The Antidote - Blockchain, Decentralization and Builders

The goal of Mango Markets is to create a trader-friendly decentralized trading platform. Initial core features will be fully on-chain margin trading on limit order books as well as perpetual futures, which are the main drivers of centralized exchange revenue

Alex Grebnev, one of the co-founders of Maps.me (http://maps.me/​) 2.0 and Oxygen Protocol. Alex brings to the table over 16 years of investment banking experience, including from Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch, where he was the Managing Director of the structured products group. His technical knowledge and commitment to building the financial infrastructure of tomorrow is apparent in both his projects and what we discuss today.

Oxygen Protocol is an on-chain prime brokerage, built on the fast-growing and liquid Serum ecosystem and running on Solana’s scalable blockchain. Oxygen is also planned to integrate with Maps.me 2.0, which is bringing the benefits of DeFi to its 140 million registered users globally.  The first phase of Oxygen is a borrow-lending via a pools-based infrastructure. Oxygen’s next plan is to create volatility trading agreements and structured product functions, so that developers can create their own structured products. Oxygen's vision is to recreate marketplace-esque business units which exist within investment banks and to make them accessible to everyone.

Sebastian is the architect behind a lot of the Serum DEX framework, he's an exceptionally talented developer and we're glad he made the time for this episode.

Bartosz Lipinski has a great story with his transition from being a director of engineering in the largest hedge fund in the world to working full time building programs on Solana. 

Roneil is a software engineer with a passion for music, it's this passion combined with his intelligence that make us strong believers in the scalability of Audius. At the moment the music streaming platform has 1.8m monthly users, a number that continues to grow, this is particularly impressive for a true p2p streaming platform. Now musicians truly own their content and can engage directly with their audiences while receiving detailed analytics. 

David founded Bonfida which is one of the flagship projects within the Serum Ecosystem. He did it from what began as a simple side project and has seen immense success very quickly as the flagship UI for Serum DEX, it's exciting to see what else he will build and do to grow the ecosystem.

Jeremy Allaire is a powerhouse and technological innovator. He aims big and works with persistence towards his goals, as such it is an honor to interview him and know he is working towards the progress of decentralization and ease of financial access for the entire world.

Anatoly Yakovenko is the founder of Solana, a long time engineer at Qualcomm he was able to build his team with several of his colleagues when the company was bought. They built the Solana blockchain from scratch and are now the fastest and cheapest blockchain in existence. The exciting part? It's only the beginning.