DeFi.WTF Osaka Archive

[CarboClanC]

DeFi.WTF | The Power of Asking

• DeFi.WTF is a purely community-driven event as part of a concerted effort of modern resurrection of the Pynx, a supportive space for open, inclusive, informed, and thoughtful exchanges of ideas. Brought to you by a 21-Day Flash Organization: the WTF Collective.
• Osaka, Japan, 2019.10.07

WTF Vault: Archive of Speakers' Slides & Video Recaps (Updating)

No.	Topic	Slides and Videos	Speaker / Panelist / Moderator*
1	Bird's-eye View of the Emergent Ethereum DeFi Microcosm
1.1	Story of DeFi: How it Started, Where It Stands Now, DeFi Definition Revisited	Slides Video	Felix Feng -Set Protocol
1.2	DeFi East Meets West (Fire-side Chat)	Slides Video	Camila Russo -The Defiant Diane Dai -CypherJump
2	Evolution of Liquidity
2.1	DeFi Moneyness	Slides Video	Sunny Aggarwal -Cosmos
2.2	A Brief History Of Decentralized Exchange	Slides Video	Tom Schmidt -0x
2.3	Deep Dive into DeFi Liquidity Models (panel)	Video	Alex Evans -Placeholder * Tom Schmidt -0x Lev Livnev -Dapp.org/SCP Kyle Kistner -bZx
3	Implications of Intra- and Inter-dependencies
3.1	Visualizing DeFi: The Evolution of a Connected System	Slides Video	Christian Crowley -Alethio
3.2	Trust & Transparency	Video	Shruti Appiah * James Preswich -Summa / tBTC Sunny Aggarwal -Cosmos
3.3	Liquid Collaterals: Trojan Horse of Protocol Economics?	Video	TIna Zhen -YellowHatDAO * James Preswich -Summa -tBTC Illia Polosukhim -Near Sunny Aggarwal -Cosmos Dan Robinson -Paradigm Jake Kim-Everett
4	WTF Talks & Lunch
4.1	WTF Talk - Unlock Collateral for Yield	Slides Video	Mindao Yang -dForce / USDx
4.2	WTF Talk - Banking the Unbanked: They Don't Trust You	Slides Video	Claire Belmont -Celo
4.3	WTF Talk - Data: A New Form of Labor; Why DeFi is crucial to monetize it	Slides	Suji Yan -Maskbook
4.4	WTF Talk - People Powered Money in a Nutshell	Video Video	Kristoffer Naerland -Trustline
4.5	WTF Talk - Incognito Mode for your Crypto	Slides Video	Duy Huynh -Incognito
4.6	WTF Talk - Deep behaviour analyses of the MakerDAO events and data	Slides Video	Maksim Balashevich -Santiment
4.7	WTF Talk - Negative Liberty & Positive Liberty	Slides Video	Patrick Gallagher -rDai
5	Putting the "De" Back in DeFi
5.1	Some Issues in DeFi Centralization	Slides Video	Lev Livnev -Dapp.org / SCP
5.2	DAO in DeFi & & DeFi in DAO	Video	Jenna Zenk -MelonCouncil / AvantgardeFinance * Ameen Soleimani -MolochDAO / Spankchain Peter Pan -MetaCartel Jorge Izquierdo -Aragon Martin Koppelman -Gnosis / Dxdao
6	Attacks and Defenses
6.1	DeFi Risk Assessment Framework	Slides Video	Jack Clancy -CoDeFi
6.2	Attack Vectors in DeFi Ecosystem	Slides Video	Chiachi Wu -Peckshield
6.3	Modeling Financial Risk Transfers: Casestudy on MakerDAO Credit Events	Slides Video	Alex Evans -Placeholder
6.4	Cascading Failures through Highly Coupled Systems	Slides Video	Shruti Appiah
7	Conversation with Your DeFi Investor
7.1	How to think about Value?	Slides Video	Joel Monegro -Placeholder
7.2	Capture Value in DeFi: What didn't Work and What's Next	Video	Mable Jiang -Nirvana Capital * Chris McCann -Proof of Capital Lasse Clausen -1kx Richard Chen -1confirmation Haseeb Qureshi -Dragonfly Niraj Pant -Polychain
8	Inception vs. Deception
8.1	Chasing Yield: Interest Rates & Crypto Native Yields	Video	Tom Schmidt -0x * Dan Robinson -Paradigm Zhuoxun Yin -Dydx Trent Elmore -Topo Finance Jacob Shiach -Metamoneymarket Kyle Kistner -bZx
8.2	Should We and Can We Go from Over-collateralization to Under-collateralization?	Video	Haseeb Qureshi -Dragonfly * Martin Koppelman -Gnosis -Dxdao Allison Lu -UMA Kyle Kistner -bZx Mindao Yang -dForce -USDx
9	DeFi Product-Market-Fit
9.1	Mapping the Mass Adoption Puzzle: Missing Pieces within the DeFi Stack	Video	See Eun -Nonce * Tony Sheng -Multicoin Andrew Albertson -Fenwick&West Itamar Lesuisse -Argent Victor Zhang -AlphaWallet / TokenScript Vadim Koleoshkin -Zerion
9.2	DeFi's Real vs Expected Users: Institutions v.s. Retail, Human v.s. Bots v.s. Other Smart Contracts?	Video	Camila Russo -the Defiant * Noah Zinsmeister -Uniswap Bowen Wang -DDex Philip Seifert -imToken Andrew Keys -DARMA Capital Chao Pan -MakerDAO
10	What's Next for DeFi
10.1	Global Legal Landscape for DeFi	Slides Video	Dan Friedberg -Fenwick&West
10.2	Tightly Couple DeFi in ETH 2.0	Slides Video	Karl Floerach -Plasma Group
10.3	DeFi Bull vs. DeFi Bear: A Debate	Video	Kyle Kistner -bZx (Bull) Andrew Keys -DARMA Capital (Bear)
10.4	DeFi.WTF: Call for Research & Experiments	Video	Tina Zhen -YellowHatDAO Toya B -Nervos Shruti Appiah (Independent Researcher) Camila Russo -The Defiant Jenna Zenk -Melonport

