AMA#1 - Kain Warwick of Synthetix
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🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Kain Warwick, Founder of the Synthetix Platform, presents himself to the Bankless Nation for a live AMA!
We ask him anything! No question off limits.
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Here's the video recording.
Kain is the founder of Snythetix, a popular synthetics and derivatives market on Ethereum. The Bankless Nation asks him questions about:
- High gas fees
- yams lol
- Yield farming
- Future vision for synthetics
- DeF in a Layer 2
- Central bank digital currencies
- The final boss
- Eth2
- What he learned from 2017
- Bull market price predictions!
And more....
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of Internet money and Internet finance. |
| 0:19.7 | This is how to get started, how to get better, and how to front run the opportunity. This is Ryan Sean Adams. I'm here with |
| 0:25.1 | David Hoffman and we're here to help you become more thankless. David, how are you doing |
| 0:30.8 | today, sir? Absolutely fantastic. Experimenting with a new model of content in the Bankless Podcast. |
| 0:38.0 | We're bringing an AMA bonus episode early in the week with Kane Warwick. These AMA interviews we do on |
| 0:46.1 | bankless every other Thursday as a live stream. If you are part of the |
| 0:50.4 | bankless nation, if you are in the bankless discord, you get access to the |
| 0:54.6 | Zoom webinar where you can ask Kane and future guests directly inside of Zoom. |
| 1:00.0 | And for everyone else you can check the live stream out on YouTube, both as a live stream and then also as a video, and then also now as a podcast where you are listening to it now. |
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| 1:41.3 | So Ryan, what did you think about this AMA? This is the first format that we've done this AMA in. |
| 1:46.0 | This is a lot of fun. We got a ton of community questions, fantastic questions from the |
| 1:51.4 | bankless nation. I think we got to many of them, though not all of them, and we just like covered everything. I mean this is a this is a pretty substantial conversation with Kane and certainly we ask questions that, you know, the typical |
| 2:08.0 | guests might not have been comfortable with but Kane just went with it and I think he gave us a pretty good take on layer two and how |
| 2:15.8 | synthetics is reacting to kind of all of this higher gas fee and you know he talked about |
| 2:21.2 | building in a roll-up, so building in a layer two outside of |
| 2:25.8 | ethereal. |
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