What is DeFi? A Beginner’s Guide to Decentralized Finance
At first glance, DeFi -- or decentralised finance, can appear a little intimidating to get started with. For those who feel lost or don't know where to begin, we've put together a series of 30 films that will gently place you into the world of DeFi and explain what it is, how it works, and where to get started. We will cover the basics, and a little extra, concisely as possible. It is up to you to take the leap of faith.
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It's an actual face to face conversation for the first time in 2 years, long overdue! This week we talk to 2 people that know a thing or two about crypto and what makes it beautiful. More over, they know how to make it look beautiful. Stay tuned as we chat through the space as well as the creative process required for the defiant video team Robin Schmidt & Alp Gasimov!
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0:45:37 A week in the life of the video team
0:47:32 Compromising for time, what you lose out
0:49:15 Striving to make the stories that matter
0:52:34 Towing the party line when triggered
0:54:44 Finding why crypto matters, beyond money
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59:38 Camila's favourite video and the creative process
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It was a wild weekend for stablecoins.
USDC depegged from a dollar to as low as $0.88 on Saturday, before bouncing fully back to its dollar peg on Monday.
Today we’re looking back over the wild weekend and figuring out what a depegged stablecoin and failing banks could signal for DeFi.
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Kevin Zhou is the founder of crypto quant fund, Galois Capital and former head of trading at Kraken. It's been a wild few days in crypto and Kevin is here to help us get our heads around what the hell just happened.
We saw Terra, one of the most prominent ecosystems in crypto, effectively disintegrate over less than a week. Its native token Luna had over $40 B in market cap at its peak, and nearly all of it was wiped out while UST, which was supposed to be a stablecoin worth $1 crashed to.
It was a historical moment in crypto as never before had a project that big, crash so hard, so quickly. Kevin was one of the few who saw it coming and predicted the fall just a couple of months ago. What were some of the red flags that helped him spot the fallout?
0:00:00 Section 1 Kevin Zhou on Terra
0:07:04 Lunas inflation
0:13:21 What are holders left with?
0:16:05 Is there hope for algorithmic stablecoins?
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0:20:13 Section 1 Supply and demand
0:22:28 What about other stablecoins?
0:26:52 Tether
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0:32:26 The real black swan
0:35:25 Ripples in the market
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0:39:55 Section 3 The Aftershocks
0:42:15 Is a long winter ahead?
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0:50:30 Section 4 Is this Bear market different?
0:56:18 How can investors protect themselves?
0:59:33 Proof of stake
1:01:44 Yield vs Risk
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Santiago Roel Santos is partner at ParaFi Capital, one of the most active investment funds in DeFi. Before going full crypto, Santiago worked at JPMorgan’s investment banking arm, and then invested in fintech and software at a venture fund. He now uses his more traditional VC frameworks to analyze open financial protocols and finds that even by those metrics, DeFi comes out ahead. We also talked about the seemingly crazy new DeFi meme tokens and Santiago says to not underestimate their value. Maybe part of the reason traders are pouring millions into these tokens comes from the human desire to connect with others.
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This is Jam Session No. 1. We'll be exploring the long term viability of NFTs as artist/creator communities, what we can learn from Hollywood and major platforms like Beats and the bright future of play-to-earn.
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In this week's episode we interview 0xMaki, an anonymous DeFi developer contributing to SushiSwap and Yearn Finance protocols. We talk about growing Sushi beyond its drama-filled beginnings as a fork of Uniswap, into a DEX that can hold its own as the second-most active trading platform in Ethereum DeFi. He goes into the main pieces that set SushiSwap apart with its margin trading and a soon-to-be-released smart contract suite to easily launch tokens. In the works is also an NFT trading platform. And all of this innovation is coming from a community of contributors, and not from a centrally organized team.
We talk about Uniswap V3, and he says that while the concentrated liquidity concept is interesting, he doesn’t think it will be the holy grail for AMMs and says Sushiswap is also working on a way to make liquidity pools more capital efficient —though he didn’t go into much detail on how. He shrugged off the fact that Uniswap introduced a business license to v3 and said SushiSwap wasn’t planning on forking the code. In the end he says, it’s short-sighted for DEX competitors to be fighting among each other, as they should be fighting outwards, to bring more people into DeFi, and not inwards trying to win over the people who are already here.
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