Frax Eat

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The major difference that frax eat has with other so-called liquid staking derivatives or LSDs like Lido and Rocketpool is that you guys also issue a synthetic eat. We try to capture the monetary demand of the monetary premium that we hopefully create as frax eat their permeates, the ecosystem. People say crypto is like speedrunning economics right there. They're just discovering the same exact economic rules, but really, really fast.

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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Jason Choi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi

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