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S2 Ep 11Season 2, Episode 11: Is this the best L1 platform for DeFi? In conversation with Piers Ridyard, CEO, Radix

Staking Mondays is a weekly show to share knowledge from key staking industry leaders with our community. Powered by StakingRewards.comAt Staking Rewards, we are helping investors to navigate the landscape of yield-generating digital assets helping them find the best opportunities to earn interest on their crypto. Our latest guest is Piers Ridyard, CEO at Radix. Radix is Layer 1 blockchain focussed on building secure, scalable, and a developer-friendly experience for decentralized finance.To know more about Staking Rewards:Visit our Website: https://www.stakingrewards.com/Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StakingRewardsSubscribe to our Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/StakingRewardsJoin the discussion on Telegram: http://t.me/StakingRewards

Jan 25, 20221h 5m

S2 Ep 10Season 2, Episode 10: Learn about Lido, Liquid Staking Ethereum, Polygon / Cosmos Alpha and more from Head of BD Jacob Blish

Staking Mondays is a weekly show to share knowledge from key staking industry leaders with our community. Powered by StakingRewards.comAt Staking Rewards, we are helping investors to navigate the landscape of yield-generating digital assets helping them find the best opportunities to earn interest on their crypto. Our latest guest is Jacob Blish, Head of Business Development at Lido. Lido is the market-leading liquid staking solution. With Lido you can stake #Ethereum, #Solana, and #Terra while keeping full liquidity via staking derivatives.To know more about Staking Rewards:Visit our Website: https://www.stakingrewards.com/Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StakingRewardsSubscribe to our Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/StakingRewardsJoin the discussion on Telegram: http://t.me/StakingRewards

Jan 19, 20221h 3m

S2 Ep 9Season 2, Episode 9: Akash (40%+ staking APY) is taking over the $Bn Cloud Computing Market by AWS? Greg Osuri EXCLUSIVE

Staking Mondays is a weekly show to share knowledge from key staking industry leaders with our community. Powered by StakingRewards.comAt Staking Rewards, we are helping investors to navigate the landscape of yield-generating digital assets helping them find the best opportunities to earn interest on their crypto. Our latest guest is Greg Osuri, Founder and CEO of Akash Network, the world’s first decentralized and open-source cloud, taking on behemoths like AWS in the Cloud Computing Market.To know more about Staking Rewards:Visit our Website: https://www.stakingrewards.com/Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StakingRewardsSubscribe to our Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/StakingRewardsJoin the discussion on Telegram: http://t.me/StakingRewards

Jan 17, 20221h 44m

S2 Ep 8Season 2, Episode 8: Sunny Aggarwal from Osmosis $OSMO on Superfluid Staking, 2022 Roadmap, Cosmos and more

Osmosis Zone is an open-source DeFi platform based on Inter Blockchain Communication (IBC) technology developed for the Cosmos Network.Osmosis users can add their tokens to liquidity pools and exchange them on a decentralized exchange. Cosmos IBC technology enables cross-chain transactions. In other words, IBC allows assets to be transferred from one Cosmos blockchain to another.Questions:- What was your first crypto investment outside of BTC and ETH?- Which person inspired you the most during your crypto journey?- What is the most inspiring AMM outside of Osmosis?- How do you stay up to date with crypto news and markets?- When did you check your crypto portfolio last time?- Which destination are you planning to travel to next?- What is your new year's resolution?Questions about Superfluid Staking :- Superfluid Staking will allow OSMO holders to stake and provide liquidity at the same time. Why are you building that as a native feature, and not just build a OSMO staking derivative and whitelist that as collateral for the AMM?- Does Superfluid Staking introduce any potential systemic risks to the security model of Osmosis?- Interchain Staking is another concept which allows someone to stake tokens across chains? Can you explain that briefly? And how it will interconnect with Superfluid Staking?- Why are you currently the only one working on something like Superfluid Staking? Is Osmosis with it’s native AMM the only protocol in need of such a solution? Or do you see others also adopt such?- What other functions can you imagine for staked tokens in a PoS blockchain? Besides network security guarantee (slashing collateral) and liquidity ?- Osmosis with it’s AMM is more and more becoming the center of the Cosmos Ecosystem.It’s the figurehead of IBC- And It seems like OSMO is doing what ATOM is trying to do. Can it ever become more than just a DEX laboratory chain? More like becoming the real new Cosmos Hub?- What are the differences between the Osmosis DEX and Gravity DEX?- What is the best-case scenario for Osmosis and OSMO? How does a world look like in which Osmosis is extremely successful?- Will Cosmos ecosystem absorb the rest of crypto and potentially Bitcoin?- The UI/UX for Osmosis seems really user friendly. What are your goals for onboarding new users and what do you want their first impressions to be when visiting the Osmosis Zone? The one communication goal- Also, who did the artwork?- The stats dashboard is a really important feature of an ecosystem dex. Some other chains have popular dex’s but seem to have load issues and accuracy issues with their stats dashboards. What advantages are you working with that allow for fast real time data to load efficiently?- Liquidity on Osmosis is approaching the 1 Billion USD (986 amount as of Jan 3rd 2022, as one of, if not the most important factors to any successful dex, what contributed to you achieving this 1 billion mark?- Can you walk us a bit through the Q1 Roadmap for Osmosis? What are the nest big milestones?If you enjoy this content, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel.Visit our Website: https://www.stakingrewards.com/Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StakingRewardsSubscribe to our Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/StakingRewardsJoin the discussion on Telegram: http://t.me/StakingRewards#staking #ethereum #crypto #cryptocurrencies #proofofstake #POS

