Andrey Belyakov: Opium Protocol: Create, settle, and trade virtually all derivatives in a trustless way. Opium Network is a set
Joel Palathinkal and Andrey Belyakov explore Andrey's journey from banking to founding Opium Protocol, highlighting his early involvement with the Ethereum ICO and investments. They delve into the development and functionality of the Opium Protocol, discussing its role in derivatives and DeFi collaboration. The conversation covers institutional adoption, data sourcing, and managing counterparty risk, while comparing Opium's offerings to prediction markets. Andrey shares insights on brand aspirations, regulation, and emerging technologies, offering advice to his younger self. The episode concludes with reflections on past decisions and future plans for Opium Protocol.
In this episode, we meet Andrey Belyakov. Andrey is a member of the CFA Institute, a professional derivative trader, and fund manager with 10 years of experience with 20+ billion EUR AUM portfolios. Andrey is an entrepreneur, private venture investor and advisor of several fintech start ups. We talk about his new blockchain project Opium . Opium Protocol is the universal protocol to create, settle and trade virtually all derivatives in a trustless way. It has a set of smart-contracts that allow anyone to construct and trade financial derivatives on any underlying value. All of this can be done without intermediaries such as notaries, banks, brokers and exchanges. The system is designed to operate completely decentralised. The synthetic derivatives created can use leverage to trade derivatives on any underlying value while still keeping full ownership of your positions, & manages risk through various parameters & market views with counterparties. We talk about how this platform is going to transform institutional trading , and we wrap up with talking about his biggest regret in life.
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