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Ecosystem Spotlight: Astrolescent
Recorded: April 4, 2025 Duration: 1:00:09Space Recording
Short Summary
In a recent discussion, Timon from AstroLessent unveiled exciting developments in the Radix ecosystem, including the launch of a new bi-weekly spotlight space for projects, the introduction of the Astral token, and ongoing enhancements to their cross-chain bridge. The conversation emphasized the importance of community support and positivity in the crypto space, reflecting a growing trend towards fostering a more inclusive environment.
Full Transcription
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Hi, everyone. Can you hear me? Hi.
Good afternoon.
Hello. Hello, everyone.
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And I ain't trying to mess with your self-expression, but I'm gonna lose my stress and obsess and about somebody else is no fun.
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But you're coming at my friends like a missile
Where you at?
You could be glad
You could be glad
Ascension on the street at the parade But you would rather be in the dark age Just taking that sign We'll be right back. hate Oh We figured you out. We all know now. We all got crowns. You need to come down.
Okay, everyone.
That song definitely got us pumped.
How is everyone today?
I think there's a message in that song for too many people in crypto Twitter.
You need to calm down. Be a little crypto twitter you need to calm down be a little positive you
need to calm down for sure 100 so let's see who's in okay i think we can start now uh so
i guess let's start with introducing ourselves uh my name is Farah. I am the Community Liaison. I think everyone knows me,
but has never probably heard me ever. So hi everyone. Nice to meet you all. And here's my
co-host Maria. E aΓ so we're super excited to host today timon from australisense timon you're every single week
you are in the radix recap how does that feel
almost uncomfortable How does that feel? Almost uncomfortable.
There's pressure to keep delivering.
No, it's really nice.
And I also think it's a really nice vehicle to show what's happening in the ecosystem.
So I'm glad to contribute a little bit of news every week.
That's awesome to hear.
Really, every single week when I go through the news, I'm like, ah, team it again.
Team it again. You guys are awesome, really.
Are you telling me to slow down?
No, no, we're loving it. We are loving it. I'm sure everyone is as well.
Okay, so how's the weather today? We have to start with a basic question, right?
Yes. we have to start with a with a basic question right yes okay so we're going to start so as
Maria said this space is going to be done bi-weekly it's an ecosystem spotlight space and Astrolisent
is our first project here the purpose of this is to highlight the Radix ecosystem project and give
them a platform to introduce themselves to the community.
So I'm sure many know Astrolison, but we also love to host you and let you talk about yourself and maybe some don't know you. So in this way, they'll get to know you more.
Yeah, love to be here. Thank you.
Thank you. We're so happy to have you. So we're going to start with, we're going to start a game,
okay? So the first thing is you have one minute it's like an elevator pitch you're going to tell us
about uh stratus yes so i'm gonna put a timer okay do i get a ready set go um yeah let's go one two
So let's go.
Okay.
Hello, everyone.
I'm Timon, the founder of AstroLessent.
We are a cross-chain bridge and DEX aggregator,
which are a lot of complicated words in one sentence.
So let me briefly explain.
The bridge makes it easy to swap from chains like Ethereum,
Bitcoin, Solana, Sui, Aptos, a few more,
to Redix, and of course vice versa, by simply connecting your wallet from one of the chains,
open AstroLessons in your mobile wallet browser, and initiate a swap between networks. It's
basically as simple as that, and then you can go from Sol on Solana to Xrd on Redix
or to ETH on Arbitrum, whatever you would like.
Besides the bridge, we have a DEX aggregator.
And that makes it simpler and cheaper
to swap tokens on Redix.
And for you, we check all the DEXs like DevaPlaza, OcSwap,
even Redix, Planet and Dexter to get you the best price
for every single trade.
So we know how much you will get back,
and we even break up a potential trade and maybe send 60%
to DevaPlaza, 30% to OCSwap, and 10% to Dexter,
to make sure you get the most tokens in return.
Astral is our token, and the main use case is that we share all our profits
with people who stake their Astral.
And that's basically Astral lesson.
So we try to offer a very simple to use UX,
like really make it simple for everybody,
not only the pro traders, but also the normies, quote
unquote.
