Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: Staking Mondays with Julian Hosp of Cake DeFi
Season 1
Welcome to season 2 of Staking Mondays! Staking Mondays is a weekly show to share knowledge from key staking industry leaders with our community. Powered by StakingRewards.com At Staking Rewards, we are helping investors navigate the landscape of yield-generating digital assets, helping them find the best opportunities to earn interest on crypto. We are delighted to welcome today’s guest - Julian Hosp Julian Hosp is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cake DeFi (www.cakedefi.com), an intuitive online platform dedicated to providing access to decentralised financial services, enabling its users to earn returns from their crypto and digital assets.
Sameep Singhania is the co-founder of QuickSwap. QuickSwap is the biggest DEX on Polygon, with over $1 billion in liquidity. Sameep has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and has been a professional programmer for the past 6 years, previously working with OpenBazaar, ParaSwap, and Toptal.
Jake founded CoinFund in 2015, one of the first blockchain-focused investment firms in the United States. He works closely with technology teams building blockchain products, networks, and cryptoeconomic systems and is known to have coined the term “Generalized Mining” and “Network Lifecycle Investing '' for CoinFund. He is a technologist with a background in mathematics and computer science and experience in distributed systems, web development, product management, private equity research, quantitative trading, and startups. Previously, he was Partner & CTO at Triton Research, technical product manager and engineer at Amazon.com, and spent 5 years in financial technology in New York City, including at Highbridge Capital Management. Curator at firstedition.xyz nft collection - coinfund is also doing a lot of work with NFTs
Iakov "Trevor" Levin - Midas.Investment Founder & CEO. DeFi gem and yield hunter, expertise in cognitive science and psychology. Knows how to achieve ecological yield on major crypto-assets. Midas.Investment is a custodial crypto-investment platform aimed to provide passive income streams to crypto investors. Our focus is to help people achieve financial freedom through building sustainable passive income streams and grasping opportunities in the crypto economy and DeFi market. In our four years of operation, we have managed to accumulate over 18,000 investors and raise more than $22 million in assets.
Ryan Selkis is co-founder and CEO of Messari, a leading crypto asset data and research company. Prior to founding Messari, he was an entrepreneur-in-residence at ConsenSys, and was on the founding teams of Digital Currency Group, where he managed the firm’s seed investing activity, and CoinDesk, where he led the company’s restructuring and annual Consensus conferences. He has been an investor and prolific writer in the crypto industry since 2013.
Staking Mondays is a weekly show to share knowledge from key staking industry leaders with our community. Powered by StakingRewards.com At Staking Rewards, we are helping investors to navigate the landscape of yield-generating digital assets helping them find the best opportunities to earn interest on crypto. This week's guest is Wolfgang Albrecht who is the founder and CEO of Staking Facilities. Staking Facilities operate industry-grade, highly secure physical infrastructure for next-generation blockchains to run on. They offer non-custodial staking services for Proof-of-Stake token holders and provide essential services for the Web 3.0 ecosystem. They currently have ~$2B Total Assets Staked and have paid out over $100M in rewards to delegators. Visit our Website: https://www.stakingrewards.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StakingRewards Subscribe to our Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/StakingRewards Join the discussion on Telegram: http://t.me/StakingRewards Staking facilities Profile: https://www.stakingrewards.com/saving...
Staking Mondays is a weekly show to share knowledge from key staking industry leaders with our community. Powered by StakingRewards.com At Staking Rewards, we are helping investors to navigate the landscape of yield-generating digital assets helping them find the best opportunities to earn interest on their crypto. Anthony Sassano is an Independent Ethereum educator, angel investor, and advisor. He is the founder of The Daily Gwei (a daily newsletter and daily video recaps of the entire Ethereum ecosystem) and Co-Founder of EthHub provides research and resources to learn about Ethereum. First Question: Which crypto project spiked your interest first outside of BTC and ETH? And why? Questions about Ethereum Staking : How do you feel about the EIP-1559 since it’s launched? Did you make any interesting observations? Staking is often described as a way to hedge inflation in crypto networks. How do you feel about that considering Ethereum‘s inflation may turn negative with EIP-1559 What needs to happen so that Bitcoiners will appreciate the monetary policy of Ethereum as they do for Bitcoin? Ethereum has a staking economic design that is purposely chosen with no limit of validators. At the same time it does not support any delegation, which is meant to make as many people as possible to run validator nodes themselves. But at the same time this pushes a lot of stakers to use Staking Pools, which may or may not be very decentralized. How do you think does Ethereum compare here in terms of decentralisation to other networks with no limit to the number of validators, but supporting delegation - e.g. Tezos or others Where would you position Ethereum in general as part of the Ecosystem of Proof of Stake Networks? How do you expect the market for Ethereum Staking to change once Ethereum gets merged into Ethereum 2.0? Considering Rocket Pool and other solutions will go live too. How much ETH do you think will be staked - let’s say a year after the merge? What do you think about a potential competition between Staking ETH and supplying to other yield strategies or lending? Could this be a potential risk for the network? What is your take on staking derivatives, do you think there can be many successful solutions? And are there even different use cases for different types of derivatives? Do you think MEV (Miner Extractable Value) will be a problem for Ethereum 2.0 after the merge too? And what are the implications of this? Are you worried at all that anything critical could go wrong with the merge of Ethereum? What are you most excited about for Ethereum in the coming months? (Besides the merge) What is in your opinion the best way to stake ETH if you have less than 32 ETH? In your opinion what’s the best way to earn interest on ETH if you do not want to lock your tokens until the merge? Last but not least: do you have any prediction when the merge will happen?
