Lucas & Hersch from World Markets joins us to break down why crypto trading infrastructure is fundamentally broken: how fully onchain order books, unified risk engines, and capital-efficient design could reshape perps trading.

Chapters:

0:02 Intro & guest background

1:28 From exchanges to hedge funds

3:26 Monad vs MegaETH decision

5:00 Why L2s beat L1s for trading

6:49 DeFi security flaws explained

10:29 How onchain traders find alpha

18:01 What World Markets actually is

21:59 1010 Crash explained

28:13 Why centralized exchanges fail

47:48 The 50% basis trade example

53:00 Hersch finally gets to speak

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