Agora Offsiders

Did you miss the Agora Dispatch? Mark 11 and Mugen have you covered with their run-through of the dispatch - audio style!

What they touch on:

(0:11) A wild Mugen appears

(0:47) Ohm stats

(1:15) Editorial: Tidal wave of liquidity

(3:54) Olympus Pro Cohorts

(5:56) Proteus

(8:32) Bond Mishap

(10:51) OIP-51: Strategic Asset Whitelist

(12:45) OIP-52: Add UST to the Teasury

(15:20) OIP-53: DAO swap with Frax Finance

(16:36) OIP-54: Stablecoin Farming Amendment

(18:03) OlyZaps

(19:53) LOBI airdrop

(21:12) Olympus x Mover

(21:42) Twitter thread: Proteus explainer

(22:31) Ohmie of the week: Sam Kazemian

(23:18) Ohmie profile: @Cartesius

(24:32) Meme of the Week: Fluidsonic (9,9)

(25:09) State of the DAO

(26:18) Mugen’s Bits of the week

(29:32) Mark’s Bits of the week

Olympus Agora:

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/OlympusAgora

- Medium: https://olympusagora.medium.com/

- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr34Uxn8LwJUEJVBYBGzmog

- Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/olympusagora

Hosts:

- Mugen: https://twitter.com/CryptoMugen1

- Mark11: https://twitter.com/Mark11ETH

If you're looking to contribute to the podcast- or think you can add something to our product quality, what are you waiting for Ohmie? Come and join us in the OlympusDAO discord!

https://discord.gg/f9s9YgWxVp

Maximus from FiatDAO joins Mark11 in the studio to talk about all things DeFi. They go into the current roadmap for FiatDAO and the future of fixed income markets in crypto.

What they touch on:

Crypto origin story (1:09)

Bitcoin Maximalism (5:33)

Joining BarnBridge team (10:23)

Olympus first impressions (13:34)

Olympus forks and use cases (16:31)

What FiatDAO solves (19:54)

Organizing the DAO launch (25:42)

How incubators evolve DeFi and crypto (31:34)

FiatDAO NFT’s (35:16)

Organizing the DAO workforce (38:54)

FiatDAO x OlympusDAO (41:43)

FiatDAO governance (42:30)

Where does value of $FDT come from (46:55)

Incentives to hold $FDT (52:55)

Where to find FiatDAO and closing thoughts (1:00:13)

Links:

- FIATDAO website: https://fiatdao.com

- FIATDAO discord: https://discord.gg/fiatdao

Olympus Agora:

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/OlympusAgora

- Medium: https://medium.com/@olympusagora

- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr34Uxn8LwJUEJVBYBGzmog

- Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/olympusagora

Hosts:

- Dropkickdarren: https://twitter.com/dropkickdarren

- Mark11: https://twitter.com/Mark11ETH

If you're looking to contribute to the podcast- or think you can add something to our product quality, what are you waiting for Ohmie? Come and join us in the OlympusDAO discord!

https://discord.gg/f9s9YgWxVp

Did you miss the Agora Dispatch? Mark11 and Dropkickdarren have you covered with their run-through of the dispatch - audio style!

What they touch on:

Editorial (0:47)

FOHMO4 (4:00)

Lobis launch (5:54)

Lobis Airdrop Controversy (10:03)

OIP-47: Stopgap (14:48)

OIP-49 Olympus Give (18:35)

Klima x Olympus - gOHM x wsKLIMA (23:24)

Incubator launch w/ VOLT (26:14)

Proteus Office hours (28:32)

Ohmie of the week: Johnny (31:04)

Twitter thread: Zeus innovatooors (31:36)

Ohmie profile: chaosNnacho (33:13)

Meme of the week: Juxta (34:18)

Bits (36:47)

Olympus Agora:

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/OlympusAgora

- Medium: https://olympusagora.medium.com/

- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr34Uxn8LwJUEJVBYBGzmog

- Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/olympusagora

Hosts:

- Dropkickdarren: https://twitter.com/dropkickdarren

- Mark11: https://twitter.com/Mark11ETH

If you're looking to contribute to the podcast- or think you can add something to our product quality, what are you waiting for Ohmie? Come and join us in the OlympusDAO discord!

https://discord.gg/f9s9YgWxVp

Unbanksy joins Mark11 to discuss his journey as a software entrepreneur and how that led him to discover Zeus and Olympus. They also dive into how he built Olympus' first app and the stress of coding the first DAI bonds smart contracts. He also shares he expertise on what the future of Olympus looks like in terms of the interoperability between Olympus products and the importance of 3,3.

