The Founders of Chainlink and Synthetix on DeFi, Derivatives and 25 New Decentralized Price Feeds

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yesterday Chainlink</span> <a href= "https://blog.chain.link/introducing-chainlink-price-reference-data-for-defi/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">released</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">price reference data for 25 of its decentralized oracle networks which, together, power more than $100m in DeFi. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On this special interview episode, @nlw talks with Sergey Nazarov and Kain Warwick, the founders of Chainlink and Synthetix respectively about: </span></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The evolution and goals of Synthetix, a novel type of derivatives exchange where users can interact with any asset with a price feed. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The challenge Synthetix faced around spinning up their own oracles around price feeds</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The history of their collaboration and how Synthetix came to work with Chainlink</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Chainlink approach to building decentralized oracles for data such as price feeds</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Chainlink’s announcement yesterday about the new published price reference data for 25 oracle networks</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The state of the idea of decentralization, and how what was previously a concept is becoming operationalized</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">One thing that gives them pause or scares them about DeFi and crypto and one thing that makes them excited for the future </span></li> </ol>