DeFi.WTF Community Participation

1. "A DeFi Billboard" Harberger Taxes Social Experiment: https://defi.wtf/#/billboard

• This is the only place you’ll see logos, REALLY LOUD LOGOS. We are creating “A DeFi Billboard” specifically to take shilling off the serious discussions.
• “A DeFi Billboard” is both physical and virtual: We will conduct a continuous auction for 5 display slots on www.Defi.wtf with a Harberger Tax mechanism. In a Harberger Taxation model, the buyer/advertiser sets the price, then the next buyer accepts the price, and pays a tax until he/she is bought out by another buyer, or he stops paying taxes. The tax goes to the event’s ENS address: defiwtf.eth. The proceeds will go into funding the event and funding research that comes out of the event.

2. Donation to Community ENS: defiwtf.eth

• If you love what we’re doing and want to help make it a success, consider donating!As an OG supporter, you’ll instantly enter the WTF events’ hall of fame.
• You can include a 140-word message about why you’re donating or anything you want to say to the DeFi community, and your name and comment will be displayed on community website (www.DeFi.WTF), Twitter (@wtfdao), and at the event.

3. Stay Tuned

• Website: www.DeFi.wtf
• Twitter: @wtfdao
• Telegram: t.me/defiwtf

[0xSSoul]

Monte Carlo can offer some sponsorship to this summit if needed.

[pepae]

Hey guys, great idea and event!

The Trustlines Protocol team would love to give a quick talk in track 6: "Using a minimal viable side-chain design to scale a DEFI project - Trustlines Protocol". It could be a talking point for an alternative besides Ethereum and other Layer 1 solutions. What do you think, would there still be time to squeeze that in?

More info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOk2uzxQVr8
https://github.com/trustlines-protocol/blockchain
https://medium.com/trustlines-foundation/introducing-the-trustlines-blockchain-682abe31e022

Thank you!