What they touch on:

Unbanksy’s role in the DAO (0:41)

Crypto journey and background (1:46)

Diving into DeFi (5:17)

Intro to Olympus (5:56)

Control theory & Olympus’ Game Theory (7:03)

Becoming a contributor for Olympus (8:23)

Writing the first $DAI bond code (9:54)

Starting the DAO (11:50)

Launching Olympus Pro (12:56)

Tyche & Olympus Give (15:52)

Interoperability between Olympus products (18:19)

Olympus Incubator (19:04)

The issues with current VC models (19:46)

Roadmap for Incubator x Tyche (22:29)

Olympus launch products (22:54)

The importance of 3,3 for governance (24:06)

The implications of Olympus Branches: Lobis and [REDACTED] (25:22)

Race for Liquidity (27:04)

Proteus (28:09)

What’s the Kusama Network? (29:48)

DAO Reorganization and closing thoughts (32:43)

Olympus Agora:

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/OlympusAgora

- Medium: https://olympusagora.medium.com/

- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr34Uxn8LwJUEJVBYBGzmog

- Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/olympusagora

Guest:

-Unbanksy https://twitter.com/unbanksyETH

Hosts:

- Dropkickdarren: https://twitter.com/dropkickdarren

- Mark11: https://twitter.com/Mark11ETH

If you're looking to contribute to the podcast- or think you can add something to our product quality, what are you waiting for Ohmie? Come and join us in the OlympusDAO discord!

https://discord.gg/f9s9YgWxVp

Did you miss the Agora Dispatch? Mark11 and Dropkickdarren have you covered with their run-through of the dispatch - audio style!

What they touch on:

-Editorial (0:37)

-Strategic assets (2:10)

-Zeus @ Defi 2.0 (3:33)

-Proteus: (4:17)

-CBC bonds go live: (5:46)

-[ Redacted ] & Lobis (6:39)

-Ohmie Alpha (9:16)

-Coingecko (11:21)

-Pro updates (11:53)

-Ohmie of the week: Koba (3,3) (12:44)

-Twitter thread: DAO Compensation framework (14:25)

-Profile: David (O,P) (16:49)

-Meme of the Week: @WAGMIcrypto (18:00)

-State of the DAO (18:31)

-Opp to create (18:42)

-Bits: Ohmie in the wild | Incubator (18:57)

Olympus Agora:

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/OlympusAgora

- Medium: https://olympusagora.medium.com/

- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr34Uxn8LwJUEJVBYBGzmog

- Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/olympusagora

Hosts:

- Dropkickdarren: https://twitter.com/dropkickdarren

- Mark11: https://twitter.com/Mark11ETH

If you're looking to contribute to the podcast- or think you can add something to our product quality, what are you waiting for Ohmie? Come and join us in the OlympusDAO discord!

https://discord.gg/f9s9YgWxVp

Kolten Bergeron joins Mark11 in the studio to talk about everything Liquity! They dive into Kolten's crypto background, how DAO's differ from corporations, the growing pains of DAOs, the trade-offs associated with having a fee-based token vs a typical governance token like other protocols, and why every stablecoin is not the same.

What they touch on:

- What is Liquity? (2:41)

- Distributed front-end operators (4:13)

- Kolten’s crypto background (6:22)

- Kolten and the Stellar Development Foundation (8:52)

- First ETH & BTC purchases (10:06)

- Trails and tribulations of investing in crypto (11:31)

- Defi Summer (12:32)

- Kolten’s intro to OHM (13:50)

- Kolten’s first impressions of Olympus (15:48)

- How collateralized loans work and redemption mechanisms (18:41)

- Taking loans out against your assets and its implications (23:26)

- Liquity Frontend Operators (26:05)

- Liquity roadmap (28:57)

- Trade-offs of having immutable parameters (31:55)

- The Liquity community (34:38)

- Having a fee-capture token vs governance (37:14)

- Can Liquity move to L2? (38:57)

- DAO’s efficiency vs inefficiency when managing complex procedures and responsibilities (45:20)

- What’s coming up for Liquity? (50:27)

- Difference vs risks of other stablecoins (54:01)

Links:

- Liquity: http://www.liquity.org

- Kolten: https://twitter.com/0xKolten

Olympus Agora:

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/OlympusAgora

- Medium: https://medium.com/@olympusagora

- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr34Uxn8LwJUEJVBYBGzmog

- Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/olympusagora

Hosts:

- Dropkickdarren: https://twitter.com/dropkickdarren

- Mark11: https://twitter.com/Mark11ETH

If you're looking to contribute to the podcast- or think you can add something to our product quality, what are you waiting for Ohmie? Come and join us in the OlympusDAO discord!

https://discord.gg/f9s9YgWxVp

- Editorial (0:30)

- OIP 43 | CVX bonds (2:01)

