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Simon Jones of Reya on Building a DEX Fast Enough for Institutional Trading
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🎙️ Simon Jones, CEO & Co-Founder of Reya Labs
🕒 ~45 mins
Only 3% of perp trading happens on Ethereum despite it holding the majority of DeFi's assets. Simon Jones built Reya to fix that: a trading-specific based rollup delivering sub-millisecond execution without sacrificing Ethereum's security.
In this episode:
- Why speed and decentralization have always been a tradeoff, and how Reya solved it
- The structural disconnect: why institutions settle on Ethereum but trade elsewhere
- How agentic trading is already shifting who uses Reya and how
- RWA perps: bringing gold, equities, and commodities onchain
- From McKinsey to fintech startups to DeFi builder
If you care about onchain trading infrastructure, institutional DeFi, or where crypto markets are heading, this one's for you.
🔹 Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/simon-jones-of-reya-on-building-a-dex-fast-enough/id1799063494?i=1000770067821
🔹 Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Fr8MoxFma8tHLrk0SD9gO?si=Ien-cKpJQ129dZETPtqvOA
🔹 YouTube → https://youtu.be/RwFGfcVICiM
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