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Mined with CoinFundThe Hidden Risk Behind the Biggest StablecoinsCircle’s IPO and the GENIUS Act are paving the way for these next few months to go down as Stablecoin Summer. But there’s a darker reality that concerns Rho Labs Founder Alex Ryvkin -- what happens if the infrastructure behind some of the most popular dollar-denominated assets collapses? Alex joins Mined with CoinFund hosts Jake Brukhman and Christopher Perkins to chat about the risks associated with stablecoins, building an onchain rates exchange, and the convergence of DeFi and TradFi. They cover: The biggest risks behind stablecoins (2:03) Rho’s crypto rates market (7:08) Closing the gap bet...
2025-06-1832 min
Alt Funds Network#107 Alex Ryvkin, Rho Protocol - Institutional Crypto Interest RatesFind us online: https://altfunds.io/Email us with topic ideas: info@altfunds.ioSpotify: https://bit.ly/4afXcanApple Podcast: https://apple.co/4akXAUSGoogle: https://bit.ly/4am9oXk 👇 Click Below to be a guest on our video podcast: 👇 https://bit.ly/46X7cSQ Connect with Alex Ryvkin:Company Website: https://www.rho.trading/X: https://x.com/Rho_xyz LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rholabshq Timestamps:00:00 Introduction to Alt Funds Netw...
2025-06-0638 min
The FlowWhy Interest Rate Markets Matter in Crypto (feat. Alex Ryvkin, Rho Protocol)In this episode of The Flow, Konstantin Shulga, CEO of Finery Markets, sits down with Alex Ryvkin, Founder of Rho Protocol, to explore the world of interest rate markets in crypto and their huge potential.They unpack how interest rates influence everything from perpetual funding rates to staking yields, and why rates products are becoming critical infrastructure for a maturing digital asset market.Alex also shares his journey from traditional finance to crypto, the challenges of building transparent rate markets, and why the next big step for crypto might just revolve around interest rates.
2025-06-0347 min
BlockcastUnveiling Crypto’s Hidden Rates Market With Rho Protocol's Alex Rvykin | Blockcast 61In this episode, Takatoshi Shibayama speaks with Alex Ryvkin, founder of Rho Labs, about the launch of Rho Protocol, the first institutional-grade market for crypto interest rates. Alex explains the significance of "crypto-native" rates like staking yields and perp funding rates, highlighting the extreme volatility of the latter and the need for hedging tools. He explains how Rho Protocol enables traders to manage funding rate risk, enhance basis trading strategies, and potentially shape the future of crypto lending. Alex also shares insights on the market's evolution, feedback since launch, and the anticipated growth of the crypto rates m...
2025-05-0925 min
WAGMI Ventures PodcastBuilding the First Institutional On-Chain Swaps Market, with Alex Ryvkin (Rho Labs)Alex Ryvkin is CEO and Founder of Rho Labs, an institutional grade decentralized crypto native marketplace that allows retail and professional traders to efficiently trade swaps and futures on-chain compliantly. Alex joins us to discuss his journey in traditional finance and crypto, building the first crypto interest rates derivatives exchange, an asset class currently valued at over $500 trillion, opportunities for investors and traders given the broader risk-off sentiment, and the road ahead for Rho Labs.
2025-02-0136 min
Crypto Options UnpluggedDeepSeek AI Triggers Risk Sell Off #51In this week's episode Imran and David catch up with Alex Ryvkin, CEO and Founder of Rho Labs. Alex is building crypto's first rates derivatives platform and discusses some of the products that they are offering more sophisticated clients.
David gives his take on the latest developments in crypto after Trump's executive orders looked to disappoint markets on the lack of strategic Bitcoin reserve. Imran discusses some of the opportunities he's seeing in crypto options such as selling ETH volatility.
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2025-01-2835 min
BlockHashEp. 472 Alex Ryvkin | Crypto Derivatives Trading with Rho LabsFor episode 472, Founder Alex Ryvkin joins Brandon Zemp to talk about Rho Labs, a decentralized crypto-native interest rate derivatives market with a unique product lineup and maximum capital efficiency.
The interest rate derivative market, globally valued at $530 trillion, is the single largest asset class in global capital markets. Rho Protocol has created the world’s first crypto interest rates exchange, which is now surpassing trading volumes of close to $1bn per month.
Alex Ryvkin founded Rho in 2022. Previously, he was the Chief Product Officer of digital asset custodian Copper.co and spent over a decade in capital markets and fi...
2024-12-2733 min
CopperCastsAlex Ryvkin - Founder and CEO at Rho Labs - Blending rates, blended tech - Ep051Join Copper alumni Alex Ryvkin, former Chief Product Officer at Copper and Founder and CEO at Rho Labs, a professional-grade, on-chain rates market, and Fadi Aboualfa, Copper's Head of Research, in this episode of CopperCasts as they discuss topics ranging from interest rates, opportunities for investors and traders, and the evolution of the crypto industry.
2024-10-2350 min
AD Derivs: Insights from Crypto Option TradersAD Derivs. Podcast (Ep. 60) - Alex Ryvkin, Founder @RhoAbout RhoRho provides efficient markets for crypto-native rates such as funding rates, lending-borrowing rates, and staking rewards. The platform enables users to hedge and profit from shifts in these crypto-native rates, offering tools to develop sophisticated trading strategies. With the traditional finance (TradFi) interest rate derivatives market totaling over $500 trillion in outstanding interest, Rho Protocol is poised to unlock new and exciting trading opportunities. Docs: https://docs.rho.trading/Platform: https://www.rho.trading/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rho_xyz
2024-06-1833 min
Markets OutlookCoinDesk Markets Week in ReviewCoinDesk Indices presents notable data insights from the week, followed by additional analysis from an industry expert.To get the show every day, follow the podcast here.The CoinDesk Market Index (CMI) functions as a benchmark for the performance of the digital asset market, delivering institutional quality information to digital asset investors. Subsets of the CoinDesk Market Index (CMI) are investible CoinDesk Crypto Sectors and the CoinDesk 20 Index, designed to measure the performance of the top digital assets. Today’s takeaways are provided by Tracy Stephens, senior index manager at CoinDesk Indices with additional analysis fr...
2024-06-0703 min
Morning MeetingPrincess Diana's Brother Lived His Own Special HellThis week, Andrew Ryvkin shares his thoughts on the election in Russia being held for Vladimir Putin. Then Pico Iyer gives us his review of A Very Private School, a new book by Princess Diana’s brother in which he details his brutal tenure as a young boy at a British boarding school rife with sexual and emotional abuse. And finally, the acclaimed documentarian Alex Gibney discusses the making of his poignant new film about the musician Paul Simon.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2024-03-1634 min
The Crypto ConversationRho Protocol - On-chain Interest Rate DerivativesAlex Ryvkin is the CEO of Rho Labs, building Rho Protocol, an interest rate derivatives protocol and the first institutional grade on-chain rates market. Why you should listen Rho Protocol is a new institutional-grade decentralized marketplace on Arbitrum that allows retail and professional traders to efficiently exchange rate risk via on-chain swaps and futures in a secure, efficient, and compliant manner. Rho Protocol's first family of products are fixed-to-floating interest rate swaps on a diverse set of index rates. In TradFi, this product comprises over 60% of the total outstanding interest in interest rate d...
2024-02-0739 min