Description
Robert Leshner is the founder and CEO of Compound Labs, and a web 3 & defi advocate. He joines Cobie & Ledger to discuss building Compound, governance, working in defi, and more.
Presented by FTX: https://uponly.tv/ftx
00:00 - Intro
2:30 - Background / Playing Chess
07:25 - Compound news
20:00 - Process of going from proposal to implementation / How changes are made
26:25 - Rollback triggers and risks
31:40 - How much power do founders have over decentralized protocols?
36:15 - New products / Lending
42:10 - Insurance in DeFi
44:08 - Compound and a Layer 1 chain
50:17- Ethereum scalability
56:29 - ZK-Rollups
1:01:00 - Investing in different projects
1:07:55 - Settling disagreements / Rebalancing
1:12:05 - Ultimate goal of building a protocol
1:17:05 - Bitcoin and Ethereum
1:24:15 - Does Robert have an alt account? / CryptoPunks
1:35:24 - The future of DeFi apps
1:38:30 - Main narratives and problems moving forward
1:44:00 - Is Compound hiring? / Working in crypto
1:51:30 - Free alpha