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The How And Why of AMMs With Alex Nezlobin
Season 1 · Episode 5

The How And Why of AMMs With Alex Nezlobin

What's an AMM even anyways?

The Gwart Show | Blockspace Media

March 24, 20241h 35m

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Show Notes

Mechanism this, mechanism that. Why does crypto infrastructure even matter? Gwart tunes in with Alex Nezlobin to discuss the history and importance of AMMs like Uniswap.


Published randomly, "The Gwart Show” gets to the bottom of crypto’s toughest topics.


Chapter Markers:

00:00:00 Start

00:01:11 Alex's Background

00:04:21 Problems in TradFi

00:06:29 Alex's Interest in AMMs

00:17:16 Robinhood & Payment for Order Flow

00:22:52 The Future of AMMs

00:27:31 Frontrunning & Insider Trading

00:37:31 AMM Landscape on Ethereum

00:46:46 Colocation & Latency

00:52:28 Builder Centralization

01:08:18 Fast Chains & AMM Losses

01:25:13 AMMs in 20 Years

01:34:36 Wrap-up

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