The Pros and Cons of Buying Stablecoins and Selling ETH

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As the price of collateral is falling, you're actually buying stablecoins and selling ETH. So it gives you this ability to protect borrower collateral. But there are trade-offs, like there's no free lunch and DeFi. The trade-off here is that yes, you save collateral but on the way back up, you actually regain your collateral.

Stani Kulechov joins us to discuss how Aave and Lens are building scalable primitives to accelerate crypto's adoption curve. We explore crypto's killer app, why decentralized social matters, how the Momoca DA layer scales Lens, the incentives behind building GHO and more!

And as usual, we start the episode with our analyst bullpen to discuss Coinbase's new subscription product, Lido exit liquidity games and Curve's LLAMA lending protocol.

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(00:00) Introduction

(00:43) Hot Seat/Cool Throne

(34:59) Interview Start: Crypto’s Adoption Curve and Killer App

(46:35) Should Protocols Share Revenue With Token Holders?

(51:00) Why Decentralized Social Media?

(57:07) Building on Polygon

(1:03:16) Lens Tx Process Flow and the Momoca DA Layer

(1:14:46) Aave’s GHO

(1:18:38) How Spark Will Influence Aave’s Market for DAI Lending

(1:21:57) Building Core Infrastructure

(1:24:49) Decentralized Identity Solutions & Undercollateralized Loans

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