Jose Maria Macedo sits down with Jonathan Caras, Head of Communications at Levana, a protocol on the Terra blockchain that allows any asset to be leveraged. The two discuss decentralizing perpetual swaps, leveraged tokens versus margin trading, the Levana Lore and much more!

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Show Notes:

(00:00:00) – Introduction.

(00:02:35) – Jonathan’s background.

(00:09:46) – Why Jonathan took the leap to build Levana.

(00:13:16) – Why Jonathan chose to build on Terra. 

(00:20:24) – What is Levana?

(00:25:00) – The possibilities on Levana.   

(00:28:50) – How the leveraged tokens work. 

(00:33:59) – Liquidation risk of leveraged tokens.

(00:38:16) – Choosing leveraged tokens over margin trading infrastructure.

(00:44:14) – Differences between perps and leverage trading.

(00:50:30) – Approaching perp decentralization. 

(00:59:55) – Role of the Levana token.

(01:04:01) – The story behind Levana’s lore. 

(01:10:09) – Easter eggs in Levana’s lore / Levana NFTs. 

(01:14:51) – How NFTs will be incorporated on Levana. 

(01:21:00) – Closing thoughts on Levana.

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