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DeFi Yield Farming: Why It's All the Rage But Risky
Episode 180
Dan Elitzer, investor at IDEO CoLab Ventures, and Will Price, data scientist at Flipside Crypto, discuss the yield farming craze. In this episode, we cover:
- the goals of protocols offering liquidity mining
- the goals of users yield farming right now
- whether users of Compound will have much awareness of COMP in the future
- how Compound is trying to dampen inorganic activity and properly align incentives
- how incentives in one DeFi protocol can screw up another's such as changes in Compound's liquidity mining program causing Dai to lose its peg
- whether the activity created by liquidity mining is sustainable and how
- whether Compound is overvalued and how to determine valuations for DeFi tokens
- the security risks that come with trying yield farming
- how teams can keep their protocols safe given the composability of DeFi and the growing number of developments in the space
- whether the yield farming craze will cause the price of ETH to rise and why the prevalence of stablecoins might prevent that
- whether new DeFi tokens could push flagging layer 1s out of the top 10
- what will happen if even more Bitcoin comes to DeFi
- how the next big thing in DeFi might be trying to stack yield across protocols and eventually prime brokerage protocols
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Episode links:
Dan Elitzer: https://twitter.com/delitzer
IDEO CoLab Ventures: https://www.ideocolab.com/ventures/
Will Price: https://twitter.com/will__price
Flipside Crypto: https://flipsidecrypto.com
Total value locked in Compound: https://defipulse.com/compound
What liquidity bootstrapping pools are: https://medium.com/balancer-protocol/building-liquidity-into-token-distribution-a49d4286e0d4
Dan on earning more from borrowing USDT than lending it on Compound: https://twitter.com/delitzer/status/1272642107128164354
Tony Sheng on how yield farming works and how much you can earn from it: https://twitter.com/tonysheng/status/1274393189231689728
And his followup on the risks of yield farming: https://twitter.com/tonysheng/status/1274780457729617920
The purpose of COMP for governance: https://medium.com/compound-finance/compound-community-ownership-ee0ed1252cc3
https://medium.com/compound-finance/expanding-compound-governance-ce13fcd4fe36
Risks of so much BAT being held in Compound: https://twitter.com/spencernoon/status/1276897377446776832?s=20
https://twitter.com/defiprime/status/1277026665952980992?s=20
https://twitter.com/devops199fan/status/1274732220192829441?s=20
Cyrus of MakerDAO concerned about the risks COMP poses to the Dai peg: Published on 5 years, 5 months ago