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Erik Voorhees: ShapeShift – Decentralizing a Fox

Episode Summary

Erik Voorhees, CEO & Founder of ShapeShift, joins us for his 4th appearance on the show. In this episode we hear the reasoning behind this shift, cross-chain Interoperability, the FOX token, and the future of the Shapeshift platform as a DAO.

Episode Notes

Erik Voorhees, CEO & Founder of ShapeShift, joins us for his 4th appearance on the show. ShapeShift recently announced they are decentralizing the company and its products, which would see the company transition from a centralized entity and platform to a DAO. With the largest airdrop in history they distributed FOX tokens to over a million customers and DeFi community members, who will eventually fully control the exchange.

In this episode we hear the reasoning behind this shift, cross-chain Interoperability, the FOX token, and the future of the Shapeshift platform as a DAO.

Topics covered in this episode:

The journey of ShapeShift since Erik's last appearance on the show
What led ShapeShift to becoming decentralized and the process so far
ShapeShift as a product - its features and how it will be accessed
The future structure of Shapeshift as a DAO
Cross-chain Interoperability and the Cosmos ecosystem
The goal of the FOX token
The future of the ShapeShift ecosystem

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This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Sebastien Couture. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/409