Jan 4, 202256 min

S2 Ep 7Season 2, Episode 7: Staking Mondays with Edouard Lavidalle of Stakin

Our latest guest is Edouard Lavidalle, Co-Founder and CEO of Stakin. Stakin is a devoted validation service provider for Proof-of-Stake blockchain networks.

Dec 28, 202138 min

S2 Ep 6Season 2, Episode 6: Staking Mondays with Cyrus Fazel of Swissborg

Our latest guest is Cyrus Fazel, Founder and CEO of Swissborg. Swissborg is dedicated to democratising wealth management by making it fun, fair and community-centric

Dec 28, 20211h 1m

S2 Ep 5Season 2, Episode 5: Staking Mondays with Colin Steil of Cartesi

Our latest guest is Colin Steil, Co-founder and COO, from Cartesi. Cartesi is a layer 2 scaling solution. Their dApp building platform can be used on multiple blockchains, and developers can write code in familiar languages like Python.

Dec 28, 202125 min

S2 Ep 4Season 2, Episode 4: Staking Mondays with Phil Zimmerer of Spool DAO

Spool is permissionless middleware that allows users and builders to access DeFi in a fully composable manner. It lays the foundation for a customizable, scalable, and efficient financial services ecosystem that bridges the gap between end users and DeFi primitives. Spool unlocks currently dormant capital and allows anyone to earn yield on their own terms while fueling DeFi primitives with more reliable and predictable liquidity.

Dec 8, 20211h 6m

S2 Ep 3Season 2, Episode 3 - Staking Mondays with Perpetual Protocol

Yenwen Feng - Co-Founder of Perpetual Protocol Nick Tong - Head of Strategy and Partnership of Perpetual Protocol Yenwen Feng, who is the Co-Founder of Perpetual Protocol, a decentralized perpetual contract protocol for every asset, made possible by a Virtual Automated Market Maker with an aim to create the world's best, most accessible and most secure decentralized derivatives trading platform. Yenwen has over 17 years of various expertise and experience in the financial and tech industry, co-founding businesses like Cubie Inc. and Cinch Network. Yenwen also holds a MS degree in Computer Science from National Chiao Tung University. Nick is the Head of Strategy of Perpetual Protocol. Nick began his career in the University of Sydney as a Data Analyst, before moving on to other innovation and finance sectors, where he worked with Westpac,Incubate, Kent & Lime, and Lumi Finance. Nick also co-founded Edisse, where the team invented an award winning watch that helps caretakers track if elderly people fall. His mission is to utilise data to achieve rocketship growth in companies.SHOW LESS