And we do that with low fees.
And we offer the most tokens on the most chains.
That's it.
You did go overboard, though. but i did not want to interrupt
you did it was like a minute ago but i just muted it sorry so it's fine it's no that's totally fine
okay so that's awesome that's awesome to hear. So this is on a more technical level, right? On a more higher level. But for newbies, how would you explain it in one sentence?
and use the tokens that you already have on Ethereum or Solana to buy some XRD to start using Redix as a chain.
And then once you are on Redix, you can use Astrolescent, Diva Plaza or Ossisol.
That's great to hear. Okay so you heard it guys, if you want to get into Radix you can do that
through Astrolescent immediately. They have an awesome bridge to say. So this is a good start, an amazing start.
Okay, Dan.
Let's move on to the second question.
Yeah.
What's the story behind Astralescent?
So kind of what was the light bulb moment that made you say,
okay, I have to build this.
Did you start with Astralescent to begin with?
No, actually not.
Maren named it. And how Astrolescent to begin with? No, actually not. Merinim did.
And how Astrolescent got started, I think, separately.
So both Merinim and me were working on an aggregator.
I was working together with Jezer from Diva Plaza.
We wanted to build an aggregator on Redix.
DeFi Plaza is a decentralized exchange,
but it's not always the case that DeFi Plaza has the best price,
because sometimes that's OC swap,
sometimes that's DeFi Plaza,
another time maybe that's Dexter or Redix Planet.
And we knew from Ethereum, where we started DeFi Plaza,
that aggregators are really useful
for traders to get them the best price.
Like you have one inch cow swap on Ethereum, and there wasn't really an aggregator on Redix.
So we're working on that.
And then Maranim, my God, he launched Astrolescence. And I was so disappointed because I wanted to be the first.
And I thought, ah.
He took it.
He took it.
And then I think two or three days later, Merynim sent me a DM
and telling me, hey, you're doing such an amazing work for Diva Plaza.
Do you want to help me build Astrolescence?
And I said, yes, immediately.
That sounds awesome. Best of both worlds. We can use everything that we've been working on
and really start working together to build, yeah, basically the best aggregator on Reddix.
So we dated for a while and he's a super cool guy. We went along quite well and then we continued together.
Unfortunately, I think it's now almost two years ago,
Mernim got quite a bad burnout.
He had to step back and I took over.
And that's how I ended up as the only person currently running Astrolescence.
I was literally about to ask you about him because I haven't heard about him before.
So it's interesting that it was always on my mind that you were the one that actually started
Astrolescence. So hearing about Merinam really puts things, like changes things in my head, you know, like now I know exactly how it started.
Yeah.
So that's interesting.
Yeah, Merinim is one of the, I think they call themselves the GCs, like the really early investors in Redix, like someone like Jazzer, like Peachy.
And Merinim was one of them.
One of the OGs.
Yeah, not so much on the foreground as maybe a Jazzer or a Peachy is,
but he has been a long-term investor.
I think he's still an investor in the token,
but not really active anymore in the ecosystem, unfortunately.
Well, we'd always love to have him come back and listen to him. Yes definitely,
I miss him. So if you can persuade him that would be awesome. We're counting on you. You're breaking up a little bit.
Maybe Farah, if you can hear it better, could you repeat the question for me?
Yes, for sure.
So Maria, I think your sound is a bit off.
So Maria was asking you, I think, so what inspired you to build on Radix, I guess, instead of other chains?
Why did you choose Radix?
I have to be honest and say Jazzer.
We were working on Deva Plaza on Ethereum.
I know Jazzer since high school.
We've been friends for over 30 years.
And when I got involved in Deva Plaza, really by accident, I joined his Telegram
channel because he's a good friend. And one thing led to the other. I started helping
like I do with a lot of projects and people and got so involved into Deva Plaza that I
actually joined the team. And I heard Jazzer talk about Redix
and that Redix will be the end goal for DevaPlaza.
There's always, from the beginning,
be the goal that DevaPlaza would go to Redix.
And then I started doing some research,
started to understand what Redix was building.
And I think what interested me the most
is the whole developer experience.
