Flywheel DeFi

This week we hosted Ryan Park, co-founder of Exponents, the first liquidation-free, oracle-less perp dex and explored how Exponents is reimagining market efficiency with its novel mathematical mechanisms.

Timeline:
00:00 Introduction & Background
10:48 Lessons from Anchor
13:50 What Lido Did Right
16:46 Distribution + Growth in Terra and Anchor
19:27 “The End User is Capital”
22:30 Transitioning from Anchor to Exponents
28:54 The Liquidation Free, Oracle-less Perp Dex
34:04 “Spot Arbitrage”, The Lifecycle of a Position
41:49 Synthetic Positions and Collateralization Mechanism
50:40 How Does Exponents Work
1:01:23 Institutional Perspectives on DeFi & Crypto
1:07:43 The Future of DeFi and Its Value Prop
1:13:34 Incentivizing Speculation in Crypto Markets
1:23:15 Building in the Bera Eco
1:29:29 Post-Game Show

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