Perhaps the greatest challenge of current blockchain technology is that it’s inherently unscalable. But what if you could create a cryptographically secure time source that gives nodes the ability to verify the time and order of events, allowing finality time to drop even as decentralization grows? What if you could maximize bandwidth usage and facilitate hundreds of thousands of transactions per second—without sacrificing security?

Felix Feng is the CEO and Inje Yeo is the CPO of Set Protocol, the first functional asset-management protocol on the Ethereum blockchain. The team’s ultimate goal lies in bringing wealth-creation tools to a global user base. Today, Felix and Inje join us to discuss the flexibility of the Set architecture to add functionality over time and explain how the protocol allows users to source liquidity from any decentralized exchange

Why is Facebook getting into crypto? How does the Bitwise report miss the mark? And what’s behind the Q1 growth in DeFi?

Tom Bean and Kyle Kistner are the cofounders of bZx, the first decentralized margin lending and trading platform on the Ethereum mainnet. Tom serves as the startup’s CEO, and Kyle is Chief Vision Officer and Operations Lead. Today, they join us to share an end-to-end overview of the bZx protocol, explaining how it is fundamentally different from dYdX.

Brendan Forster is the cofounder and COO at Dharma, Clay Robbins is the Growth Lead at 0x, and Calvin Liu is the Strategy Lead at Compound. Today, they join us to define decentralized finance and discuss what success looks like in the space in terms of democratization of both access and creation. Brendan, Clay, and Calvin break down the key protocol classifications and offer insight around the creativity required to build traditional financial primitives within the constraints of the DeFi value system.

The team at CoinList is in a unique position to understand the crypto landscape as a whole, from the kinds of projects on the horizon to the profile of the crypto investor base to the way digital asset projects are approaching regulatory compliance. So, what are the current trends in the token sale ecosystem? And how is CoinList capitalizing on their understanding of the space to become a one-stop shop for token issuers?

Loong shares the secure multiparty computation Ren is using to build an order book inside the protocol as well as the potential use cases beyond order matching. We cover Ren’s go-to-market-strategy involving communication with the various blockchains and decentralized finance projects, and Loong offers insight on integrating Ren’s tech into existing liquidity pools. Listen in to understand Loong’s hope that Ren will break down the current silos in decentralized finance and learn what differentiates Ren from other privacy solutions!

For MakerDAO to reach its full potential, the platform will need access to massive collateral. Collateral beyond what the crypto ecosystem can provide. Rune Christensen sees this as the most lucrative opportunity to come out of Maker, an opportunity with the potential to unlock the connection between traditional and decentralized finance. And as Maker adds real-world assets to its collateral pool, Rune sees a future where Maker maintains a synthetic version of any asset of any value.

Nadav Hollander was working as a software engineer at Coinbase when he wondered: what if there was a way for Coinbase account holders to earn interest on their holdings? What if we could borrow and lend that idle cryptocurrency? Could the blockchain be used to provide borderless, stateless financial services?

Every chain has its strengths and weaknesses when it comes to decentralization, scalability and security. Ethereum has expressive smart contracts, while Bitcoin is better at solving the double-spend problem—and its transactions are safe in reorgs. Is there a way to get the best of both worlds? To give Ethereum access to Bitcoin’s security while maintaining its very rich state? The team at Summa is solving this problem, working to capitalize on the unique benefits of each blockchain and use cross-chain communication to create interoperability as a service.