How Polychain is faring throughout the crypto winter, the place we’re within the tech cycle, whether or not he thinks Ethereum 2.0 will ship and the way he views the competitors within the sensible contract area. We talk about the upcoming Fb coin, what that may appear like, and the way his portfolio initiatives may compete towards a token issued by a big firm. We cowl how regulatory uncertainty is affecting the event of crypto initiatives, what he thinks of the truth that some traits within the DeFi motion appear to imitate the dangers main as much as the monetary contract, why he’s so enthusiastic about MakerDAO, what he makes of its difficulties maintaining its USD peg, and why Tether hasn’t misplaced its greenback peg regardless of being solely 74% backed. Plus, we talked about how decentralized autonomous companies may sometime come into being, and what he thinks of on-chain governance techniques at present.
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Episode hyperlinks:
Watch the complete video on CoinDesk (“To the Moon and Again” beneath Major Stage): https://www.coindesk.com/occasions/consensus-2019/movies
Polychain: https://polychain.capital
WSJ article on Olaf: https://www.wsj.com/articles/olaf-carlson-wee-rode-the-bitcoin-boom-to-silicon-valley-riches-can-he-survive-the-crash-1536681364
WSJ on Polychain’s belongings dropping: https://www.wsj.com/articles/crypto-fund-polychains-assets-drop-40-from-1-billion-mark-11554843471?mod=searchresults&web page=1&pos=3
Fb coin: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/expertise/cryptocurrency-facebook-telegram.html?searchResultPosition=9
Tether solely 74% backed: https://www.coindesk.com/tether-lawyer-confirms-stablecoin-74-percent-backed-by-cash-and-equivalents
MakerDAO stability payment at 20%: https://www.coindesk.com/dai-stablecoins-stability-fee-nears-20-after-latest-makerdao-vote
Aragon vote being swung on the final second: https://www.evanvanness.com/submit/184616403861/aragon-vote-shows-the-perils-of-onchain-governance
