Ownership Podcast S1 E10: Ranga (Solomon Labs)
Ranga from Solomon Labs on building a productive dollar, raising on MetaDAO, and why USDv is the stablecoin you default to instead of the one you chase yield for.
We cover why the old token playbook is dead, the 100M raise and the Cloudflare outage that nearly derailed it, how YaaS makes monetary policy programmable so USDv can stay liquid and always earning, the pivot off the basis trade into a Treasury-backed model, and what actually backs USDv. Plus futarchy, the most-traded decision market in MetaDAO history, and why you already take on reserve risk with USDC and USDT but get none of the upside.
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