Austin King is the CEO of Omni Labs.
In this episode, we discuss how Omni Network can solve for Ethereum's fragmented L2 liquidity. Austin shares his vision for how this EVM blockchain, secured by Ethereum, aims to power one united user experience for all DeFi and Web3 apps built across rollups.
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Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
5:12 - Austin's background
8:48 - What is Omni Network?
9:26 - What is Omni solving for?
11:39 - Blockchain design of Omni
12:46 - Getting to sub-second finality
15:34 - Omni vs major interoperability solutions
18:36 - Inspiration from prior builders
20:35 - Maverick mid-roll
21:44 - Secured by Ethereum thanks to EigenLayer
23:02 - ether.fi commits $600M of staked ETH
24:12 - Risks of restaking
28:28 - The Open Liquidity Network
32:06 - Could Omni deprecate bridging protocols?
33:34 - Ethereum security, with a Solana-like UX
36:03 - Expand beyond Ethereum?
37:25 - Closing
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? Guest Links ?
► Omni Website: https://omni.network/
► Omni Whitepaper: https://docs.omni.network/whitepaper.pdf
► Omni on Twitter: https://twitter.com/omniFDN
► Austin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xASK
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