Risk Management in DeFi

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[00:02:38] - [First question] - His take on FTX selling itself to Binance 

[00:03:24] - Categorizing at a high level the different sectors of DeFi

[00:04:11] - How DeFi handles the subjective parts of credit financing

[00:05:11] - What Mango is and what happened to them in their recent attack

[00:10:03] - Whether or not a decision was made to settle with the attacker  

[00:10:39] - How the insurance funds are structured for DeFi protocols

[00:12:22] - Getting through the cold start problem of launching a new exchange

[00:14:04] - What Gauntlet is and what they do 

[00:14:54] - His view on DeFi attacks in general 

[00:15:52] - The story of how Gauntlet came to be 

[00:16:44] - Thoughts about safety and experimenting as early adopters 

[00:17:51] - Working with protocols to help them navigate risk management

[00:18:53] - Being a key player in risk management in the crypto space can be a dangerous and thankless job

[00:20:17] - Thinking about alignment being third party players on a contract 

[00:21:12] - What it’s like to simulate and present risk to clients and how they receive it 

[00:23:05] - Whether or not the Mango Squeeze can be done anywhere with enough money

[00:24:05] - What position limiting and supply caps are and how they work   

[00:25:12] - Going about implementing risk parameters into a protocol

[00:26:06] - Whether or not Gauntlet is running an API and involved on an ongoing basis 

[00:26:51] - How hard it is to get a voting consensus in risk management  

[00:27:30] - Pitching fine tuning risk parameters to a protocol 

[00:28:32] - Gauntlet’s liability and being held accountable if something bad happens

[00:29:30] - What he was doing before joining Gauntlet 

[00:30:24] - Bullish and bearish factors for the future growth of Gauntlet 

[00:31:21] - Whether or not this space will ever self-govern or require outside regulation

[00:32:01] - The mechanism for incentive optimization and how it works

[00:34:02] - Inherent flaws of third party staking to get liquidity without collateral requirements and risk parameters 

[00:37:44] - How Gauntlet has such a widespread impact over an exchange like Sushi

[00:39:45] - Whether or not they use their data for other applications or advantages 

[00:40:17] - What he’s most excited to see built over the next six months and six years