Sam Kamani

Welcome to another episode of Web3 with Sam Kamani Podcast.

And in this episode, I am joined by Manny and Jamie, the founders behind Blend, a DeFi savings platform, which is focused on capital protection, as well as global access and long-term financial security.

So both these guests have, they bring like a deep experience from building high scale crypto infrastructure at risk labs, working on protocols such as UMA, U-M-A.

And across them, they share both lessons that have shaped Blend's safety first approach.

And in today's podcast episode, we are going to unpack why savings, not speculation, is the real next chapter in DeFi.

How Blend is building a global savings layer for users regardless of their passport or their local currency.

And why isolating risk at the account level changes how people should think about on-chain finance.

We also explore FX hedging, self-custody, design, transparency, and what it takes to build trust in an industry that has lost it too many times.

So if you care about where DeFi is going beyond trading and how crypto can actually help people preserve wealth globally, then this is a conversation worth listening to.

as always nothing that we talk about here should be taken as financial or investment advice and please like share subscribe and follow with all that out of the way let's get into it

So Jamie and Manny, welcome to the show.

It is an absolute pleasure and an honor to have you guys here.

And I'm so looking forward to our conversation about all things DeFi as well as what you guys are building with Blend.

But before we get started, I wanted to find out how did you guys get involved in this industry, starting with Manny, take it away.

And JB, what about your background?

How did you, what's your journey that led you here?

Fantastic.

And Jimmy, I'd like to let you continue.

What's the key problem that you guys are solving with Blend?

And Manny, how does Blend differ from other sort of DeFi or yield platforms out there?