Zubin Koticha: Opyn – The Release of V2

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• Episode: Zubin Koticha: Opyn – The Release of V2
• Website: Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies
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• Duration: 01:12:13
• Published: 2021-04-01 20:09

Zubin Koticha, CEO & Co-founder of Opyn, joined us again on the show to give us an update on Opyn v2.

Opyn v1 was focused on insurance. It's successor, Opyn v2, offers a more traditional options infrastructure. We discuss the problems of building trustless options infrastructure: choice of collateral, partial collateralization and efficient trading mechanisms for options.

Topics covered in this episode:

• An overview of Opyn v1 and the different options created by DeFi users
• How options in DeFi work
• What is new in Opyn v2
• How the oracle specification works
• Capital efficiency - nesting options for collateralization
• Fungibility of different options
• What makes Opyn different to other option platforms?
• Options and the AMM design

Episode links:

• Opyn
• Epicenter Episode 344 - Opyn
• A beginner's guide to options: Opyn v2
• YieldSpace
• Opyn GitHub
• Opyn on Twitter
• Zubin on Twitter

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This episode is hosted by Sunny Aggarwal & Friederike Ernst. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/385