Wallfacer Podcast
by Wallfacer Podcast
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#37: Arpan Gautam, Noon | Underwriting Credit Across TradFi & DeFi
#37: Arpan Gautam, Noon | Underwriting Credit Across TradFi & DeFi
About this podcast
Wallfacer Podcast: Conversations with the builders, operators, and investors shaping crypto's future. We explore the strategies, technical innovations, and market insights that go beyond the headlines
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- #37: Arpan Gautam, Noon | Underwriting Credit Across TradFi & DeFi · 40 minEpisode Description Today’s guest is Arpan Gautam, founder of Noon Capital. We discuss how Noon underwrites private credit alongside DeFi lending, why he turned down circular…
- #36: Meet Patel & Ravi Shah, Otus | An AI Wealth Manager in Your Pocket · 42 minEpisode Description Today’s guests are Meet Patel and Ravi Shah, co-founders of Otus, a mobile savings app where each account is an agent that deploys your stablecoins across…
- #35: Jerome de Tychey | EIP-8363, the 50% staking line, and Ethereum's issuance fight · 56 minToday’s guest is Jérôme de Tychey, president of Ethereum France, founder of EthCC, and a co-author of EIP-8363. He makes the case that Ethereum’s issuance curve has no…
- #34: corn (Yearn) & Connor Flanagan (Birch Hill) | What even is a vault? · 53 minToday’s guests are corn, who works on growth at Yearn, and Connor Flanagan, COO and co-founder of Birch Hill. We get into why the word “vault” stopped meaning anything, how Yearn…
- #33: Ivo Georgiev & Dimo Stoyanov, Ambire & heyAura | Building for the Chronically On-Chain · 46 minEpisode Description Today’s guests are Ivo Georgiev and Dimo Stoyanov, co-founders of Ambire and heyAura, who have been building together for 13 years, from Stremio to AdEx to a…
- #32: David Reising, Lotus Protocol | Tranched Lending and the Missing Middle in DeFi Credit · 47 minEpisode Description Today’s guest is David Reising, founder and CEO of Lotus Protocol. Ryan and David get into why isolated lending markets keep converging on the same handful of…
- #31: Joey Isaacson, Nook | Building a DeFi Savings App for Non-Crypto Users · 46 minEpisode Description Today’s guest is Joey Isaacson, co-founder and CEO of Nook, a consumer savings app that connects everyday users to DeFi lending markets on Base. Joey spent…
- #30: TezDev: Beyond Crypto-Natives: The Next Era of Earn w/ Tezos, Meria, and Hanji · 34 minEpisode Description Today’s guests are Arthur Breitman (co-founder of Tezos), Owen (Hasheur) Simonin (CEO of Meria), and Dmitriy Kovalevskiy (founder of Hanji). Recorded live at…
- #29: Jeremiah Smith, OpenCover | Why 99.95% of DeFi Is Uninsured · 55 minToday’s guest is Jeremiah Smith, co-founder and CEO of OpenCover. Jeremiah explains why less than 0.05% of DeFi TVL is insured, walks through how OpenCover’s new “covered vaults”…
- #28: Octave Mesnard, Jumper | A consumer hub vision, building for prosumers & multi-chain myths · 50 minEPISODE DESCRIPTION: Today’s guest is Octave Mesnard, Head of Strategy and Consumer Products at Jumper Exchange. We discuss Jumper’s evolution from a thin cross-chain swap…
- #27: Sebastien Derivaux, Steakhouse Financial | Building Steakhouse, MakerDAO's RWA Legacy, and DeFi risk management · 1 h 6 minToday’s guest is Sébastien Derivaux, co-founder of Steakhouse Financial. We discuss the evolution of real-world assets in DeFi from MakerDAO’s pioneering experiments to today’s…
- #26: Andrew Keys, The Ether Machine | Why DATs beat ETFs & The $654M Ethereum Bet · 32 minToday's guest is Andrew Keys, co-founder and chairman of The Ether Machine and managing partner of DARMA Capital. We discuss why crypto treasury companies offer superior returns…
- #25: Rob Montgomery, InfiniFi | How InfiniFi Hit $120M TVL & bringing tradFi onchain · 43 minToday's guest is Rob Montgomery, co-founder and CEO of InfiniFi. We discuss how fractional reserve banking principles can revolutionize DeFi yields, the symbiotic relationship…
- #24: John Morrow & Holt Butler, Gauntlet | Vault Curation, gtUSDa, & The New DeFi Landscape · 59 min · Episode 24Today's guests are John Morrow, COO and Co-founder of Gauntlet, and Holt Butler, Product Lead for Gauntlet USD Alpha. We discuss Gauntlet's evolution from protocol risk…
- #23: Ivan Kozlov, Resolv | Yield bearing stables, why tranching works, & "stablecoinizing" everything · 57 minToday's guest is Ivan Kozlov, co-founder of Resolv Protocol. We discuss how Resolv has been successful with tranching, their yield-bearing stablecoin architecture, and why most…
- #22: @Defi_dad & @Nomaticcap | ETH's path forward, narrative problems, & the user advantage · 1 h 29 min · Season 22Today's guests are @DeFi_Dad and @Nomaticcap, co-hosts of The Edge Podcast, authors of The Edge newsletter, and prominent angel investors. We discuss the foundational role of…
- #21: Dion Chu, Term Finance | Beyond Variable Rates, DeFi's Fixed Income Future · 39 min · Episode 21Please like, subscribe, and leave a positive review. It helps us get the show in front of more listeners and viewers (Apple, Spotify , YouTube) Today’s guest is Dion Chu…
- #20: Nik Kunkel, Chronicle Labs | Oracle Evolution & Enabling the Tokenization Wave · 1 h 1 min · Episode 20Today’s guest is Nik Kunkel, the founder and CEO of Chronicle Labs. Nik is a long-time contributor to MakerDAO and an early builder in the oracle space. * Nik…
- #19: Sam MacPherson, Spark | Building DeFi's Liquidity Layer · 50 minToday’s guest is Sam MacPherson, co-founder and CEO of Phoenix Labs, the core contributors to the Spark Protocol. Sam is also a long-time contributor to Sky, previously known as…
- #18: Luca Prosperi, M^0 | Reimagining Money & the Future of Stablecoins · 1 h 13 minHow are stablecoins reshaping the financial stack? Ryan chats with Luca Prosperi about reimagining the financial stack from first principles, why separation between money…