[owocki]

happy to give a talk about open source communities or open sou8rce sustainability

[CarboClanC]

Apply for giving a talk: Improving the User Experience of DEX

Dear Jie, thank you for your interest and your proposal. Great topic indeed！
What I would suggest is to follow the "Propose" format specified above:

• Name (or preferred alias), a one-line intro of yourself.
• Proposed Topic, and a one-line intro explaining the topic.
• An abstract, or link to a deck (optional)
• Twitter handle (optional)

We will have a voting period later next week for the community to use Quadratic Voting to decide on additional proposals to be included at the event.

[CarboClanC]

Hey guys, great idea and event!

The Trustlines Protocol team would love to give a quick talk in track 6: "Using a minimal viable side-chain design to scale a DEFI project - Trustlines Protocol". It could be a talking point for an alternative besides Ethereum and other Layer 1 solutions. What do you think, would there still be time to squeeze that in?

More info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOk2uzxQVr8
https://github.com/trustlines-protocol/blockchain
https://medium.com/trustlines-foundation/introducing-the-trustlines-blockchain-682abe31e022

Thank you!

Dear Trustline team, thank you for your interest and your proposal. While scalability is crucial for most blockchain applications, scalability may not be the highest on the priority list for DeFi microcosm (at least for now). However, we are interested the fundamental research and design philosophy behind Trustline, and may we propose later a topic we believe the community can benefit the most from Trustiline team?

In addition, we are reshuffling the agenda at the moment to see if we will have more of a focus on risk framework, or usibility (mass adoption), and will have a voting period later next week to use Quadratic Voting to decide on additional proposals to be included at the event, stay tuned!

[CarboClanC]

happy to give a talk about open source communities or open sou8rce sustainability

Thanks Kevin, you may be interested in two of the experiments our community is taking on, thanks to hacker Minako Kojima's help!

1. "A DeFi Billboard"

as a social experiment using Harberger Tax for pricing the 10 Advertisement spaces on a neon sign "DeFi Billboard". The proceeds of the billboard will go into funding the event, as well as the funding continued research that comes out of the event.
"DeFi" as a term and a meme originated last year as a marketing alliance for a few early projects in the space to help the public understand their work, not individually but collectively as a whole. It started with a DeFi summit, and a website, and a telegram chat group. Over a year now, the meme took off to the point it became a hype word that everyone says but no one understands. The website is left unmaintained, and many new members of the community has raised questions as to why has there not been a community driven effort in keep it updated. And the DeFi chat channel has ballooned into a purely advertisement chat of over 3000 members. We no longer have the meaningful constructive discussion that comes out of the channel, in fact we all broke into out little groups (in China we have a group of over 300) to engage in more meaningful discussion.
And this is the inspiration for our social experiment "A DeFi Billboard": create a market-driven Billboard, so take the salesman pitch off the serious discussions. "A DeFi Billboard" is both physical and virtual: we will have a Physical retro-style neon billboard at the venue for the event for the winning logos, and a banner on DeFi.WTF website (expected launch by this Sunday, Sep 22). We may consider pooling re-twit and Wechat moments from DeFi and crypto influencers across different regions who are interested in taking part in this social experiment. The proceeds from before the launch of the event goes into event planning, the proceeds from after the event will go into funding continued research.
Currently we are still in designing phase, will try to hack out a prototype in 1 week!! Welcome comments and help!

2. Quadratic Voting

See RadicalXChange Matt Prewitt's issue: Interoperable Quadratic Voting Tool #64
Our community is hacking a QV tool for voting what to include in agenda, and later, on potentially what research direction to fund in the future.

[0xSSoul]

I apply for a talk about the evolution of the liquidity: beyond the MMORPG and the single player game.

I want to share my thoughts about liquidity on chain:

• Shortcomings of off-chain matching
• Learn from Uniswap
• Three keys to evolution of liquidity

[pepae]

Dear Trustline team, thank you for your interest and your proposal. While scalability is crucial for most blockchain applications, scalability may not be the highest on the priority list for DeFi microcosm (at least for now). However, we are interested the fundamental research and design philosophy behind Trustline, and may we propose later a topic we believe the community can benefit the most from Trustiline team?

