Wyre Talks

The creators of Perlin still hold the long-term vision of developing a decentralized cloud computing platform. But the team has expanded its scope to include a DAG ledger powering Wasm smart contracts known as Wavelet. Today, cofounders Kenta Iwasaki and Dorjee Sun join us to discuss its Testnet launch and explain its international trade application

The #1 objective at 0x in 2019 is liquidity. Today, cofounders Will Warren and Amir Bandeali join us to share their roadmap for the next 12 months, discussing their work in the realm of ZIEPs and 0x Mesh, the team’s collaboration with StarkWare, and the proposed changes to the 0x token economics model

It’s been a busy Q2 in the crypto space. Today, the Wyre Team sits down to discuss the major developments in the ecosystem, including the launch of Facebook’s LIBRA, the Bitfinex scandal and the subsequent $1B token raise, Bitcoin’s ongoing positive price action, and the latest SEC action and FinCEN guidance for cryptocurrency.

Boost VC was among the first venture capital funds to invest in the crypto space. Today, Cofounder and Managing Director Adam Draper joins us to share his vision of a borderless, digital world enabled by virtual reality and cryptocurrency and explain why he loves mentoring sci-fi tech founders in the pre-seed stage.

Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need custody to secure price exposure to a given asset. In fact, the launch of a new crypto product allows you to pair a reference asset like Bitcoin with a collateral token like DAI to gain synthetic exposure to Bitcoin, without having to buy or store any BTC. These so-called position tokens open up a world of possibilities for accessing exposure to cross-chain and traditional assets—or creating brand new ones.

Michael is the co-founder and CEO of Hummingbot, a platform that allows users to run their own high-frequency market making bot and automate crypto trading. Today, Michael joins us to discuss the Hummingbot thesis that market making can be done safely by anyone. He walks us through the differences among the three off-the-shelf strategies provided by the platform and describes how users can customize their own and share ideas on the Hummingbot community forum.

What is keeping institutional investors from playing in the crypto space? It’s clear that the asset class is here to stay, and many major institutions have shown interest in the market. So, what can we do to provide a trading infrastructure traditional finance is used to? What are crypto projects doing to attract institutional players to the ecosystem?

We live in a world where information is accessible from any corner of the globe, yet financial product remains shockingly regional—and available only to the extremely wealthy among us. The team at UMA is leveraging blockchain technology to enable universal market access by way of a digital-first, global protocol for risk transfer.

Today, we’re joined by Tom Teman, co-founder, and CEO of Portis, Aaron Lasher, co-founder and CSO of BRD, and Itamar Lesuisse, co-founder and CEO of Argent, to discuss everything crypto wallets. We begin with a conversation around the missions of Argent, Portis, and BRD, describing how what they stand for influences the architecture of each wallet. Tom, Aaron, and Itamar share their respective takes on gas abstraction as a major friction point for new users and address each wallet’s design tradeoffs and target markets.

Liquidity is key in making open finance work, and Uniswap’s success lies, in part, in its system of pooling liquidity in a single smart contract on-chain. What began as a side project for an out-of-work mechanical engineer has become a major player in the DeFi space, establishing a protocol for an automated token exchange on Ethereum and setting itself apart in terms of decentralization and censorship-resistance.