Synthetix: A New Hope with Kain Warwick
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🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, we’re exploring the frontier of the multi-chain Ethereum roadmap. Synthetix has been leading this charge as it pertains to the application layer of Ethereum.
David is joined by Synthetix’s Founder, Kain Warwick in person in David’s Brooklyn studio.
“Synthetix, A New Hope,” is a recent blog post Kain wrote and is a main focus for today’s episode.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
7:08 Synthetix Networks
8:50 Growth Complexity
9:50 Phases of Complexity of Apps
14:00 Elaborating the Problem Layers
15:25 Paramartizing Risk
19:00 Defining the Problem(s)
21:00 Likelihood of Solution(s)
24:05 3 Paths of Fragmented Liquitidy
31:40 Chainlink’s CCIP
32:50 Optimism
36:00 MakerDAO
36:55 dYdX Model
44:25 Free Market Model
47:00 Other Solution Tools
55:15 Cross-Chain Shared Execution
57:50 Kain & Synthetix Main Focuses
59:00 Timeline
59:50 Other Components of Synthetix
1:02:25 Kain’s Thoughts on Regulation
1:08:13 Final Messages
1:09:15 Closing & Disclaimers
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RESOURCES
Kain Warwick
https://twitter.com/kaiynne
Synthetix, A New Hope
https://mirror.xyz/kain.eth/tAXGVKMTYM8K2gUOQq9JDQ1wyV_5Msdlrn_AtmiCGEI
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. |
| 0:08.3 | And today, on Bankless, we are exploring the frontier of the multi-chain Ethereum roadmap. |
| 0:13.6 | The role of centric roadmap has always been about producing many, many new layer tools, |
| 0:17.6 | each of their own flavor, construction, and type, in pursuit of allowing diversity of |
| 0:22.5 | chains to all exist under the same ecosystem that we call Ethereum. |
| 0:26.8 | And aesthetics, an application has been leading the charge into exploring what does this |
| 0:30.4 | mean for the application layer of Ethereum. |
| 0:33.4 | And today, on the show, we're bringing in Kane Warwick actually inside of my apartment. |
| 0:37.8 | This is an in-person conversation. |
| 0:40.3 | So you'll be able to pick up on the speed and lack of latency. |
| 0:43.7 | There is between me and Kane, I would say. |
| 0:46.2 | He was in New York for a main net. |
| 0:48.0 | And so we wanted to do a show about his recent blog post that he wrote called Synthetics |
| 0:53.1 | A New Hope about the next stage for Synthetics in this multi-layer to ecosystem, |
| 0:57.7 | and how he is thinking about some of the complexities and challenges that the Ethereum |
| 1:02.8 | Role of Centric roadmap presents for the application. |
| 1:05.0 | Like I said, since he was in town for main net, I was like, |
| 1:07.8 | I can't just come on over and we'll do the conversation in person. |
| 1:11.4 | So that was pretty fun. |
| 1:12.5 | It's always nice to have in-person conversations. |
| 1:14.4 | I don't do them as much, even though I have this set of ready to go. |
| 1:17.4 | Anytime there is a conference in New York, however, I will try and get one done. |
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