Tengji Zhang

Naval

• This likely leads to consolidation of info  onto 1 or a few chains

Stable coin can have advantage over fiat money in the long term, especially in use cases like international transfer.

Ethereum is New York City; it is a happening place with the biggest DeFi protocols, the most TVL, the hottest DAOs and NFTs, but it is expensive. You scale by "building up skyscrapers" using L2 chain or "building out satellite towns" using interoperability networks that serve as highway connecting them.

Gives a brilliant and very cynical description of the Ponzi nature of yield farming in DeFi. Shed some light on how it is no so different from startups nowadays that keeps raising more money despite net negative return, as long as they have a grand narrative with a big promised profit at the end.

“All the successful DAO founders I know weren't trying to start a DAO in the first place,” Hillis tells me after more sips of tea. “They were just self-actualizing in a community and that’s what came out of it.”