Building a Synthetic Asset DeFi Platform: Kain Warwick of Synthetix | Block Stories
Block Stories is a series of short films that explore the origin stories of the most successful Web3 protocols. In the second film of the series, join Kain Warwick on the entrepreneurial journey that ultimately led him to create Synthetix, a permissionless financial primitive in the DeFi economy that enables users to get exposure to real-world assets on the blockchain using synthetic assets.
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About Kain Warwick
Kain Warwick is the founder of Synthetix, a decentralized finance protocol enabling the creation of synthetic assets. He founded multiple startups including a cash payment gateway for online services and a decentralized payment network, before pivoting to Synthetix. Kain has also worked as a tennis coach in California, started a band in Boston, and written a novel exploring the impact of AI.
About Synthetix and Chainlink
Synthetix uses high-quality, tamper-proof price data from Chainlink Price Feeds to help secure every trade on its synthetic asset protocol. Accessing decentralized market data on-chain helps enable Synthetix to remove any centralized dependency and allows users to verify their positions are settled using tamper-proof price data.
Learn more about Synthetix: https://synthetix.io/
About Chainlink
Chainlink is the industry standard for building, accessing, and selling oracle services needed to power hybrid smart contracts on any blockchain. Chainlink oracle networks provide smart contracts with a way to reliably connect to any external API and leverage secure off-chain computations for enabling feature-rich applications. Chainlink currently secures tens of billions of dollars across DeFi, insurance, gaming, and other major industries, and offers global enterprises and leading data providers a universal gateway to all blockchains.
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