I had a lot of experience, unfortunately, on Ethereum, helping Deva Plaza, but also
doing trying some projects on my own.
And Ethereum is just like really hard.
It's really hard to make mistakes, really hard to lose people's money.
Even integrated wallets into a website is complex.
So when I saw how easy it would be with Redix, I was sold.
I thought this is so interesting because if you make it easier and safer for
developers, a big chance that more developers will actually come.
And in the end, to make a chain a success, you need a thriving ecosystem.
So if you have interesting projects, if you have cool founders building cool things, people
will come and start using it, hopefully.
And then, of course, it's linear scalable the water looks good etc but for me it was really
how easy it was to build projects why i got interested in in radix
okay i heard that at first when jazzy was trying to convince you or talking to you about rather you were not going no it was even worse it was about crypto so jesser told me in 2014 hate on i think it was my birthday or his
birth i i don't exactly remember and he said timon there's this new thing uh going on it's called
crypto and ethereum and bitcoin And I think this is super interesting
for you to get involved in as well. And I...
What's this guy talking about?
Yes. And I've been a startup founder for the last 25 years. Yeah. I started my first startup
in 2000, which was one of the largest social networks in Europe at the time.
And I was really into social media.
I was co-founder of a competitor of Instagram.
I had a social media platform for skiers and snowboarders.
So I told Jazzer, nah, I don't really believe in that whole crypto thing.
Social media is more my thing.
And then he asked me again in 2015
gave the same answer 16 17 and I think it was not until 2020 or so that I
thought Wow crypto is super interesting I should get into that and yes I said
dudes I've been trying to convince you for the last six years to get into crypto yeah it's it's yeah i could have been a a jazzer an og a peachy
but yeah that's how i mean honestly i mean honestly now you are early like imagine all
all the all the people right now that we actually try to convince uh to get into crypto and they
still think yes it's true you know it's it's a scam or that it's it's only
for it's not actually serious no so so you getting in back then is actually earlier we're still early
that's that's true i could have been really really early okay nice nice um Maria, would you want to try your sound?
Trying to get the community, huh?
I think it's good now. Can you guys hear her, Timon? I think it's now better.
Yeah. No, for me you're breaking up again.
I'm sorry.
Are you hearing it?
Is it better for you, Fara?
It's cutting as well, but yeah.
Okay, so I guess she's trying to ask you about how Astraliscent takes advantage of Radix's unique tech.
That's super interesting.
I think what's most interesting is how we build the aggregator.
We didn't actually need to write any script or smart components.
And this is, is again a little bit
technical of course but because the transaction manifest is so powerful we could actually build
the whole aggregator completely off chain so so we weren't running any complex on-chain routers or things like that, where, for example, OneInch on Ethereum,
when we launched DevaPlaza and later StablePlaza,
we really had to convince OneInch
that it was worth investing a lot of time
in building specialized smart contracts
to talk to DevaPlaza and StablePlaza.
Where on Redix, for us to include a new Dex, say,
maybe Stabilis from Octo,
it only takes a few lines of human readable text, basically.
It's maybe not even code to be able to say,
hey, do a swap on Stabilis.
And that's incredibly powerful.
So it's so easy for us to hop onto new projects,
include them in our aggregator.
And it's, again, interesting to see that with the bridge,
I'm now integrating with Ethereum and Solana and Sui and Aptos and Sonic
and almost everywhere. It's so much more complex than on Redix that I'm still in love with the
whole developer experience. It's interesting because when you talk about developer experience,
I know that you've been trying to integrate, let's say, SWE and all those.
How has that been?
You know, so how easy was it?
How easy was the process?
And if you imagine doing it on other chains, how would that be different?
It's interesting.
So the newer chains like SWE and Aptos, even Solana a little bit
are a lot easier than Ethereum
and Bitcoin like the ones that have been around
for a long while
so I think everybody is learning
to make it easier
but still
it's not the same
it's still
you really need to write code, integrate smart contracts where with Redix, you're almost writing like a human readable story and say, hey, take a thousand XRD from this user's wallet, put it in a little bucket.
