Liquity's Robert Lauko On Censorship And Building A Fully Decentralized Stablecoin
The Defiant19 Syys 2022

Liquity's Robert Lauko On Censorship And Building A Fully Decentralized Stablecoin

This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Robert Lauko, founder & head of research at Liquity, an overcollateralized DeFi lending protocol and issuer of the LUSD stablecoin.

Following the fallout from CeFi services such as Voyager, BlockFi, and Celsius, the focus has shifted back to the core values of decentralization, which Liquity tries to apply to the fullest: LUSD is backed purely by Ether and Liquity is governance-free and has no centralized frontend.

Crypto mixer Tornado Cash was recently sanctioned by the US Department of the Treasury together with addresses that interacted with the protocol. This prompted other DeFi protocols such as Aave and dYdX to blacklist those addresses in a bid to minimize legal risk. Robert discusses how DeFi projects can deal with censorship.

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