Staking Mondays is a weekly show to share knowledge from key staking industry leaders with our community. Powered by StakingRewards.com At Staking Rewards, we are helping investors to navigate the landscape of yield-generating digital assets and finding the best opportunities to earn interest on your crypto. One of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Asia, Tushar Aggarwal wears many hats: He started the crypto podcast Decrypt Asia, works as a venture scout with LuneX Ventures, and runs Persistence, a platform that lets users earn liquidity rewards while they stake coins. Persistence is an interoperable protocol built to facilitate the creation of next-gen financial products. The Persistence tech stack provides the infrastructure to effectively bridge the realms of DeFi and traditional finance in a variety of areas, whilst also enabling the creation of innovative crypto-facing solutions to expand the DeFi and NFT sectors. pStake is set to be released on September 20th and it is a liquid staking protocol built for unlocking the liquidity for the locked PoS assets such as $ETH $ATOM $DOT $LUNA $SOL Questions: 01:51 Which crypto project spiked your interest first outside of BTC and ETH? And why? 04:45 Regarding Persistence mainnet, Staking Rewards data suggests over 80% of eligible XPRT are being Staked - what factors help you achieve this high rate? 07:43 Shifting gears to pSTAKE - this protocol will allow for the issuance of representative tokens on Ethereum which are backed 1:1 by native assets staked on PoS chains, these stkTOKENs can then be utilized in the vast DeFi ecosystem on Ethereum. What validators will support these cross chain staking responsibilities and what does this selection process look like? 11:05 pSTAKE will support the major PoS networks including Cosmos, Terra, Polkadot, Solana and Ethereum 2.0. What is your evaluation process when selecting new networks? 14:32 How can stkTOKENs help users unlock the benefits of staking returns while avoiding the lockup periods associated with traditional unbonding times from PoS networks?. 19:28 Transferring stkTOKENs to a different wallet address triggers an automatic rewards claim. Are there any thresholds for rewards and who covers the gas costs of transfers? 21:20 What secondary products could be built with or utilize stkTOKENs? 24:52 STAKE’s governance token — $PSTAKE was recently announced - tell us about the economic benefits to holders of this token. 26:10 What do you think will the landscape for liquid staking solutions / derivatives will look like in 2 or 3 years ? How many solutions will gain significant market share? 31:30 What are the dynamics between pStake, Persistence, and Audit.One? Could there be a potential conflict of interest? 38:28 What is the best Yield Opportunity currently available within the Persistence ecosystem?
Staking Mondays is a weekly show to share specific knowledge from the staking industry leaders with our community. Powered by StakingRewards.com At Staking Rewards, we are helping investors to navigate the landscape of yield-generating digital assets and finding the best opportunities to earn interest on your crypto. We are extremely excited to welcome today’s guest - Brian Hoffman, Platform Lead at Kraken. As one of the largest and oldest Bitcoin exchanges in the world, Kraken is consistently named one of the best places to buy and sell crypto online, thanks to their excellent service, low fees, versatile funding options and rigorous security standards -- but this is only part of the story. They’ve been on the forefront of the blockchain revolution since 2011. Brain Hoffman is the Product Manager for Crypto Funding at Kraken. He is responsible for coordinating the listing of new crypto assets on Kraken as well as liaising with relevant teams to plan and develop new products for the exchange platform, including most recently Parachain Auctions. He has seven years’ worth of experience building software for peer-to-peer bitcoin trading and previously provided cybersecurity consultancy services for the U.S. Department of Defense, classified government agencies, as well as Fortune 500 companies, including Neiman Marcus, FedEx, and Boeing and Hilton Hotels. He holds an MBA from Carey Business School at John Hopkins as well as a computer science degree from James Madison.
Staking Mondays is a weekly show to share specific knowledge from the staking industry leaders with our community. Powered by StakingRewards.com At Staking Rewards, we are helping investors to navigate the landscape of yield-generating digital assets and finding the best opportunities to earn interest on your crypto. Visit our Website: https://www.stakingrewards.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StakingRewards Subscribe to our Youtube: https://www.stakingrewards.com/youtube Join the discussion on Telegram: http://t.me/StakingRewards Tron Profile: https://www.stakingrewards.com/earn/tron TRON is a blockchain-based decentralized platform that aims to build a free, global digital content entertainment system with distributed storage technology, and allows easy and cost-effective sharing of digital content. Tron was founded in September 2017 by a Singapore-based non-profit organization called the Tron Foundation. It is headed by CEO Justin Sun and has a dedicated in-house development team that includes renowned technology stalwarts. First Question: What is the first investment you made outside of BTC and ETH? And why? Questions about Crypto M&A: We have just seen the very first decentralized network acquisition, where Hermez, a zK rollups-based ethereum scaling solution was merged into Polygon. Do you think consolidation in the crypto space is good or bad? Thinking about decentralization as one of the key value propositions of the industry. Do you think there will be more crypto network mergers & acquisitions? Is there a possibility that TRON will merge with another network? What do you think is the risk of centralized entities overtaking crypto networks? You have acquired BitTorrent and Poloniex recently. Have these strategic plays gamed out for you? And are there any other acquisitions on your wishlist? How important do you think is the capitalization of decentralized crypto projects? Opposed to the actual tech. E.g. EOS raised $4B but was still struggling to get traction. Other projects raised very little money, but become super successful. What is more important, innovation or capital? Is there a risk of Stake Centralization M&A? We have seen some of these mergers already with Staking Providers. Where do you think that trend will lead towards? How decentralized is Tron in terms of stake distribution, and do you think there is risk of centralization? What role does Tron play in the crypto ecosystem? Why should developers build on Tron? What are the best staking and passive income / interest earning opportunities in the Tron ecosystem?