March 26, 2024

Can Omni Network Solve for Ethereum’s Fragmented L2 Liquidity?

40 minutes

Austin King is the CEO of Omni Labs.

In this episode, we discuss how Omni Network can solve for Ethereum's fragmented L2 liquidity. Austin shares his vision for how this EVM blockchain, secured by Ethereum, aims to power one united user experience for all DeFi and Web3 apps built across rollups.

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Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

5:12 - Austin's background

8:48 - What is Omni Network?

9:26 - What is Omni solving for?

11:39 - Blockchain design of Omni

12:46 - Getting to sub-second finality

15:34 - Omni vs major interoperability solutions

18:36 - Inspiration from prior builders

20:35 - Maverick mid-roll

21:44 - Secured by Ethereum thanks to EigenLayer

23:02 - ether.fi commits $600M of staked ETH

24:12 - Risks of restaking

28:28 - The Open Liquidity Network

32:06 - Could Omni deprecate bridging protocols?

33:34 - Ethereum security, with a Solana-like UX

36:03 - Expand beyond Ethereum?

37:25 - Closing

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🔗 Guest Links 🔗

► Omni Website: https://omni.network/

► Omni Whitepaper: https://docs.omni.network/whitepaper.pdf

► Omni on Twitter: https://twitter.com/omniFDN

► Austin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xASK

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