Variational Wants to Build the Robinhood of Onchain Trading

Chapters

1. 00:00 Broker, Not Exchange
2. 05:07 Why Brokerage Wins for Retail
3. 08:22 What Is a Swap?
4. 09:58 The Real Cost of Trading
5. 11:43 Bringing TradFi Liquidity Onchain
6. 14:44 Building Variational
7. 23:14 From Crypto Traders to Everyone
8. 26:42 The Next User Base
9. 30:35 What Actually Happens Onchain?
10. 34:00 Inside OLP
11. 37:03 Arbitrum and User Funds
12. 39:44 The VAR Token and 32% Airdrop
13. 42:34 Funding the Token Model
14. 44:11 The 2027 Roadmap
15. 47:44 Protocol or Platform?

Chapters come from the timestamps in the video description.

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