Synthetix: A New Hope with Kain Warwick

In today’s episode, we’re exploring the frontier of the multi-chain Ethereum roadmap. Synthetix has been leading this charge as it pertains to the application layer of Ethereum.

David is joined by Synthetix’s Founder, Kain Warwick in person in David’s Brooklyn studio.

“Synthetix, A New Hope,” is a recent blog post Kain wrote and is a main focus for today’s episode.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
7:08 Synthetix Networks
8:50 Growth Complexity
9:50 Phases of Complexity of Apps
14:00 Elaborating the Problem Layers
15:25 Paramartizing Risk
19:00 Defining the Problem(s)
21:00 Likelihood of Solution(s)
24:05 3 Paths of Fragmented Liquitidy
31:40 Chainlink’s CCIP
32:50 Optimism
36:00 MakerDAO
36:55 dYdX Model
44:25 Free Market Model
47:00 Other Solution Tools
55:15 Cross-Chain Shared Execution
57:50 Kain & Synthetix Main Focuses
59:00 Timeline
59:50 Other Components of Synthetix
1:02:25 Kain’s Thoughts on Regulation
1:08:13 Final Messages
1:09:15 Closing & Disclaimers