Dec 1, 202146 min

S2 Ep 2Season 2, Episode 2: Staking Modays with Cryptocito

Cryptocito entered the Crypto space in 2017, studying blockchain technology and monetary policies after working at Mercedes Benz for 3 years.Since then he has:co-founded CryptoMondays Shanghai which evolved as China's largest Crypto CommunityCreated the Youtube Channel 'Cryptocito' where he helps viewers to take smarter decisionsBecame an investor in early stage Crypto startups, namely in the Cosmos ecosystemAnd recently organised the recent Cosmoverse conference in LisbonTimestamps:00:00 - StakingRewards Intro00:22 - Cryptocito Intro02:10 - Which Coins did Cryptocito first Buy?04:15 - Cosmoverse Recap07:44 - What is Cosmos?10:22 - Cosmos' Ideology13:20 - Cosmos Best Case Scenario?16:12 - Cosmos Hub vs. Polkadot Relaychain24:23 - My Cosmos Staking Setup30:28 - StakingRewards32:19 - Binance and the Cosmos Hub35:14 - Liquid Staking / Superfluid Staking40:40 - Coins that Cryptocito is staking44:42 - Cryptocito's Investment strategy47:40 - Osmosis49:40 - How Cryptocito analyses new projects54:00 - Exit strategy57:55 - Community AMA --Visit our Website: https://www.stakingrewards.com/Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StakingRewardsSubscribe to our Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/StakingRewardsJoin the discussion on Telegram: http://t.me/StakingRewardsIf you enjoy this content, please likeand consider subscribing to our channel.

Nov 23, 20211h 5m

S2 Ep 1Season 2, Episode 1: Staking Mondays with Julian Hosp of Cake DeFi

Welcome to season 2 of Staking Mondays!Staking Mondays is a weekly show to share knowledge from key staking industry leaders with our community. Powered by StakingRewards.comAt Staking Rewards, we are helping investors navigate the landscape of yield-generating digital assets, helping them find the best opportunities to earn interest on crypto.We are delighted to welcome today’s guest - Julian HospJulian Hosp is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cake DeFi (www.cakedefi.com), an intuitive online platform dedicated to providing access to decentralised financial services, enabling its users to earn returns from their crypto and digital assets.

Nov 16, 202141 min

S1 Ep 18Episode 18: Staking Mondays with Sameep Singhania of QuickSwap

Sameep Singhania is the co-founder of QuickSwap. QuickSwap is the biggest DEX on Polygon, with over $1 billion in liquidity. Sameep has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and has been a professional programmer for the past 6 years, previously working with OpenBazaar, ParaSwap, and Toptal.

Oct 28, 202148 min

S1 Ep 17Episode 17: Staking Mondays with Jake Brukhman of CoinFund

Jake founded CoinFund in 2015, one of the first blockchain-focused investment firms in the United States. He works closely with technology teams building blockchain products, networks, and cryptoeconomic systems and is known to have coined the term “Generalized Mining” and “Network Lifecycle Investing '' for CoinFund.He is a technologist with a background in mathematics and computer science and experience in distributed systems, web development, product management, private equity research, quantitative trading, and startups.Previously, he was Partner & CTO at Triton Research, technical product manager and engineer at Amazon.com, and spent 5 years in financial technology in New York City, including at Highbridge Capital Management.Curator at firstedition.xyz nft collection - coinfund is also doing a lot of work with NFTs

Oct 18, 202144 min

S1 Ep 16Episode 16: Staking Mondays with Iakov "Trevor" Levin of Midas.Investments

Iakov "Trevor" Levin - Midas.Investment Founder & CEO. DeFi gem and yield hunter, expertise in cognitive science and psychology. Knows how to achieve ecological yield on major crypto-assets.Midas.Investment is a custodial crypto-investment platform aimed to provide passive income streams to crypto investors. Our focus is to help people achieve financial freedom through building sustainable passive income streams and grasping opportunities in the crypto economy and DeFi market. In our four years of operation, we have managed to accumulate over 18,000 investors and raise more than $22 million in assets.

Oct 11, 202144 min

S1 Ep 15Episode 15: Staking Mondays with Ryan Selkis of Messari

Ryan Selkis is co-founder and CEO of Messari, a leading crypto asset data and research company. Prior to founding Messari, he was an entrepreneur-in-residence at ConsenSys, and was on the founding teams of Digital Currency Group, where he managed the firm’s seed investing activity, and CoinDesk, where he led the company’s restructuring and annual Consensus conferences. He has been an investor and prolific writer in the crypto industry since 2013.

