Edan Yago (Sovryn) on Bitcoin-Native DeFi (EP.177)

Edan Yago's origin story

How Edan became disenchanted with the Bitcoin community's ambition

Did Bitcoiners compromise on an original vision of adopting successful alternative technologies?

Is Bitcoin sufficiently expressive to be a functional base layer for smart contracting?

Was the original vision of sidechains abandoned?

The state of the art in trustless sidechains

Is the perfect the enemy of the good with Bitcoin?

Is Lightning "worse is better"?

Is Bitcoin hamstrung by the pursuit of perfection?

Why compromising on trust assurances has been a boon for Ethereum

Why native smart contracting on Bitcoin is superior to using wrapped Bitcoin on Ethereum

Do rollups break composability for DeFi?

Is DeFi subsidized by token issuance and liquidity mining?

What can Bitcoiners learn from Ethereum?

Thoughts on other Bitcoin L2s like Blockstack

Update on Rootstock/RSK and why Sovryn is building on it

What Sovryn is and what you can do with it

Does Sovryn require any changes to Bitcoin itself?