TL:DR; The US Gov has the capability to cripple innovation and usage of crypto across the country, and unless our collective can band together and overwhelm politicians into believing we're the future then dark times are ahead
This essay explores the capabilities of the US Gov to stifle a budding industry, and how the broader crypto community can tackle that threat
Crypto is under threat by the regulatory and institutional powers that be
They may have ignored us up to now, but there's a good chance that as we continue to be disruptive and they become more aware of our potential they intervene to slow our progress
2⃣ Why is this a problem?
Though the government cannot shut down crypto itself, they do have the capability to throttle our progress with regulation that creates a strong disincentive for current and future users to remain on the blockchain
Take Web2 as an example
3⃣ Example
Consider Napster and their innovative peer-to-peer music service
Music industry incumbents realized that billions of dollars of profit could evaporate if Napster wasn't stopped
Thus they lobbied the USGov to regulate and most people stopped using the platform
4⃣ How do we stop this?
We must transmute the general public and political consensus around crypto to being a positive disrupting factor wherein suggesting otherwise would seem foolish
This will being a time-consuming and difficult endeavor, but it's definitely possible
5⃣ What can we do practically?
What this would look like in practice is developing strong arguments for crypto from ELI5 to academic levels
Garnering public and academic support from institutions with high political and social capital
And much more covered in the article
6⃣ Conclusion
It'd be naive to think the lack of government involvement is a future indicator of possible government regulation
The reality is we just weren't on their radar yet and with progress in the space we need to prepare for any potential threats now
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TL:DR; RomeDAO is expanding the Olympus ecosystem onto the Kusama and Polkadot chains with a fresh perspective on how to carry out the Ohmie mission
NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE
🅰️Why Kusama/Polkadot?
Moonriver is EVM-compatible with significant liquidity that Romans can leverage to be seen as the premier stable asset within the ecosystem
Their unique value props are out of scope for this thread, but lead to them being primed for exponential growth
1⃣ Mechanism design
Following OHM in its goal to create a healthy POL based reserve currency RomeDAO is offering 3 different bonds with FRAX, MIM, and MOVR as an initial means of bootstrapping
There's a potential partnership with @AnyswapNetwork to bridge assets to MOVR
TL:DR; 01 is bringing a unique financial primitives to the Solana ecosystem: Everlasting Options. 01 is tackling unmet demand in DeFi in the form of more sophisticated options, and if they can execute/adapt they could be an ecosystem mainstay
🅰️What are Everlasting Options?
Everlasting Options are essentially just perpetual futures, but for options
They work in pretty much the same way, people who have bought the option have to pay some funding rate to people who sold the option to keep their continuous position
🅱️Why Everlasting Options?
Standard options have expiry dates meaning to get perpetual exposure, you have to constantly roll your position over carrying significant cost, risk, and time investment
Everlasting options allow perpetual exposure without contract renewal process
TL:DR; TempleDAO is reorganizing its governance/discord structure to effectively leverage the high quality community members and their talents in product development
1⃣ Why now?
Chasing the exclusivity of Temple, community members have rushed to join the discord in efforts of contributing to get access to the Fire Ritual
This has led to curating high quality community members with a diverse range of Talents that the DAO can leverage
2⃣ What's happening?
TempleDAO is creating 5 Enclaves that mimic the structure of the current team within which community members can contribute to with their respective talents
This allows for community members to engage with the DAO and receive rewards based on contribution
TL:DR; TOKE ensures that LPs can withdraw the same quantity of assets they've deposited without IL by rebalancing assets in such a way that net loss can only occur on a system level in any market condition
IL mitigation mechanics have been a hot topic for the mechs @TokenReactor, and to answer those questions Carson and co have released an initial version of a gitbook
TL:DR; Strips is a derivatives DEX that's bringing a classic TradFi derivative to crypto: Interest Rate Swaps (IRS), and if executed properly Strip could see growth on the level of dYdX or other derivatives EXs
Not Financial Advice
1⃣ Product
IRS are forward contracts where you swap future interest payments based on some notional amount
There are 3 main types
1. Fixed to Floating: fixed to variable
2. Floating to Fixed: variable to fixed
3. Floating to Floating: variable to variable
1⃣ con
Offering IRS is a natural evolution in DeFi that mimics a trend in TradFi
Currently there's no protocol that offers IRS and so Strip is stepping in to meet that demand
Strip hasn't released its IRS DEX yet, but plans to offer the first two types of IRS
There's been some great discussion going on in the @templedao discord regarding the unstake queue and whether it's really an appropriate mechanism for controlling liqudity
Just wanted to give my 2 cents on it
I can see why forcefully having shallow liquidity on markets and an unstake queue to prevent capital flight is shady
I think a lot of crypto-natives from 2008 till now have experienced rug pulls and the crushing feeling of getting dumped on by a protocol
However, I think it's different in the case for Temple and here's why
Temple has given a promise of a safe-haven from the volatility of crypto. Volatility doesn't just mean stopping the price from going up, but also down
If the DAO wants to control that what can they do?