Oct 5, 202145 min

S1 Ep 14Episode 14: Wolfgang Albrecht of Staking Facilities

Staking Mondays is a weekly show to share knowledge from key staking industry leaders with our community. Powered by StakingRewards.comAt Staking Rewards, we are helping investors to navigate the landscape of yield-generating digital assets helping them find the best opportunities to earn interest on crypto.This week's guest is Wolfgang Albrecht who is the founder and CEO of Staking Facilities. Staking Facilities operate industry-grade, highly secure physical infrastructure for next-generation blockchains to run on. They offer non-custodial staking services for Proof-of-Stake token holders and provide essential services for the Web 3.0 ecosystem. They currently have ~$2B Total Assets Staked and have paid out over $100M in rewards to delegators. Visit our Website: https://www.stakingrewards.com/Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StakingRewardsSubscribe to our Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/StakingRewardsJoin the discussion on Telegram: http://t.me/StakingRewardsStaking facilities Profile: https://www.stakingrewards.com/saving...

Sep 27, 202149 min

S1 Ep 13Episode 13: Anthony Sassano of The Daily Gwei & ETHhub

Staking Mondays is a weekly show to share knowledge from key staking industry leaders with our community. Powered by StakingRewards.comAt Staking Rewards, we are helping investors to navigate the landscape of yield-generating digital assets helping them find the best opportunities to earn interest on their crypto.Anthony Sassano is an Independent Ethereum educator, angel investor, and advisor. He is the founder of The Daily Gwei (a daily newsletter and daily video recaps of the entire Ethereum ecosystem) and Co-Founder of EthHub provides research and resources to learn about Ethereum.First Question: Which crypto project spiked your interest first outside of BTC and ETH? And why?Questions about Ethereum Staking :How do you feel about the EIP-1559 since it’s launched? Did you make any interesting observations? Staking is often described as a way to hedge inflation in crypto networks. How do you feel about that considering Ethereum‘s inflation may turn negative with EIP-1559What needs to happen so that Bitcoiners will appreciate the monetary policy of Ethereum as they do for Bitcoin?Ethereum has a staking economic design that is purposely chosen with no limit of validators. At the same time it does not support any delegation, which is meant to make as many people as possible to run validator nodes themselves. But at the same time this pushes a lot of stakers to use Staking Pools, which may or may not be very decentralized. How do you think does Ethereum compare here in terms of decentralisation to other networks with no limit to the number of validators, but supporting delegation - e.g. Tezos or others Where would you position Ethereum in general as part of the Ecosystem of Proof of Stake Networks?How do you expect the market for Ethereum Staking to change once Ethereum gets merged into Ethereum 2.0? Considering Rocket Pool and other solutions will go live too.How much ETH do you think will be staked - let’s say a year after the merge? What do you think about a potential competition between Staking ETH and supplying to other yield strategies or lending? Could this be a potential risk for the network?What is your take on staking derivatives, do you think there can be many successful solutions? And are there even different use cases for different types of derivatives?Do you think MEV (Miner Extractable Value) will be a problem for Ethereum 2.0 after the merge too? And what are the implications of this?Are you worried at all that anything critical could go wrong with the merge of Ethereum?What are you most excited about for Ethereum in the coming months? (Besides the merge)What is in your opinion the best way to stake ETH if you have less than 32 ETH?In your opinion what’s the best way to earn interest on ETH if you do not want to lock your tokens until the merge?Last but not least: do you have any prediction when the merge will happen?

