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.  ----- Check your wallet with our brand new tool: Claimables 🎁 https://bankless.cc/GetClaimables  ------ 📣 LayerZero | Accelerating Web3 Interoperability via GoogleCloud https://bankless.cc/layer-zero  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE ⁠https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2  ⁠ 🦊METAMASK PORTFOLIO | MANAGE YOUR WEB3 EVERYTHING ⁠https://bankless.cc/MetaMask  ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ⁠https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum  ⁠ 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle  ⁠ 🦄UNISWAP | ON-CHAIN MARKETPLACE ⁠https://bankless.cc/uniswap  🔗 CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON https://bankless.cc/Celo  ------ 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  ----- RESOURCES Kain Warwick https://twitter.com/kaiynne   Synthetix, A New Hope https://mirror.xyz/kain.eth/tAXGVKMTYM8K2gUOQq9JDQ1wyV_5Msdlrn_AtmiCGEI  ----- Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures