Resources

Articles / Videos

Finematics (youtube channel about many import aspect of DeFi)
Whiteboard Crypto (similar to finematics but includes broader aspects)
Binanace Academy (good list of basics and jargons)
Original Bitcoin Whitepaper (short and sweet good starting point to understand the root but more technical)
DeFi Product Management (we are not really defi ourselves but gives good idea of where the industry is going)
Paradigm bleeding edge stuffs
a16z crypto playlist many good overviews of the industry

Cosmos (internet of blockchains, cosmwasm smart contract language is in rust but the chain is in Go)
Terra (stablecoin app specific blockchain built on Cosmos)
ThorChain (Liquidity network, filling some CEX duty with decentralized approach, built on Cosmos)
Solana (fastest chain alive, closely related to FTX, one of the big exchange)
Near (tryna be more user friendly and scalable)
Polkadot (try to make blockchain interop seamless, but different approach from Cosmos)

AlphaPoint (core matching engine, crypto exchange platform) (there are some discussion about moving away from it and build our own engine once we are more established but not now)
Verifio (no public website, eKYVC solution)
Coinfirm (for AML)
choosing (due to SEC requirement)
- Fireblocks (more advance technology and better API but SEC does not like it since it's self-custodial by default, we are seeing if there is any provider that can use provide custodial service through this platform and AlphaPoint integration is seamless)
- BitGo (alternative)
Coinbase (liquidity source, improves our orderbook)