How do you transform blockchain’s data bottlenecks into real-time, scalable solutions? In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Marc Tillement director of the Pyth Data Foundation. Marc shares the game-changing innovations behind their oracle system, from conquering Solana’s early challenges to pioneering low-latency, on-demand data feeds that power modern DeFi applications.

Could tokenization of real-world assets like real estate and bonds reshape how we think about borrowing and liquidity? Join Piers Ridyard and Martin de Rijke in this episode of the DeFi Download as they dive deep into the powerful potential of Maple and Syrup. Discover how tokenization and AI are shaking up DeFi and transforming the way we think about lending and borrowing.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Chris Bradbury, CEO of SummerFi. They discuss Chris's journey from MakerDAO to SummerFi, and the development of user-friendly financial tools and innovative features aimed at making DeFi more accessible to a wider audience by automating complex financial strategies.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard talks with Nikita Ovchinnik, Co-Founder of Barter, a smart router for DeFi swap routes. They delve into Nikita's foray into crypto, the inner workings of Barter, the MEV problem and its possible solutions, and the importance of market makers.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Friederike Ernst, co-founder of Gnosis and Gnosis Pay.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard speaks with Noah Litvin, a Core Contributor at Synthetix. They talk about Synthetix's vision of revolutionizing derivatives trading in the crypto space by providing innovative solutions.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard speaks with Ramon Recuero, Co-Founder and CEO of Mamori Labs, which is developing Kinto. Tune in to learn how Kinto bridges TradFi to DeFi and paves the way for institutional adoption by introducing the first Layer 2 solution with chain-level KYC and addressing concerns about scams, hacks, and traditional financial institutions' perception of cryptocurrency as the "Wild West.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard talks with Willy Woo, managing partner at Crest and SyzCrest. They delve into price prediction concepts, as well as the fundamentals of trading and the importance of purpose.

This episode of the DeFi Download with host Piers Ridyard features Robert Lauko, founder and head of research at Liquity. Tune in to discover how Liquity is addressing the stablecoin trilemma and reshaping the crypto space with game-changing innovations ranging from principal protection to improved peg stability.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard is joined by Ben Hart, CTO, and Amir, blossoming Scrypto developer at MLabs. Ben and Amir share their experience with different programming languages and platforms, such as Haskell, Plutus, Rust, and Scrypto. They analyse the advantages and challenges of using these languages, the philosophical and principles-based approach of their advocates, and how they learned and transitioned to them.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Cyrille Pastour, co-founder of Swaap. Cyrille and Piers discuss the inner workings of the automated market maker that is designed to protect liquidity providers by dynamically responding to the market.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Tommy Johnson, Core Contributor of PsyFi, joins Piers Ridyard to discuss their two-sided DeFi marketplace for structured products, which allows users to earn yield on their assets and traders to hedge or leverage their portfolio.

In this DeFi Download podcast episode, Piers Ridyard interviews David Garai, founder of Raft. Raft is a stablecoin protocol similar to MakerDAO, but it is backed by liquid staking tokens. Piers and David talk about the potential of liquid staking and its role in DeFi, as well as concerns about centralization.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard talks with Lasha Antadze, co-founder of Rarify Labs. They explore the growing value of identity across digital ecosystems, the challenges of portable identity in the crypto space, and the benefits of Rarimo's interoperability protocol for application builders.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard talks with Oliver Linch, CEO of Bittrex Global, about the advantages and disadvantages of centralised and decentralised exchanges, the company's history of operating in the cryptocurrency market, and its legal challenges with the SEC.

Mark Richardson, the project lead at Bancor, joins Piers Ridyard to discuss Carbon, the next stage in DEX evolution, in this episode of the DeFi Download. Carbon provides order book-like functionality on-chain and has already seen over 100 strategies created since its launch on April 20th.

Michael Videtto, co-founder of Astrolescent, a decentralised exchange aggregator, is Piers Ridyard's guest on this week's episode of the DeFi Download Podcast. Piers and Michael discuss the launch of USDA, the first fully collateralized stablecoin on Radix.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard and Will Jones, founder of Paper Street Capital, discuss the benefits of Scrypto and Radix's approach to creating it. They also touch on using blueprints and components for building DeFi projects, code reusability, and developer royalties.

