SotN 7/6 - Compound & the DeFi Mullet | Robert Leshner
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🗓️ 7 July 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Robert Leshner is the founder of the Compound Protocol, which is pioneering decentralized borrowing and lending. He is returning to Bankless to discuss Compound Treasury, which is set to offer Compound's services to institutions.
Is it Fintech? Is it Banking? Is it Crypto? Slick back your DeFi mullet and let's find out.
Robert on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/rleshner?s=20
Compound Treasury:
https://compound.finance/treasury
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to another day, let's episode, this is State of the Nation. |
| 0:19.6 | It's myself Ryan Sean Adams, I also have David Hoffman here. |
| 0:22.7 | I think David is dealing with some things today, David, how are you doing today? |
| 0:28.0 | You okay? |
| 0:29.0 | We got some funny little issues going around in the DJing side of the show. |
| 0:33.7 | So you hear the fire alarm in the background as well as some camera issues. |
| 0:37.4 | So Ryan is going to be the face of the show today. |
| 0:40.1 | So deeply, deep apologies about that, Ryan. |
| 0:42.9 | Take it away. |
| 0:43.9 | Yeah, all right. |
| 0:45.1 | I am the face of the show, David will have to fill you in and everything that's going on |
| 0:49.4 | his life at another date, but we're super excited about our guest today. |
| 0:53.6 | We've got Robert Leshner here from Compound, and we're talking about compound treasury. |
| 1:00.0 | And this is really exciting because Compound has just released an institutional product. |
| 1:06.2 | And so this has been kind of a theme, I think we've seen in DeFi, which is the institutionalization |
| 1:12.2 | of DeFi. |
| 1:13.2 | Are the institutions coming? |
| 1:14.7 | Yes. |
| 1:15.7 | And maybe they're coming to DeFi this time. |
| 1:17.8 | So really excited to dig into that conversation. |
| 1:21.6 | As far as announcements go, have some really cool stuff going on the big list nation. |
| 1:25.2 | Our memetics podcast came out on Monday, memetic desire, that is. |
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