This week Techemynt’s head of business development, Scott Gentry, appeared on Brave New Coin’s Crypto Conversation. Scott discussed all things NZDS and Techemynt. The podcast laid out Techemynt’s long & short-term goals. The podcast is an excellent listen for anyone that wants to learn a little bit more about how Techemynt works underneath the hood.

After working in Traditional finance at places like Standard & Poor’s in New York, and Reuters and Cantor Fitzgerald in Tokyo, Scott has spent the last four years in the digital asset space with Techemy Capital, Brave New Coin, and now with Techemynt to build out the market for the New Zealand Dollar Stablecoin, NZDS.

“It’s like the traditional system is not working after all these years of quantitative easing and 0 interest rate policy. We think people are hungry for change, they sense that the system is broken and DeFi gives them another option to be in charge of their finances without getting scalped by multiple intermediaries. In that regard, the overall plan is to hit on a few areas of major focus which is to increase adoption and accessibility both in DeFi in the DeFi realm and with real-world applications as well as liquidity.”

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Pascal Tallarida is the founder of Jarvis Network, a trading platform whose mission is to bring decentralised finance to everyone. As part of the partnership with Jarvis, NZDS launched its first official pool on Curve Finance.

Stablecoins have a crucial role to play in DeFi adoption. The non-USD stablecoins struggle to be liquid and maintain their peg. This is where Synthereum, the first protocol of the Jarvis Network, comes into play to solve these issues and launch non-USD stablecoins (JFIATs). The protocol pioneers a capital-efficient manner to issue and exchange synthetic fiat currencies, jFIATs, on multiple EVM-compatible networks, without price impact.

“The bigger picture or vision for Jarvis is not just about building another exchange or a DeFi protocol or a wallet. It’s about really trying to innovate and redesign the user experience of personal finance by leveraging different technology stacks. We don’t try to do things for DeFi people, we really try to push the adoption and to funnel our effort towards real-world use cases or things that could be valuable both in a bear or bull market.”

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In May, Techemynt launched a new partnership with decentralised forex protocol and synthetic asset platform Jarvis. As part of the launch, a new pool featuring Techemynt’s 1-for-1 backed stablecoin NZDS and Jarvis’s synthetic jNZD.

The reward tokens by liquidity providers during the program are initially futures which can be redeemed at the end of the September program. Participants can either sell their reward tokens right away or keep them until their maturity. Jarvis has set up USDC trading pools where the futures can be traded.

A recently completed governance proposal revealed that the Jarvis community had voted to include liquidity providers of the NZDS/jNZD curve pool in the latest Jarvis Network Rewards program. LP tokens from the pool are often referred to as 2nzd tokens. 1.44 million JRT tokens will be awarded across contributors to the Jarvis NZD, EUR, SGD, CAD, and JPY stablecoin pools operated by Jarvis.

The total cumulative volume of NZDS on DFX-Polygon crosses US$100 million.

The total cumulative volume of NZDS on the Ethereum version of decentralised exchange DFX has just crossed US$100 million. DFX Finance is a decentralised foreign exchange (FX) protocol optimised for trading fiat-backed stablecoins.

The NZDS/USDC pair on DFX is one of the most popular markets to trade NZDS because of its idiosyncratic pricing model that ensures low slippage trading while still maintaining the flexible liquidity of an AMM.

An automated market maker (AMM) allows the decentralised exchange of tokens according to a bonding curve. Most AMMs determine the price of a pair based on the amount of each token supplied, for DFX, this curve will be dynamically adjusted by using real-world FX price feeds from Chainlink to ensure that you get the best rates.