Episode Details

Element Finance is an open-source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets.

Yield markets you say? Like the incoming Trillion-dollar ETH Staking yield market? 

Come learn about how Element is putting a financial layer on top of Ethereum staking, and the other cool new inventions that the Element team has for the DAO space. 

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Guests: 

Will Villanueva 
- CEO of Element, previous worked at Consensys doing research on Ethereum  Sharding

Jonny Rhea 
- CTO of Element, previously worked at Consensys working on an Ethereum client. 

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Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro
8:30 What is Element?
13:37 The ELFI Airdrop
19:05 The zk Claim Process
25:48 Non-Transferable
29:20 NFTs & DAO Governance
35:57 Council Governance
41:14 Voting Vaults
49:58 Maximally Expressive Governance
53:55 ETH Staking Yield
1:01:06 Protocol Security
1:07:50 Bullish PoS Merge
1:15:10 What's Next for Element?
1:18:22 Closing & Disclaimers

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Resources:

DAO Launch Announcement: 
https://mirror.xyz/0x3fcAf7DDf64E6e109B1e2A5CC17875D4a5993F39/bctuLRkf7oBL4mMJ9lPf0y0blFjBDslTUfUL0CEk1gc 

Guide to Element: 
https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/a-guide-to-fixed-income-on-element?s=w 

Yield Token Compounding:
https://ytc.component.fi/ytc?base_token=0xA0b86991c6218b36c1d19D4a2e9Eb0cE3606eB48 

Previous Bankless show with Element
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF5O1rPbsm4 

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