Today’s Talk Your Book is presented by Index Coop:
We spoke with Mike Taormina from the Index Cooperative about how a DAO is allowing investors to access crypto and DeFi index funds.
We discuss:
- Why so many people with traditional finance backgrounds are getting into DeFi
- How an asset management firm was created on the blockchain
- What even is DeFi?
- Why incentives are so important for DeFi
- The two main things to do on DeFi
- How to get word of mouth marketing
- How to create index funds for DeFi
- How to buy the DeFi Pulse Index
- What moves the price of various DeFi tokens?
- The difference between a governance token and shares of a public company
- How does a DAO actually work?
- The pros and cons of the DAO structure
- Smart contract risk
- What are some of the risks of having an asset manager on chain?
Listen here:
Links:
- DeFi Llama
- DeFi Pulse Index
- How to buy the DeFi Pulse Index
- Meta-governance at the Index Coop
- Metaverse Index
- Proposals for new funds
- A Primer for DeFi
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