The Birth of Tezos DeFi: Seeding the New Tezos Token Economy

In this Session, the Tezos community voted to hear about the emerging development of decentralized finance (DeFi) on blockchains.

Kevin Mehrabi, Founder of USDtz, explained some of the milestones in advancing DeFi on Tezos, including the development of the FA token standard to make interacting with and trading different tokens possible. He also highlighted the work of Tezos Stable Technologies to create and expand the participation into this new digital economy.

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Session Notes

0:52

Kevin introduces DeFi and his background.

2:36

Kevin explains why he likes Tezos.

6:50

Kevin provides his perspectives on blockchain finance.

9:55

Kevin talks about why Tezos for Finance.

14:48

Kevin explains DeFi token and activity types in detail.

22:46

Kevin analyzes Tezos DeFi Timeline.

29:26

Kevin presents Dexter expectations and what’s being traded on Tezos.

32:10

Kevin introduces SABZ token.

41:55

Audience Q&A Session:

Moderator Jacob Arluck asked Kevin questions from community members.

Q: Can you explain silos on USDtz? 

43:22

Q: Why did you call it USDtz when US investors cannot partake?

46:45

Q: The website of stabletez.com lists 17 different tokens and a governance token, how big is your team and do you have some roadmap for those?

50:02

Q: Why are you creating an ERC-20 version of Tezos? Isn’t that what Tzlibre did?

55:18

Q: Regarding the website, do you plan to do domain squatting on Tezos Domains too?

56:07

Q: When are you going to do a wrapped ADA on Tezos?

56:44

Q: What prevents you from minting unlimited SABZ tokens?

59:12

Closing remarks

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