Episode description
Kevin Zhou, co-founder of Galois Capital, discusses a crazy week in the world of algorithmic stablecoins that saw USDN de-peg from the dollar and Terra unveil plans to create a new liquidity pool on Curve to strengthen UST. Show highlights:
how USDN and Waves works
what made USD de-peg
why Kevin thinks algorithmic stablecoins fail so often
what Kevin thinks about backing UST with BTC
how 4pool works in the context of Curve Finance, 3pool, UST, Frax Finance, and Redacted Cartel
why Kevin believes Anchor is the reason UST could de-peg
what might happen to Terra and the crypto market writ large if UST were to de-peg
why lowering yields on Anchor could depress LUNA’s price by 8x
how UST and LUNA redemptions work
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Episode Links
Kevin Zhou
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-zhou-82938324/
Galois Capital: https://twitter.com/Galois_Capital
UST
Proposal
https://agora.terra.money/t/ust-goes-interchain-the-4pool-and-redacted-cartel/5648
Why Terra would want to implement 4pool (in the context of the curve wars)
https://twitter.com/CryptoHarry_/status/1510244225304117252
Do Kwon on trying to make DAI less relevant
https://twitter.com/stablekwon/status/1511017532764803078
FXS price jump
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/04/04/frax-finances-fxs-jumps-as-terra-introduces-stablecoin-pool-4pool/
Galois Twitter threads
https://twitter.com/Galois_Capital/status/1511455703642394628
https://twitter.com/Galois_Capital/status/1511198930951938049
UST vs LUNA market cap risk
https://twitter.com/0xHamz/status/1506372692005593090
https://twitter.com/Galois_Capital/status/1511198930951938049
https://twitter.com/Galois_Capital/status/1507651829366145030
Why curve wars matter
https://twitter.com/JackNiewold/status/1511484763630194699
Terraform Labs’ CEO Do Kwon’s appearance on Unchained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMRbP_b4JXM
Anchor
https://medium.com/@_0xfr/anchor-protocol-how-the-dev-team-rigged-liquidations-a188fb87a99f
USDN
Recap of Waves x Alameda Drama
https://thedefiant.io/waves-ftx-ponzi-accusations/
OG thread pointing out Waves market manipulation
https://twitter.com/0xHamz/status/1509581295621451779
https://twitter.com/0xHamz/status/1502381061925261312
Waves founder blaming Alameda
https://twitter.com/sasha35625/status/1510589983920656385
Governance proposal to kill Alameda’s short
https://unchainedpodcast.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0085a41334b3edf854fd51f9b&id=2fb7761d5b&e=3c1178619e
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