DEFIning Degen: Recent Episodes
Kelly Moran
Web3 education series hosted on Twitter Spaces weekly supported by the Psychedelics Anonymous community. Core DeFi concepts discussed are discussed to build Web3 competence and knowledge base for maximizing yield. Beginner to advanced concepts on decentralized finance with special guests, case studies, and live demos! Course Host Account: @paspaces Course Content Account: @definingdegen Curriculum Dashboard: https://definingdegen.c3collective.xyz
This episode takes a step back to cover one of the most important concepts underpinning protocol design in DEFI, game therory. You will learn what game theory means, it's implications, types of games, and how game theory modeling can be used as a design blue print for DeFi platforms.
Lot's of important concepts are covered in this session and it is a must listen for anyone interested in tuning into future episodes surrounding DeFi 2.0.
In this episode, we do a brief recap of core concepts and then discuss the stablecoin war in more depth. Listen to hear where we stand in the context of decentralization with the current stablecoins available and the obstacles the industry faces in driving adoption.
This episode kicks off season 2 with a breif recap for new attendees before dedicating most of the conversation to the going over the case study that is DeFi 1.0 summer, or the summer of 2020.
We discuss one of the more notable events of the 6wk week period that birthed some of the biggest names in the DeFi space today, specifically the founding of Sushiswap and the Vampire Attack it waged against Uniswap.
In this episode we do a recap of core concepts previously covered and then dive into how APR is generated and what drives fluctuation in yield.
𝙒𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙥𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙚𝙥𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙙𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙚𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘿𝙚𝙜𝙚𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚, 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 4𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 @𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙣 𝙒𝙚𝙙𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙖𝙩 3𝙥𝙢 𝙋𝙎𝙏
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ABOUT THE EPISODE
In this session we take an initial dive into stablecoins, their use cases, and importance within the ecosystem. The episode ends with a brief run through a strategy on the Avalanche chain that leverages the current incentive mechanisms that offer paid borrow positions to effectively short $ETH with near zero chance of liquidation and hedge downside risk without selling any underlying assets.
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The course is open to the public and ran by Kelly Moran in support of the community spaces for the Psychadelics Anonymous NFT project. Material covers core DeFi concepts to build Web3 competence and knowledge base for maximizing yield. For beginners to advanced, we revisit material often and move at a speed the community can handle