Valantis Deep Dive: Understanding the Modular Exchange Protocol | Deven & Ali
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The power of, like, customized liquidity solutions is for assets themselves. We should be building very asset specific. And there was, like, a kind of a thesis. I mean, like, hype is probably the most interesting asset we've seen generated in crypto in a really, really long time. And on top of that, hype staking, I think, is like an entire world that will be explored over the next several years. It's not just tokenizing staking yield. It's like, the second order effects of everything that you can do with staking hype is being tokenized by LSTs.
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No. No. No. That's that's understandable. I'll Davin, you go first then.
Yeah, sure. We've been building modular DeFi for the last three years, primarily around spot taxes and exchanges. A lot of that has been focused on asset specific DeFi for liquid staking tokens. And, yeah, pretty recently, we acquired StakeType, one of the largest liquid staking protocols on HyperLiquid. We've been on HyperLiquid since launch. And, yeah, definitely been thinking really heavily about the LST design space over the last three years. So definitely really excited to execute on a lot of the ideas for vertical integration that we've always known were huge.
Fantastic. Oli, what do you do?
Yeah, I'm head of growth. I joined the team I think it's almost exactly been a year now. I joined right when Volantis was transitioning from being a developer platform to more of a user facing brand, which was perfect for me because I don't know how to talk to developers, but I can talk to users. And I do everything related to that. So that's marketing, community, BD, partnerships, sometimes some product stuff, really just whatever needs to be done that the devs aren't willing to do.
That makes sense. And I find that talking to developers versus talking to actual users, it's people. It's very, very different. So a lot of work there. I didn't know about this lore of it used to be a developer focused platform.
Yeah. I mean, about three years ago, was me and both my co founder were working at Nevermind. And there was kind of this, like, just idea for a modular DeFi platform that could cover all of the use cases of what a decentralized exchange could be. When we started building this, we essentially just kinda, like, stepped back, and we were like, what are all the possible use cases of a DEX that we could try to cover? And we come up with a lot. And when we tried to approach other people and we were like, look. Like, this thing allows you to build smart contracts in, like,
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