I.O.W with Liquity Head of Growth - Kolten Bergeron - 15 Nov 2021

Kolten Bergeron joins Mark11 in the studio to talk about everything Liquity! They dive into Kolten's crypto background, how DAO's differ from corporations, the growing pains of DAOs, the trade-offs associated with having a fee-based token vs a typical governance token like other protocols, and why every stablecoin is not the same.

What they touch on:

- What is Liquity? (2:41)

- Distributed front-end operators (4:13)

- Kolten’s crypto background (6:22)

- Kolten and the Stellar Development Foundation (8:52)

- First ETH & BTC purchases (10:06)

- Trails and tribulations of investing in crypto (11:31)

- Defi Summer (12:32)

- Kolten’s intro to OHM (13:50)

- Kolten’s first impressions of Olympus (15:48)

- How collateralized loans work and redemption mechanisms (18:41)

- Taking loans out against your assets and its implications (23:26)

- Liquity Frontend Operators (26:05)

- Liquity roadmap (28:57)

- Trade-offs of having immutable parameters (31:55)

- The Liquity community (34:38)

- Having a fee-capture token vs governance (37:14)

- Can Liquity move to L2? (38:57)

- DAO’s efficiency vs inefficiency when managing complex procedures and responsibilities (45:20)

- What’s coming up for Liquity? (50:27)

- Difference vs risks of other stablecoins (54:01)

Links:

- Liquity: http://www.liquity.org

- Kolten: https://twitter.com/0xKolten

Olympus Agora:

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- Medium: https://medium.com/@olympusagora

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Hosts:

- Dropkickdarren: https://twitter.com/dropkickdarren

- Mark11: https://twitter.com/Mark11ETH

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