Stablecoins, Curve Wars, and Olympus as Reserve Currency, with DeFi Researcher Luca Prosperi

In this conversation, we chat with Luca Prosperi, is a MakerDAO
believer and senior finance professional with 15 years of
experience in banking and credit investments. Luca has a wide range
of experience ranging from publishing a Substack newsletter on the
evolution of banking and DeFi, to working for the likes of
Ripplewood Advisors, Partners Capital, Morgan Stanley, Oliver
Wyman. Luca holds a Masters in Business Administration from London
Business School, and a MSc and BS in Mathematical Economics and
Econometrics from Bocconi and Tel Aviv University. More
specifically, we touch on MakerDAO and its mechanics, Automatic
Market Makers and Curve, the utility behind stablecoins, how Curve
was born from the inefficiency of Uniswap, how Yearn and Convex
stemmed from Curve, why Luca considered OlympusDAO to be a ponzi
scheme at first, and so so much more….Disclaimer here — this
newsletter does not provide investment advice and represents solely
the views and opinions of FINTECH BLUEPRINT LTD. Contributors: Lex,
Laurence, Matt, Farhad, Mike, Daniella Want to discuss? Stop by our
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