Is There a Plan to Decentralize Validator Distribution?

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Right now the FraxE core team runs the validators. They're on commodity hardware, geo distributed across continents. We anticipate basically allowing anyone to come and run a validator. The way we do it will be slightly different than rocket pools. It's going to use our infrastructure that we've already built. But for example, I don't think any LST currently is as decentralized as people like to talk on Twitter.

Crypto markets are off to a bullish start in the new year, and one of the projects that have renewed a ton of community interest is Frax - the only semi-algorithmic stablecoin that has actually persisted throughout 2022’s thick and thin without depegging.

Today, we have Sam Kazemian, Founder of Frax, to share with us:

How Frax’s 5 products all tie together in 1 unifying vision
Frax’s roadmap in 2023
Frax’s liquid staking ETH versus others

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) – Introduction to Frax

(00:04:10) – Major milestones for Frax in 2022

(00:07:12) – Frax’s 2023 roadmap

(00:13:25) – Decentralization vs Capital Efficiency vs Scaling

(00:21:20) – Frax as the central bank of DeFi

(00:27:15) – Frax’s version of liquid staking ETH

(00:45:04) – Path to decentralizing the ETH PoS validator distribution

(00:50:50) – Handling slashing

(00:55:54) – Frax’s yield mechanism on staked ETH

(00:59:38) – Major initiatives to increase Frax adoption

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Frax’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/fraxfinance

Sam Kazemian’s: https://twitter.com/samkazemian

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