The Engine is a show about building business in crypto and with crypto.

So, whether you’re already building in the space or you’re trying to understand what the whole crypto, web3, blockchain, onchain fuss is about, you’re in the right place.

This week’s topic: Building in DeFi.

We talked about:

• the current state of DeFi, the role of institutional players, and the impact of memecoins.
• the challenges of harnessing Degen energy, and the importance of building partnerships for ecosystem growth.
• the importance of transparency, security, and education in creating a safe and user-friendly environment.
• the fragmentation in the crypto ecosystem and interoperability between different chains.
• both guests are excited about the potential of Ethereum pilling the Bitcoin community. So we talked about some opportunities and challenges around that.

The guests this week:

Yoshua Urioste, aka Tenzent, Head of Business Development at Silo - a lending protocol that allows you to borrow any crypto asset with another on isolated lending markets where risk is always siloed.

https://www.silo.finance/

Beachball is a core contributor at Synonym, which is a cross-chain money market.
https://www.synonym.finance/

Core contributors of Season 1 of The Engine:

🔐Check out TACo by Threshold Network, your go-to for decentralized encryption and access control plugin. From seed phrase recovery to crypto-inheritance and beyond, TACo is revolutionizing how we manage private data in dApps. https://threshold.network/

🌍 Explore Build Cities, a global cooperative redefining how startup cities collaborate. It creates a digital infrastructure that connects local communities worldwide. https://www.buildcities.network/

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Check out Skylab’s website and consider applying: https://www.skylab.xyz/

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The Engine is a show about building business in crypto and with crypto.

Whether you’re already building in the space or you’re trying to understand what the whole crypto, web3, blockchain, onchain fuss is about, you’re in the right place.

This week’s guests:
Angelo Alessio is a co-founder of Build Cities, a global cooperative of startup cities.
Igor Lilic - ex-Consensys, ex-DFINITY, the founder of Blackcomb Software, and co-founder of BreakOut, a web3 community in Brazil.

We’re talking about Building Builder Communities.

We touch on the relationship between decentralization and community.

We get into the challenges of financial incentivization within communities.

We touch on the ethical considerations when introducing financial incentives, some of the potential pitfalls of tokenization, and the need for a strong culture and product-market fit.

We talk about the value of in-person interactions and the need for authenticity, creativity, boldness, and a long-term vision when building communities.

Core contributors of Season 1 of The Engine:

🔐Check out TACo by Threshold Network, your go-to for decentralized encryption and access control plugin. From seed phrase recovery to crypto-inheritance and beyond, TACo is revolutionizing how we manage private data in dApps. https://threshold.network/

🌍 Explore Build Cities, a global cooperative redefining how startup cities collaborate. It creates a digital infrastructure that connects local communities worldwide. https://www.buildcities.network/

🛰️ SKYLAB
The Engine is an extension of the Skylab community of web3 builders. It aims to empower web3 leaders and educate the broader entrepreneur community about web3.
Check out Skylab’s website and consider applying: https://www.skylab.xyz/

FOLLOW THE ENGINE
Stay tuned for the conversations with leading minds in web3:
Website: https://www.theenginemedia.xyz
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theenginemediaxyz
Substack: https://theenginemedia.substack.com/
Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/TheEngineMedia
Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/theengine
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/theenginemedia/

The Engine is a show about building business in crypto and with crypto.

Whether you’re already building in the space or you’re trying to understand what the whole crypto, blockchain, web3, onchain fuss is about, you’re in the right place.

This week, we’re talking about stablecoins. The killer use case of crypto.

We talk about why stablecoins are so important.
We talk about different stable coins: USDT, USDC, DAI, thUSD. All pegged to US dollar and yet competing against each other.
We touch on the importance of user experience for onboarding new users.
We talk about possible futures for stablecoins and what role might CBDCs play in that future. And there are some hot takes there!

This week’s guests:

Evandro Saturnino - Threshold developer, responsible for spearheading the UI/UX of Threshold USD for the past two years.

Jack Vinijtrongjit Co-Founder and CEO of Saakuru Labs. Saakuru Protocol is consumer-centric L2 protocol with zero transaction fees.

Jack Landon, the sole developer of Taffy, a gas-less decentralized exchange that recently launched on the Saakuru.

Core contributors of Season 1 of The Engine:

🔐Check out TACo by Threshold Network, your go-to for decentralized encryption and access control plugin. From seed phrase recovery to crypto-inheritance and beyond, TACo is revolutionizing how we manage private data in dApps. https://threshold.network/

🌍 Explore Build Cities, a global cooperative redefining how startup cities collaborate. It creates a digital infrastructure that connects local communities worldwide. https://www.buildcities.network/

🛰️ SKYLAB
The Engine is an extension of the Skylab community of web3 builders. It aims to empower web3 leaders and educate the broader entrepreneur community about web3.
Check out Skylab’s website and consider applying: https://www.skylab.xyz/

FOLLOW THE ENGINE
Stay tuned for the conversations with leading minds in web3:
Website: https://www.theenginemedia.xyz
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theenginemediaxyz
Substack: https://theenginemedia.substack.com/
Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/TheEngineMedia
Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/theengine
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/theenginemedia/