Michael Kong - DeFi & The Blockchain - Why Scalability Is Key To Future Ecosystem Growth

CEO of Fantom

One common thread that knits together each of our interviewees these last few months is this idea of finding a better way. Finding solutions for a more inclusive and prosperous society that favours the many and not just the few.

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Today’s guest is a man who understands the potential of DeFi and alongside a committed team of developers is playing the long game, proving that patience really is a virtue.

Michael Kong is an entrepreneur, technologist, former software engineer and blockchain visionary. He is also the CEO of Fantom, the leading smart contract platform that is overcoming the limitations we’ve become accustomed to in previous generations.

Michael is a man who has covered a lot of ground in the short time since graduating from the University of Sydney. He’s worked for a range of startups and crypto-related companies before he spent time working at Sydney-based blockchain firm BLOCK8. It was here while he developed a new wave of applications that he first began to consider starting his own cryptocurrency hedge fund.

Of course, the path to success is never without obstacles, and Michael’s vision and enterprise would take a little more time to reveal itself. Through contacts in a growing circle of ambitious investors and experts, Michael got involved with a team based in Korea that wanted to build a platform capable of competing with and eventually outshining Ethereum. That project brings us to the here and now and the hugely prosperous Fantom Foundation.

On becoming CEO of Fantom, Michael has ensured the focus has remained very much on development and building lasting solutions to long term problems. Speed, Scalability and Security – that technologically terrifying trio that has called halt to many a preceding protocol has dominated Michael’s waking and working hours.

Fantom is and has been quietly making all the right noises and people are certainly starting to sit up and take notice. Unlike other solutions, Fantom does not sacrifice security and decentralisation in favour of scalability. The advantages brought by Fantom are not merely pure performance – its modular architecture allows for full customisation of blockchains for digital assets, with different characteristics tailored to their use-case.

It may seem like a war is being waged as the battle to become the blockchain de facto piques the interest of the headline makers, but as Michael so shrewdly points out, at the end of the day, there’s not going to be just a single blockchain or a single smart contract computer, rather, there will be multiple layer 1’s providing a service.

“We all want the fastest growing platform, however, we’re not competitors in the sense that a lot of users don’t just use one type of chain – they switch between them, depending on the opportunities they see.”

Michael Kong is humble and ambitious in equal measure. What he and the rest of the team at Fantom have achieved so far is very impressive, yet in many ways they have flown under the radar. Mainstream adoption is the key to a diverse and thriving ecosystem, and Fantom believe they’re ahead of the curve.

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1. How did Fantom start?
2. The blockchain is a bet against governments
3. The problem with fiat currencies
4. Crypto is still a tiny fraction of the economy
5. Why Fantom is faster and cheaper than Ethereum
6. Asynchronous technology explained
7. What will happen to Ethereum in the future
8. It’s hard for Ethereum to transition to proof-of-stake
9. User experience is king
10. Insurance on the blockchain
11. The most scalable, efficient and secure system will wina
12. Scalability is key for Ethereum
13. I’m very bullish on blockchain technology
14. NFTs are evolving into something different
15. We need a P2P metaverse
16. Blockchain will solve censorship and deplatforming
17. Social media platforms are just publishers
18. Let the man speak
19. Thoughts on Australia’s policies during the pandemic
20. Fantom is all about mainstream adoption