Sep 24, 202141 min

S1 Ep 12Episode 12: Staking Mondays with Tushar Aggarwal of Persistence & pSTAKE

Staking Mondays is a weekly show to share knowledge from key staking industry leaders with our community. Powered by StakingRewards.comAt Staking Rewards, we are helping investors to navigate the landscape of yield-generating digital assets and finding the best opportunities to earn interest on your crypto.One of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Asia, Tushar Aggarwal wears many hats: He started the crypto podcast Decrypt Asia, works as a venture scout with LuneX Ventures, and runs Persistence, a platform that lets users earn liquidity rewards while they stake coins. Persistence is an interoperable protocol built to facilitate the creation of next-gen financial products. The Persistence tech stack provides the infrastructure to effectively bridge the realms of DeFi and traditional finance in a variety of areas, whilst also enabling the creation of innovative crypto-facing solutions to expand the DeFi and NFT sectors.pStake is set to be released on September 20th and it is a liquid staking protocol built for unlocking the liquidity for the locked PoS assets such as $ETH $ATOM $DOT $LUNA $SOLQuestions:01:51 Which crypto project spiked your interest first outside of BTC and ETH? And why?04:45 Regarding Persistence mainnet, Staking Rewards data suggests over 80% of eligible XPRT are being Staked - what factors help you achieve this high rate?07:43 Shifting gears to pSTAKE - this protocol will allow for the issuance of representative tokens on Ethereum which are backed 1:1 by native assets staked on PoS chains, these stkTOKENs can then be utilized in the vast DeFi ecosystem on Ethereum. What validators will support these cross chain staking responsibilities and what does this selection process look like?11:05 pSTAKE will support the major PoS networks including Cosmos, Terra, Polkadot, Solana and Ethereum 2.0. What is your evaluation process when selecting new networks?14:32 How can stkTOKENs help users unlock the benefits of staking returns while avoiding the lockup periods associated with traditional unbonding times from PoS networks?.19:28 Transferring stkTOKENs to a different wallet address triggers an automatic rewards claim. Are there any thresholds for rewards and who covers the gas costs of transfers?21:20 What secondary products could be built with or utilize stkTOKENs?24:52 STAKE’s governance token — $PSTAKE was recently announced - tell us about the economic benefits to holders of this token.26:10 What do you think will the landscape for liquid staking solutions / derivatives will look like in 2 or 3 years ? How many solutions will gain significant market share?31:30 What are the dynamics between pStake, Persistence, and Audit.One? Could there be a potential conflict of interest?38:28 What is the best Yield Opportunity currently available within the Persistence ecosystem?

Sep 13, 202141 min

S1 Ep 11Episode 11: Staking Mondays with Brian Hoffman of Kraken

Staking Mondays is a weekly show to share specific knowledge from the staking industry leaders with our community. Powered by StakingRewards.comAt Staking Rewards, we are helping investors to navigate the landscape of yield-generating digital assets and finding the best opportunities to earn interest on your crypto.We are extremely excited to welcome today’s guest - Brian Hoffman, Platform Lead at Kraken.As one of the largest and oldest Bitcoin exchanges in the world, Kraken is consistently named one of the best places to buy and sell crypto online, thanks to their excellent service, low fees, versatile funding options and rigorous security standards -- but this is only part of the story. They’ve been on the forefront of the blockchain revolution since 2011.Brain Hoffman is the Product Manager for Crypto Funding at Kraken. He is responsible for coordinating the listing of new crypto assets on Kraken as well as liaising with relevant teams to plan and develop new products for the exchange platform, including most recently Parachain Auctions. He has seven years’ worth of experience building software for peer-to-peer bitcoin trading and previously provided cybersecurity consultancy services for the U.S. Department of Defense, classified government agencies, as well as Fortune 500 companies, including Neiman Marcus, FedEx, and Boeing and Hilton Hotels. He holds an MBA from Carey Business School at John Hopkins as well as a computer science degree from James Madison.

Sep 7, 202126 min

S1 Ep 10Episode 10: Staking Mondays with Justin Sun

Staking Mondays is a weekly show to share specific knowledge from the staking industry leaders with our community. Powered by StakingRewards.comAt Staking Rewards, we are helping investors to navigate the landscape of yield-generating digital assets and finding the best opportunities to earn interest on your crypto.Visit our Website: https://www.stakingrewards.com/Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StakingRewardsSubscribe to our Youtube: https://www.stakingrewards.com/youtubeJoin the discussion on Telegram: http://t.me/StakingRewardsTron Profile: https://www.stakingrewards.com/earn/tronTRON is a blockchain-based decentralized platform that aims to build a free, global digital content entertainment system with distributed storage technology, and allows easy and cost-effective sharing of digital content.Tron was founded in September 2017 by a Singapore-based non-profit organization called the Tron Foundation. It is headed by CEO Justin Sun and has a dedicated in-house development team that includes renowned technology stalwarts.First Question: What is the first investment you made outside of BTC and ETH? And why?Questions about Crypto M&A:We have just seen the very first decentralized network acquisition, where Hermez, a zK rollups-based ethereum scaling solution was merged into Polygon. Do you think consolidation in the crypto space is good or bad? Thinking about decentralization as one of the key value propositions of the industry.Do you think there will be more crypto network mergers & acquisitions?Is there a possibility that TRON will merge with another network?What do you think is the risk of centralized entities overtaking crypto networks?You have acquired BitTorrent and Poloniex recently. Have these strategic plays gamed out for you? And are there any other acquisitions on your wishlist?How important do you think is the capitalization of decentralized crypto projects? Opposed to the actual tech. E.g. EOS raised $4B but was still struggling to get traction. Other projects raised very little money, but become super successful. What is more important, innovation or capital?Is there a risk of Stake Centralization M&A? We have seen some of these mergers already with Staking Providers. Where do you think that trend will lead towards? How decentralized is Tron in terms of stake distribution, and do you think there is risk of centralization?What role does Tron play in the crypto ecosystem? Why should developers build on Tron?What are the best staking and passive income / interest earning opportunities in the Tron ecosystem?