In this episode of the DeFi Download podcast, Piers Ridyard and Bruno Škvorc, the founder of RMRK, delve into the RMRK NFT 2.0 standard and the Singular marketplace, which is designed to showcase the possibilities of NFT 2.0s. They also talk about marketing challenges and Bruno’s hope for widespread technology adoption.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard and Evgeny Yurtaev, CEO and co-founder of Zerion, discuss the importance of smart wallets that help users avoid mistakes, the upcoming Zerion extension release, and the challenges of designing a user-friendly onboarding process for Web3.

This week’s DeFi Download Podcast features Juan-David Mendieta, co-founder of Keyrock. Piers Ridyard and Juan-David discuss Keyrock's market-making services and the potential of DeFi to create a more equitable and accessible financial system.

In the latest episode of the DeFi Download podcast, the CEO and co-founder of DappRadar, Skirmantas Januškas, was interviewed by Piers about the origins of his platform and the challenges of tracking dApps in the ever-changing landscape of the blockchain industry.

In this episode of the DeFi Download podcast, Piers talks with Pol Lanski, Project Lead of Dappnode, about the benefits of running a validator node in a decentralised network like Ethereum or Bitcoin, and how Dappnode makes it simple for anyone to do so.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Ahmed Wael Ismail, Founder and CEO of FLUID, an AI-based liquidity aggregator for CeFi and DeFi. In the interview, Ahmed discusses FLUID's liquidity aggregation platform and how it works to solve the problem of highly fragmented liquidity in the crypto market.‍

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard discusses investing with applied mathematician Omar Yehia. They explore issues in academia, the importance of trust in crypto, and how to approach investing by examining personal assumptions and moving away from biases, while considering the trade-offs of decentralisation and the concepts of ease of use, robustness, and elegance in systems.

In this special edition of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard is joined by Mohamed Fouda, the head of research at Alliance DAO and co-founder of Volt Capital, as well as Matthew Hines, Chief Product Officer of RDX Works. The focus of the discussion is parallel execution within the realm of decentralised finance.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard is joined by Matthew Graham, founder, and CEO of Sino Global Capital, to discuss macrotrends, the significance of the Chinese market for cryptocurrencies, the repercussions of GitHub's ban on the Tornado Cash code, and the struggles and opportunities arising from de-globalization.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard chats with Aleksander Larsen, co-founder of Sky Mavis, makers of Axie Infinity, the largest blockchain game to date, which at its peak had over 2.7 million daily active users. Discussion topics include the criticality of the social aspect of gaming, the challenges of creating an interoperable world within the same IP, and the revolutionary potential of NFTs.

In this week's episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard talks with Lane Kasselman, the president of Blockchain.com. They talk about Lane's experiences leading a rapidly expanding multi-services platform, the reasoning behind Blockchain.com's focus on user-friendliness, and the differences in cryptocurrency adoption across the world.

On this episode of the DeFi Download podcast, Piers Ridyard interviews Gaurav Dubey, the CEO of TDeFi, a Web3 metaverse and crypto services incubator and consulting company.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard is joined by Jake Brukhman, Founder & CEO of CoinFund to explore the possibilities of blockchain technology and Web 3.0 in conjunction with artificial intelligence for the creation of valuable assets and the implementation of transparent and secure investing.

The CEO and founder of ShareRing, Tim Bos, is the guest on this episode of the DeFi Download with host Piers Ridyard. Some of the subjects covered include how blockchain technology may benefit identity verification, how ShareRing manages the storing of personal information, and what the future holds for digital ID.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard speaks with John Chen, Senior Advisor of Umbrella Network, and Philippe Engels, Partnerships and BD Manager. What sets Umbrella apart from other oracles, how it functions, and what the future has in store for it are some of the topics of their conversation.

