Welcome to this conversation with Mario Lozada, co-founder, President, and CTO at Liquid , a cryptocurrency exchange .

Liquid launched in 2014. In 2017, they raised over $100 million in an ICO for their utility token, QASH . In the past year, they've done nearly $100 billion in real volume.

This interview is part of a series with exchange operators. We've interviewed Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) , Binance CFO Wei Zhou , Ivan Poon from Switcheo , Alex Wearn from IDEX , Sam Bankman-Fried from FTX , and John Jansen from Deribit .

My conversation with Mario is split into 5 chapters:

- Chapter 1: The current state of Liquid - Chapter 2: Revenue sources - Chapter 3: Liquid’s product roadmap - Chapter 4: Branding - Chapter 5: The future for Liquid and the crypto space

In this episode we discuss:

• Mario’s background
• Working with Japanese regulatory agencies
• The value of customer feedback
• Why spot markets outnumber derivatives platforms
• Exciting new products

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