Articles & talks.

Articles about Vega and recordings of past talks, events and podcasts

The Charlie Shrem Show
Talk (Virtual)
Apr 27, 2023

Vega Founder Barney Mannerings speaks with Charlie Shrem on the Untold Stories podcast and shares what he did prior to joining the world of crypto, about why people invented markets and how crypto can make it better. He also looks back on when Uniswap was invented and compares it to “toys” vs real-world innovations that truly challenge the old guard in TradFi.

MikoBits Blockchain and DeFi Show
Talk (Virtual)
Apr 25, 2023

Vega Founder Barney Mannerings speaks with Miko about defi derivatives and how it can leverage the future of finance.

WholesomeCrypto
Talk (Virtual)
Mar 3, 2023

Vega Founder Barney Mannerings speaks with Rudy from Wholesome Crypto and shares his insights on the evolving cryptocurrency industry and his own journey. From investing in the Ethereum presale to starting decentralized finance projects, he offers great advice and wisdom from his own experience. Barney discusses Vega's decentralized derivatives platform and options trading platform, restricted mainnet, Proof of Stake appchain, and 2023 plans including the upcoming alpha mainnet launch.

Crypto Coin Show
Talk (Virtual)
Jan 20, 2023

Vega founder Barney Mannerings, speaks with Ashton Addison on the Crypto Coin Show. Barney discusses Vega's decentralized derivatives platform and options trading platform, restricted mainnet, Proof of Stake appchain, and 2023 plans including the upcoming alpha mainnet launch.

Eden Block - Genesis Stories
Talk (London)
Oct 14, 2022

Learn more about Vega Protocol's founding history and long-term mission, in the new episode of Genesis Story by Eden Block featuring Vega Founder Barney Mannerings #FreeTheMarkets.

Devcon VI
Talk (Bogota)
Oct 11, 2022

Vega Blockchain Researcher Dr Klaus Kursawe, takes on the stage at Devcon VI in Bogota 2022. His presentation looks at the challenges of implementing various diversity-improving policies on a PoS network. Economic (dis)incentivisation is a popular approach, but can be undermined by non-standard miner economics such as (cross-domain) MEV or derivatives on incentivisation. As an alternative, Klaus outlines an approach to include diversity support into the consensus level without requiring changing the basic functionality of the protocol by adapting the concept of general adversary structures.

Finnovators
Talk (Virtual)
Oct 9, 2022

Vega founder Barney Mannerings, discusses the importance of having decentralized derivatives like futures, options and swaps, and some of the major use cases with Manuel Rensink. Barney also explains how Vega's bespoke protocol and derivatives marketplace, can prevent MEV, have predictable trading fees in bps, margin credit, atomic closeouts, hybrid AMM / order book liquidity, what's in the roadmap, and how defi and tradfi are converging to benefit people IRL.

Cryptonized
Talk (Virtual)
Sep 28, 2022

Vega Founder, Barney Mannerings, joins Mark Fidelman on Cryptonized to discuss everything crypto derivatives.

Messari Mainnet 2022
Talk (New York City)
Sep 22, 2022

Vega Founder, Barney Mannerings, joins Brandon Neal, Hart Lambur, Simon Jones and John Locke for a round-table chat at Messari Mainnet 2022. The market for TradFi derivatives is orders of magnitude larger than the spot markets. But crypto derivatives lag their spot-market counterparts. How can crypto derivatives catch up? And when will they boost total crypto volume to TradFi levels?

WTF Crypto
Talk (Virtual)
Sep 21, 2022

WTF Crypto Host Mark Lurie invites Vega founder, Barney Mannerings, to cover everything from why Vega is essential to DeFi to how market maturity affects adoption.