Aug 31, 202152 min

S1 Ep 9Episode 9: Staking Mondays with Illia Polosukhin of NEAR Protocol

Staking Mondays is a weekly show to share specific knowledge from the staking industry leaders with our community. Powered by StakingRewards.comAt Staking Rewards, we are helping investors to navigate the landscape of yield-generating digital assets and finding the best opportunities to earn interest on your crypto.Visit our Website: https://www.stakingrewards.com/Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StakingRewardsSubscribe to our Youtube: https://www.stakingrewards.com/youtubeJoin the discussion on Telegram: http://t.me/StakingRewardsNEAR Profile: https://www.stakingrewards.com/earn/n...Illia Polosukhin is the CTO and co-founder of NEAR Protocol, a platform that wants to give the power of programming to everyone through enabling entrepreneurs, researchers and every other professional to upload their sketches, which will be rendered into designs, receiving a fully functioning mobile app in return.Illia has more than 10 years of industry experience, including 3 years at Google where he was a major TensorFlow contributor, author of multiple impactful research papers and a manager of the team building question-answering capabilities for the core Google search.First Question: 1. Which crypto project spiked your interest first outside of BTC and ETH? And why?2. What do you think is the biggest challenge to bootstrap a layer 1 proof of stake network? And how are you addressing it?3. How important do you think is the initial token distribution for the success of a layer 1 network?4. NEAR has such a beautiful incentives design where inflation is offset by transaction fees. Which project inspired you the most when you designed the economics and incentives for NEAR?5. What is your go-to-market strategy for NEAR? And are you planning to focus on one specific niche? Like e.g. being “the blockchain for NFTs” or “the blockchain for DeFi”6. Why should some choose to build a dApp on NEAR instead of on Ethereum?7. What is your personal relationship (and team relationship) with the Proof of Stake Validators on NEAR? Is a close relationship good or prone to further centralization of the platform?8. For you as the team behind NEAR, do you see it as a business to make NEAR successful? How are you internally structured? And what are your KPIs9. What are the best staking / passive income opportunities with Near Protocol?

Aug 27, 202128 min

S1 Ep 8 Episode 8: Staking Mondays with JP Mullin of MANTRA DAO

Staking Mondays is a weekly show to share specific knowledge from the staking industry leaders with our community. Powered by StakingRewards.com About Staking Rewards: At Staking Rewards, we are helping investors to navigate the landscape of yield-generating digital assets and finding the best opportunities to earn interest on your crypto. Visit our Website: https://www.stakingrewards.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StakingRewards Subscribe to our Youtube: https://www.stakingrewards.com/youtube Join the discussion on Telegram: http://t.me/StakingRewards John Patrick Mullin is a FinTech entrepreneur, tokenization expert, and educator living in Hong Kong. He started his career in investment banking having worked at Guotai Junan Securities in Shanghai, China. He then was a founding team member and Managing Director of trade.io a cryptocurrency exchange and advisory firm based in Hong Kong. As an educator, he has spoken at leading universities across the world, including Harvard, London Business School, and Peking University. Additionally, John is a mentor for Entrepreneur First, a leading, deep-tech accelerator and LongHash, a global blockchain accelerator. He has now built one of the first cross-chain DeFi platforms with MANTRA DAO. MANTRA DAO profile on Staking Rewards: https://www.stakingrewards.com/saving... MANTRA DAO Website: https://mantradao.com/ MANTRA DAO Twitter: https://twitter.com/MANTRADAO JP's Twitter:https://twitter.com/jp_mullin888