Thank you, yes, this works as well! We can go more into the philosophical/economics aspects of mutual credit networks or even in the usability direction (i.e. why and for whom it could make sense to use mutual credit as an on-boarding method or as a complementary currency). Let us know what works for you!

[SiddigZeidan]

Hey guys! The POA Network and xDai Chain team would like to give a talk on "Derivatives of Dai". The talk, by tech lead Igor Barinov, will involve taking the audience on a journey towards Dai creation and its by-products that obviously include xDai but also:

1. CDP --> Dai
2. Eth --> PEth
3. cDai, rDai
4. Synthetic assets and their creation

Looking forward to getting feeback and hearing back from you!

[jclancy93]

Hey guys!

Jack here from Consensys CoDeFi. I would like to give a talk on one of our new efforts, the DeFi Score, a framework for assessing risk in permissionless lending platforms. You can learn more here:

• https://github.com/ConsenSys/defi-score
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQC84Ulg2lo&list=PLhbK0NpGv8dWsjLpYA-OM4gQk-GdQe7X2&index=0&t=1

Looking forward to it. Thanks for organizing!

[ShrutiAppiah]

@jclancy93, let’s hop on a 15 min Zoom chat to discuss where your talk could best fit. I’m composing the section on risks and interoperability for the event. How does tomorrow 8:00 AM ET look for you?

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[bw992]

Hey Guys,

Bowen from Margin.ddex.io. I would like to give a talk on 8. DeFi beyond Ethereum.

We are beta launching a DeFi Margin& Lending product, 5x Long/Short Ethereum, Borrow & Lending ETH/USDT/DAI. Margin.ddex.io.

We would love to show our internal debate about what a developer needs if they are migrating from Ethereum to another blockchain. Weather Public chain should tailor for DeFi need or Public chain just need to be EVM compatible?

What kind of scenario works best on Ethereum? What kind of scenario needs high TPS, low finality Chain? How do we rebuild DeFi BitMex with 100x leverage?

[jclancy93]

@ShrutiAppiah that works! Feel free to reach out on Telegram - jack0x0

[krisnaer]

Dear Trustline team, thank you for your interest and your proposal. While scalability is crucial for most blockchain applications, scalability may not be the highest on the priority list for DeFi microcosm (at least for now). However, we are interested the fundamental research and design philosophy behind Trustline, and may we propose later a topic we believe the community can benefit the most from Trustiline team?

Thank you, yes, this works as well! We can go more into the philosophical/economics aspects of mutual credit networks or even in the usability direction (i.e. why and for whom it could make sense to use mutual credit as an on-boarding method or as a complementary currency). Let us know what works for you!

Hey @CarboClanC any update on the idea of discussing Trustlines and mutual credit at DeFi WTF?

It's a relatively unexplored topic on the agenda AFAIK (and obviously very interesting :-). We'd be happy to pitch in wherever works best, but we'd need to do some coordination on our part to make sure we can deliver in time. Feel free to write me on telegram @krisnaer if it's more convenient for you.

[CarboClanC]

Hey @CarboClanC any update on the idea of discussing Trustlines and mutual credit at DeFi WTF?

It's a relatively unexplored topic on the agenda AFAIK (and obviously very interesting :-). We'd be happy to pitch in wherever works best, but we'd need to do some coordination on our part to make sure we can deliver in time. Feel free to write me on telegram @krisnaer if it's more convenient for you.

Mutual credit networks is super interesting! Would you guys be interesting in prepping a WTF talk on your chosen subject? We will hold a quadratic vote next week after "Propose" period ends. You may follow the format of proposal specified at the beginning of the page:

Name (or preferred alias), a one-line intro of yourself.
Proposed Topic, and a one-line intro explaining the topic.
An abstract, or link to a deck (optional)
Twitter handle (optional)

[CarboClanC]

Hey Guys,

Bowen from Margin.ddex.io. I would like to give a talk on 8. DeFi beyond Ethereum.

