Austin King is the Co-Founder and CEO of Omni Network, the abstraction layer for the Ethereum ecosystem. With a background in computer science from Harvard, Austin began his entrepreneurial journey by creating a payment network that scaled to over 10 billion transactions before being acquired by Ripple. Today, Austin, alongside Co-Founder Tyler Tarsi, is leading Omni’s mission to empower application developers to access users and liquidity across the entire Ethereum ecosystem without smart contract upgrades.
Get to know Austin:
- Metaverse theme – Solar Punk, Sci Fi
- Favorite food – Thai
- Favorite musician/artist – Boris Brejcha
- Favorite movie – Mr. Nobody
- Favorite Book – Dune series, the Ascent of Money
- Hobby – Surfing
Topics:
- Austin’s background in crypto, working at Ripple and more
- Ethereum ecosystem overview
- How Omni fixes the Ethereum layer 2 fragmentation
- Institutional adoption of crypto
- Ripple’s RLUSD Stablecoin
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Timestamps
02:33 Austin’s background
04:24 Working at Ripple
05:33 First encounter with crypto
08:35 Omni overview
14:45 Is Omni a Layer 1 or Layer 3?
17:30 Ethereum’s smart contract dominance
35:04 Institutional adoption of Crypto
39:47 Ripple RLUSD Stablecoin
41:57 Wrap up questions
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