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Cooper Scanlon, Co-founder of Movement Labs, dropped out of Vanderbilt after his journey led to the blockchain space and he realized that formal education wasn’t the key to his success and he enjoyed building a SPACDAO Vehicle more. This decision led to him pioneering the first yield aggregator leveraging Move and eventually envisioning and creating Movement Labs.
Fostering cross-disciplinary collaborations, championing Web3 initiatives, and drawing from his experiences, Cooper brings a unique blend of financial & technical expertise and economic system insights to Movement Labs, steering and leading its strategic and cultural direction.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- The Move programming language
- Using web3 tech to create your own change
- "Building The Parthenon"
- Battle of Olympus Hackathon
- Rewarding community engagement in web3
- Launching testnet and securing $160M in Total Value Locked (TVL)
- Raising $38M from Binance Labs
- Writing cheques for new teams in the Move / Movement Labs ecosystem
- Incubating a community from scratch
- Living in NYC vs. SF
Movement Labs
Website: movementlabs.xyz
X: @movementlabsxyz
Telegram: t.me/movementlabsxyz
Cooper Scanlon
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#414: Jay Jog, Co-Founder of Sei Labs, on L1s vs. L2s, Solving EVM’s Scalability Issues, Stablecoin Tooling, and Unlocking Web2-level Performance for Web3 33:34

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#412: Vijay Chetty, CEO of Eclipse Labs, on Combining Solana’s Speed With Ethereum’s Liquidity and Ethereum’s First SVM L2 33:34

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