On episode 28 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, host Toady Hawk from The Noun Square sits down with Amir Bandeali, the co-founder and co-CEO of 0x and Matcha.

In this 45 minute conversation, we learn about Amir's crypto and career journey, his pioneering work with 0x protocol and we learn all about all the useful features of the Matcha DEX. We also chat about the recently announced partnership between Matcha, Nouns Esports and The Noun Square, and trade insights on Nouns, L2 summer, Farcaster and more.

If you've never tried making a swap on Matcha using their money-saving Matcha Auto feature, you can try to here: https://nouns.gg/matcha 

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Amir on why Matcha wanted to Partner with Nouns Esports and The Noun Square
01:03 - ZeroPod intro
02:15 - Onchain origins
04:29 - Why was he able to see the benefits of onchain finance when many in trade don’t?
05:00 - Learning about the benefits of self-custody getting rugged by online Poker Sites
06:44 - Go West young man: Moving from midwest to SF
08:43 - Special guest kitty
09:24 - The 0x story - The first DEX protocol
11:58 - Aggregating liquidity across chains and protocols
12:41 - What kind of apps are using 0x? “Most applications that have swaps use us.”
15:15 - What is Matcha?
18:01 - Favourite features of Matcha - “Matcha is like a search engine for tokens.”
20:20 - MEV protection out of the box
22:58 - “Abstracting away complexity.”
23:41 - L2 Summer
26:18 - The Rise of Base
28:16 - Amir on Nouns ⌐◨-◨  
29:00 - “The concept of Nouns was so unique to me.”
31:17 - Nouns is truly decentralized and doesn’t have a scarcity mindset
32:48 - Nouns Esports and the new partnership with Matcha
34:30 - Nouns Esports changing the game with transparent funding
35:28 - The Cat was a paid actor.
37:00 - What does Amir hope to see from this collaboration with Nouns?
39:49 - Amir on the future of Ethereum. “Everything of value will be tokenized.”
42:40 - Thoughts on Farcaster
43:59 - Outro

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Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and Santhosh. Hosted by Toady Hawk. Music by Toady Hawk x Suno AI.

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