#472: Robinson Burkey, Co-Founder of Wormhole Foundation, on Interoperability, Routing Liquidity, and The Current Crypto Landscape

Robinson Burkey is the Co-Founder of the Wormhole Foundation. With an impressive track record spanning nearly a decade, Robinson has consistently excelled in leading growth and go-to-market strategies for startups, making a significant impact in the crypto industry since 2021. Prior to joining the Wormhole Foundation, Robinson held a key position at Acala, where he spearheaded Business Development and Ecosystem efforts within the Polkadot ecosystem. As a co-founder, Robinson is dedicated to accelerating the foundation's growth trajectory and fostering the widespread adoption of Wormhole as the leading interoperability platform powering multichain applications and bridges at scale. Wormhole provides developers, institutions, and users seamless connectivity between over 40 leading blockchain networks. The wider Wormhole network is trusted and used by teams like BlackRock, Apollo Global, VanEck, Google Cloud, Circle, and Uniswap. To date, the platform has enabled over $60 billion in all-time multichain volume, the most of any protocol in the world. 

In this conversation, we discuss:
- NYC is the Silicon Valley of crypto 
- Interoperability 
- Wormhole connecting 30+ blockchains with 1B+ messages processed 
- Fixing the liquidity fragmentation issue 
- Cross-chain communication 
- Wormhole’s Native Token Transfer (NTT) 
- Routing liquidity 
- Current ecosystem around DATs 
- Securing the most value between all blockchains 
- Stablecoins are still crypto’s killer use case 

Wormhole
Website: wormhole.com
X: @wormhole
Telegram: t.me/wormholecrypto

Robinson Burkey
X: @robinson
LinkedIn: Robinson Burkey

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