This conversation between The Defiant and Ivan was recorded during Devconnect 2023 in Istanbul.

Chapters
0:36 Who is Ivan?
1:21 Getting into crypto
2:13 Western Europe vs Middle East
3:33 What is LobsterDAO?
6:55 Moderation
9:20 Launch of Curve Finance
10:54 Community vs Organization
12:00 Gearbox Protocol
14:25 Market Sophistication in DeFi
16:25 UX Frustrations
18:55 Governance
21:50 Token Utility
25:04 Yield in DeFi
26:51 Sustainable Yield
28:57 Intents
31:20 Hardware Wallets
32:38 Best way to manage wallets
33:49 Is the bear market over?
35:24 Crypto narratives
36:15 Decentralized Social Media
39:11 RWAs
40:20 Options and Perps
40:49 GameFi
45:00 Ivan's biggest bags
48:05 Narrative vs Execution
49:39 Crypto Landscape in Türkiye
53:15 ETHGlobal Istanbul
54:54 Creative Process
55:41 ETHGlobal Projects
57:40 Driving Adoption
1:00:12 Gearbox Updates
1:00:43 Final words

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