Is It Possible to Build a Protocoin?

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Bicoin is one of many tokens being developed for the decentralization movement. The token could be used to pay devs, but it would also allow them to change things that don't work in the beginning. Bicoin has a road map toward going more and more esentialize overtime. It's not an either/or mentality: Either it's desentialized or it's not good practice....

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.