SotN #42: Ethereum Devs Building DeFi | Preston Van Loon and Will Villanueva

<p>Both Preston Van Loon of Cryptex and Will Willanueva of Element Finance have helped build the Ethereum Protocol, but are now both working on DeFi apps.</p> <p>In this State of the Nation, we dive into what it's like for Ethereum Devs building DeFi.</p> <p>State of the Nations are Livestreamed on Tuesdays at 11am PST.<br /> ------<br /> 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: <a href= "https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/">https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/</a> <br /> 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: <a href= "http://podcast.banklesshq.com/">http://podcast.banklesshq.com/</a> <br /> 🎖 CLAIM YOUR BADGE: <a href= "https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/-guide-2-using-the-bankless-badge"> https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/-guide-2-using-the-bankless-badge</a> <br /> ------<br /> BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS:</p> <p>💰 GEMINI | FIAT & CRYPTO EXCHANGE<br /> <a href= "https://bankless.cc/go-gemini">https://bankless.cc/go-gemini</a> </p> <p>🦊 METAMASK | DEFI PASSPORT<br /> <a href= "https://bankless.cc/metamask">https://bankless.cc/metamask</a> </p> <p>🦄 UNISWAP | DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE<br /> <a href= "http://bankless.cc/uniswap">http://bankless.cc/uniswap</a> </p> <p>🔀 KWENTA | SYNTHETIC ASSET EXCHANGE<br /> <a href= "https://bankless.cc/kwenta">https://bankless.cc/kwenta</a> <br /> ------<br /> State of the Nation #42: Ethereum Devs Building DeFi<br /> Guests: Preston Van Loon & Will Villanueva</p> <p>Tremendous work has been (and is still being) done to develop Ethereum 2, and just as much innovation is happening in Ethereum's app layer, DeFi. In this week's State of the Nation, we bring on guys who have done both: Preston Van Loon and Will Villanueva.</p> <p>Preston Van Loon is a former Google software engineer who switched to crypto full-time after Vitalik put 1000 ETH into Prysmatic Labs, which Preston founded. Prysmatic labs is now the most popular ETH 2 client. Preston is also the co-founder of a brand new DeFi app ‘Cryptex’, which is a collateralized synthetic asset that tracks the total market cap of all crypto-assets.</p> <p>Will Vil