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David Wu Finkelstein is Chief of Growth at OAK Network, an on-chain automation platform built on Polkadot. He discusses the platform's functionality for Web3, DeFi, and payments applications.
1Interview
2023First on the show
Jan 2023Latest appearance
27 minOn camera
27:28
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In their own words
“The more that happens on chain the more valuable we become. There's no limit to the speed that I'd like us to move at.”
Key points from the latest interview
- OAK Network enables trustless, cross-chain automation allowing users to schedule transactions for future execution based on time, price, or other triggers without custodial risk.
- The platform is live on Turing Network with time-trigger functionality, with a full OAK token launch on Polkadot coming soon.
- Auto-compounding for stakers demonstrates the technology's practical application, reducing user friction through simple toggle buttons in partner wallets like Nova and Polkadot.js.
- Substrate's modular architecture and Polkadot's shared security and cross-chain messaging system make the ecosystem optimal for building secure, efficient automation infrastructure.
- The founder spent eight months on academic research to validate whether scheduling transactions from the future was theoretically possible before building the solution.