“We have a project called Onplug. They built their MVP without Enso. I believe it was seven months. Then we approached the team and said, hey, you're building really cool stuff. Like you're building Zapier, drag and drop automation and crypto, and it's never been done before. Why don't you just use us and get access to all of Onchain through one tool? They were able to rebuild all their integration suites in a day and a half. They reduced the development timeline from seven months to a day and a half.”
Don't let new builders anywhere near crypto Twitter
“Now, how to flourish and create the ideas? I think you can't. You've got to keep them far, far away from the crypto industry. You've got to keep them further away from crypto Twitter as possible because they will just recycle, recycle, recycle. They need to really come up with their own innovative ideas. I was on crypto Twitter back then, 2016 I was like, oh, let's do decentralized roulette table. Roubette nowadays pretty much to some degree. I think keep them far away from crypto Twitter for as long as possible and just have really good mentors that can support them on their developer journey.”
Enso Drop gives stakers access to 370+ potential airdrops
“We're calling something the Enso Drop. Now the name might change actually in the next couple of weeks, but this is what we have internally so far. We're in a very unique position that we have so many protocols that use our protocol. So we have 125 plus, I believe it's even 130 plus now. You can access over 250 plus on-chain protocols. Now, we interact with their contracts and we get air drops. So we're able to now start offering to the users that secure the Enso Network by delegate staking them their ability to claim other air drops. Now, I believe this is one of the largest mechanisms in the whole space if you're able to get access to over 370 plus potential air drops.”
Enso has handled $17 billion across four years with zero exploits
“Enso has been around four and a half years. And we've never had one exploit. You know, not one. We've handled over $17 billion. We've done, I believe as of to date, there's 10 audits publicly. So the way that we kind of view this is our view in the future should be never write a smart contract again. A developer that is in the Web2 world that wants to interface on chain, they don't need to understand smart contracts and they do not need to write smart contracts to interact with smart contracts. If you write a smart contract that interacts with another one, that's creating another layer of security issues.”
Enso powered Berachain's $3.1 billion DeFi launch behind the scenes
“One of the largest DeFi launches and chains of this whole cycle, they had had an incentive mechanism for depositing funds on Ethereum, and those funds needed to be migrated from Ethereum to Berachain and then executed into all of the brand new protocols that didn't exist up until the chain was live. And somebody has handled all of that execution underneath. And these executions were not just swapping from token A to token B, we were bridging, then lend, then borrow, leverage loop, then enter into one-sided LP, so forth and so forth, right? This was handled fully by Enso. Not many people know this. They assumed this is Royco, they assumed it's Boyco. That really is just an interface. It was all of Enso's logic underneath. And we safely and securely moved over $3.1 billion into over 80 plus unique different DeFi combinations.”
Crypto needs products people actually want, not recycled liquidity
“Brutally honest, we need products that people want. You know, the same money that cycles through DeFi, it's all the same people. Like you see money going TVL up or TVL down there, that's because this is backroom agreements of, hey, I want this APY or I want this extra yield that's not public and I'll put $500 million in your protocol. It's just the same people using it. So I think what we need to do for more people to use crypto is one, give products they actually want to use and two, make it seamless. Like they shouldn't need to care about chains.”
Reach Web2 developers through YouTube, universities, and bootcamps
“Where did we all individually learn about how to build code? The reality is, it's YouTube. That's where people go and they watch it. How many Web3 companies do you see that actually have, not all, like, wait, let me rephrase. Every Web3 company has YouTube videos and they have zero distribution, right? Zero. Where do people go to learn? They go to YouTube, they go to Code Academy, they go to Udemy, they go to coding boot camps, coding tutorials and so forth. So we're fortunate that we also know people inside of the Web2 developer relations communities that have a large, large, large YouTube communities.”
The 'fat engine' thesis: abstraction layers will control chains
“I think the real value capture will be the fat engine thesis, which I've just made up on the spot is Enso. If you're able to be that connectivity glue and that one tool that abstracts all of it away, it's the superpower if you have tens of millions of apps that are building atop of you. We could in theory dictate in the future, if base doesn't give us incentives, we won't route people to base. I'm not saying that we will do that, but these abstraction layers will ultimately have to control over the chains. I think ultimately, the more higher that we go up in the stack, the less control that the chains will have, and these abstraction tools will actually have a lot more control than they will, because you can just direct it away from them.”
