The Breakdown

The Founders of Chainlink and Synthetix on DeFi, Derivatives and 25 New Decentralized Price Feeds


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Yesterday Chainlink released price reference data for 25 of its decentralized oracle networks which, together, power more than $100m in DeFi. 

On this special interview episode, @nlw talks with Sergey Nazarov and Kain Warwick, the founders of Chainlink and Synthetix respectively about: 

  1. The evolution and goals of Synthetix, a novel type of derivatives exchange where users can interact with any asset with a price feed. 
  2. The challenge Synthetix faced around spinning up their own oracles around price feeds
  3. The history of their collaboration and how Synthetix came to work with Chainlink
  4. Chainlink approach to building decentralized oracles for data such as price feeds
  5. Chainlink’s announcement yesterday about the new published price reference data for 25 oracle networks
  6. The state of the idea of decentralization, and how what was previously a concept is becoming operationalized
  7. One thing that gives them pause or scares them about DeFi and crypto and one thing that makes them excited for the future 
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