Soffer, Product Engineering Lead at Livepeer, joined us for an episode of 15-minute fundamentals to dive into the details behind the charts available on Token Terminal. Livepeer is a decentralized video streaming network built on the Ethereum blockchain. Livepeer's dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/livepeer Livepeer: https://livepeer.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Livepeer Adam's Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamSoffer Make sure to leave a comment if you have any que...
Sep 14, 2022•15 min
Teddy Woodward, Co-founder of Notional Finance, joined us for an episode of 15-minute fundamentals to dive into the details behind the charts available on Token Terminal. Tune in to the extended version of our interview with Teddy below, where we discuss the risks that lending protocols face during the Ethereum merge, give a detailed overview of Notional's tokenomics, and discuss the role community contributors have: https://youtu.be/4vXYQsRsFWw Notional's dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/te...
Sep 13, 2022•16 min
Teddy Woodward, Co-founder of Notional Finance, joined us for an interview to dive into the details behind the charts available on Token Terminal. In this extended version of our interview with Teddy we discuss the risks that lending protocols face during the Ethereum merge, give a detailed overview of Notionals tokenomics, and describe the different roles that community contributors have. Notional's dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/notional-finance Notional Finance: https:...
Sep 13, 2022•30 min
In 15-minute fundamentals, we interview core protocol contributors & together dive into the details behind the charts available on Token Terminal. In this episode, we dive into the current state of NFTX with Quag. A novel use case not mentioned in the interview but worth noting is that NFTX provides users the ability to DCA or “save up” for an NFT and earn interest while doing it by staking the vault token. We'll speak about this in more detail with Quag in a future episode. You can tune in ...
Sep 09, 2022•17 min
The extended version of our 15-minute fundamentals interview with Quag from NFTX. In this interview, we break down NFTX's operating model and learn about the drivers behind the data you see on Token Terminal's charts. We discuss NFT liquidity, different staking options, the current fee model, creator royalties, launching on Arbitrum, Pudgy Penguins, the NFTX token, etc. Tune in for the latest on NFTX and the plans for its future. A novel use case not mentioned in the interview but worth noting i...
Sep 09, 2022•31 min
In our second episode with Michael Svoboda from Liquity we discuss the censorship of USD-linked stablecoins, how the Terra crash and broader market's stress test has affected Liquity, and how truly DeFi native stablecoins are positioned amidst these events. In 15-minute fundamentals, we break down the business of a crypto project and learn about the drivers behind the data you can see on Token Terminal's charts. Liquity's dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/liquity Liquity: Si...
Aug 18, 2022•16 min
