Mike Silagadze
Mike Silagadze is the co-founder and CEO of ether.fi, a non-custodial Ethereum staking and restaking protocol that grew into one of the largest protocols on Ethereum and is now expanding into broader crypto banking products. Before moving into crypto full time he founded Top Hat in 2009, an education technology company he led as CEO for twelve years and grew to roughly 500 employees and $60 million in annual revenue before selling it in 2021. He holds a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo, and after leaving Top Hat he ran a crypto hedge fund (Gadze Finance) and served as a venture partner at Ripple Ventures before starting ether.fi in late 2022.
33 talks by Mike Silagadze
- Crypto Neobanks: The Race to Replace Your Bank
- Stablecoin Powered Neobanks
- How to Build Sustainable DeFi
- EtherFi’s Plan to Build the Ultimate Crypto Neobank
- Ethereum’s New EIP Could Break DeFi
- Should DeFi Platforms Block 'Insane' Trades? - Uneasy Money
- Why Coldcard's 5-Year-Old Bug Let Hackers Take Over $100M in Bitcoin: Uneasy Money
- EtherFi's move from liquid staking to onchain banking
- Is All of DeFi Unsafe? What OpenZeppelin’s Co-Founder Got Right and Wrong
- How 'Decentralization Theater' in DeFi Is Making Your Funds Less Safe
- How KelpDAO's $290M Exploit Nearly Killed DeFi | Stani Kulechov & Mike Silagadze
- Stablecoin Banking by Mike Silagadze - DeFi Today Devconnect ARG
- Rollup TV Live from Devconnect Day 2
- How Crypto Neobanks Allow You to Make More Money
- Stablecoin Banking
- Billions in Ethereum Treasuries Could Spark DeFi’s Greatest Boom Yet – Avichal & Mike
- The 9-Figure EtherFi Revenue Machine - CEO Mike Silagadze
- Consumer Apps on Ethereum
- The Future of Consumer Applications on Ethereum
- Global Instability Is Fueling the Greatest Crypto Boom Yet with Arthur Hayes and Mike Silagadze
- What DeFi Founders Can Learn From Web2
- Consumer Apps in Crypto
- LRTs: Innovation or Risk?
- DeFi for Normal People