DeFi Toronto – July Meetup (Online)

Agenda

1. DeFi news recap
2. Rocket Pool: Democratising Ethereum Staking, D. Langley of Rocketpool
3. Building the next generation of web3 apps. Hemanth Soni of Goldsky
4. Finding DeFi alpha using Blockscope no-code tools, Maharshi Patel of Blockscope
5. Community announcements

Speaker Bio:

Darren Langley is the General Manager of the Rocket Pool core team. With Rocket Pool being the third largest liquid staking provider, Darren brings valuable insights into the rapidly evolving landscape of Ethereum staking and decentralized finance. Darren is dedicated to driving innovation and empowering individuals through blockchain technology.

Hemanth Soni is a seasoned builder in the web3 space with multiple experiences in taking products from 0 to 1 both in crypto (eg. Helika, Conduit) and in data (eg. Novisto). Hemanth is now the growth lead at Goldsky, a high-performance web3 data infrastructure company. His talk will walk through his learnings in building through different eras of crypto, and his predictions for the future.

Maharshi Patel is an ex-Citibank engineer, who worked on developing real-time data pipelines for monitoring their infrastructure. He joined the Web3 space in late 2021, by launching an on-chain game. Finding the developer experience lacking, he and his cofounder set out to build Blockscope, a real-time monitoring/analytics tool for the blockchain, where he serves as CTO. The talk will focus on a guided analysis of a Blockchain wallet and insights that can be gained via Blockscope's tools.