In an open market place for investment strategies, i think we have pretty substantial evidence that thet the lowest f strategies, are attracting the most capital. So given that strategis em basically pay some amount of fees to em, to the governess, to the wife you hold es, and also pay some amount of Fees to the actual strategy provider, do you think that the end came here's going to be that basically any strategy providers and the wife, ye, hold es, they become one? I man, look where, wherever you cut down fees you're going to be better off. There's a lot of hidden expenses that people don't calculate into their healed form," he says....
This week, I - Hasu - talk to Andre Cronje, a long-time DeFi developer, and creator of Yearn Finance. You can think of Yearn as a smart bank account that automatically allocates your assets to different low-risk investment strategies that execute on the Ethereum blockchain.
My co-host is Tarun Chitra, the CEO and founder of Gauntlet, a company that helps stress test the incentive structures and economics of cryptocurrency protocols, especially of DeFi protocols.
We're releasing this interview in two parts. The first gives you an introduction to Yearn Finance, it's future, and Andre's design and investment philosophy in building it. Part II explores the design space for governance systems in DeFi - one of the hottest topics in crypto right now.
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New: Episode Transcript