# Enhancing the Security of Stablecoin and RWA Lending

- Speakers: [Alessandro Buser](https://streameth.org/speakers/alessandro-buser), [Michael Bentley](https://streameth.org/speakers/michael-bentley), [Nik Kunkel](https://streameth.org/speakers/nik-kunkel), [Chris Carapola](https://streameth.org/speakers/chris-carapola), [Yaron Velner](https://streameth.org/speakers/yaron-velner), [Nate eatsleepcrypto.eth](https://streameth.org/speakers/nate-eatsleepcrypto-eth)
- Event: [unStable Summit Denver](https://streameth.org/stable_summit/unstable_summit_denver), Denver
- Channel: [Stable Summit](https://streameth.org/stable_summit)
- Date: 2024-02-29
- Duration: 37:31
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/65de2124671a1cd7a2a766bb
- Download: https://vod-cdn.lp-playback.studio/raw/jxf4iblf6wlsyor6526t4tcmtmqa/catalyst-vod-com/hls/61e3eto5gjc495o4/720p0.mp4

## Description

- Comparing risk factors of permissioned vs permissionless lending
- Abstracting risk management from the lending platform layer and other strategies to automate security
- Securing oracles and price feeds to maintain the trustworthiness of information flow for permissionless trading

## About the speakers

### Alessandro Buser

Alessandro is a crypto-native builder, Solidity developer and DeFi enthusiast. Former consultant and quantitative analyst.

### Nik Kunkel

Founder of Chronicle Labs, the developers of Chronicle Protocol, Nik began his crypto journey at IBM Research, where he worked on the Hyperledger blockchain and early supply chain finance applications.
 
 In 2016, he joined the founding team of MakerDAO to create DAI, Ethereum’s leading decentralized stablecoin. This is where he co-developed the first ever Oracle on Ethereum. Nik is also responsible for creating DSProxy, an industry-standard account abstraction primitive; OasisDEX, the first decentralized exchange on Ethereum with an order matching engine; as well as Chronicle Oracle protocol, which secures over $10B of assets locked in MakerDAO.

### Chris Carapola

Chris Carapola is the Co-Founder of Curvance, a full service cross-chain money market for yield bearing, LSDfi, tokenized treasuries, and primitive assets. Before joining Curvance in 2022,, Chris was a solo auditor and developed highly optimized implementations for ERC20 and ERC4626 smart contracts. Prior to web3, Chris worked largely in TradFi building systematic trading algorithms.

### Yaron Velner

Founder and lead dev of B.Protocol and a researcher and contributor of RiskDAO. Previously, co-founder and CTO of KyberNetwork where I was also one of the co-designers of the WBTC protocol. Ex co-founder of SmartPool, the first Ethereum mining pool. Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.

### Nate eatsleepcrypto.eth

Nate is a privacy advocate and censorship-resistance maximalist who promotes these values through Token Dynamics, designing protocols with and for those who share them.