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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 has continued to make waves with Fluid, a next-generation trading protocol that consolidates DeFi's fragmented liquidity landscape into a single, unified layer, for better performance and accessibility. To give you an idea of how fast Samyak operates, 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.
If you're interested in the future of decentralized finance, you'll want to here Samyak's takes on liquidity, managing fragmentation, and what 2025 holds for DeFi.
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
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