Warren Anderson is the CEO of Exocore, an omnichain restaking protocol powering an open market for decentralized trust. Prior to Exocore, Warren co-founded Hedgy, one of the first DeFi platforms which pioneered the use of multisig and hashed timelock contracts for atomic transactions of OTC trades on the Bitcoin blockchain. Warren joined Ripple in 2016 to lead product development across a variety of open crypto protocols, platforms, and products, including RippleX, the XRP Ledger, Interledger, and Paystring.
While at Ripple, he co-created On-Demand Liquidity, an enterprise payment API that uses crypto to settle cross-border payments in seconds. Warren initially joined Discreet Labs in 2021 as VP of Product, and was promoted to CEO in 2022 to lead a team of over 80 engineers and operators building scalable privacy systems using zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) for web3.
Topics:
- What is ReStaking
- Exocore’s unique retaking solution
- The future of crypto staking
- Working with AI Companies
- Crypto Regulations
- Bitcoin ETFs
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Timestamps
01:25 Warren’s background at Ripple and more
06:30 ReStaking explained
09:16 Earning additional rewards for restaking
13:47 Staking non PoS assets
16:40 Working with AI Companies
21:21 Restaking security
23:38 Institutions ReStaking crypto
25:14 Exocore onboarding quest
27:00 Future of Staking
29:40 2024 roadmap
30:38 Bitcoin ETFs
33:30 US crypto regulations
36:23 Contact with Ripple?
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