Feb 14, 2022Maker: Past, Present and FutureI think there is a good chunk of folks in DeFi who have a mental model of Maker being “that protocol that issues DAI loans against various ERC20 tokens”. This was certainly the model circa 2020 before the explosion of DeFi in the summer, but things have evolved quite a…Maker8 min readMaker8 min read
Jan 26, 2022Layer 2: Bridges, Tokens and FungibilityEric Wall tweeted this out the other day: It prompted me to consider how one might deploy a token (or dapp) entirely on one L2 with the plan to expand out to L1 or other L2s later. …5 min read5 min read
Jan 19, 2022Protocol Frontends as Competitive MarketplacesAbout six months ago Uniswap Labs made the announcement that they were removing some tokens from their frontend UI. This set off a wave of arguments on CT about what it means to be decentralized. Uniswap is arguably one of the most decentralized protocols in DeFi, but what does…4 min read4 min read
