87 - The Future of Maker | Rune Christensen
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🗓️ 11 October 2021
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
Rune Christensen is the Founder of MakerDAO and one of the pioneers of the DeFi space. As one of the earliest DeFi protocols, Maker set precedents for tokenomics, governance, and use cases. Maker is setting new precedents with the recent announcement of Société Générale's proposal for a Maker loan using bond tokens.
As a thought leader in Crypto, Rune has had some fascinating takes lately on the plausibility of a multichain future, as well as how incentives can turn DAI into a clean money. From maximalism to environmentalism, this conversation explores it all.
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
7:00 Rune Christensen of MakerDAO
12:20 Société Générale
20:32 Why Maker?
23:48 Criticizing the Multi-Chain World
41:19 Optimizing for Home
49:06 On Maximalism
58:13 Nativity and Monetary Premium
1:07:47 Does Decentralization Matter?
1:12:53 Multi-Chain Propaganda
1:20:00 Maker as Clean Money
1:29:56 Aligning Human & Market Values
1:41:05 Environmental Economic Crisis
1:46:26 How Maker Gets Clean
1:53:24 Narratives
2:02:41 Solarpunk Tokenomics
2:09:53 Updates on DeFi
2:12:12 Closing & Disclaimers
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Resources:
Rune on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/RuneKek?s=20
MakerDAO:
https://makerdao.com/en/
The Case for Clean Money:
https://twitter.com/RuneKek/status/1445072416598859781?s=20
The L1 Future:
https://twitter.com/RuneKek/status/1436454065760788483?s=20
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. |
| 0:12.9 | This is how to get started, how to get better, and how to front-run the opportunity. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Ryan Chon Adams, I'm here with David Hoffman, and we're here to help you become more |
| 0:21.9 | bankless. |
| 0:22.9 | David, we've got an OG on the podcast, OG, from a founder perspective, also an OG protocol |
| 0:29.8 | and this is Rune Christensen from MakerDow. |
| 0:32.6 | What did we cover? |
| 0:33.6 | What were some of the highlights for you? |
| 0:34.6 | Yeah, this is actually, I think, two podcasts in one. |
| 0:37.5 | So the first half of this show is all about a tweet thread that a room put out that captured |
| 0:43.0 | both your and mine attention. |
| 0:45.0 | And it was a technical argument about why things will likely collapse down to one single |
| 0:53.2 | ecosystem. |
| 0:54.7 | And so where previously, like, maximalist arguments have generally been one of mostly emotion |
| 1:00.8 | and people speaking their bags. |
| 1:03.2 | Rune does a fantastic job of actually articulating a technical rationale for why there will likely |
| 1:10.4 | only just be one layer one blockchain that will succeed, at least with regards to smart |
| 1:15.8 | contract platforms that have defy on them. |
| 1:18.1 | So he goes through the game theory about why defy apps might actually align themselves |
| 1:23.3 | with one specific chain in lieu of, I'm going to say it, David, because he said it. |
| 1:27.8 | It's like an eth-maximalist take, right? |
| 1:29.6 | Sure. |
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