We are beta launching a DeFi Margin& Lending product, 5x Long/Short Ethereum, Borrow & Lending ETH/USDT/DAI. Margin.ddex.io.

We would love to show our internal debate about what a developer needs if they are migrating from Ethereum to another blockchain. Weather Public chain should tailor for DeFi need or Public chain just need to be EVM compatible?

What kind of scenario works best on Ethereum? What kind of scenario needs high TPS, low finality Chain? How do we rebuild DeFi BitMex with 100x leverage?

Thank you Bowen for your WTF Talk Proposal. I would suggest you can follow the format specified on the top of page:

• Name (or preferred alias), a one-line intro of yourself.
• Proposed Topic, and a one-line intro explaining the topic.
• An abstract, or link to a deck (optional)
• Twitter handle (optional)

So that when the community vote for your talk, they will best understand the value of your insights!

[CarboClanC]

Hey guys! The POA Network and xDai Chain team would like to give a talk on "Derivatives of Dai". The talk, by tech lead Igor Barinov, will involve taking the audience on a journey towards Dai creation and its by-products that obviously include xDai but also:

1. CDP --> Dai
2. Eth --> PEth
3. cDai, rDai
4. Synthetic assets and their creation

Looking forward to getting feeback and hearing back from you!

This seems like a fun talk, thank you for proposing! Feel free to add more colors onto your description before the quadratic voting taking place next week!

[krisnaer]

I propose a topic about mutual credit AFAIK it's a largely unexplored topic on the current agenda and proposes to tackle many of the same problems DeFI as a whole identifies such as

• Permissionless access to credit
• Credit creation that doesn't require over-collateralization
• Informal economies
• UBI
• Identity
  amongst others.

Name (or preferred alias), a one-line intro of yourself.

Trustlines Network - Permissionless Mutual Credit

Proposed Topic, and a one-line intro explaining the topic.

People powered money - mutual credit blockchain-based credit that can be issued and used without a bank account, government issued ID or prefunded cryptowallet

An abstract, or link to a deck (optional)

Trustlines is bringing a mobile app that you can try the people-powered money use case with. All you need is a friend who trusts you with a beer to get started. Get beer credit on the app which is connected to the beer currency network in Osaka. Use your beer credit to pay strangers by making a multihop payment. Expand the beer network by creating more Trustlines or use it to pay for beers throughout Devcon with other users.

Twitter handle (optional

twitter.com/knaerland

My knowledge is specifically within Trustlines and so that is what I would cover. It currently tackles the first three points I listed but is currently not focused on UBI or identity although this is possible if people are interesting in working on these use-cases with the Trustlines Protocol. I'm very open to discuss alternatives or do a panel if there are others who are working on the same thing.

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[0xSSoul]

• Name (or preferred alias), a one-line intro of yourself.

Liu Jie, CEO of Monte Carlo (Products: Minerbabe & Mai Protocol)，a member of Yellow Hat Dao, the former architect of Apache Doris

• Proposed Topic, and a one-line intro explaining the topic.

Evolution of DeFi Liquidity: the Combination of On-chain and Off-chain Liquidity

• An abstract, or link to a deck (optional)

More and more DeFi products have been developed. On the premise that the current infrastructure is fragile, these products will encounter more significant liquidity challenges than centralized products. This talk compares the synchronous (MMORPG) and asynchronous (Single Player Game) liquidity models and presents a framework for the combination of on-chain and off-chain liquidity, which can be widely applied to DeFi products.

• Twitter handle (optional)

@LiuJie85

[zhangzhongnan928]

Hey Guys,

We would like to make some DeFi.WTF tokens for the event, and write a TokenScript file for it.
Each audience can get 1 DeFi.WTF token, with some functions enabled by TokenScript:

1. it serves as a "membership" identifier for any other services to be built on top of it.
2. we can provide some basic services like

• one button claim some DeFi tokens(cDai, iDAi, Dai and etc.)
• one button to open up event agenda
  You can update the TokenScript file any time to update or add in new features.

