Building the Factory for DeFi

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Episode Summary

In this episode, we're given a tour of the Factory for DeFi with Charles St. Louis, CEO at DELV. Charles walks us through the DELV rebrand, how he thinks governance should be architected, the possibilities with permissionless collateral onboarding, and much more. Also in our conversation, the former governance architect at MakerDAO highlights the tough lessons learned at the leading stablecoin protocol.

Time Stamps
  • 0:00 Intro

  • 1:16 What is DELV?

  • 2:12 Why Rebrand?

  • 3:10 DELV's 2023

  • 5:37 What DELV is Focused on

  • 6:27 DELV Core Product Suite

  • 17:45 How Should Governance Be Architected

  • 21:31 Project-based vs Role-based Governance Contributions

  • 23:58 The Bootstrap Phase in DAOs

  • 27:18 How Element DAO Approaches Governance

  • 32:15 Static vs Upgradeable DeFi Protocols

  • 37:05 Permissionless Collateral Onboarding

  • 41:48 Mitigating Protocol Attack Vectors

  • 44:00 AMM vs Lending vs Yield-based Protocol Governance

  • 45:46 DAO Constitutions as the Unified Vision

  • 49:31 Tradeoffs for Actually Decentralizing

  • 51:19 The Hard Lessons from MakerDAO Governance

  • 55:12 Charles' Fondest MakerDAO & Element Protocol Memories

  • 58:17 Final Thoughts/Outro

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