I.O.W with Kolten Bergeron - Head of Growth at Liquity

<p>Kolten Bergeron joins Mark11 in the studio to talk about everything Liquity! They dive into Kolten's crypto background, how DAO's differ from corporations, the growing pains of DAOs, the trade-offs associated with having a fee-based token vs a typical governance token like other protocols, and why every stablecoin is not the same.</p><p><strong>What they touch on:</strong></p><p>- What is Liquity? (2:41)</p><p>- Distributed front-end operators (4:13)</p><p>- Kolten’s crypto background (6:22)</p><p>- Kolten and the Stellar Development Foundation (8:52)</p><p>- First ETH &amp; BTC purchases (10:06)</p><p>- Trails and tribulations of investing in crypto (11:31)</p><p>- Defi Summer (12:32)</p><p>- Kolten’s intro to OHM (13:50)</p><p>- Kolten’s first impressions of Olympus (15:48)</p><p>- How collateralized loans work and redemption mechanisms (18:41)</p><p>- Taking loans out against your assets and its implications (23:26)</p><p>- Liquity Frontend Operators (26:05)</p><p>- Liquity roadmap (28:57)</p><p>- Trade-offs of having immutable parameters (31:55)</p><p>- The Liquity community (34:38)</p><p>- Having a fee-capture token vs governance (37:14)</p><p>- Can Liquity move to L2? (38:57)</p><p>- DAO’s efficiency vs inefficiency when managing complex procedures and responsibilities (45:20)</p><p>- What’s coming up for Liquity? (50:27)</p><p>- Difference vs risks of other stablecoins (54:01)</p><p><strong>Links:</strong></p><p>- <em>Liquity:</em> <a href="http://www.liquity.org" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">http://www.liquity.org</a></p><p>- <em>Kolten: </em><a href="https://twitter.com/0xKolten" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://twitter.com/0xKolten</a></p><p><strong>Olympus Agora:</strong></p><p>- <em>Twitter:</em> <a href="https://twitter.com/OlympusAgora" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://twitter.com/OlympusAgora</a></p><p>- <em>Medium:</em> <a href="https://medium.com/@olympusagora" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://medium.com/@olympusagora</a></p><p>- <em>Youtube: </em><a href="h