- a decentralized exchange, a place to swap tokens on Ethereum and many of it's other chains / networks
What interests you about Curve?
- Tokenomics, team, it's differences from other decentralized exchanges, how other teams build on top of it in different ways
Why did you start using Curve?
- Curiousity, saw lots of confusing token symbols on yearn and wanted to understand what they meant, dove into the docs and have been fascinated since
What is Curve’s role in DeFi?
- For swappers / arb bots, massive liquidity + efficient swapping algorithms = low slippage for very large transactions
- For protocols, a place to put your liquidity to allow users access to your token, as well as a way to make profit off of providing that liquidity by means of CRV emissions (Curve governance tokens that are distributed to pools for providing liquidity on Curve)
- For owners / investors / veCRV holders, a place to share in overall protocol fees as well as to have a say in which pools get gauges (the ability to receive CRV tokens) and how many tokens each pool receives per day (gauge weight). Other protocols have started to incentivize veCRV holders to vote for their pool, creating greater returns for veCRV holders
Where do you think Curve is going next?
- Forex
- Cross Chain Governance
How has Curve changed your life?
- Opened up my mind about economic concepts and how incentives drive behavior, the tokenomics are so interesting and new to me
- Takes up a lot of my time to continue to keep track of what's happening, not always a good thing!
How does Curve align with the Bankless mission?
- Haven't watched much Bankless, so I can't say, other than maybe the fact that I think many people have been using Curve as a bank, putting a lot of their net worth into stables and generating much better returns than traditional banks
What are your favorite facts or stories about Curve?
- tree fiddy meme
- The knowledge and talent on the team is the true alpha imo
- that everyone asks the same questions in the discord for a year straight, seems like no-one reads the docs, just stake unstaked already!
In a few words, what is Convex?
- a DAO designed for users to share in veTokenomics together, sharing overall boost, profits (whether it's from protocol fees or votes / bribes)
What interests you about Convex?
- Which protocols it will look into in the future
- How it will hold up in the long term, will it remain the king? will it keep it's pegs to it's underlying protocols
Why did you start using Convex?
- Airdrop from Curve
- Understanding about the power of votes and fees from it's system
What is Convex's role in DeFi?
- Allow investors to take part in the benefits of systems that have veTokenomics (making a user lock up it's tokens for a set period of time) but stay liquid, or at least more liquid than going to through the veProtocol
Where do you think Convex is going next?
- Cross chain governance
- making FXS a full product
- hopefully more underlying ve projects but I won't speculate on which
How has Convex changed your life?
- Similar to Curve in expanding my mind in tokenomics and economic incentives
- Teaching me how to stick with winners, I've sold low and bought higher a few times with it, naturally being conservative as an investor it's taught me how to ride out winners better
How does Convex align with the Bankless mission?
- Same answer as above
What are your favorite facts or stories about Convex?
- #cvx-trading is hilarious
In a few words, what is Votium?
- a central place for protocols to bribe / incentivize vlCVX holders to gauge weight vote their underlying veCRV for their Curve Pool
What interests you about Votium?
- How it's grown over time, and how much more it can grow, also wen VOTI ;)
Why did you start using Votium?
- Day 1
What is Votium's role in DeFi?
- same as answer 1
Where do you think Votium is going next?
- Token?
- no idea really, seems like a great product that's doing everything it should be doing
How has Votium changed your life?
- it made me more aware of Thursdays
How does Votium align with the Bankless mission?
- no idea
What are your favorite facts or stories about Votium?
- llama.airforce is so useful and awesome, also the Union is an interesting new project and I hope that continues to grow and do well as well!
bribe.crv.finance should probably be mentioned directly somewhere but yeah also a useful part of the ecosystem
I think a narrative of how Curve is set to take over sushi and uni, especially highlighting a lack of revenue share with Uni
In a few words, what is Curve?
- a decentralized exchange, a place to swap tokens on Ethereum and many of it's other chains / networks
What interests you about Curve?
- Tokenomics, team, it's differences from other decentralized exchanges, how other teams build on top of it in different ways
Why did you start using Curve?
- Curiousity, saw lots of confusing token symbols on yearn and wanted to understand what they meant, dove into the docs and have been fascinated since
What is Curve’s role in DeFi?
- For swappers / arb bots, massive liquidity + efficient swapping algorithms = low slippage for very large transactions
- For protocols, a place to put your liquidity to allow users access to your token, as well as a way to make profit off of providing that liquidity by means of CRV emissions (Curve governance tokens that are distributed to pools for providing liquidity on Curve)
- For owners / investors / veCRV holders, a place to share in overall protocol fees as well as to have a say in which pools get gauges (the ability to receive CRV tokens) and how many tokens each pool receives per day (gauge weight). Other protocols have started to incentivize veCRV holders to vote for their pool, creating greater returns for veCRV holders
Where do you think Curve is going next?
- Forex
- Cross Chain Governance
How has Curve changed your life?
- Opened up my mind about economic concepts and how incentives drive behavior, the tokenomics are so interesting and new to me
- Takes up a lot of my time to continue to keep track of what's happening, not always a good thing!
How does Curve align with the Bankless mission?
- Haven't watched much Bankless, so I can't say, other than maybe the fact that I think many people have been using Curve as a bank, putting a lot of their net worth into stables and generating much better returns than traditional banks
What are your favorite facts or stories about Curve?
- tree fiddy meme
- The knowledge and talent on the team is the true alpha imo
- that everyone asks the same questions in the discord for a year straight, seems like no-one reads the docs, just stake unstaked already!
In a few words, what is Convex?
- a DAO designed for users to share in veTokenomics together, sharing overall boost, profits (whether it's from protocol fees or votes / bribes)
What interests you about Convex?
- Which protocols it will look into in the future
- How it will hold up in the long term, will it remain the king? will it keep it's pegs to it's underlying protocols
Why did you start using Convex?
- Airdrop from Curve
- Understanding about the power of votes and fees from it's system
What is Convex's role in DeFi?
- Allow investors to take part in the benefits of systems that have veTokenomics (making a user lock up it's tokens for a set period of time) but stay liquid, or at least more liquid than going to through the veProtocol
Where do you think Convex is going next?
- Cross chain governance
- making FXS a full product
- hopefully more underlying ve projects but I won't speculate on which
How has Convex changed your life?
- Similar to Curve in expanding my mind in tokenomics and economic incentives
- Teaching me how to stick with winners, I've sold low and bought higher a few times with it, naturally being conservative as an investor it's taught me how to ride out winners better
How does Convex align with the Bankless mission?
- Same answer as above
What are your favorite facts or stories about Convex?
- #cvx-trading is hilarious
In a few words, what is Votium?
- a central place for protocols to bribe / incentivize vlCVX holders to gauge weight vote their underlying veCRV for their Curve Pool
What interests you about Votium?
- How it's grown over time, and how much more it can grow, also wen VOTI ;)
Why did you start using Votium?
- Day 1
What is Votium's role in DeFi?
- same as answer 1
Where do you think Votium is going next?
- Token?
- no idea really, seems like a great product that's doing everything it should be doing
How has Votium changed your life?
- it made me more aware of Thursdays
How does Votium align with the Bankless mission?
- no idea
What are your favorite facts or stories about Votium?
- llama.airforce is so useful and awesome, also the Union is an interesting new project and I hope that continues to grow and do well as well!
bribe.crv.finance should probably be mentioned directly somewhere but yeah also a useful part of the ecosystem