And this bucket you give to Diva Plazaaza and then you say to diva plaza
please give me back some oc so the and this is again a little bit more technical but the
asset oriented approach so instead of that on ethereum you're you're sending messages
and on redx you're actually sending tokens and assets that makes it so much easier to build things that I'm
every time I integrate a new chain I'm so happy to be on redix that I think okay this is the right
place to be this is our home and then let us connect to all the other networks and make it
possible to integrate them and move tokens around but But I love to be on Redix.
I think Adam loves this part, right?
Can we hear your sound, Adam?
Okay, maybe not.
But I mean, yes, exactly.
This is why people love Redix, especially developers. That's
why they found it so easy. When you're building on Radix, you don't want to build anywhere
else. So we've seen endless testimonies about this. It's incredible. Every time I keep hearing
it or I hear it again, I'm amazed, you know? So we have awesome developers in the ecosystem. We saw that in the hackathon, for example, in Barcelona in September last year.
Yeah, you were there.
Yeah, I was one of the mentors.
And there were people who never worked with Redix.
And after 24 hours, they were able to write smart contracts, deploy decentralized apps.
smart contracts deploy decentralized apps.
Because once they understood how easy it is to work with tokens and NFTs on Redix,
it just clicked and they were able to start building.
And I think there was nobody that wasn't positive about crypto,
about script, the smart contract codes, or the transaction manifest or the SDKs that you
use to integrate the wallet.
It just really works very well.
That's so powerful.
That's really powerful because if you imagine writing in any other language, if you compare them, it's automatically a no-brainer to actually
come build on Radix. Yeah. Okay, let's move on. Okay, let's talk about user experience.
So if someone wants today to come use Astralisense yeah what are the steps that they
should start with how can they start starting from maybe having the radix wallet you know
that's already the first step that helps but even if you are on ethereum or maybe more likely solana
and you can go to astralescent and go to our bridge and then open Astrolescent in Phantoms mobile browser or mobile wallet and swap some Solana to Redix.
And if you have and then, of course, you have to have the Redix wallet installed.
But then again, it's as easy as opening Astralescent.com on your mobile browser.
You don't have to open it in your wallet.
You can just safely open it in your mobile browser or your Chrome or Brave on your desktop.
Connect your wallet and start buying and selling tokens.
Or buy some astral, stake it, and start earning a part of our profits every
week.
So it's really as easy as that.
Much easier.
I think then I think it's easier to understand maybe another change.
But that's also what we try to do.
Make it super simple to understand for people like you and me.
Like, I'm not a professional trader at all.
Like, I'm almost a noob.
I know how to buy and sell tokens.
I know how to stake, but I'm not one to build complex DeFi strategies.
Or I think it took me up until maybe last year until I understood how those
green and red candles worked.
Like I prefer like a normal graph.
Just tell me what the price is.
And that's also why we try to keep Astrolescence like really simple to use so that like the
major majority of people feel comfortable swapping tokens
that's also why we optimized for mobile like I think 80% of our swaps are happening on mobile
and then from countries like Brazil and Turkey are two of our main countries where swaps are coming from and
not maybe the US or UK, what you would expect.
And that just works really well.
Keep it simple, make it mobile friendly and yeah, and offer stellar customer support.
And I think that's what we're really known for with our users.
If you have a problem, if you don't understand something
or you think something went wrong, we're here.
Contact us, DM me personally, totally fine, and we'll help you out.
And I think especially customer support is lacking in crypto in general.
And I think especially customer support is lacking in crypto in general.
What we're doing with SaaS and Web2 on the normal internet, it's completely normal that if you have a question about your purchase on, I don't know, your local web shop, that somebody is there to help you.
And with a lot of crypto projects, you get a response, read the documentation. It's your own fault.
And I'm like, no, help these people.
They're your customers.
You can turn them into rat advocates, et cetera.
And that really helps.
It's really interesting that you said Brazil and Turkey are your biggest audience.
You know, the users that actually do the most swaps because it's not their native language so so
that's that's not what I expected luckily we don't need a lot of text
maybe we need to start translating I never thought about that before. I mean, many have been asking Adam to translate the wallet into other languages,
but I think we might be doing that later on, you know, when we actually have...
It's a lot of work.
It's a lot of work, exactly.
