Building Out the DEX Frontier with Radar CEO Alan Curtis
You probably know Radar for their peer-to-peer platform built on the 0x protocol, but you may not know that they're also building a bridge between Bitcoin's Lightning Network and Ethereum as well as a service to educate and on-board new users to Lighting (plus another offering for developers called DEPLOY).
In this convo, Radar CEO Alan Curtis candidly speaks about building out the DEX frontier. In addition to providing the Radar origin story, he gives an overview of the current DEX landscape, where more competition has emerged while volumes have slouched. He also divulges how Radar had to spend $50,000 to operate compliantly in the US and how he thinks teams who haven't covered their bases are in for trouble come 2021-22.
Prior to founding Messari, Ryan was an entrepreneur-in-residence at ConsenSys, and on the founding teams of Digital Currency Group, where he managed the firm’s seed investing activity, and CoinDesk, where he led the company’s restructuring & annual Consensus conferences. He has been an investor & prolific writer in the crypto industry since 2013.