The Mango Squeeze.
Making Markets
This is Eric Golden and my guest today is Nick Canno...
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Nov 18 2022 41m
Chapter 1 45 sec
[First question] His take on FTX selling itself to BinanceChapter 2 46 sec
Categorizing at a high level the different sectors of DeFiChapter 3 59 sec
How DeFi handles the subjective parts of credit financingChapter 4 4 mins
What Mango is and what happened to them in their recent attackChapter 5 35 sec
Whether or not a decision was made to settle with the attackerChapter 6 1 min
How the insurance funds are structured for DeFi protocolsChapter 7 1 min
Getting through the cold start problem of launching a new exchangeChapter 8 49 sec
What Gauntlet is and what they doChapter 9 57 sec
His view on DeFi attacks in generalChapter 10 51 sec
The story of how Gauntlet came to beChapter 11 1 min
Thoughts about safety and experimenting as early adoptersChapter 12 1 min
Working with protocols to help them navigate risk managementChapter 13 1 min
Being a key player in risk management in the crypto space can be a dangerous and thankless jobChapter 14 54 sec
Thinking about alignment being third party players on a contractChapter 15 1 min
What it’s like to simulate and present risk to clients and how they receive itChapter 16 59 sec
Whether or not the Mango Squeeze can be done anywhere with enough moneyChapter 17 1 min
What position limiting and supply caps are and how they workChapter 18 53 sec
Going about implementing risk parameters into a protocolChapter 19 44 sec
Whether or not Gauntlet is running an API and involved on an ongoing basisChapter 20 38 sec
How hard it is to get a voting consensus in risk managementChapter 21 1 min
Pitching fine tuning risk parameters to a protocolChapter 22 57 sec
Gauntlet’s liability and being held accountable if something bad happensChapter 23 53 sec
What he was doing before joining GauntletChapter 24 56 sec
Bullish and bearish factors for the future growth of GauntletChapter 25 39 sec
Whether or not this space will ever self-govern or require outside regulationChapter 26 2 mins
The mechanism for incentive optimization and how it worksChapter 27 3 mins
Inherent flaws of third party staking to get liquidity without collateral requirements and risk parametersChapter 28 2 mins
How Gauntlet has such a widespread impact over an exchange like SushiChapter 29 31 sec
Whether or not they use their data for other applications or advantagesChapter 30 1 min
What he’s most excited to see built over the next six months and six years