Liquid Staking Deep Dive Roundtable (Cosmos YouTube)

Join next week's Liquid Staking Deep Dive, for a lively virtual debate about on-chain staked assets. The event and discussion will be live streamed to the Cosmos YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8HFOUdnMnpoWmQMgeKoB3A

Get your questions and opinions ready to share with the participants.

Moderator: Billy Rennekamp, Interchain Foundation & Cosmos
Roundtable : Tarun Chitra, Gauntlet Network, Tamlyn Rudolph, Vega Protocol, Sunny Aggarwal, Tendermint Inc & Cosmos, Brian Crain, Chorus One and Cosmos, Sam Hart, Interchain GmbH and Cosmos and our virtual audience.

But first check out the recent work published on the topic!

This event was spurred by the work of the Liquid Staking Group, "Bridging Proof-of-Stake and Decentralized Finance" https://blog.chorus.one/liquid-staking-report/ and Tarun Chitra, "Why Stake when you can Borrow?" https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11156

We'll cover some of topics and discuss opinions with regards to:

• Staking is Defi
• Security tradeoffs
• Additional Utility
• Avoiding Centralized Staking

For more information:

The Liquid Staking Working Group, led by Chorus One and funded by the Interchain Foundation, released a new research report on their findings. The purpose of the research is to provide a basis and platform for a broader discussion around the trajectory of Proof-of-Stake and the role of staking assets in the emerging decentralized financial economy. The report is broken down into five key topics:

1. The Capital Cost of Locking Staked Assets in Escrow
2. The Trajectory of Exchange Staking
3. A Taxonomy for Liquid Staking
4. Liquid Staking Risks and Benefits
5. Approaches and Implementations to Liquid Staking