Eyal Hertzog: Bancor and the Rise of User-Generated Currencies - a podcast by Epicenter Media Ltd.

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Bancor is a simple, but hard-to-understand protocol that enables price discovery and liquidity even for assets that aren’t actively traded. Co-Founder Eyal Hertzog joined us to explain how the Bancor protocol works and why they think it will play a key role in enabling a massive wave of small, but interconnected user-generated currencies. We dissected the workings of the protocol, its radical implications as well as the takeaways from their record-shattering, but controversial crowdsale.


Topics covered in this episode:



  • Eyal’s background in early internet startups

  • The origin story of Bancor

  • Why asset markets suffer from the double coincidence of wants problem

  • The benefits of Bancor-based Smart Tokens

  • How Bancor and BNT can create a liquidity network

  • Why BNT benefits from network effects

  • What went well and what didn’t go well about the Bancor Crowdsale

  • Why Eyal thinks the price floor was a good idea


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This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain and Meher Roy. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/194

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