Kirk Hutchison is the Co-Founder of Volt Protocol, an inflation hedged stablecoin built on Ethereum. Kirk is widely known as the gigabrain’s gigabrain when it comes to all things DeFi.

As inflation continues to rise, Kirk couldn’t have joined at a better time. However, Kirk and David dive into much more than inflation.

On this episode, Kirk explains symmetric money systems, self-referential feedback mechanisms, the problems with DeFi today, what Volt is and its future, and so much more.

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------ Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro 4:45 What Kirk Thinks About 8:36 Decentral Bank Terms Explained 13:45 What is a PSM? 18:16 The Bankless Thesis 21:20 Fully Symmetric Money System 28:05 Why is Fixed Rate a Problem? 32:12 Self-Referential Feedback Mechanisms 40:45 The Problems with DeFi Today 47:40 DeFi Utopia vs. Dystopia 1:00:55 What is Volt & Its Future? 1:09:25 Governance Token Design 1:13:35 8% Yield to Combat Inflation in DeFi 1:19:20 Closing

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Kirk https://twitter.com/OneTrueKirk 

Volt Protocol https://twitter.com/voltprotocol 

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