- InsureACE | Insurance coverage for OlympusDAO (4:20)

- Agora Insights | Formerly numbers of the week (5:45)

- Curve LP (7:00) - Avalanche Cohort (8:21)

- Odyssey updates | Application open to Curve LP and Avalanche cohorts (9:07)

- OIP 41 passes | Incubator (11:15)

- Ohmie of the week | @theyoungretiree (14:02)

- Twitter thread - Unbanksy on the broken VC model (16:46)

- Ohmie profile: Kalash (18:09)

- Meme of the week: Yes, OHM is a cryptocurrency (20:23)

- State of the DAO (21:32)

- Agora Learning Series - The Ancient Greek Navy (22:22)

- Bitz of the week: What's with Mochi? & NFT NYC (23:14)

Dropkickdarren and Mark11 delve into the Policy chamber in search of some of the tools and levers at the team's disposal. DW Ohmies, Sh4dow walked us through everything and we hope you also get a better understanding too! What da heck is a BCV? Going anon - Olympus V2 and how it will affect the Policy team and Olympus Pro partners? We talk about it in-depth below...

Timestamps:

Crypto origin/background (1:12)

Olympus origins (4:51)

First impressions of Olympus? (6:48)

Favourite daily query? (11:41)

DAO formation (12:44)

Strategos - who are they - what do they do? (14:54)

Going anon (18:02)

Olympus Pro (21:03)

Scaling OP in the future ( 22:59)

Policy meeting evolution (25:10)

Internal vs. External decisions within Policy dep. (28:32)

BCV's explained (31:32)

Reward rate reduction/framework (33:33)

Olympus V2 (40:28)

Bullish DAO activities (45:42)

Working w Abipup - policy co-lead (51:50)

Valuable takeaways (53:13)

What DAOs can takeaway from Corporate structures (56:01)

The biggest misconception about Sh4dow (1:03:47)

Sh4dow:

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/sh4dowlegend

Olympus Agora:

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/OlympusAgora

- Medium: https://olympusagora.medium.com/

- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr34Uxn8LwJUEJVBYBGzmog

- Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/olympusagora

Hosts:

- Dropkickdarren: https://twitter.com/dropkickdarren

- Mark11: https://twitter.com/Mark11ETH

If you're looking to contribute to the podcast- or think you can add something to our product quality, what are you waiting for Ohmie? Come and join us in the OlympusDAO discord!

https://discord.gg/9BcV6DM8

Dropkickdarren and Mark11 run you through the dispatch - audio style!

What we touch on:

Editorial (1:58)

OIP-41 (3:34)

Chefomi proposes Ohmieswap (6:59)

Getting involved in a DAO 101 (12:37)

Ohm bounties live* (13:11)

Buy and Stake ohm cheaply (14:37)

New OP partners (16:55)

Odyssey updates (18:19)

OIP-40- Increase % of ETH: RFV (19:37)

Ohmie of the week (20:37)

Twitter thread (21:20)

Ohmie profile (22:40)

Meme of the week (23:25)

Bits of the week (24:18)

Olympus Agora:

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/OlympusAgora

- Medium: https://medium.com/@olympusagora

Hosts:

- Dropkickdarren: https://twitter.com/dropkickdarren

- Mark11: https://twitter.com/Mark11ETH

If you're looking to contribute to the podcast- or think you can add something to our product quality, what are you waiting for Ohmie? Come and join us in the OlympusDAO discord!

https://discord.gg/f9s9YgWxVp

Dropkickdarren and Mark11 celebrate the 33rd episode of the podcast by interviewing each other! An honest reflection and recap since the inception of the Agora podcast. It’s filled with detailed crypto backstories, trials, and tribulations — they managed to squeeze the last 4 months into a single podcast!

What they touch on:

Crypto intros/personal backgrounds

Imposter syndrome? (37:14)

Who have some of your favorite interview guests been? (42:04)

What has it been like building this project from the ground up (46:33)

What’s surprised you the most about working in a DAO - what would you change within the DAO? (1:00:16)

Under what circumstances do you stop supporting/working for OlympusDAO? (1:08:10)

How do you unplug from the matrix (defi) - future of the Olympus community (1:16:05)

First impressions of each-other (1:19:43)

Closing thoughts (1:22:04)

Olympus Agora:

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgoraDispatch

- Medium: https://medium.com/@agoradispatch

- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr34Uxn8LwJUEJVBYBGzmog

Hosts:

- Dropkickdarren: https://twitter.com/dropkickdarren

- Mark11: https://twitter.com/Mark11ETH

If you're looking to contribute to the podcast- or think you can add something to our product quality, what are you waiting for Ohmie? Come and join us in the OlympusDAO discord!

https://discord.gg/f9s9YgWxVp