13 - DeFi's Mainstream Wallet | Itamar Lesuisse

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🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Episode: #13
May 25, 2020

Argent is the closet thing we've seen to a mainstream ready bankless wallet. Is this crypto's Netscape moment?

Ryan & David sit down with Itamar the co-founder of Argent to find out. Coming off a big week of releases, Itamar tells us how DeFi's almost reached parity with traditional finance, hasn't quite found product market fit in developed countries, but why he's incredibly bullish about the future.

We cover:

The why:
- Why Itamar's here
- Argent's ethos
- What makes Argent Bankless
- The walled garden approach
The what:
- Why typical wallets suck
- Superpowers with DeFi
- What's holding us back
- What if Argent goes away?
- Collecting an email address
- Argent in Argentina
The when:
- 1 billion users & Argent in 5 years
- Finding the Netscape of crypto
- Two things he wants from the Bankless community

How soon until 1 billion users? Listen and decide for yourself.

Before the episode begins we also talk about:

Why if feels like 2016 again
The BlockFi breach and "DeFi fixes this"

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Resources discussed:

(Article) It's 2016 again
(Article) How to get your first DeFi Wallet (Argent)
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Use a money protocol on Argent (how to)
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance.
0:18.7	This is how to get started, how to get better, and how to front run the opportunity.
0:22.4	This is Ryan Sean Adams. I'm here with
0:23.8	David Hoffman and we're here to help you become more bankless. David, how are you this week?
0:29.8	I'm doing great. I'm really excited about this episode. This is an episode where we dive into a very specific
0:36.0	bankless tool and ask the questions that we think are really important. Both me and Ryan are
0:41.5	huge fans of the Argent wallet and how they are pushing the boundaries with the benefits of crypto, while obvious skating and hiding away the friction points and the costs of crypto, making a really good uX UI experience for
0:54.9	users and then we also talk about really important questions such as you know if the
0:59.6	argent wallet is as successful as they want it to be. How do we maintain neutrality in the
1:06.1	in the wallet? How do we make sure that Argent is aligned with the
1:09.7	Ethereum ecosystem into the future.
1:12.6	So a super valuable episode.
1:14.9	Edamar definitely has the right vision for what
1:17.6	Argent needs to be and it was just an absolute treat getting him on the pod.
1:21.6	Yeah, absolutely.
1:22.4	I think the entire bank list community is
1:24.9	cheering for this wallet and excited about this wallet because it feels like the first
1:30.1	wallet that's almost mainstream accessible.
1:33.2	This is pretty easy to use.
1:34.9	I mean, my parents can easily use this.
1:37.8	People who aren't, are completely new to crypto can use this.
1:41.4	It's really difficult to talk to somebody and talk to them about dye and
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