Alex Cutler (Aerodrome) on DeFi’s Next Steps (EP.624)
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Wyatt from Castle Island here. And on today's episode of On the Brink's StablecoinFi series, I was joined by Alex Cutler, founder of Eridrome. Eridrome is a leading decentralized trading protocol operating on Coinbase's native based blockchain. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Matt
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down by Bad Mortgage Investments, Lehman, which has 25,000 employees, will be liquidated. The federal government loans American International Group, AIG, eighty five billion dollars. This is a different kind of market and the That is a fluke. The
federal government is stepping it to stabilize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two mortgage giants that have been threatened by the housing crisis.
The Bank of England has pumped £75,000,000,000 more into Britain's ailing economy with a new round of quantitative easing.
They print a couple trillion dollars, and all of a sudden, people start to worry. So out of this worry, we have something called the Bitcoin. Bitcoin.
Alex Cutler, cofounder of Aerodrome Finance. Thank you for joining the podcast today. Excited to have you. If it works, we'd love to kick off with a quick background and hear about your story and journey to crypto. Thanks
so much for having me. Very excited to be here. I think my journey, like a lot of folks in crypto, was pretty twisty turning, very much not a direct path. I started my career working in politics and campaigns, got pretty burned out on that, went and spent some time working in big tech, decided I needed to mix it up and spent some time in the agency and consulting world. And I actually think it's pretty interesting because I was, like many people, holed up in the pandemic, decided to build a gaming PC. I had friends who were very much into crypto and DeFi at that point encouraging me to get inv
love that story. I relate to some degree because I studied political science in college, and that was a lot of my interest area and had a similar experience that playing around on chain for me was very freeing in a way to be in a free financial system. When you know about all the entanglement of traditional finance, traditional governance, I found that to be immediately a pretty powerful thing. Yeah.
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