Frax’s Alternative Approach to Scaling LSTs | Sam Kazemian

Bell Curve

Season 5 | Episode 7

In this episode of Bell Curve, Mike and Myles are joined by Sam Kazemian, Founder of Frax Finance. They explore FRAX's innovative journey from decentralized stablecoin to Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) and Liquid Staking Derivatives (LSDs). Sam shares insights into the algorithmic stability mechanism, decentralizing trust, DeFi domination plan, and FRAX V2 decentralization.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro: Pre-Interview

(02:07) Interview Start: Sam Kazemian

(02:36) The Evolution of Frax

(11:21) Frax Products

(17:29) Frax Thesis

(23:34) The Frax Global Domination Play

(30:22) Frax V2 & Liquid Staking Future

(42:24) Frax Liquid Staking Economics

(46:09) Frax Chain Vision

(53:03) Recap: Post-Interview

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Resources:

Frax Finance

https://frax.finance/

frxETH V2

https://medium.com/coinmonks/introducing-frxeth-v2-the-evolution-of-decentralized-lending-markets-and-stablecoins-142b52b5f81e

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