Ep. 410 - Building on and Adjusting to an Evolving Ethereum with Derek Alia of Futureswap

CRYPTO 101

Bryce Paul & Brendan Viehman

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🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In this episode of CRYPTO 101, brought to you by Masterworks.io, we talk to Derek Alia of Futureswap about being a decentralized maximalist, why building on Ethereum is like the Manhattan of crypto, and how his company is navigating the world of rising gas fees and other swift changes. Sponsored link: www.masterworks.io/crypto101 www.masterworks.io/about/disclaimer Guest Links: https://twitter.com/derekalia https://www.futureswap.com/ Show Links: https://CRYPTO101podcast.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/user?u=8429526 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Crypto101Pod https://twitter.com/BrycePaul101 https://twitter.com/PizzaMind https://instagram.com/crypto_101 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/101Crypto https://www.facebook.com/CRYPTO101Podcast **THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL OR LEGAL ADVICE** © Copyright 2021 Boardwalk Flock, LLC All Rights Reserved ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Fog by DIZARO https://soundcloud.com/dizarofr Creative Commons — Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported — CC BY-ND 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/Fog-DIZARO Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/lAfbjt_rmE8 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Our Sponsors: * Check out Mars Men: https://mengotomars.com * Check out NPR: https://npr.org * Check out Quince and use my code quince.com/crypto101 for a great deal: https://www.quince.com * Check out Scribe and use my code Scribe.how/CRYPTO101 for a great deal: https://scribe.com/Crypto101 * Check out Shopify and use my code shopify.com/crypto101 for a great deal: https://www.shopify.com * Check out Webroot and use my code webroot.com/crypto101 for a great deal: https://www.webroot.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Crypto 101 podcast.
0:14.0	I am joined as always by my notorious compadre, Mr. Aaron Malone.
0:19.8	Pizza Mind, how you doing over there, buddy?
0:22.1	Staying warm this winter, I sure hope.
0:24.7	Absolutely not.
0:25.6	It's been freezing cold here in Texas.
0:27.4	We got some snow on New Year's, but that's not stopping us.
0:32.1	The Bitcoin freeze at 46K is not stopping us, as other coins are finally decoupling from their BTC shackles.
0:41.4	Yeah, it seems like we're getting a pretty nice run here in the altcoin markets, off to a really strong start.
0:49.3	And we're joined actually by the CEO of a really interesting defy project called Future Swap.
0:58.2	Derek Alia, welcome to the Crypto 101 podcast.
1:03.2	Guys, thanks for having me.
1:04.9	Yeah, we're going to dive into all sorts of stuff, you know, derivatives, trading, open interest, options, perpetual swaps, all sorts of
1:14.8	stuff. But first, Derek, let's just get it quickly acquainted. You know, what's your background?
1:22.0	My background is mostly in software engineering, just building cool stuff, building, it was really early on building
1:32.3	iPhone apps and sort of saw the gamification of the App Store and was really interesting
1:40.5	to see how when new markets are opened up, sort of what changes
1:47.9	and innovations those bring. And I think, you know, crypto has a lot of parallels to what happened
1:57.9	with the iPhone, especially in terms of what Ethereum did for, in terms of
2:04.3	creating an app store.
2:07.0	There's a lot of parallels there of just opening it up to developers and innovation and new
2:11.7	things that could be created.
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