About this episode
Samyak Jain knows a thing or two about moving value onchain. The serial builder and former Forbes Asia 30 under 30 lister was one of the minds behind Instadapp, facilitating more than $10 billion in user transactions through protocols like Aave, Compound, and MakerDAO. Samyak's savvy spilled over into his latest trading protocol: Fluid processed more than $1 billion in its first three weeks of existence, and is now the second biggest DEX on Ethereum, surpassed only by Uniswap.
Timestamps
00:00 - Coming up
00:26 - Fluid’s market size today: Just how big is it?
00:33 - The origin story of Fluid
03:35 - A breakdown of Fluid's PMF
05:58 - The magic behind Fluid DEX: Trading with collateral & even debt
08:39 - How Fluid tackles liquidity fragmentation
12:13 - Turning $1 into $10+ of liquidity: The power of leverage looping on Fluid
20:22 - Fluid’s 100x better liquidation engine
24:41 - Hot take: The biggest risks in DeFi and what 2025 might bring
27:20 - Fluid DEX V2, L2 expansion & tokenized assets
29:20 - Rapid fire with Samyak: L2 picks, bear vs bull markets & biggest Fluid moment
31:11 - Closing thoughts