Something similar like this:

[zhangzhongnan928]

We should have a topic about payment DvP (not transfer, Delivery versus payment).
I can talk about "how to extend crypto payment beyond DeFi"

All the DeFi contracts can be considered as merchants, users pay crypto and get some right or other cryptos in return. The whole process is a DvP without centralized trusted 3rd parties. This not only reduced market friction and counterparty risks but also makes the atomic transaction between different DeFi contracts possible. How to extend these benefit to other services beyond DeFi, the key is to tokenised the D(Delivery).

Payment is like a bridge to connect DeFi with the real economy.

[pi0neerpat]

1. Name (or preferred alias), a one-line intro of yourself.

Patrick Gallagher & Victor Rortvedt from Washington, D.C.

2. Proposed Topic, and a one-line intro explaining the topic.

Paying with earned interest. Could Netflix feel free?

The psychology of earning and spending "free" money. Does interest earned on savings really feel "free"? Will people hodl this interest or spend it? What does it feel like to spend it?

3. An abstract, or link to a deck (optional)

TBD

4. Twitter handle (optional)

@rDAI_dao

[incognitochain]

Hello everyone!
I would like to apply for the WTF talk, with Privacy & ETH 2.0 Validation topic.

Duy Huyn - Incognito.org
Topic: Incognito mode for your crypto assets.
Deck: https://incognito.org/deck.pdf
Twitter: https://twitter.com/duy_incognito

[Tedko]

My interesting propose:

• Name (or preferred alias), a one-line intro of yourself.
  Suji Yan, CEO of Dimension.im / Maskbook ; Engineer; Journalist;

• Proposed Topic, and a one-line intro explaining the topic.
  Expand the DeFi to a new world. How to decentralized 'trade' Data and redefine the new market.

• An abstract, or link to a deck (optional)
  We already saw concepts like 'Data as Labor' from , economists, and even Andrew Yang. If Data = Labor, what's the new Data Labor Union a.k.a Data DAO ? How will the new market work in near future? And what's the rule of DeFi in it (and why not CeFi) ?

• Twitter handle (optional) @suji_yan

[mindaoyang]

Name (or preferred alias), a one-line intro of yourself.
Mindao YANG, Founder of dForce (https://github.com/dforce-network, https://usdx.dforce.network/) and founded crypto asset management platform Blockpower in 2017, now global validators for Cosmos and Tezos.

Proposed Topic, and a one-line intro explaining the topic.
Introduce a General Framework to Unlock Collateral Liquidity for Systematic Yield and Value Creation
(C4Y framework)
An abstract, or link to a deck (optional)
This is a reflection and abstraction of our efforts to implement systematic yield in our core protocol USDx - a synthetic USD stablecoin and upcoming stableasset protocols.

Abstract:

• Current DeFi protocols under-utilize its collateral with nonoptimal yield curve
• Context of the Problem, Case in Point and Engineering in Progress
• Description, Design Choice of the Framework
• Make Use of Composibility and Interdependence of DeFi stacks
• Risks and Mitigant of the Implementation and Our Consideration
• Impact on Existing DeFi Protocols, Money Supply and Yields.

Twitter handle (optional) @mindaoyang

[CarboClanC]

Hey guys!

Jack here from Consensys CoDeFi. I would like to give a talk on one of our new efforts, the DeFi Score, a framework for assessing risk in permissionless lending platforms. You can learn more here:

• https://github.com/ConsenSys/defi-score
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQC84Ulg2lo&list=PLhbK0NpGv8dWsjLpYA-OM4gQk-GdQe7X2&index=0&t=1

Looking forward to it. Thanks for organizing!

Hi Codefi team, would like to speak with you again regarding your topic proposal. Feel free to DM me @Tinazhen on Telegram.

