Crypto Market Making With Evgeny Gaevoy
How do crypto market makers make money? Can we really put exchanges on chain? This and more in this week's Gwart Show!
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Show Notes
Evgeny Gaevoy, CEO of Wintermute, discusses market making in crypto, DeFi evolution, blockchain technology's relationship with capitalism, Solana's approach, GameFi potential, and the future of crypto in light of AI advancements. He shares insights on token design, DAO governance, and contrarian views on crypto's long-term prospects.
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:52 Evgeny background
02:25 Crypto vs tradfi
04:04 Caring about more than market making
05:23 Wintermute business line
07:10 Why use a market maker?
10:11 Good vs bad market making?
12:07 On-chain price discovery
13:48 Is NOT having on-chain price discovery a failure?
15:27 ICO benefits
18:02 Good token design
20:22 Should token holders have rights?
24:09 Equity + tokens WTF?
26:04 DOA governance
27:35 Has governance gotten worse?
30:41 Big unlocks in DeFi?
34:45 Rebuilding TradFi on -chain (yawn)
39:23 Will crypto market makers get out competed?
42:56 ETH roadmap blues
44:12 Capitalist systems or bust
47:11 Solana
49:38 Bro, do u even Bitcoin?
50:27 What does DeFi solve?
51:29 What does DeFi NOT solve?
52:31 GameFi thesis
53:23 Why does GameFi still suck?
55:40 Star Trek = DeFi fail
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