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From the past to the future, how can we build the future of finance using lessons learnt from before? Josh and Lisa discusses!

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00:00 Introduction

02:45 What History Has Taught Us

14:54 How Tokens Can Coordinate Market Creation

20:52 Dealing With Governance & Those Lagging Behind

34:27 Q&A

49:54 Final Thoughts

51:43 More Resources & How to Support Us!

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Is Bitcoin a form of stored energy? Dave and Lisa discusses how universal basic income may be addressed using Bitcoin!

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00:00 Introduction

01:01 Interest In Bitcoin

02:54 Economy Is Energy

05:43 Traditional Energy Sources

07:58 Renewable Energy & Bitcoin

10:38 Bitcoin Mining & The Grid

18:37 Stored Energy & Distribution

22:28 Using Bitcoin As Energy Distribution

25.56 Energy As Universal Basic Income

28:30 Cypto vs Fiat Currency

34:37 Final Thoughts

37:40 More Resources & How to Support Us!

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We take a look at how the Antimatter protocol can potentially simplify DeFi!

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00:00 Introduction

01:35 Conversation With Jack Lu

38:30 More Resources & How to Support Us!

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We found a problem that crypto truly solves - public goods and #DAO!

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In the previous EP 58: Analysis of UST (TerraUSD) | Algo Stablecoin on Terra,, we mentioned that UST is 1% within the range but mostly outside of the $1±5% range. Turns out, we are wrong! This video is meant to correct the mistake.

EP 58: https://youtu.be/w_AdzPFM58g

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Another stablecoin? All weather stablecoin with Gyroscope. Always stable.

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00:00 Intro & Overview

03:58 Gyroscope Collaterals

09:16 Minting Gyro Dollar

10:42 Mechanisms To Maintain $1 Peg

11:58 Earning Yields

12:53 PAMM vs Underlying Assets

13:25 Gyroscope vs USDC

14:24 SAMM

16:06 Lines of Defence

14:55 Gyroscope vs FEI

21:45 PAMM vs SAMM

22:43 Designing Governance

26:23 Accruing Cashflow

27:16 Third Party Liquidity Providers

28:49 Is Gyro Dollar a Security?

29:18 Opinions

29:56 More Resources & How to Support Us!

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Many of you have been asking for an episode on UST, the algo stablecoin on the Terra network. So today, we take a dive into how UST works, how it is created, analyse its stability, and more.

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Timestamps:

0:00 – Intro & Overview

0:51 – UST vs LUNA

1:14 – Classifying Terra

1:50 – $LUNA

3:05 – UST Creation

4:34 – 3 factors affecting Stability of UST

8:37 – Analysing UST Stats

10:25 – Analysing the Terra Ecosystem

12:06 – 4 Opinions

17:10 – More resources & how to support us!

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Flashbots & Miner-Extractable Value are problems faced by decentralised exchanges (DEXs). In this episode, we explain what flashbots and MEV are all about and what solutions there are. We also explain in-depth the risks of ETH like front running, and several design flaws in DEXs.

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Timestamps:

0:00 – Introduction to MEV & Flashbots

0:24 – Layer 1 infrastructure comparison: BTC vs ETH

1:36 – 51% Attack vs Front Running vs Forking

3:49 – Flashbots explained

7:06 – MEV (Miner Extractable Value)

8:12 – Other arbitrage opportunities

8:57 – Solutions to MEV

10:30 – 5 design flaws in DEXs

12:57 – Front Running & information Assymetry

14:55 – Impact of Economic Rent on DEXs

16:18 – Why Flashbots & MEV are a big problem

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Liquity presents a unique approach to decentralisation, without a governance token and several other notable features. In this episode, we dive deep into Liquity's mechanisms, economics, and what it means for the DeFi space.

The chat segments are extracted from our Discord lounge session with Robert. We host lounge sessions on Sundays with guest speakers, absolutely free to join for the public, where we dive deep into such topics and you can directly ask any questions you may have. Do join our Discord channel to get the chance to interact with guest speakers directly! :)

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Timestamps:

0:00 – Introduction to Liquity

0:53 – Stablecoin Classification of Liquity

3:31 – How LUSD is created

4:21 – Uses of LUSD token

7:49 – LQTY token

8:52 – How does Liquity maintain stability

11:06 – Liquidation Mechanism in-depth

13:56 – Redemption Mechanism in-depth

17:24 – Zero governance

18:28 – Importance of decentralisation

20:05 – Opinions

23:03 – More resources & how to support us!

p.s. Thanks once again to Fernando for processing the audio used here!

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We have several recommendations to make, after all the research we have done recently on algo stable coins. To be specific, we have 3 recommendations regarding the secondary token, how to avoid economic exploitation, and the responsiveness to price action of the tokens.

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