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episode 385: Zubin Koticha: Opyn – The Release of V2
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