EP. 250 - How Seasons Turns Your Wallet Into a Savings Account feat. CEO Andrey Didovskiy

Andrey Didovskiy (0:00)

There was always the same theme. Why was it cycles? Why is there like a two year gap, four year gap, like why a gap in terms of doing the same thing for so long?

Why isn't there more variance? Well, because industry obviously went in cycles and blew up and busted, and that's where Seasons is born. I was so personally tired, and of course, being dependent on price just destroys quality of life. And that's where Seasons comes in.

Narb (0:23)

Welcome to the DevNTell Podcast, where founders, hackers, and anyone in between showcase their products built on the bleeding edge of tech. GM, GM, welcome to the show, Andrey. I'm excited to have you on today, man.

Andrey Didovskiy (0:35)

GM and GN, Narb, thank you so much for having me on. It's a pleasure to be here.

Narb (0:40)

Yeah, absolutely. It's a pleasure to have you on.

Yeah, I know you have a lot of great stuff planned for us around Seasons. I've looked into the platform. It looks really cool. And I can't wait for our audience to learn more about it. But before we get into that, would you just like to give a introduction about yourself?

Andrey Didovskiy (1:00)

Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. A little introduction about me. Hi, everybody. My name is Andrey Didovskiy. I am the founder and CEO of Seasons.

Seasons is, as Narb introduced, a DeFi protocol focused on what we call a liquidity system, focused on generating yield. That's the long and short of it effectively. We'll get into the details as we go along. But I guess from a little quick backdrop about myself to get everybody familiarized, I got into the space, into crypto informally, just to be clear, at about in 2014-15 through...

I didn't even get in. I just learned about crypto through the great buy and a friend of a friend.

Fast forward a couple years and after actually observing from the sidelines for a little bit, although for the OGs here, if you remember things like Bloom BTC, I did back in the day buy all those compounds, your Bitcoin then goes absolutely belly up kind of thing, I had all those things. But anyway, fast forward a couple years and about... we'll call it 17-ish, I took the industry very seriously around the altcoin boom obviously, so it was prime time. And I came in writing white papers, technical documentation of different type, SOPs, different workflows for any kind of system design, for startups in this space. I mean, who wasn't a startup in this space at the time? So I worked with a lot of companies. And this wasn't just crypto to be clear. There were even back at that time, some autonomous systems, some quality assurance companies, auditing firms and e-commerce that was in fact exploring how to use blockchain and integrate it into all their things. This was 17, 18, and 19 So anyway, writing these papers, of course, I made a lot of, we call them friends and connections along the way. Worked with a couple of cool companies, such as Prophecy, creating an inverted protocol for majority wins, minority loses. So trust swap, tons of names doing different things. Fast forward again, a couple of years after that, I fell in love with the deep tech consensus stuff, life takes me to sales. The fourth largest company in the United States at the time, Rocketcoin, brought me on to help them distribute their ATM machines all throughout my coast. So like call it Boston to Florida. Like this whole coast was covered. And I became, I do believe, the number one performer at the very least on this coast for install. I was just sending these machines out everywhere. No sales background. My tongue barely worked. I just honestly did the most basic thing. I picked up the phone and I told the people that they should have a Bitcoin machine because I believed in it. That's where this whole snowflakes affect snowballing kept going. That led me to becoming the CBO, COO of a sports startup from Florida, where their own sport called Bit-a-Steer. They were around for until call it, well, I mean, FTX times 20, about 21, late 21, even early 22, obviously, I mean, what's to be expected. They tried hard. A lot of cool experience, of course, real team management, understanding how to do communications. A lot of things came from that, just honestly infinitely valuable, which led me to starting up my own consulting firm. This consulting firm opened up quick. Even Magnitude's crazier connections and communications made me the CEO of another sports company actually called Athletic Blockchain. We built a whole layer one using Rust SDK.