The building block is the fact that people want to trade on leverage. And more importantly, they want to do so in a way that they're rewarded by the system that they're using. So just as he setral exchange might give lower fees to users, or they may give like bonuses a, in defi, they also have to give incentives and create that stickiness....
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.