New Intern, Old Questions: Staking, Security, and the Not So Clarity Act | Ep 466
Goodnow revolutionaries—
Matthew Wiley joins the Rise Up team. He brings DeFi research experience, a tennis tournament coming up this weekend, and thoughts on why the Clarity Act should probably be renamed.
Will and Evan walk through how liquid staking works using Jito as the example. The conversation covers validator economics, why people stake even when markets are sideways, and what liquid staking tokens actually represent.
Someone mentions Claude for research workflows. Matthew talks about Katana, the new DeFi chain incubated by Polygon. Alex points out there is still way too much…
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