Edan Yago, product lead at Sovryn, talks us through the prospects for DeFi on Bitcoin. In this episode: 

• Edan Yago's origin story
• How Edan became disenchanted with the Bitcoin community's ambition
• Did Bitcoiners compromise on an original vision of adopting successful alternative technologies?
• Is Bitcoin sufficiently expressive to be a functional base layer for smart contracting?
• Was the original vision of sidechains abandoned?
• The state of the art in trustless sidechains
• Is the perfect the enemy of the good with Bitcoin?
• Is Lightning "worse is better"?
• Is Bitcoin hamstrung by the pursuit of perfection?
• Why compromising on trust assurances has been a boon for Ethereum
• Why native smart contracting on Bitcoin is superior to using wrapped Bitcoin on Ethereum
• Do rollups break composability for DeFi?
• Is DeFi subsidized by token issuance and liquidity mining?
• What can Bitcoiners learn from Ethereum?
• Thoughts on other Bitcoin L2s like Blockstack
• Update on Rootstock/RSK and why Sovryn is building on it
• What Sovryn is and what you can do with it
• Does Sovryn require any changes to Bitcoin itself?