Ruca is Head of Growth and Giel (aka deepcryptodive) is Head of Risk Curation at kpk.
In this episode, we discuss the role of DeFi's risk curators, the individuals and teams responsible for assessing, pricing, and managing risk across DeFi lending markets and tokenized yield vaults. We talk about how risk curation has become both an essential service and a risky business of its own, as witnessed firsthand in Stream Finance's recent xUSD blowup.
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Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
5:34 - History of kpk
9:38 - What is the job of a risk curator in DeFi?
13:53 - Distinguishing between permissionless lending markets and vaults
24:23 - What happened with Stream Finance and xUSD?
32:52 - Sponsor break
34:07 - How do risk curators make money?
38:07 - The role of risk ratings in DeFi
41:34 - Could risk curators run liquid strategies in their own markets/vaults?
46:24 - Sponsor break
47:43 - Risk of hard-coded fundamental oracles vs market price oracles
57:06 - DeFi must prioritize safety over higher yields
1:01:26 - kpk’s approach to risk curation
1:05:30 - kpk’s retail-facing DeFi product suite
1:07:11 - Closing
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🔗 Guest Links 🔗
► kpk website: https://kpk.io/
► kpk on X: https://x.com/kpk_io
► Giel on X: https://x.com/deepcryptodive
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