Aug 27, 202132 min

S1 Ep 7Episode 7: Staking Mondays with Jack Lu of Wanchain

This week our guest is Jack Lu of Wanchain. Originally from China, Jack has been living in the United States for quite a while now. He is a graduate of Peking University, worked in the financial industry for several years in China before he came to study Economics and Computer Science at The Ohio State University. In 2016, he started incubating the idea of Wanchain to solve the interoperability challenge. He did a proof-of-concept and built a platform with Ethereum as the base with cross-chain and privacy added. Then they launched Wanchain in 2017, and the main net launched in January 2018.About Staking Rewards:At Staking Rewards, we are helping investors to navigate the landscape of yield-generating digital assets and finding the best opportunities to earn interest on your crypto.Visit our Website: https://www.stakingrewards.com/Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StakingRewardsSubscribe to our Youtube: https://www.stakingrewards.com/youtubeJoin the discussion on Telegram: http://t.me/StakingRewardsTimestamps:03:38 Wanchain was announced in the mid of 2017 ICO Hype as one of the first Proof of Stake Blockchains. What are some of the most memorable moments for you during the launch phase of Wanchain? And how did Wanchain profit from the hype back then?08:49 Do you think the crypto hype cycles, fast-shifting sentiments (like ICO hype, DeFi Hype, NFT Hype) in crypto are dangerous or net positive for the industry overall? 12:22 How do you think can users differentiate between short-term hype and long-term innovation?15:47 What role does community sentiment play for you in making development decisions for Wanchain in particular? Do you get valuable indicators for where the core team should focus on?18:48 What significance does Staking have for you to build a community? Could Proof of Stake be an enabler for Community Engagement?25:15 What are the best opportunities to earn passive income and returns in the Wanchain ecosystem right now? Cross chain staking mechanism. Version 2 of WenLend just launched today, tell us about this project28:49 Community QuestionsWanchain profile on Staking Rewards: https://www.stakingrewards.com/earn/w...Wanchain Website: wanchain.orgWanchain Twitter: https://twitter.com/wanchain_orgJack's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackLu_WAN

Aug 9, 202135 min

S1 Ep 6Episode 6: Staking Mondays with Qiao Wang of DeFi Alliance

This week on Staking Mondays, we are joined by Qiao Wang of DeFi Alliance. Qiao graduated from University of Waterloo before working as a Quant Trader. He then jumped into crypto, helped to build out Messari, and is now on a mission to support crypto projects with the DeFi Alliance. He thinks aging is a disease, and we are sure he will find ways to live forever.Timestamps:0:00 Introduction1:03 First interesting crypto outside of BTC?2:55 What role does staking play in fascinating 1B people into crypto?5.45 Will investors in 10 years still invest in the underlying crypto?7:04 What is the biggest challenge for DeFi to become mainstream?9:55 Regulation in DeFi11:53 Is it even possible for 1B people to get into DeFi?14:03 Is yield farming a real innovation that is here to stay?16:24 Do you think our whole economy (stock market) could switch to truly owned, transparent, and real-time profit distribution via Staking mechanisms as such?20:03 What is the most sophisticated token design (incl. Staking incentives) you have encountered so far? Any projects that are super innovative or underrated maybe?About DeFi AllianceThe DeFi Alliance is the leading decentralized finance accelerator. We help startups source liquidity and support from a broad industry network — the DeFi Alliance Network — that includes trading firms, founders, and investors. Together, we will grow DeFi to one billion users by 2025.DeF Alliance Website: https://www.defialliance.co/DeFi Alliance Twitter: https://twitter.com/defiallianceQiao Wang Twitter: https://twitter.com/QwQiaoAbout Staking Rewards:At Staking Rewards, we are helping investors to navigate the landscape of yield-generating digital assets and finding the best opportunities to earn interest on your crypto.Visit our Website: https://www.stakingrewards.com/Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StakingRewardsSubscribe to our Youtube: https://www.stakingrewards.com/youtubeJoin the discussion on Telegram: http://t.me/StakingRewards

Aug 5, 202122 min

S1 Ep 5Episode 5: Staking Mondays with Arthur Breitman of Tezos ($XTZ)