In this episode of the DeFi Download podcast, listen to Piers Ridyard and Justin Trollip discuss the development of the first DEX on Avalanche, Pangolin Exchange, the project’s mission, and the challenges the team encountered.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Zaki Manian, co-founder of Sommelier and Iqlusion. They talk about his path from Cosmos to Sommelier, DeFi's revolutions and end state, and what sets this new system apart from TradFi.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Brian Pellegrino, co-founder, and CEO of LayerZero Labs, the team behind LayerZero, a generalised cross-chain messaging protocol, as well as Stargate, a cross-chain liquidity transfer layer. 

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard is joined by Florian and Lukas, co-founders of Ociswap. Ociswap is the first Radix native decentralised exchange going live with Babylon with a focus on concentrated liquidity, capital efficiency and protocol-owned liquidity.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Professor Campbell Harvey, Professor of Finance at Duke University, and co-author of DeFi and the future of finance.

Piers Ridyard is joined by Chris Zhu of Mirror World, in this episode of the DeFi Download. Piers and Chris examine interoperable gaming through the use of blockchain technology.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard of RDX Works and Julien Bouteloup of Stake Capital and Rekt News discuss his background and experience in the crypto space and analyse the current threats to DeFi governance, such as bribery and lobbying.

Josh is one of Radix’s most senior and longest-standing developers. Piers sits down with him for a chat, just like they did at South by Southwest in Texas, only this time in the studio.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard and Reggie Middleton debate the concept of patents and how they fit into the ethos of open source in the world of DeFi.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard is joined by Tascha Che, macroeconomist and founder of Soundwise. They discuss the enormous potential of Web3 from a macroeconomic standpoint.

In this special edition of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Alex Mashinsky, CEO of Celsius, about what's going on in the market today. Alex addresses everyone's concerns and interest in learning more about why things are happening the way they are, what people believe will happen in the future, and what lessons we can learn.

Piers Ridyard is joined by Jordi and Guillem, the founders and CEO and CTO of Potion.Finance, in this episode of the DeFi Download. They talk about automated risk management, the Kelly criterion, and how an automated strategy can be embedded into the bonding curve.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Josh Tobkin, CEO of SupraOracles. SupraOracles is supercharging oracles for a better, decentralised future by building better, faster, more accurate, and more secure on-chain sources of off-chain data.

In the middle of June 2022, Redfoo will host a three-day hackathon at his home in Malibu, California. Four lucky members of the Radix Developer community will team up to create something remarkable using Scrypto, the Radix engine, Redfoo's chess engine, and expand it to create something truly unique. 

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Alex Mashinsky, co-founder and CEO of Celsius. Alex shares his vision for Celsius, as well as his passion for value creation and giving back to the people who couldn’t make it.

Piers Ridyard interviews Patrick Hansen, Head of Strategy & Business Development at Unstoppable Finance, the wallet that aims to bring DeFi to the masses, in this episode of the DeFi Download. Patrick analyses why the EU should fully embrace crypto and Web3, as well as the current regulatory environment, which is stifling progress.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Robert Cooper, CEO of Digivault. Their conversation covers institutional digital asset custody, private key multi-layer security, and the current interest institutions have in crypto.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Jazzer, the founder of DeFi Plaza. Jazzer discusses his path to developing DeFi Plaza, his engagement with Radix, and his efforts to create a highly optimized DEX with the lowest gas costs per trade.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Humayun Sheikh, co-founder, and CEO of Fetch.ai. They discuss the role of Fetch.ai in democratizing AI, as well as machine learning and automation tools in blockchain and DeFi platforms.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Breno, founder of Boto, a platform for building bot-based automations for both developers and non-developers in DeFi and Web3.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Max Kordek, co-founder of Lisk. Lisk, a blockchain application platform founded in 2016, is a decentralised public Layer-1 that aims to make blockchain technology more accessible by creating a world in which everyone benefits from it.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard is joined by the founder of Metaversal, Yossi Hasson. Metaversal is an NFT curation company that raised $50 million in funding earlier this month (January 2022). They are a holding company that invests in and creates new NFTs through their venture studio. 

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Barney Mannerings, co-founder of the Vega protocol. Vega is a protocol for creating and trading margin finance products on a fully decentralised network. 

Piers Ridyard interviews Samuel Harrison, Harmony ONE’s Head of Ecosystem Growth, in this episode of the DeFi Download. Solving the Blockchain Trilemma, radical social change through DAOs, and Harmony’s role in facilitating that through their ecosystem development fund are some of the topics of Piers’ and Sam’s discussion.

