This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Valerie Tetu Go-to-Market & Marketing Strategist at Lido Finance - DeFi's leading suite of Liquid Staking protocols and assets across multiple networks, including Cosmos and Ethereum.

Lido Finance enables users to earn Proof-of-Stake rewards without compromising access to the liquidity of their funds. The Lido protocol issues its native Liquid Staking Assets to stakers on a 1:1 basis that can be used in composable DeFi strategies to earn additional rewards.

We spoke to Valerie about Lido and:

• Entrepreneurship and how to find and fill a need in the market
• DeFi
• Liquidity as a driving force for economics
• How liquid staking works
• Risks of liquid staking
• The plans to allocate voting rights and dilute the power of validators
• How to onboard new users using empathy and need
• Personal Philosophy and aligning it with the projects that we are involved with
• Public Good
• Record Keeping stuck in the past for legal and medical businesses, where data storage, indexing and security are key
• The semantics around pegged assets vs backed assets
• Startups

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Special Guest: Valerie Tetu.

Links:

• Alain de Button
• Axelar
• Bostrom
• Celsius
• Cyber
• Ethereum
• IPFS
• Laws of Human Nature by Robert Green
• Lido Finance
• Marcus Aurelius
• Neutron
• Polygon ID
• Reserve Protocol
• The School of Life
• Uniswap
• Zero Knowledge Proof