One thing, Farah, one thing I wanted to ask Heman, sorry to interrupt,
but it was to riff off his point on
hey um firstly obviously love astro lesson so very pleased you're the first person to debut on this space but my question was around customer support in in d5 just in general yeah so this is
one of my my big picture theories on where the market's going to evolve is everything's going to eventually tokenize do
and when it is people can drink directly from the fire hose if they want to they could go straight to
adapt or not even bother with adapt front end and do everything just completely on chain
automatically however i think that one of the reasons that many people choose a especially a
financial services product is because of the customer
support the ease like having a wall garden or something like that of going well things here
are safe and if i'm confused about something there's someone i can email or call up and they're
there to help me do you think that there is a point in the future where dApps are going to be
competitive on that user experience level beyond just the UI of their front end or something
but actually in how they treat their customers and that the value accrual for Gap is probably
going to come more from that in terms of being able to charge indirectly for that service rather
than going directly to the cheapest source. I think that's already happening. I've been seeing a trend where a couple of years ago it regularly was the
case that a new project didn't have their own front end and then external parties would
integrate with those smart contracts. I think even Maya is an example of that. They don't
have their own swap interface but rely on people like or projects like astro lesson to offer that but if i look at the
even on the redix ecosystem you already see that some projects do more customer supports
than others and and are more open to helping uh people with question than other projects
and you see the projects that do more customer support already
be more successful. And there are people are talking more about it, they feel what maybe
what you're saying as well, Adam, feel safe in using it because they know if something
goes wrong, there is someone I can talk to and help me out. So I think, I really think that the ease of use,
combined with customer support and being there
to help people is already a competitive advantage.
If we want to onboard crypto onto the masses,
we need to look at what has been learned in the last
maybe 25 or 30 years on the normal internet like all the
sas products how easy it is to use and sign up for instagram for example or how to get in touch
with people and i have to come up with a good example. We use a really nice analytics product.
And every time I have a question, there is someone there to answer my questions.
And I expect that because I'm paying them a subscription fee.
And I really feel that in the coming years, it will be more and more like cryptos growing up.
And it will move in that direction.
Did that answer your question?
100% and it's also where I think that the old crypto ethos of eradicating middlemen
is not necessarily accurate in the long term. I think in the long term the difference is
providing users choice and I think if there are middlemen layers essentially that they are fine
as long as they're providing value to the end user. I think the problem compared to TradFi is
that in TradFi you have middlemen that you have no choice but to use yeah and they take their
cart and you have no alternative in using
a different provider or a different service or something like that and obviously even in trend
fight that's got a lot better in the last couple of decades but if you still now like most most
countries most places you have to go through one or two authorized brokers to access certain
financial instruments and stuff like that and if you don't want to pay whatever they want to charge you your option is nothing else and i think especially for things like aggregators at least
personally in in my use not just astralescent but on any chain i pretty much always use an aggregator
for doing any swap because sure i could go and manually work out my route and do whatever else
but actually the time it takes me to do that
it's far more efficient from an individual level to just pay a little bit more on the swap fee
potentially because it makes it quicker it makes it easier i get less slippage i don't have to
worry about it and i think you see those things as well with like even on off ramps remember back
at my back at the start of kind of my crypto journey, any time that I wanted to on or off ramp into crypto,
I used to be absolutely obsessed with finding the absolute cheapest route.
Even if it meant going through some weird web
of like different on or off ramps,
different exchanges,
I'm like, ah, I've saved myself like one bit.
So 0.01% on my swap fee.
And it's like, cool.
I just saved myself like i don't know 10 cent
but it took me an hour and a half to do it yeah and there and and the cool thing is you still
have these kind of people i saw a discussion in in maine uh a couple of days ago where they were
discussing how to get the best price to buy some astrol. And it was really funny to see,
I think the discussion was almost an hour
and then they found the routes that gave them
two or three Astral more for the trade.
And it's super interesting to see
that people are then buying your token,
but not using your product.
But the cool thing is that it's possible to do.
So if you want to do it yourself, get the lowest fees.