[clrblmt]

Name (or preferred alias), a one-line intro of yourself.
Claire Belmont
Product lead on Celo Protocol (an open platform that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone), Citizen of the world

Proposed Topic, and a one-line intro explaining the topic.
Banking the Unbanked: Lessons from the Field

An abstract, or link to a deck (optional)

• Brief intro to Celo (problem, solution / tech stack, user centric-approach)
• What we learned from user research in 7 countries across 150+ interviews in 1 year:
• Awareness: People won’t pay attention unless you speak to their need
• Understanding: People put new concepts into existing frameworks
• Trust: People trust people, not organizations
• Value: There’s more to consider when designing for low resource settings.

Twitter handle (optional)Name
@clairebelmont

[FernandoMartinelli]

• This is Fernando, co-founder and CEO of Balancer Labs, the company behind Balancer protocol.

• We are a new non-custodial portfolio manager, liquidity provider, and price sensor. We have recently released our whitepaper and gone out of stealth mode.

• Our whitepaper and a teaser about us

• Our twitter: @balancerlabs, my twitter: @fcmartinelli

[ravno]

Hi, guys!

Maksim (founder and CEO) from Santiment.net team.

I would like to talk about:
See through the noise. Deep behaviour analyses of the MakerDAO events and data

The target auditorium would be:

• people who want to understand more about the MakerDAO network
• devs and analysts who would like to build their risk (and opportunities) models for crypto
• traders and investors who want to have more insights on the market cycles
• market makers and CDP owners who need quality information related to their „locked ETH“

The talk will be based on what we've collaboratively built for the MakerDAO risk team:
https://graphs.santiment.net/makerdao

[CarboClanC]

• This is Fernando, co-founder and CEO of Balancer Labs, the company behind Balancer protocol.
• We are a new non-custodial portfolio manager, liquidity provider, and price sensor. We have recently released our whitepaper and gone out of stealth mode.
• Our whitepaper and a teaser about us
• Our twitter: @balancerlabs, my twitter: @fcmartinelli

Hellow Fernando, please contact me regarding your proposed WTF Talk on Telegram @Tinazhen Thank you!

[CarboClanC]

Hi, guys!

Maksim (founder and CEO) from Santiment.net team.

I would like to talk about:
See through the noise. Deep behaviour analyses of the MakerDAO events and data

The target auditorium would be:

• people who want to understand more about the MakerDAO network
• devs and analysts who would like to build their risk (and opportunities) models for crypto
• traders and investors who want to have more insights on the market cycles
• market makers and CDP owners who need quality information related to their „locked ETH“

The talk will be based on what we've collaboratively built for the MakerDAO risk team:
https://graphs.santiment.net/makerdao

Hi Ravno, please contact me regarding your proposed WTF Talk on Telegram @Tinazhen Thank you! Look forward to speaking to you!

[thowar2]

• Name: Tom Howard, Co-Founder of Mosendo (Venmo/Revolut/Alipay built on DeFi)
• Proposed Topic: Usability tech that makes DeFi accessible beyond cryptopunks
• Abstract: Review of the main benefits that DeFi brings to the world, barriers to meaningful adoption, and new decentralized technology which overcomes those barriers
• Twitter: @_TomHoward

[CarboClanC]

• Name: Tom Howard, Co-Founder of Mosendo (Venmo/Revolut/Alipay built on DeFi)
• Proposed Topic: Usability tech that makes DeFi accessible beyond cryptopunks
• Abstract: Review of the main benefits that DeFi brings to the world, barriers to meaningful adoption, and new decentralized technology which overcomes those barriers
• Twitter: @_TomHoward

It's a bit too late for the talks Tom, and the WTF talks are less about impact, more research oriented.

[CarboClanC]

Hey guys! The POA Network and xDai Chain team would like to give a talk on "Derivatives of Dai". The talk, by tech lead Igor Barinov, will involve taking the audience on a journey towards Dai creation and its by-products that obviously include xDai but also:

1. CDP --> Dai
2. Eth --> PEth
3. cDai, rDai
4. Synthetic assets and their creation

Looking forward to getting feeback and hearing back from you!

Hi POA and xDai team. have been looking all over telegram for you. Would love to invite you for a 5 minute short and sweet talk on "DAI derivaties". Would need your slides by the end of today. Please find me on telegram @Tinazhen. Thanks.