Chris Hermida

Chris Hermida, co-founder of Switchboard, dives into the innovative world of proprietary Automated Market Makers (prop AMMs) on Solana. He discusses their rise, functionality, and the critical role of order flow in decentralized finance. The episode explores how prop AMMs enhance market efficiency and transparency, marking a shift from traditional models. Hermida also highlights the competitive dynamics within the DeFi landscape and the influence of advanced technologies like oracles on price discovery, promising an exciting future for users.

Switchboard co-founder Chris Hermida joins to discuss the recent crypto market crash, the popularity of meme coins, and how stablecoins are attracting new users to the crypto space. The conversation also touches on portfolio allocations, sentiment towards altcoins, the rise of DeFi and GameFi, and the potential impact of an Ethereum Exchange-Traded Fund in the US.

Chris Hermida & Mitch Gildenberg discuss scaling crypto's oracle infrastructure, lessons from the Mango exploit, Access Protocol's content platform, Monad's EVM compatibility, challenges in asset pricing for lending markets, securing Oracle data, permissioned oracles, and true randomness in on-chain applications.