27. Tempus Finance with Founders David Garai and Đorđe Mijović

Koji Conversations

Join David for a conversation with David and Đorđe from Tempus Finance. Tempus is building the DeFi native version of interest rate swaps powered by an Automated Market Maker (AMM). It is a protocol used for risk reallocation between different market participants who are exposed to the same assets.

In traditional finance, interest rate swaps are highly customised, non-collateralised and made between a counter party and the bank. In DeFi, non collateralised interest rate swaps haven't been achievable because you need to know who the counter party is. Tempus is solving this problem.

Everyone interacts with interest rate swaps in TradFi in some form or another. For example, in a fixed-rate mortgage there are interest rate swaps between your bank and its counter-parties. Since their mainstream adoption in the 1970s, interest rate swaps have grown to be the largest kind of derivative in TradFi. Judging from this market evolution, as the DeFi market matures, Tempus is well positioned to capture the market demand.

• 00:05 You guys want to give a bit of background on Tempus, who you are and how you got started?
• 01:30 What was the context for your meeting?
• 02:51 What is the scene like in Eastern Europe? Is there something brewing in that part of the world?
• 04:08 Going into the initial story of Tempus, how would you describe at a high level what the protocol is trying to achieve? Give the soundbite description of Tempus in as much detail as you like
• 07:24 For the uninitiated, could you please give a description of what zero-coupon bonds do and how they're typically used in finance?
• 10:45 Why in general is this important to users and why is this an important aspect of de-fi that needs to be built?
• 12:38 Looking back at where you started and where you are now, what are key milestones for you and the project in general that you have identified so far?
• 14:20 What has been your experience in the aspect of team building and how have you gone about team building for your project?
• 15:53 What are the big things that people need to be looking out for in the future and where can they go and find these updates?

Join this Koji Conversation, with David and Đorđe from Tempus Finance.

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