That's the nice thing about crypto. And then if you want to do it yourself, get the lowest feeds. That's the nice thing about
crypto. And then if you want to have the support and ease of use, then you can use the middleman
or an aggregator like Astrolescent. Awesome. Farah, back over to you.
Maria, go ahead.
It's usually good for the few sentences and then you start breaking up.
So let's try again.
Hopefully it works this time. So your sound is fading a bit.
Yeah, I'm also a little bit deaf.
I used to be a DJ when I was a college student,
and I lost like 30%, 40% of my hearing.
So it can also just be mean.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's a whole different story.
OK, we'd love to hear it some other time, for sure.
So it can also be mean.
I don't know if there was a question.
I'm sorry.
Okay, so next one is about roadmap.
Yes.
So obviously, as we said, we know you've been shipping every single week,
which is hard, super hard to do.
What's on your roadmap for the next period?
Maybe three months, coming months?
Not anything the community should be excited about?
I was thinking about that.
So for the last, I think, three, four, five months,
we've been improving the bridge,
adding the track and trace feature where you can easily follow any swaps
that you made over the bridge.
Almost as easy as ordering a package from Amazon
where you can also see where your
package is you can now see where your transaction is and then i was thinking what are we what are
we actually working on on the on the mid and longer term and of course we're going to add
more chains next will very likely be cardano we're working on more wallets, especially for Ethereum and Bitcoin.
It's quite limited what you can use. And we want to integrate more tokens, for example,
that you can buy or sell USDC or a Jupyter token on solana and directly swap that into xrd but those are i think more improvements
um and and yeah improvements on what we're already doing what i'm personally most excited about is
that we are already aggregating the different bridges that we use so if you swap from ethereum to xrd or from
xrd to ethereum we're starting we started i think one or two weeks ago looking at the best price
between the different bridges that we're using so what we're doing on redix with the dexus
like look at diva plaza look at oc swap we now look at rocket x look at
maya we're working on simple swap to really get the best deal for our users there as well
but with those bridges we're also working on hooking up the aggregator and so we can rather in the near future, you could, for example, sell Astrol for Ethereum.
And that is something that we control.
But what I like very much what we're working on is that we are working on doing it the other way around as well.
So that you can actually sell Jupiter's token on Solana
and buy Astral on Radix.
And really hooking up the different ecosystems
to make it easier to sell any token on any chain
for the best price via Astral Essence.
And after that, it's scaling like we need more users
more volume we need to improve our customer support these kind of things
but i think the hooking up the aggregator to the bridge might be a really nice addition for everyone
bridge might be a really nice addition for everyone.
100%.
You know what we should start pushing more?
Bradix projects, ecosystem projects, advertising themselves outside of the ecosystem.
So especially you, because you are working with other chains, try as much as possible
to advertise on their platforms to actually be able to
get their audience.
Yeah, 100%.
This is what we should all be focusing on right now.
Because the audience we have, it's already good enough for us, but we should be expanding.
And this is exactly one way to do that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, and for some projects, it's hard.
And for some projects, it's hard.
I totally understand that.
I totally understand that.
Like, I don't think anyone will go to Redix to swap tokens on DevaPlaza.
Like, you're not going to Redix to swap tokens.
You're going to Redix for the memes or because the NFTs are super cool.
Or Beam is working on a really nice new project where he's exposing the different
device strategies have great yields so that you can actually earn on the tokens that you have
and there are people working on real world assets on on redix and I think these projects are so valuable for other ecosystems to learn more about
and i maybe it's also could be part of our marketing strategy that we will start promoting
these projects to other ecosystems as well and then tell everyone if you want to go to radix
use the bridge and and really have there's this saying, like, I always forget how it goes, like, lifting tight raises all the boats.
I'm not a native speaker.
I don't know. successful and the and then we will be more successful as well because it's really a bigger more used reddix will help astro lessons it will help the
whole ecosystem so promoting each other integrating with each other making sure
that we we fight this fight not alone is a super good strategy.
Yeah, I agree 100%. Okay, I have two questions for you.
Yes.
It's called a rapid fire fun round.
They're going to be two questions, super just random, okay?
And we'll see how you'll do.
Okay.
So if your project had a mascot, if Astralescent had a mascot, what would it be?
An astronaut.
