Lefteris Karapetsas of Rotki | Private Portfolio Management

Logos Podcast with Jarrad Hope

We discuss the challenges of building a privacy-centric portfolio management tool and the tradeoffs required compared to highly centralized alternatives. We dive deep into local-first software and take a look at how Lefteris has made this a pillar of Rotki.

Topics Covered in this episode:

1. Lefteris' history in blockchain development and the path to Rotki
2. Technical challenges in building private, secure portfolio management tools
3. Local-First Software
4. Exciting developments for Rotki

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intros

02:40 Motivations to build Rotki and Tax Code

05:00 - Managing the various DeFi opportunities and DeFi primitives

06:50 - Prioritizing new features and keeping up with the ecosystem

11:00 - Premium features of Rotki - Ethereum Staking, graphs, back ups and more

12:35 - Data structure and ecosystem growth

16:45 - Infrastructure costs and active management

19:45 - Securing Rotki while adding new features

21:44 - Supported ecosystems - more than EVM

28:50 - Nodes, Pruning, Transaction Hashes

32:00 - Local-first software and challenges in business use cases

35:15 - The roadmap and what’s next for Rotki

36:30 - 10 words or less - describe Rotki

37:00 - Is what you do hard?

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