Edan Yago grew up during apartheid in South Africa and at one point had to smuggle gold as a child to help his family. Yago discovered Bitcoin and, after years of prepping for a revolution, immediately knew that his life would change forever. Stepping into the crypto space, Edan set out to design a new way of approaching DeFi and built Sovryn, a sidechain off of Bitcoin instead of Ethereum. Edan is excited for the monetary revolution that DeFi will bring to the 99% of the world that does not have full access to the world’s financial garden - and all based on Bitcoin.
 
Scott Melker and Edan Yago further discuss sewing gold into coat pockets, growing up in South Africa’s apartheid, a family of political activists, the only important choice is buying Bitcoin, bringing Bitcoin’s liquidity to DeFi, designing Sovryn, defeating crypto tribalism, fighting the no-coiners, loaning against DeFi, pseudo-Bitcoin, hyper dumps, hyper pumps and more.
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