Josh Fraser, Co-Founder of Origin Protocol, on Liquid Staking, Getting Better Yields in Crypto, and The Future of DeFi | Ep. 339
In an exclusive interview with Cryptonews Podcast, Josh Fraser, co-founder of Origin Protocol, an Ethereum-powered platform that develops Web3 technologies, discussed liquid staking and earning better yields “everywhere.”
He talked about Origin Protocol going multi-chain to Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism, as well as creating a Liquid Staking Token (LST) that users can get in and out of on a one-to-one basis without slippage concerns.
Fraser discovered Bitcoin very early on, back in 2010.
Buying some at the time was difficult, but mining it was somewhat easier.
It required downloading software, running it on the computer for seven hours, and overheating the device.
It took one smoking laptop to get the 50 BTC block reward – then just a change, today a massive fortune.
But Fraser didn’t know what to do with it at the time, and it would take another seven years for him to return to the crypto world, settling there.
In 2017, co-founder Matt Lew convinced him to get into Ethereum, reigniting the excitement about blockchains.
“And so we started off just playing in the space,” Fraser said, trading some crypto, building smart contracts, “just to see what was possible and what actually made sense.”
The more they built, the more he became convinced that “this was a revolutionary technology.”
The founders came up with several ideas, choosing “the craziest, most audacious one of all,” which eventually became Origin Protocol.
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