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The latest from the BOB ecosystem.
Everybody Aggregates Everybody: Socket's Vaibhav Chellani on the Crosschain Swap Endgame
Socket co-founder Vaibhav Chellani and BOB's Alexei Zamyatin on cross-chain swap aggregation, solver economics, and why quotes still lie to users.
“The Next Billion Users Will Be Agents”: 1inch's Sergej Kunz on Agentic Trading
1inch co-founder Sergej Kunz says hallucination is solved and anyone can automate. BOB's Alexei Zamyatin isn't convinced. Inside the agentic trading split.
Maria Nimfuehr
Wrapped Bitcoin: BiT Global's Nadia Song on Custody, Competition and What Bitcoin Does in DeFi
WBTC's Nadia Song on custody, cbBTC's minting advantage, why most Bitcoin wrappers go unused, native vs OFT, regulation, and trust-minimized bridging.
Maria Nimfuehr
Maximum Reach vs Minimum Trust: LayerZero's DeFi Lead Thlither on Omnichain, Institutions and Agents
LayerZero's DeFi lead on why trustless bridging is impossible, how DVNs work, WBTC across 21 chains, institutions coming on-chain, and what agents change.
Maria Nimfuehr
Dollars, Gold or Bitcoin: USDT0's Lorenzo Romagnoli on Stablecoins and Hard Money
USDT0 co-founder Lorenzo on $100bn in 525 days, why Tron still wins, Open USD vs Circle, tokenized gold overtaking dollar stablecoins, and Bitcoin culture.
Maria Nimfuehr
Bitcoin DeFi: Dead or Alive? Jacob Phillips on Collateral, Custody, and Yield
Lombard's Jacob Phillips joins Alexei Zamyatin to discuss Bitcoin as collateral, custody risk, and the real state of Bitcoin DeFi today.
Petra Poliaková
Powering On-Chain Capital Markets: Chainlink’s Luke Lim on RWAs, CCIP, and the Bitcoin Bridging
Chainlink's Luke Lim talks tokenized real-world assets, cross-chain bridge security, and on-chain capital markets with Alexei Zamyatin.
Petra Poliaková
Onboarding the Next Billion: MetaMask's Michael Lwin on Wallets, Self-Custody, and Bitcoin Trading
MetaMask's Michael Lwin joins Alexei Zamyatin to discuss self-custody, wallet evolution, and why on-chain Bitcoin trading still lags exchanges.
Petra Poliaková
The Interop Stress Test: LI.FI's Philipp Zentner on Bridges, Tokens, and Bitcoin Trading
LI.FI's Philipp Zentner talks bridge architecture, token economics, and why Bitcoin still trades so little on-chain with Alexei Zamyatin.
Petra Poliaková
The Real State of Bitcoin DeFi: DeFi Dad & Nomatic on Lending, Swaps, and STRC
DeFi Dad and Nomatic join Alexei Zamyatin to unpack Bitcoin-backed lending, why BTC trades so little on-chain, and Strategy's STRC yield product.
Petra Poliaková
Bitcoin Hot Topics with OG Dan Held: Cycles, Quantum Fear, and the DeFi Gap Nobody's Solved
Bitcoin OG Dan Held joins Alexei Zamyatin to discuss market cycles, institutional adoption, quantum risks, and Bitcoin DeFi's biggest gap.
Petra Poliaková
LeoDex Integrates BOB Gateway
Native BTC swaps are now available to LeoDex traders.
Maria Nimfuehr
Tutorial: How to use BOB Gateway
A step by step guide to Bitcoin and EVM swaps on BOB Gateway
Pankaj Dalmia