Articles & talks.

Articles about Vega and recordings of past talks, events and podcasts

Why Invest? Podcast
Talk (Virtual)
Apr 21, 2021

Barney Mannerings dives into the concepts behind Vega, regulation, risk – and the future of centralised exchanges on the Why Invest? podcast hosted by Doug Barnett.

Liquidity 2020: How to create & launch a BTC/USD futures market on Vega
Talk (Virtual)
Nov 18, 2020

On Vega anyone can create permissionless, professional-grade markets, on any underlying. This makes it possible for the world of derivatives markets to run on a global, public blockchain. Tamlyn Rudolph demonstrates this technology for the first time to show how to launch your own BTC / USD futures market on Vega's testnet

Deconstructing derivatives
Talk (Virtual)
Nov 11, 2020

An all-day event featuring demos, hands-on workshops, and panel discussions exploring the world of derivatives. Starting off with fundamental theory, we then dive into community-led finance, crypto native products and liquidity mechanisms before addressing the future with the leaders that are shaping it.

The content progresses in complexity throughout the day and is geared towards all levels, from complete beginners to hardcore DeFi enthusiasts.

Organised by Vega, London Blockchain Labs and Outlier Ventures.

Speakers include: Abel Tedros, Andrey Belyakov, Anjan Vinod, Anton Golub, Barney Mannerings, Ben Gagnon, Carlo Las Marias, Dan Danay, David Nuelle, David Siska, Ethan Vera, Freddie Farmer, Juliana Passos, Leo Zhang, MonaEl Isa, Rafaella Baraldo, Stani Kulechov, Tamlyn Rudolph and Timothy Kelly.

ACM conference on advances in financial technologies
Talk (Virtual)
Oct 21, 2020
Coinscrum Markets: Building decentralised derivatives markets
Talk (Virtual)
Oct 2, 2020

Barney Mannerings joins Paul Yardly (Trustology) and Jose Macedo (Delphi Digital) on this panel.

Learn how to design a blockchain for fair DeFi trading
Talk (Virtual)
Jul 22, 2020

Dmitriy Berenzon leads a discussion with Klaus Kursawe and Tamlyn Rudolph on ordering fairness and why it is a necessary innovation for the DeFi space.

Blockchain Brad
Talk (Virtual)
Jul 9, 2020

Barney Mannerings speaks to Blockchain Brad about Vega and building tools for DeFi trading.

Liquid Staking Roundtable
Talk (Virtual)
Jul 7, 2020

Barney Mannerings joins the Cosmos round-table on on-chain staked assets.

The Layerization of Decentralised Finance: Synthetic Assets, Futures, Options: What’s Next?
Talk (Virtual)
May 14, 2020

Barney Mannerings joins Synthetic, Unslashed Finance in a panel moderated by Mona El Lisa in a DeFi project deep dive.

Dystopia Labs: DeFi Discussions
Talk (Virtual)
Apr 3, 2020

Dr Klaus Kursawe discussed how blockchains can mitigate against front-running for on-chain order book dApps, based on his latest paper ‘Wendy, the little good little fairness widget’.