SBF: Arbitrage, A Quant Fund, And Serum’s Ascent

Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts SBF, the CEO of FTX and Alameda Research. The two cover SBF's journey in creating Alameda Research, engaging in arbitrage, and why @ProjectSerum on @solana goes way beyond being a DEX 🚀

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Show Notes

(2:58) – (First Question) - When did SBF get involved in Crypto

(3:36) – Alameda, a non-traditional internal Quant Fund

(6:40) – Where does Alameda’s alpha come from

(11:26) – Moving fast in a limited information environment

(17:48) – The future of launches with figureheads

(21:56) – Future of Alameda

(24:13) – The thinking behind Serum

(30:17) – Serum and Scaling

(32:40) – Creating killer apps without a community

(35:07) – Goal for Serum/Serum core purposes

(39:44) – Serum much more than a DEX.

(42:34) – Composability, one of the most important things in DEFI

(43:59) – Ethereum vs Serum

(45:06) – Serum launchment on a short period of time

(47:20) – Making Money or Building

(49:00) – SBF biggest competitor

Resources:

• Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/SBF_Alameda
• Serum’s Website: https://projectserum.com/
• FTX’s Website: https://ftx.com/en
• Alameda’s Website: https://www.alameda-research.com/
• Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119
• Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi

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