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This is Ryan Sean Adams.

I'm here with David Hoffman,

and we're here to help you become more bankless.

David, we have an absolutely fantastic episode

with Robert Lushner from Compound today.

This is going to be an episode on how to go bankless with Compound.

What did you learn from this episode, man?

There were so many topics that got dropped in this

episode that I haven't heard anywhere else and so it was really a treat to get

Robert Lesher on to talk all about compound. I really enjoyed learning about the kind of the design ethos and parameters of the compound protocol, how it came to be and

why some of the decisions were made in the way that they were.

And so, Robert, he's the founder of Compound,

and so he goes all the way back and kind of explain

some of the choices in the Comp protocol, the ethos of the system at large, and how and where compound is going to go into the future.

And so Robert, a really smart guy guy, Sharp as attack, really saw the vision for

Defi, I think, earlier than most people, and he has led compound with that vision and I think he hit that vision that nail on the head really, really well.

So, you know, tip of the hat to Robert for building something really powerful in this space.

We touch on topics such as the protocol Singh thesis, which me and Ryan are

harping on more and more and more. And Robert really really resonated with that. And so we're going to, we talk about that.

And we also talk about what it means for a system like compound to be fully autonomous but also governed by you know a set of community stakeholders. You know these are topics that we all we always knew were coming in the horizon with

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