Articles & Talks

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

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.

Ethereum Merge
Talk (Virtual)
Aug 18, 2022

Vega blockchain researcher, Dr Klaus Kursawe, takes a closer look at the effects of Ethereum's highly-anticipated transition from PoW to PoS, known as 'The Merge'. Klaus joins “Community Crypto” host Isaiah Jackson, Prysmatic Labs Co-founder Preston Vanloon, and QCP Capital Co-Founder and CIO Darius Sit to discuss the topic.

Web3 Innovators
Talk (Virtual)
Aug 17, 2022

Conor Svensson, Founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, hosts Web3Innovators and invites Barney Mannerings, Vega Founder, to dig into a number of topics including the infrastructure required to create on-chain derivatives, how Vega approaches leverage and risk management, the community’s role and what’s still missing from DeFi.

ETHPrague 2022
Talk (Prague)
Jun 11, 2022

Danny Holland, Head of Blockchain Integrations at Vega, shares tales from the field and his experience using ZK Rollups to scale transactions on Ethereum at ETHPrague 2022. ZK rollups are one of the most promising new technologies for any use case with high volumes of transactions, be it for DeFi, NFTs, gaming and beyond. Danny will touch on the Ethereum issues that we know all too well — high gas fees, miner extractable value, and time lag.

Vega Protocol: An Appchain for Trading Derivatives
Insight
May 2, 2022

Permissionless market creation, unique incentives, and risk models for market and protocol solvency – and a bespoke network architecture are the first steps to complex, high-performance trading…

Vega Protocol Investment Thesis
Insight
Feb 23, 2022

From the outset, the founding team had two 2 guiding principles: 1) a decentralised derivatives platform to scale billions in daily notional transaction volume. 2) it should be fair for all...

EthDenver 2022
Talk (Denver)
Feb 17, 2022

Vega founder Barney Mannerings, delivers Vega's keynote talk on stage at EthDenver's Opening Ceremony. Learn how Vega aims to be as good as CeFi, better than TradFi, and the future of DeFi.

DeFi Download Podcast
Talk (Virtual)
Jan 29, 2022

Vega founder, Barney Mannerings, speaks with Piers Ridyard, CEO of RDX Works and core developer of Radix Protocol about the inner workings of the Vega Protocol, how they maintain capital efficiency, what atomic closeout means, why they built their own bespoke blockchain, Vega’s trustless bridge into the Ethereum ecosystem – and much more.

CfC St. Moritz 2022
Talk (Virtual)
Jan 13, 2022

The future of DeFi is found in its origins: crypto originated with cypherpunks who believed that open-source software and strong cryptography could be used to ensure electronic privacy and usher in a new era of socioeconomic liberty. Vega founder, Barney Mannerings joins CfC St. Moritz and David Namdar from Coral Capital to discuss the importance of staying true to DeFi’s roots.