This chapter follows the entrepreneurial journey of an individual from starting at a hacker house to securing funding, developing a product, and launching it on the Mainnet. It explores the growth from a hackathon project to collaborating with core team members, securing seed funding, and releasing the protocol with multiple front ends. The conversation also delves into challenges like managing trading volume, attracting users, and optimizing Akanya's order book system for growth.
Alex is the Founder of Econia Labs. Econia: the high-performance on-chain order book for the Aptos blockchain. Built for equitable, global market access and engineered for composability, Econia provides trading infrastructure for Aptos DeFi.
Econia Labs's Twitter: https://twitter.com/EconiaLabs
Econia Labs's Website: https://www.econialabs.com/
Logan Jastremski - Co-Founder at Frictionless Capital:
- Logan's Twitter: @LoganJastremski
- Frictionless Capital: https://www.frictionless.fund/