
#500: Anurag Arjun, Co-founder of Avail, on Interoperability, Liquidity Unification, and The Future of Crypto
About this episode
Anurag Arjun is the Co-founder of Avail, a unified foundation for rollups to scale horizontally, share liquidity, move assets trustlessly, communicate permissionlessly along with a multi-token economic security.
He entered the blockchain industry in 2017, founding Matic Network, which evolved into Polygon Labs. By 2020, he launched Avail within the Polygon ecosystem, utilizing his background in research, economics, and engineering. In March 2023, he spun out Avail as an independent project. Anurag is a seasoned entrepreneur who has founded several successful startups across diverse industries, ranging from cash flow lending to regulatory tech. His expertise and vision continue to drive Avail's success and position the company at the forefront of the blockchain revolution.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Biggest misconceptions people have about interoperability and “multichain” today
- UX is still the main pain point in crypto
- Intent-based architecture
- Liquidity unification
- Creating a unified balance across chains
- Quantum’s threat to crypto
- Unlocking a multichain userbase
- Liquidity fragmentation
- Making Nexus chain-agnostic — including EVM, non-EVM, and eventually Solana
- The future of crypto
Avail
X: @AvailProject
Website: www.availproject.org
Telegram: t.me/AvailCommunity
Anurag Arjun
X: @anuragarjun
LinkedIn: Anurag Arjun
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