#417: Austin King, Co-Founder of Omni Network , on Memecoin Mania, $XRP, and Creating the Abstraction Layer for the Ethereum Ecosystem
Austin King is the Co-Founder of Omni Network and CEO of Labs, 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.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Memecoin Mania
- Portnoy running with GREED and GREED 2
- Hayden is going to jail!
- Onboarding people to memecoins kills our chance for mass adoption
- Ripple and XRP - current sentiment and why normies love it
- Omni is an abstraction layer for the Ethereum ecosystem
- Allowing users to trade crypto like Robinhood
- Removing bridges and wrapped assets from the front-end
- Gaining access to all the users in the on-chain economy
- The secret sauce to mass adoption
- SolverNet SDK
- Tokenization is crypto’s killer use case
Omni Network
Website: omni.network
X: @OmniFDN
Telegram: t.me/OmniFDN
Austin King
X: @0xASK
LinkedIn: Austin King
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