Architecting DeFi’s Yield Curve | DAS New York

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Good morning, everyone. Hope you're having a fantastic day two at the Digital Asset Summit. My name is Luke Lazer. I'm the head of research here at Blockworks. And today I'll be talking to you about DeFi's yield curve, how it was built and what it can signal. In traditional markets, yield curves and term structures are foundational and we see them everywhere. Interest rates, commodity futures, the VIX term structure, plenty of action in all of these markets in recent weeks. These forward markets aren't just used to speculate on the path of the underlying. They're used to hedge both price and d