Zora

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the current state of Zora with Co-Founder & CTO Tyson.

15-minute fundamentals with Zora

Trader Joe

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the current state of Trader Joe with Co-Founder Murloc.

15-minute fundamentals with Trader Joe

Ether.fi

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the current state of ether.fi with Founder & CEO Mike Silagadze.

15-minute fundamentals with ether.fi

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the state of Gauntlet with VP of Growth Nick Cannon.

15-minute fundamentals with Gauntlet

Perpetual Protocol

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the latest at Perpetual Protocol with core contributor Jamie Holmes.

15-minute fundamentals with Perpetual Protocol ep.2

Synthetix

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the current state of Synthetix with core contributors Mike Griffith & Matt Losquadro.

15-minute fundamentals with Synthetix

Allbridge Core

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the current state of Allbridge with Co-Founder Andriy Velykyy.

15-minute fundamentals with Allbridge

PancakeSwap

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the current state of PancakeSwap with Head Chef, Mochi.

15-minute fundamentals with PancakeSwap

Metavault.Trade

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the current state of Metavault.Trade with Anna.

15-minute fundamentals with Metavault.Trade

Arbitrum

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the current state of Arbitrum with A.J. Warner – Chief of Strategy at Offchain Labs.

15-minute fundamentals with Arbitrum

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the current state of GMX with core contributor Coinflipcanada.

15-minute fundamentals with GMX

Across

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the current state of Across Protocol with Co-Founder Hart Lambur.

15-minute fundamentals with Across Protocol

ParagonsDAO

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the current state of Paragons DAO with DeFi Ted.

15-minute fundamentals with Paragons DAO

Gearbox

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the current state of Gearbox Protocol with Amplice.

15-minute fundamentals with Gearbox Protocol

Gains Network

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the current state of Gains Network with Founder Seb.

15-minute fundamentals with Gains Network

Blur

Blur launched in October 2022 and quickly established itself as the market leader in terms of volume in the NFT space. In this episode we gain insights into Blur's day-to-day operations.

Blur – The NFT marketplace for pro traders

Axie Infinity

A 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 – Digital property rights for all users of the internet

Euler

DeFi lending in a bear market, drivers behind Euler’s growth, the Euler DAO, bad debt in DeFi, feeless flash loans, the Eulerswap AMM, and more. 

Euler Finance – Growing in a bear market

Miller Whitehouse-Levine, Policy Director at DeFi Education Fund (DEF), 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 – Policy education and advocacy to help DeFi

Optimism

Smit Vachhani, Head of DeFi at OP Labs, walks us through the basics of what Optimism is, how it works, how it's positioned within the Ethereum ecosystem, current growth drivers, challenges, and plans for the future.

Optimism – a Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum

BENQI

JD Gagnon, Co-Founder & CEO of BENQI joined us to 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 – Liquid staking and lending on Avalanche

Pangolin

In this interview with Justin Trollip, CEO of Pangolin Exchange, 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 – A multi-chain decentralized exchange

Morpho

In this interview with Paul Frambot, Founder & CEO of Morpho Labs, 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 – A lending pool optimizer for better rates in DeFi

UniDex

In this interview with Krunal Amin, Founder & CEO of UniDex, 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 — Aggregating all of DeFi

StakeWise

In this interview with Kirill Kutakov, Co-founder of StakeWise, we 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.

StakeWise — A dual-token model for Ethereum liquid staking

Ribbon Finance

In this episode with Julian Koh, Co-Founder & CEO of Ribbon Finance, 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 — Building a one-stop solution for crypto structured products

Decentral Games

In this episode with Miles Anthony, Co-Founder & CEO, we speak about the past 6 months at Decentral Games, 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.

Decentral Games – Stabilizing the ICE Poker economy

Jamie Holmes 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 – An on-chain perpetual futures exchange

Hop Protocol

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 Protocol – A rollup-to-rollup general token bridge

Livepeer

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 – A decentralized video streaming network on Ethereum

Notional Finance

In this interview with Teddy Woodward, Co-founder of Notional Finance, we discuss the risks that lending protocols face during the Ethereum merge, give a detailed overview of Notional's tokenomics, and describe the different roles that community contributors have.

Notional Finance – A fixed-rate crypto lending protocol

NFTX

In this interview with Quag we break down NFTX's operating model and learn about the drivers behind the data you see on Token Terminal's charts.

NFTX – A liquidity protocol for NFTs

Liquity

In our second episode with Michael Svoboda from Liquity we discuss the censorship of USD-linked stablecoins, how the Terra crash and market volatility has affected Liquity, and how the truly DeFi native stablecoin LUSD is positioned amidst these events.

Liquity's unstoppable stablecoin

Connext

In this episode, we dive into the current state of Connext with Founder & CTO Rahul Sethuram.

Connext – trust-minimized crosschain communication

Rook

In this interview with the project's CEO Hazard, we discuss Rook's operating and business models, MEV, Keepers, tokenomics, treasury, and more. 

Rook – An open MEV marketplace for Ethereum

Maple Finance

In this interview, we discuss everything that has happened over the last three months including launching xMPL staking, and expanding to Solana. Tune in for the latest on Maple Finance and the plans for its future.

Maple Finance – xMPL, Solana, and market volatility

DeFi Saver

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the current state of DeFi Saver with Co-founder Nenad Palinkasevic. 

DeFi Saver – tools for tracking and managing your DeFi portfolio

A write-up of our discussion about the current state of Liquity with CEO Michael Svoboda.

Interview with Michael Svoboda, COO of Liquity

Polygon

In 15-minute fundamentals, we interview core protocol contributors & together dive into the details behind the charts available on TokenTerminal. In this episode, we dive into the current state of Polygon with Aishwary Gupta. 

Polygon – Bringing the world to Ethereum

Lido Finance

In this episode, we discuss the current state of Lido's business, growth drivers, bottlenecks, future roadmap, and the complex topic of whether liquid staking protocols are becoming centralizing forces. 

Lido Finance – Liquidity for staked assets

Euler's business model, differentiators to other lending protocols, current growth drivers, the EUL token, and more!

Interview with Michael Bentley, Co-founder & CEO of Euler Finance

dYdX

 In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the current state of dYdX with Corey Miller. 

dYdX – a non-custodial trading, lending and derivates protocol

A write-up of our discussion about the current state of Maple Finance with Co-Founder Joe Flanagan.

Interview with Joe Flanagan, Co-founder of Maple Finance

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the current state of Ribbon Finance with Co-founder Julian Koh. 

Ribbon Finance – 15-minute fundamentals

The current state of Decentral Games' business, Miles' thoughts on the broader play-and-earn ecosystem, Decentral Games' plans for populating the metaverse, and what effect the recent changes in the market environment might have. 

Decentral Games – Play & Earn poker in the metaverse

Goldfinch

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the current state of Goldfinch with Blake West.

Goldfinch – crypto borrowing without crypto collateral

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the current state of Euler Finance with Co-Founder & CEO Michael Bentley.

15-minute fundamentals with Euler Finance

Osmosis

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the current state of Osmosis with Alpin.

Osmosis – 15-minute fundamentals 

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the current state of the Liquity protocol with CEO Michael Svoboda.

Liquity – 15-minute fundamentals

In this episode of 15-minute fundamentals, we dive into the current state of the Maple Finance protocol and the plans for its future with the project's Co-Founder Joe Flanagan.

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