Do You Think There's an Organic Demand in Dfi?

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There's an element of inorganic activity that's come from luquitity mining. But what that said, these projects couldn't have gotten to where they are now if there wasn't an organic demand. And i think that with all new use cases in defy, it either had to do a very long grind to get to where it was,. Like a ciber. I mean, ciber did a ico in twenty seventeen and one of the, you know, vitalic was involvedit was one of the most hotly anticipated ones....

In this episode, Su and Hasu talk about decentralized finance (DeFi). Topics covered: - What DeFi means to Su - Why use DeFi over CeFi? - Is the current demand organic or subsidized by VC money? - Where users will allocate on the trust spectrum - The delicate dance between regulatory arbitrage & attracting talent and capital - The path to decentralization - Most important DeFi use cases today and in the future - How AMMs work and can be improved - The core building blocks of DeFi - Incentive mechanisms - Tokenized balances - Atomic transactions - Will a boom in DeFi translate to ether? Su Zhu is the CEO and CIO of Three Arrows Capital. Hasu is a cryptocurrency researcher and writer. Together, they publish on Deribit Insights and uncommoncore.co.