Gro is a DeFi protocol that facilitates generating yield on stablecoins. Gro’s main product options are PWRD, a stablecoin with a substantial amount of collateral backing for protection, or Vault, which provides leveraged yield within the DeFi ecosystem. 

The DeFi Download podcast has a special episode today. Piers Ridyard of the Radix DLT and Chad Barraford of the THORChain project debate over the future of DeFi. Is it single or multi-chain?

Piers Ridyard talks with Mark Richardson, the Bancor Protocol's Head of Research, in this episode of the DeFi Download. T

Spencer Graham is the Project Lead of DAOhaus. DAOhaus is a community-owned and operated no-code platform for launching and operating Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. Its framework is based on the open-source code of Moloch.

Bifrost is the world's first blockchain middleware that enables multi chain technology. Bifrost’s motto is “Never settle for just one protocol. Always get the best of every protocol.” BiFi is a multichain lending protocol like Compound and Aave, but across multiple blockchains. It has over $111 million in assets under management.

In this episode of the DeFi Download podcast. Piers Ridyard interviews Douglas Horn, the Chief Architect of Telos. They discuss the Telos EVM and the EOSIO development environment, as well as how to solve the Governance and Miner-Extractable Value problems.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Travin Keith, co-founder of Immunefi. Immunefi is the leading bug bounty platform in crypto, currently protecting over $25 billion in user funds.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Amber Ghaddar, one of the founders of Alliance Block. Alliance Block is working to create the world's first globally compliant decentralized capital market.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Clayton Roche, Head of Community Development at UMA. They discuss how UMA works, the Optimistic Oracle system and how it solves the Oracle Problem, UMA's KPI options, and how to create incentivized engaged communities.

In this episode of the DeFi DownloadPiers Ridyard interviews Tascha Punyaneramitdee, Co-Founder of Alpha Finance Lab's.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Oliver Xie, the founder and CEO of the leading DeFi insurance protocol InsurAce. During their conversation, they discuss the various types of risk and the importance of coverage in the DeFi space, as well as what distinguishes InsurAce from its competitors.

Join Piers Ridyard in this episode of the DeFi Download as he interviews Andrew Brick and Brendan Laiben, the founders of Notoros DLT. They discuss what it’s like to build on top of Radix DLT, sharding, scalability and how to solve the problems of the blockchain.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard catches up with Red, Community Foreman at Harvest Finance. Piers and Red cover yield farming, compounding and automation, the inner workings of Harvest Finance, and why anonymity in DeFi matters, despite cases of fraud.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Annabelle Huang, partner at Amber Group, a global financial services provider that aspires to become the Goldman Sachs of crypto. 

Jeremy is the author of three books about the intersection between blockchain and marketing. He has written nearly 1000 blog posts on the blockchain and the impact of crypto-economics and has served as an advisor to OpenBazaar, Dapper Labs, the cryptocurrency FAME, DAOstack, Storj, Arweave, Formatic (now Magic), SingularityNET, Zcash.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Do Kwon, the CEO of Terra. Their conversation delves into Do Kown’s background, which influenced the Terra platform's conception and growth, as well as the platform’s envisioned decentralised alternative to the traditional financial system.

Join Piers Ridyard, in this DeFi Download episode, as he interviews Philip Silva, founding advisor of BrightID, which helps you prove your digital uniqueness. Their conversation ranges from explaining the inner workings of BrightID to delving into the feasibility of a cryptocurrency-based UBI, as well as what makes CryptoPunk NFTs so popular.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard discusses with Kyle Lu, CEO and founder of dApp.com, a cross-chain platform, where you can discover, analyse and use dApps built on blockchains such as Ethereum, EOS, TRON, WAX, and others.

Join Piers Ridyard in this episode of the DeFi Download, where he interviews Nicholas Fett, co-founder, and CTO of Tellor.io, a decentralised Oracle Network. They discuss what makes Tellor unique and sets it apart from peers such as Chainlink.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard talks with Simon Yu, co-founder, and CEO of the award-winning crypto cashback app StormX that rewards you with crypto while you shop.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Michael O'Rourke, co-founder and CEO of the Pocket Network. During this interview, Michael describes how Pocket supports Blockchain developers to achieve DeFi’s Web 3.0 vision.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard explores risk management solutions in DeFi with Potion.Finance contributors Alfablok and Buendia.