This episode of Staking Mondays is with Arthur Breitman. Arthur is the Founder of Tezos ($XTZ). Arthur Breitman is an early architect of the Tezos protocol. Prior to becoming involved in Tezos full time, he worked at X and Waymo on self-driving cars. In his earlier career, he worked as a quantitative analyst at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Arthur graduated from the École Polytechnique and holds an MS in financial mathematics from the Courant Institute at NYU. He published the Tezos Whitepaper in 2014. Left his corporate career in 2016 to work full-time on Tezos, which is the first Liquid Proof of Stake Protocol ever running in production. Now since over two years already. A true pioneer of Proof of Stake. Ken Garofalo of Staking Rewards interviews Arthur on the topic of Proof of Stake vs Proof of Work and many more exciting items. Learn about Tezos and staking options on Staking Rewards: https://www.stakingrewards.com/earn/t... About Tezos: Tezos is a decentralized, open-source energy efficient Proof of Stake blockchain network that can execute peer-to-peer transactions and serve as a platform for deploying smart contracts. The native cryptocurrency for the Tezos blockchain is the Tez which has the symbol XTZ. Tezos Website: https://tezos.com/ Tezos Twitter: https://twitter.com/tezos About Staking Rewards: At Staking Rewards, we are helping investors to navigate the landscape of yield-generating digital assets and finding the best opportunities to earn interest on your crypto. Visit our Website: https://www.stakingrewards.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StakingRewards Subscribe to our Youtube: https://www.stakingrewards.com/youtube Join the discussion on Telegram: http://t.me/StakingRewards

Jul 26, 202135 min

S1 Ep 4Episode 4: Staking Mondays with Stani Kulechov of Aave ($AAVE)

This episode of Staking Mondays is with Stani Kulechov. Stani is the Founder and CEO of Aave Aave Website: https://aave.com/ Aave Twitter: https://twitter.com/AaveAave SR Website: https://www.stakingrewards.com/ SR Twitter: https://twitter.com/StakingRewards SR YouTube: https://www.stakingrewards.com/youtube SR Telegram: http://t.me/StakingRewards

Jul 19, 202122 min

S1 Ep 3Episode 3: Staking Mondays with Zaki Manian of Iqlusion, Sommelier Finance & Cosmos

This episode of Staking Mondays is with Zaki Manian. Zaki is a leading engineer in the Cosmos ecosystem and co-founder of both iqlusion & Sommelier Finance. iqlusion Website: iqlusion.io iqlusion Twitter: https://twitter.com/iqlusioninc sommfinance Website: sommelier.finance sommfinance Twitter: https://twitter.com/sommfinance SR Website: https://www.stakingrewards.com/ SR Twitter: https://twitter.com/StakingRewards SR YouTube: https://www.stakingrewards.com/youtube SR Telegram: http://t.me/StakingRewards

Jul 12, 202122 min

S1 Ep 2Episode 2: Staking Mondays with Do Kwon of Terraform Labs

This week we are joined by Do Kwon, leader of Terra/ $LUNA ecosystem👀Staking Rewards is an independent data aggregator and research platform for crypto interest rates with a core focus on Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Protocols. We are the leading data provider for staking and crypto-growth tools. We currently track 200+ yield-bearing assets with an average reward rate of 14.95% offered by 11,000+ qualified providers.We are a team of professionals, exceedingly passionate about a decentralized, open, and transparent financial community. Follow us for research, trends, and insights on all things staking, DeFi and crypto.Terra Website: https://www.terra.money/Terra Twitter: https://twitter.com/terra_moneyTerra Telegram: https://t.me/TerraLunaChatTerra Staking Rewards: https://www.stakingrewards.com/earn/t...-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Website: https://www.stakingrewards.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/StakingRewardsYouTube: https://www.stakingrewards.com/youtubeStaking Rewards Telegram: http://t.me/StakingRewards

Jul 5, 202119 min

S1 Ep 1Episode 1: Staking Mondays with Tor Bair of Secret Network

Staking Mondays is a new show by Staking Rewards where we will invite industry leaders to talk to us about their specialty, their projects, and their passion.Episodes will be weekly on Mondays and we will live stream across all of our channels.The first-ever guest is Tor Bair of Secret Network. Tune in to watch and keep an eye out for giveaways during the video.Website: https://www.stakingrewards.com/Twitter: @StakingRewards Telegram: t.me/StakingRewardsYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/StakingRewardsSN Website: www.secretnetwork.comSN Twitter: https://twitter.com/SecretNetworkSN Telegram: https://t.me/SCRTCommunity

Jul 1, 202129 min