DeFi Toronto – October Meetup (Online)
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Agenda
1. DeFi News Recap
2. The rise of L2s and the fall of Ethereum competitors, Victor Li of DeFi Toronto
3. Fireside chat with Ravi on Polygon 2.0 Roadmap, Ravi Agrawal of Polygon
4. Community announcements
Speaker Bio
Ravikant Agrawal is the Director of Growth at Polygon Labs, focusing on Web3 mobile strategy, digital assets, digital identity, and ecosystem growth. In the past, he was an accomplished professional with a track record of implementing innovative Web3 and emerging tech solutions for his global financial industry clients. He also co-founded a startup building a blockchain-based digital identity product. As a passion, he mentors aspiring professionals in the fast-evolving digital landscape.
Victor Li is an economist, investment researcher and educator. He has been in the crypto asset space since 2014. Victor is a co-founder of DeFi Toronto, a 2500-member community group that advocates decentralized finance (DeFi) as a use case of public blockchains. In 2020, he and his team won the first prize from Aave during EthGlobal’s DeFi hackathon. Victor undertakes crypto asset research at Firinne Capital and teaches a blockchain course at York University in Toronto. He is a curriculum advisor to George Brown College’s post-graduate blockchain certificate program.