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#19: Rex Hygate, Founder @ DeFi Safety | Adding transparency to DeFi security practices by a company that already reviewed 200+ DeFi projects
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DeFi Safety helps investors understand the risks of DeFi projects. Rex tells us about i.a. the company's founding story, review process, and the way they get new clients & employees.
1:30 How Rex learned about Ethereum via Reddit & got involved thanks to a hackathon
4:30 Differences between his corporate experiences and web3
7:05 How DeFi Safety started and why they share their reports for free
9:10 The help they got from Gitcoin
10:35 Thoughts on LUNA crash
12:15 Most common safety issues in protocols
16:03 How retail users can protect themselves from problematic protocols
19:17 How does their review process look like, who requests them and how does it help to improve projects’ safety
23:14 Creating guidelines for the users & protocols in a different way than SEC might have done it
25:00 How do they acquire their clients and who do they target
28:30 Why DeFi’s transparency & their auditing process makes it much harder to obscure financial details in an Enron-like fashion
31:58 How do they recruit people in such a challenging job market
33:50 Why they don’t plan to become a DAO
35:15 Why Curve & Yearn are among the most mind-blowing web3 projects he has seen
36:24 How their report on Shibaswap & the response from the Shiba Army made them laugh
37:43 Where can you learn more about DeFi Safety
38:45 His guests' ideas
53 episoder
Manage episode 328638971 series 3288065
If you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/
DeFi Safety helps investors understand the risks of DeFi projects. Rex tells us about i.a. the company's founding story, review process, and the way they get new clients & employees.
1:30 How Rex learned about Ethereum via Reddit & got involved thanks to a hackathon
4:30 Differences between his corporate experiences and web3
7:05 How DeFi Safety started and why they share their reports for free
9:10 The help they got from Gitcoin
10:35 Thoughts on LUNA crash
12:15 Most common safety issues in protocols
16:03 How retail users can protect themselves from problematic protocols
19:17 How does their review process look like, who requests them and how does it help to improve projects’ safety
23:14 Creating guidelines for the users & protocols in a different way than SEC might have done it
25:00 How do they acquire their clients and who do they target
28:30 Why DeFi’s transparency & their auditing process makes it much harder to obscure financial details in an Enron-like fashion
31:58 How do they recruit people in such a challenging job market
33:50 Why they don’t plan to become a DAO
35:15 Why Curve & Yearn are among the most mind-blowing web3 projects he has seen
36:24 How their report on Shibaswap & the response from the Shiba Army made them laugh
37:43 Where can you learn more about DeFi Safety
38:45 His guests' ideas
53 episoder
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