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Hosts Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway take you on a not-so-random stroll by means of sizzling matters in markets, finance, and economics.
There’s an irony with crypto. Whereas a lot of it’s ostensibly about circumventing legacy finance, lots of crucial items of crypto infrastructure are centralized monetary entities. For instance, the newly public Coinbase holds fiat foreign money and is topic to quite a few laws. Enter decentralized exchanges. A brand new breed of buying and selling venues has been constructed to allow buying and selling straight upon a blockchain, permitting property to be exchanged with none custodial necessities, permission, and even accounts. It is a completely completely different mannequin of buying and selling and market construction. On this episode, we communicate with Hayden Adams, the creator of the Uniswap Protocol, which powers the world’s largest decentralized alternate, to clarify the way it all works.
