Articles & Talks

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

Real Vision Crypto
Talk (Virtual)
May 9, 2023

Ash Bennington from Real Vision Crypto is joined by Vega Founder Barney Mannerings, to discuss how trading derivatives could become more efficient, equitable, and fair through the use of decentralized apps and exchange.

Mission DeFi
Talk (Virtual)
Apr 28, 2023

Vega Founder Barney Mannerings talks to Brad Nickel about building not only a derivatives trading app, but more importantly, a powerful derivatives building platform for any kind of financial application. The potential of the platform to bridge all of finance into DeFi is very compelling.

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.