Beyond Ponsizomics -- Leveraging Defi for Real Businesses by Jessica Salomon and Jacob Shiach

Comment on birth of defi (i.e. maker) and then give an overview of defi good and bad of the past 5 years. base primitives have taken finanical specualtion about as far they can go. what is next. is crypto/defi just a more efficient wall street or should we be aiming to create a more efficient main street as well. Las Vegas vs. Wall Street : pure gambling vs. speculation -- where does crypto fall? how do we bring new tech and tools to benefit the mainstreet. what is the web3 version of a mainstreet. food for thought: difference between ftt and mkr. moving beyond speculation into a sustainable economy that is crypto native. everyone wants to be a part of a dao or pfp one day but how do create native crypto businesses to which value isnt simply exported back into fiat. Jessica Salomon Strategy Union Finance, Prev. MakerDAO, Aave, 1inch First community manager at MakerDAO at the launch of single collateral dai in Dec 2017. Moved on to lead events for Maker and then business development. At June 2019, decieded to combine learnings and left Maker to consult on a hybrid of bd/marketing/community i.e. strategy. First worked on AAVE and then later 1inch. Launch token for 1inch in Dec 2020. Now consult/advise on an array of different types of web 3 projects including metaverse, defi, nfts, layer 1's. Long time supporter of ETH Denver-- it was the first conf I sponsored at Maker and truly found it pivotal to Maker and Ethereum's growth. https://twitter.com/jessicarsalomon