Five. Four. Okay, that was fine.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
If it has to be an animal to make it more interesting, oh, that's a hard one.
Because I would say a raccooncoon thanks to Guardians of the Galaxy.
But Dexter is already using
a raccoon. Maybe
I'm a
cat person, but we already have Ossie
Swap. Then maybe it will be
a unicorn.
In a space suit.
That kind of goes with
Taylor Swift.
Plus a unicorn is a startup that's worth a
billion dollars so it's also something to to envision astralescent might one day become
let's hope so for sure okay so the first time you made your first ever crypto transaction
what was your reaction one word word. Oh my fucking God, I'm so scared.
It was Ethereum.
And I thought I lost all my tokens.
And I absolutely hated it.
It also cost me like $50.
And this was in, I think, in the DeFi summer
where a swap on Unis could be a hundred dollars you
were paying a hundred dollars in transaction fees uh that's also why we launched diva plaza to make
that cheaper it was the original idea but yeah i was so scared the first time i made a crypto
transaction and that i hope that people who use the Relix wallet
for the first time feel a lot safer.
No, no, actually, if you have the same feeling.
Yeah, not so.
I was not expecting that reaction.
Okay, so I wanted to ask you something else as well.
So next week, we're going to be hosting Nicola from SRWA.io.
Do you have a question to ask him?
Yes.
Luckily, I was able to prepare this because it's hard.
I really like that you put this in, that I can ask the next project a question.
the next project a question.
So the question I have for Nicola is,
what do you think is the biggest misconception
about real world assets or real world asset tokenization?
And how do you see that influence the adoption
over the next few years?
Okay, so that's your question, Nicola. We're waiting for an answer next week.
Would you like to also promote or give a shout out to any projects here?
Yeah, that's... it's hard because... okay, I'm not going to talk about Eva Plaza
because that's my other project I'm involved in. But I would like, and I mentioned it already briefly, I would like to mention Atos Earn, made by Beam.
And I think it's best described as a DeFi strategy optimizer.
So with this project, Beam looks at all the different ways that you could have your tokens work for you.
looks at all the different ways that you could have your tokens work for you.
So instead of just having them in your wallet,
if you put them to use in the Redix ecosystem,
you can actually earn like kind of yield of interest
on top of maybe the price changes that are happening.
And on one hand, you can do that by providing liquidity.
But there are way more interesting things that you can do with your tokens.
For example, lend your XRD, borrow USDC,
send those to search and then you're earning like 40, 50, 60% on the tokens.
It's super interesting that it is possible
and especially for people like me, because like I said, I'm super bad at these things.
And I'm always jealous when I see people like Yelta the Best and Zombie and Beam talk about all these opportunities by using the different projects together for your own gain.
And it's really cool that Beam is now building a platform where he's
offering this opportunities, automating it, and then all you have to do is supply some
tokens, understand the risk, because there is, of course, more risk involved than holding
tokens in your wallet, but then signing a transaction and executing these really interesting
plays that are, are, yeah that are possible on Reddix.
I think it's super cool what Beam is doing here.
Big shout out to the Legend of Beam for doing so many projects.
Yes.
Of course.
Okay, let's open the floor to community questions.
Anyone would like to participate and ask a question to Timon?
This is always the scary part.
Let's see.
Just request to speak and then Maria can put you on.
Okay, meanwhile, as we wait for that, I saw Marcus had a question in the community telegram
which was let me go let me get back to it here we go have you thought about building or adding
a real bridge in Australisense the foundation is looking for solutions but have you thought
about building and yourself yes like building our own bridge right that's the question
um like a real bridge and and maybe to explain why marcus is asking about a real bridge instead
of the bridge that we already have like astro lesson there's a cross-chain swap so we're swapping ethereum for xrd and like a real bridge is able to
move usdc on solana to usdc on redix at a one uh a one to one ratio because you're
moving the tokens and not really swapping them
not really swapping them it's yes so we are looking into it and but there's a couple of
hurdles that I see it's technically complex and so it might be too much to do for me alone but
it's also a huge responsibility and I think one of the things that I like currently about Astrolescent is that we can make it easier for people to bridge,
maybe without having the responsibility that owning your own bridge comes with.
