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
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