Nate Maddrey, senior research analyst at Coin Metrics, discusses a report on the rise of stablecoins over the last few months that Coin Metrics published in conjunction with Bitstamp. He[…]
Tag: Defi
DeFi Yield Farming: Why It’s All the Rage But Risky
Dan Elitzer, investor at IDEO CoLab Ventures, and Will Price, data scientist at Flipside Crypto, discuss the yield farming craze. In this episode, we cover: the goals of protocols offering[…]
How You Can Double Your Money — Or Lose Everything
Angel investor and writer Tony Sheng explains what yield farming is, why it’s been such a craze, and whether or not the trend is sustainable. We discuss: how yield farming[…]
Why COMP 5xed on Day 1 and What This Means for a DeFi Bull Market
Kain Warwick, founder of Synthetix, discusses the launch of the COMP token this week, including: why the price of COMP tokens popped how this now meant that the governance of[…]
How to Decentralize a Crypto Project Without Harming Security
Jesse Walden of Variant Fund, and Robert Leshner of Compound explain all of the problems associated with the decentralizing process in terms of governance and compliance, pulling from their own[…]
DeFi Security: With So Many Hacks, Will It Ever Be Safe?
Dan Guido, cofounder and CEO of Trail of Bits, and Taylor Monahan, founder and CEO of MyCrypto, discuss all the recent hacks in DeFi, how it can be made more[…]
tBTC: What Happens When the Most Liquid Crypto Asset Hits DeFi?
Matt Luongo, CEO of Thesis, the parent company of Fold and Keep, describes the just-launched tBTC, his plan for a censorship-resistant Bitcoin-Ethereum bridge. He explains his personal reasons for wanting[…]
12 Big Class-Action Lawsuits in Crypto: What, Who, How and Why
Stephen Palley, partner at Anderson Kill and chair of the firm’s technology, media and distributed systems practice group, explains what the 11 recent class-action lawsuits against ICO issuers from 2017[…]
The Rise of MakerDAO: A Personal Journey
Mariano Conti of MakerDAO, head of smart contracts at MakerDAO, reads from his essay about his personal experience with cryptocurrency, particularly as an Argentine whose family has experienced periods of[…]
The Most Forkable DeFi Protocols on Ethereum
Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital reads from his essay on how defensible each of the major DeFi protocols on Ethereum are, and what that says about Ethereum’s defensibility. He evaluates[…]