Why Katana Is Not An L2, It's A DeFi Super App

About this episode

Matthew Fisher discusses Katana's unique approach to DeFi and its economic engine.

Matthew Fisher is CEO of Katana. Many L2s have launched, hoping the apps show up. Katana is taking a different approach, building apps itself and designing the economic engine from day one to make this all possible. In this episode, Matthew breaks down how vaultbridge assets like vbETH and vbUSDT redirect real yield from Ethereum Mainnet to active DeFi participants on Katana, why they acquired the team behind IDEX to launch Katana Perps, and their roadmap to onboard major liquidity from CEXs like OKX and fintechs like Revolut who can route liquidity through Katana for yield. ------ 💎 THIS EPISODE'S PARTNERS 🔒 KPK | Best risk-adjusted yield through automated vaults 🏙 MAINSTREET | Bringing proven TradFi yield strategies to DeFi markets 🏦 ALTURA | Bringing the yield institutions kept, to your wallet 🕛 NOON | The highest and safest stablecoin yield, built for the long term 🌅 NEUTRL | The next generation of crypto-native yield 🛡️ ACCOUNTABLE | Real-time financial verification 👻 MANTLE | Aave V3 is live on Mantle 🐡 PUFFER INSTITUTIONAL | ETH staking solutions for scale ⚙️ GEARBOX PROTOCOL | Onchain lending reimagined ------ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Intro 2:04- Matthew’s background…

People in this episode

Host: DeFi Dad

Guest: Matthew Fisher

Topics covered

• DeFi
• Katana
• L2
• yield
• liquidity
• vaultbridge
• IDEX acquisition

Keywords

• Katana
• DeFi
• yield
• vaultbridge
• vbETH
• vbUSDT
• IDEX
• liquidity
• CEXs
• Revolut

Sponsors

KPK, MAINSTREET, ALTURA, NOON, NEUTRL, ACCOUNTABLE, MANTLE, PUFFER INSTITUTIONAL, GEARBOX PROTOCOL

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Katana, IDEX, OKX, Revolut

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