Today on the show, we’re talking about Oval, a new DeFi primitive that Hart Lambur from UMA is introducing to the world of DeFi’s biggest lending markets. Billions of dollars have been liquidated from protocols like Aave, Compound, and MakerDAO over the years, and these liquidations have been extremely inefficiently priced, due to reasons! Reasons that we will discuss here on the show today. 

Hasu also joins us on this conversation today to discuss the way that MEV share from Flashbots is a part of this conversation, and he helps illuminate what this means for DeFi going forward as a whole.

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------ TIMESTAMPS   0:00 Intro 7:15 MEV & Oracle Foundations  11:19 Why Solving MEV is Important 21:16 High-Level Patterns  28:19 The Oval Mechanism  42:23 MEV Share Parameters  48:36 Decentralization of the MEV Share  54:30 Auction Length 56:08 Oval B/D Adoption  58:05 Uniswap v4  1:02:31 Oval Cut Upside 1:05:45 Future Questions to be Answered  1:08:42 Closing & Disclaimers 

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What is SUAVE? FlashBots Phil Daian and Andrew Miller explain https://youtu.be/j3ZM2ZdUWXU 

Oval  https://uma.xyz/   https://twitter.com/UMAprotocol  

Hart  https://twitter.com/hal2001  

Hasu https://twitter.com/hasufl  

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