Barney Mannerings is founder of Vega Protocol, an innovative decentralised derivatives trading and settlement network. He previously created Pik, a web/mobile first payments company building a better deal for digital content creators and consumers.

In this conversation, we discuss decentralized finance, non-custodial exchanges, liquidity, decentralized derivatives, layer 1 vs layer 2, and Vega Protocol. 

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