Managing Risks in DeFi
summary
Nexus Mutual presents crypto insurance for smart‑contract risk, offering protocol cover (protects liquidity losses from hacks, oracle failures, governance exploits) and yield token cover (full‑stack protection for vault LP tokens that reallocate across protocols). TVL context: DeFi grows from ~$1B to ~$10B, Nexus launched May 2019 and scales from ~$3M to >$500M. Examples: a Sushi Miso bug puts $350M at risk, a Compound upgrade bugs ~$140M of COMP; admin‑key rug pulls are explicitly excluded. Risk framework: insure low‑probability/high‑impact events.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:22Primary use cases in DeFi
- 1:59Where do yields come from
- 4:06How do you access yields
- 4:57What if smart contracts fail
- 7:18Examples of smart contract failures
- 9:04Compound bug
- 10:52Risk framework
- 12:09Protocol Carver
- 13:15Money Lego
- 13:33Yield Token Cover
- 17:10Interview
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