Flywheel DeFi – Redefining The Next Generation of Yield w/ Chunda McCain – Flywheel #128

This week, we brought on Chunda McCain to learn more about Nucleus which introduces “Yield by Default” and the financialization of infrastructure risk.

Timeline:

00:00 Introduction & Background

03:44 What was Ion and its evolution into Nucleus

08:48 Financializing Infrastructure Risks

11:00 Yield by Default

15:23 Engaging User Incentives and Infra Revenue Sharing

19:37 App Chains and Ecosystem-Specific Rollups

26:09 Are AVS’s Bottlenecks in Restaking?

30:35 Scaling ETH vs The Rollup-Centric Roadmap

36:52 Ethereum’s Identity and EIP-1559

39:23 Narratives from Precious Metals to Crypto

42:15 Nucleus Architecture and User Journey

46:08 Yield Generation Strategies and Risk Management

54:38 Default Yield in all Ecosystems

1:05:05 What Sets Nucleus Apar …