Published On Apr 18, 2024
In this interview, TN, the Co-founder and CEO of Pendle, discusses the protocol's journey from inception to its current state. He explains how Pendle enables users to tokenize and trade yield, focusing on the use cases of obtaining fixed rates and speculating on yield. TN shares insights on the protocol's growth, partnerships, and the impact of various narratives such as LRT and points trading. He also touches on user behavior changes, the decision to deploy on Arbitrum, and the roadmap for the future, including the development of Pendle V3 and the expansion of yield trading across different ecosystems.
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Wormhole is a decentralized interoperability platform powering multi-chain applications and bridges. It provides developers with access to liquidity and users on over 30 leading blockchain networks, enabling use cases in DeFi, data queries, and governance. The platform is trusted by teams like Uniswap and Circle and, to date, the platform has facilitated the transfer of over 35 billion dollars through over 850 million cross-chain messages.
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Pear is an innovative pair-trading exchange built on top of SYMMIO. Users can trade trending narratives with one click, from bluechip narratives such as long BTC, short ETH, right through to WIF vs BONK. SYMMIO’s intent-centric architecture enables deep liquidity, sourced off-chain and brought on-chain, and combined with Pear, have democratized access to complex trading strategies typically reserved for institutional traders.
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Avalanche is a smart contracts platform that scales infinitely and regularly finalizes transactions in less than one second. Its novel consensus protocol, Subnet infrastructure, and HyperSDK toolkit enable Web3 developers to easily launch powerful, custom blockchain solutions.
Build anything you want, any way you want, on the eco-friendly blockchain designed for Web3 devs.
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Marinade is the leading Solana staking service that spreads your stake across 100+ top validators, distributes MEV rewards, and provides automatic downside protection with new Protected Staking Rewards.
Choose to liquid stake for mSOL for use in DeFi, or delegate your stake through Marinade Native, which gives you full custody of your SOL and no smart contract risk. Max performance for you, max performance for Solana.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:43 Pendle Overview & Journey
9:23 Bullish or Bearish Eth Staking Yield
19:39 Wormhole Ad
20:17 Pear Ad
20:42 Marinade Ad
21:21 Avalanche Ad
22:03 Revenue Generation
29:02 Change of User Behaviors
35:24 Why Arbitrum?
40:42 Roadmap & 10 Year Vision
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Disclaimer: Nothing said on 0xResearch is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Dan, Sam, and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.