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Understanding the Role of Definitive Truth in Decentralized Finance
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16:21 - 28:58 (12:37)

The ability to achieve definitive truth in a shared agreement is crucial for decentralized finance to progress, as it allows for a transparent understanding of financial products and their underlying collateral. The DeFi format enables technical individuals to gain deep insights into the specifics of lending, yield generation, and risk protection to better inform their financial decisions.

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Achieving definitive truth requires a pre-agreed set of conditions where consensus can be reached.
16:21 - 19:52 (03:31)
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Consensus
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Achieving definitive truth requires a pre-agreed set of conditions where consensus can be reached. This is necessary for progress, and true definitive truth sits on a spectrum between objective truth and total subjectivity.

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Understanding the Role of Definitive Truth in Decentralized Finance
Episode
#181 – Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast
Decentralized finance takes agreements about generating yield, lending, and other financial products and puts them into a different, more accessible format.
19:52 - 24:46 (04:54)
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Decentralized Finance
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Decentralized finance takes agreements about generating yield, lending, and other financial products and puts them into a different, more accessible format. Unlike the centralized financial system, DeFi allows for more transparency and deeper understanding of collateral, format, and changes on a second to second or block to block basis.

Chapter
Understanding the Role of Definitive Truth in Decentralized Finance
Episode
#181 – Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast
This podcast discusses the risks associated with Robinhood's control during inflation and how it may highlight flaws in the system that people were not aware of.
24:46 - 28:58 (04:11)
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Robinhood
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This podcast discusses the risks associated with Robinhood's control during inflation and how it may highlight flaws in the system that people were not aware of.

Chapter
Understanding the Role of Definitive Truth in Decentralized Finance
Episode
#181 – Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast