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April 28, 2023
Mission: DeFi EP 96 - Vega - The Power of Financial Legos on an App Chain - Founder: Barney Mannerings
What is it like to watch DeFi summer pass you by while you are building a powerful app-based financial platform to bring financial derivative products to anyone with an idea?
For 5 years, Barney Mannerings and the team at Vega Protocol have been building not only a derivatives trading app, but more importantly, a powerful derivatives building platform for any kind of financial application. The potential of the platform to bridge all of finance into DeFi is very compelling.
Project Name: Vega Protocol Project URL: https://vega.xyz/ Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/vegaprotocol Guest Name: Barney Mannerings Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/barnabee This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all of DeFi and crypto is high risk and dangerous. If you decide to participate, do your own research. Never count on the research of others. We don't know what we are talking about and you can lose all your money. Never invest more than you can afford to lose, because you probably will lose it all.
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