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The Element Airdrop & DAO Launch | Will Villanueva & Jonny Rhea

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4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Element Finance is an open-source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets.

Yield markets you say? Like the incoming Trillion-dollar ETH Staking yield market? 

Come learn about how Element is putting a financial layer on top of Ethereum staking, and the other cool new inventions that the Element team has for the DAO space. 

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Guests: 

Will Villanueva 
- CEO of Element, previous worked at Consensys doing research on Ethereum  Sharding

Jonny Rhea 
- CTO of Element, previously worked at Consensys working on an Ethereum client. 

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Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro
8:30 What is Element?
13:37 The ELFI Airdrop
19:05 The zk Claim Process
25:48 Non-Transferable
29:20 NFTs & DAO Governance
35:57 Council Governance
41:14 Voting Vaults
49:58 Maximally Expressive Governance
53:55 ETH Staking Yield
1:01:06 Protocol Security
1:07:50 Bullish PoS Merge
1:15:10 What's Next for Element?
1:18:22 Closing & Disclaimers

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Resources:

DAO Launch Announcement: 
https://mirror.xyz/0x3fcAf7DDf64E6e109B1e2A5CC17875D4a5993F39/bctuLRkf7oBL4mMJ9lPf0y0blFjBDslTUfUL0CEk1gc 

Guide to Element: 
https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/a-guide-to-fixed-income-on-element?s=w 

Yield Token Compounding:
https://ytc.component.fi/ytc?base_token=0xA0b86991c6218b36c1d19D4a2e9Eb0cE3606eB48 

Previous Bankless show with Element
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF5O1rPbsm4 

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0:00.0

Hey, Bangladesh Nation. Welcome to another episode of State of the Nation. We're super excited

0:11.6

to talk to you guys a little bit about the Element Air Drop. Element. This is a DeFi protocol

0:17.1

default. DeFi primitive. We've talked about them before on Bangladesh. Basically fixed

0:21.6

interest rates. A new sort of DeFi primitive. And there's actually a lot to unpack with this

0:27.1

Element story. So David, I know you've got three things that you think are going to be super

0:32.6

valuable alpha in this conversation that we're going to cover. Can you talk about those and

0:36.7

the guests that we have on today? Yeah, yeah. This is not your typical Dow launch. While

0:41.5

that is where the conversation begins, it is certainly not where the conversation ends.

0:46.7

Element with a launch of Element Dow is bringing a lot to the table. First, they have a brand

0:51.1

new money Lego governance primitive that all Dow's are freely able to use and plug into.

0:57.9

They explained it to me yesterday and I'm already pretty well convinced that this is going

1:01.7

to become the new standard when it comes to Dow governance tokens. It's called a voting

1:06.8

vault and it allows you Ryan to have your cake and eat it too. At least when it comes

1:12.0

to yeah, cakes great. So we're going to take we're going to unpack what a voting vault is

1:16.8

and why we think at least why I've been convinced that basically every single Dow is going

1:20.9

to adopt a go voting vault structure. Second, they are also pioneering a Dow governance model,

1:26.8

a new governance structure, which they think is faster and more effective and more efficient

1:31.1

at governance, which is something that all Dow's need to improve and iterate on. But

1:35.3

lastly, Ryan and most importantly and most excitedly, they're going to show us how we can

1:41.1

get exposure to the merge. Like you said, is a fixed interest. Upside exposure right? Upside

1:45.9

exposure. Yeah. Or maybe the inverse. If you say I don't want the inverse, why would

1:50.7

anyone do the inverse? But okay, as you said, like element is a fixed yield interest rate

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