What Ethereum Can Learn from Cosmos' Liquid Staking Module | Aidan & Felix
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Season 5 | Episode 6
In this episode of Bell Curve, Mike and Myles are joined by Aidan, co-founder of Stride labs, and Felix, the Godfather of Liquid Staking. Today they explore the nuances of Liquid Staking across the Cosmos & Ethereum ecosystems. They also dig into the relationship of liquid staking & professional validators, the liquid staking module user flow with NFTs, and solving the principle agent problem.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro: Pre-Interview
(02:02) “Permissionless Ad”
(02:57) Interview Start: Felix & Aidan
(04:04) The Godfather of Liquid Staking
(08:15) Liquid Staking: A Force for Decentralization
(12:27) LSTs Thriving in Eth First
(16:44) Liquid Staking & Professional Validators
(25:01) Decentralizing Eth Validator Set
(37:45) Ossifying Ethereum Protocol
(42:03) Minting Liquid Staking Tokens
(51:50) Staking Module Risk Parameters
(57:53) Principle Agent Mitigation
(1:04:37) Liquid Staking Module User Flow
(1:15:39) Recap: Post-Interview
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Resources:
Felix Liquid Staking Blog Post
https://medium.com/chorus-one/delegation-vouchers-cfb511a29aac)
Stride Labs
Jon Charbonneau "Endgame: Proof of Governance"
https://dba.mirror.xyz/UTPfxWe65dYrUu_RJX-5VkAJypFRyw3AZh6m0dRXYZk)
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