Like we've had an exploit on Deva Plaza. So I know how it feels like losing hundreds
of thousands of dollars worth of tokens from your users. And that's devastating. So building
our own bridge is a huge opportunity for Astrolescence, but it's also a decision that
I have to make if we want to have that responsibility or if we are happier to support
someone else, build it and then make sure it's integrated as well as possible.
So maybe the honest answer is we don't know yet.
We're exploring the opportunities and I don't know what will come out of it.
Maybe it's easier than I think.
Maybe it's so hard that I won't be
able to do it, but we're definitely looking into the possibilities. So it is a possibility, okay.
That's a fair answer. I can see Connor is a speaker now. Hello. Hi Connor my man actually forgot my question
no i'm gonna ask you like what is it obviously community is a big part of astro lesson like i
think that you've really nailed that aspect of it as well as obviously like i said it in the comments
like you go straight to astro lesson because you know that
it just works and it's so simple like you go there because it's it is a simple flow you do what you
need to do and then you're done yeah um and i just want to ask you like what is it that you feel you've done differently to other projects to make you stand out from a community aspect?
Like, what's your secret sauce? What's your recipe?
For me, at Radix, at Matty in there, it was sort of like, just be authentic.
And I just kind of want to understand what your point of view is.
Be available to help anywhere, anytime, anyone.
I think that's maybe the secret sauce behind AstroLessons.
There was a user who did a transaction not with AstroLessons,
but with RocketX immediately, one of our bridge providers.
Yeah, and do you think that that's something
that other projects could do better at in Radix?
Yes, but it's also in my nature.
So I think wanting to help everyone all of the time
is both maybe my biggest benefit as my biggest curse.
And so we're trying to build software to make it actually easier
so we don't have to help everybody all of the time
and people can help themselves.
But if you are able to do so,
I think being present and being there for users,
being open to help them,
even if it's maybe not your fault.
Like with the person having a transaction
stuck with RocketX,
I asked him, DM me,
I'll contact RocketX for you.
And RocketX had a little bit of a laugh
because they said,
there's a huge help button.
So how was it easier to DM T-man
than find the help button?
But just helping that person turns him into an AstroLessent fan.
Because next time, 100% sure, he will use AstroLessent
because he knows if there's anything wrong,
there's an actual person.
I think if you're able to do this,
it really helps onboard new users, create ambassadors, create fans that talk about your
project and remove some of the fear that is still there in using crypto.
Did that answer your question Connor?
Conor is a goner
He was muted
Oh I think he's no longer a speaker
Oh okay
Yes so thank you Timon
for answering that question as well
and I can testify to that because at any time
I send you a DM about an issue
or that someone is having an issue with
any other project as well other than Astrolisense, you're always there to help.
Because there's something that you once told me that stuck with me, which is if I just help this person, he's going to know how much Astrolisense customer support is actually.
It stands out compared to others others and they're going to
be wanting to come back and use Australisense.
Yeah.
So, it's also a curse.
Sorry guys.
Always working and always on Telegram and always on X. So I sometimes really have to
take some time off, but yeah, I think it really helps.
Can you guys hear me now?
Yeah, you're it really helps. Can you guys hear me now? Yeah, you're back.
Yeah.
I literally asked a question and then a follow-up
and then, like, heard none of your response.
I'm so sorry.
No way!
But yes, thank you, Timon, for answering that.
I'll listen to it back.
Okay, so any other questions? Not from me thank you for answering. Thank you
Connor. Hello to the new intern as well. Okay so I guess if we don't have any other questions
we're going to wrap this up. I would like Tim Timon, if you share some of your links, some of Australisyn's links,
so that everyone here who doesn't use Australisyn can actually do that.
Maybe you can share that in the Telegram.
That would be awesome.
And I'll also put it underneath the space if I can find it.
Yes, please.
There we are.
Thank you so much for joining.
Thank you, everyone, for being here.
And we'll see you in two weeks.
Thank you for having me.
And see you in two weeks with Nicola from RWA.
Yes.
S-R-W-A.
So excited for that.
Bye-bye, everyone.
Have a nice day and a nice weekend.
