James Slazas, founder and CEO of LiquidStake and DARMA Capital, describes their retail and institutional offerings for patrons who must stake on Ethereum 2.0 however nonetheless fetch entry to the locked-up capital. On this episode, we discuss:

  • what distress LiquidStake solves and how
  • what occurs if the greenback label of any person’s stake drops below the amount that they’ve borrowed
  • who keeps the ETH in a liquidation
  • how LiquidStake makes money
  • how they resolve the label of ETH to originate the loan and what it does within the event of a flash smash on an replace
  • how LiquidStake and DARMA Capital are additionally serving institutional prospects
  • how total return swap agreements with DARMA work
  • why they provide more tax and regulatory clarity
  • why LiquidStake currently affords USDC for its stablecoin
  • the professionals and cons of a centralized loans on staked ETH 2 over decentralized ones
  • the utterly different crypto programs LiquidStake is partnering with
  • how LiquidStake and DARMA Capital are in a space to originate these loans from a regulatory perspective

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Episode links:

James Slazas: https://twitter.com/DARMA_Slazas

Liquidstake: https://liquidstake.com

DARMA Capital: https://darma.capital

LiquidStake announcements: https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-heavyweights-begin-liquidstake-loans-to-ease-eth-2-0-lockup https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/84277/eth2-liquidstake-borrow-eth-validators

LiquidStake blog publish: https://liquidstake.com/blog/1

Link to the Crypto Info Recap:

https://unchainedpodcast.com/this-is-pushing-up-the-label-of-bitcoin/