Join Piers Ridyard and the creator of Paymobil, Daniel Nordh, for a discussion on cross-border money transfers using stablecoins.

In this episode of the DeFi Download podcast, Piers Ridyard talks with Lafayette Tabor, founder of DEUS Finance. During this interview, Lafayette describes the features that make DEUS the Uniswap version of Robinhood.

In this episode of the DeFi Download Piers Ridyard interviews CryptoBirb, the Founder and CEO of The Birb Nest. Here they explore technical analysis, investigate the driving forces behind the latest Bitcoin bull run, and delve into the cyclical nature and fluctuations of the markets, and how they are affected by human behaviour.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard talks with Jonas Lamis, founder of StakerDAO and CEO of Staker Services Ltd. They discuss the vision of StakerDAO, their cross-chain approach, governance model, and DeFi products, assets, and services that exist outside of Ethereum.

Listen to the conversation between the DeFi Download host Piers Ridyard, and Edan Yago and Ororo Munroe, both contributors to the decentralised Bitcoin trading and lending platform Sovryn. Their discussion revolves around the features of Sovryn and the capacity of the Bitcoin ledger to embrace the functionalities of DeFi without altering its main chain.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Santiago Siri, founder of Democracy Earth Foundation. Their discussion revolves around the concept of democracy, identity, and new systems of governance and decision-making procedures informed by blockchain protocols and communities that transcend national borders.

Join Piers Ridyard, CEO of Radix, in his conversation with James Simpson, co-founder of mStable. This episode of the DeFi Download podcast focuses on unwrapping how the mStable protocol works by examining its various products, the mUSD token, MINT, SWAP, SAVE, and EARN.

In this episode of DeFi Download, Piers interviews Luis Cuente, Co-Founder & Core Contributor of the Aragon project, which gives internet communities unprecedented power to organise around shared values and resources. They talk about Decentralised Autonomous Organizations, decentralised governance and dispute resolution mechanisms, as well as how to build a better Uber.

In this episode of DeFi Download, listen to Piers and Hugh Karp, the founder of Nexus Mutual, as they delve into insurance’s decentralised alternatives. They address risk-sharing and the use of mutuals in place of more conventional forms of insurance.

In this episode of DeFi Download, join Piers and Trevor Koverko, founder of Polymath, as they explore the realm of digital securities on the blockchain. They discuss security tokens and their components, market infrastructure problems, cross-jurisdictional regulatory compliance, identity concerns and permissioned blockchains.

In this episode of DeFi Download, Alex Wearn, co-founder and CEO of IDEX, joins our host and CEO of Radix, Piers Ridyard. Listen to their talk as they discuss centralised and decentralised exchanges, IDEX's journey in becoming the world's most advanced cryptocurrency exchange and topics such as yield farming and composability.

In this DeFi Download episode Piers Ridyard talks with Fernando Martinelli, co-founder and CEO of Balancer, a protocol for programmable liquidity. Piers and Fernando discuss concepts such as portfolio rebalancing, smart pools, proof of liquidity, and the difference between yield farming and liquidity mining.

In this episode of DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard is joined by Clay Robbins, Head of Growth at 0x Labs. Their discussion focuses on decentralised exchange and the regulatory challenges of the blockchain.

Join Piers Ridyard as he talks to Ren CEO, Loong Wang to uncover the magic behind integrating with DeFi protocols, wrapping-free!

On this episode of the DeFi Download, join Piers Ridyard and Stani Kulechov CEO and founder, Aave as they discuss decentralised debt and the ghost protocol.

On this episode of The DeFi Download, Piers speaks with Matthew Wright of Argent about how Argent are seeking to make DeFi accessible to anyone, and bringing a user experience to the non-custodial wallet that was previously thought to be impossible.

Our exclusive roundtable with leading members of the DeFi community, discussing various aspects down the path to decentralization.