Sky Co-founder: The Next Era of Onchain Finance Is Coming
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Sky Co-founder: The Next Era of Onchain Finance Is Coming

For this weeks Stabled Up episode, Sky co-founder Rune Christensen breaks down recent DeFi exploits, Sky's risk model, the future of yieldcoins, onchain lending, and why the next era of DeFi scale will be centered around risk management.

Rune Christensen is the co-founder of Sky, formerly MakerDAO, the issuer of USDS.

The Rollup is where the leaders of digital assets and finance converge. Live from the financial capital of the world.


Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

01:10 Exploit Initial Reactions

03:38 Fear Worse Than Hack

05:42 Schrodinger's Collateral Explained

08:03 USDS Yield Spike

09:00 Sky Product Stack

11:44 Flight to Quality

16:07 Spark Subsidized Liquidity

18:26 Sky's Collateral Philosophy

25:00 Skylink Explained

27:12 In-house Bridge Standard

29:06 Fed Rates & DeFi

33:44 Why Security Enables Scale

38:00 Isolated vs. Pooled Lending

42:07 DeFi Is Not Over


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