The Concept of Atomic Loans

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Atomic loans are transactions that only execute if both parties basili hoe and of the de read. This is a very obvious usecase, but it didn't occur to me at all before the first flash on happened. And now i see it as just super bulish for defi, because how much more capital efficient it makes tor system. But al things would work better if they, a, if you could somehow apply atomic loans to more of these kind of real world transactions. I think with sort of lower quality assets, or with non fungable in the real world, is obviously, is going to be probably like the last frontier....

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.