Stake Pools Ep #57

<p>Vasiliy Shapovalov (Tech Lead, Lido), F.P. (Co-Founder, Socean) and Ella Kuzmenko (Product Manager, Stake Pools & Delegation Program, Solana Foundation) chat with Anatoly about the complexity and game theory surrounding stake pools, decentralization and censorship resistance.</p><p> </p><p>00:10 - Intro</p><p>01:38 - Collaterals, maximizing censorship resistance</p><p>07:40 - APYs and investors</p><p>09:31 - How to get penetration across DeFi</p><p>14:58 - Governance in a liquid stake pool</p><p>18:23 - Automation vs. programmatic on-chain governance</p><p>20:44 - Factors in selecting validators</p><p>29:27 - Growing the validators set</p><p>32:21 - Stake pool token in DeFi</p><p>35:09 - Liquidity fragmented between too many pools</p><p>41:01 - Who controls the network?</p><p>44:46 - Increasing decentralization</p><p> </p><p>Anatoly (00:10):</p><p>Hey folks. This is Anatoly and you're listening to The Solana Podcast. I have a super exciting episode today, it's all about Stake Pools and decentralization and censorship resistance. And I have a group of guests that I'm going to let them introduce themselves, just to make it a little easier. So Ella, why don't you start first?</p><p>Ella (00:29):</p><p>Sure. Hey guys. Ella, I'm a Product Manager of Censorship Resistance at The Solana Foundation working on Stake Pools and the delegation program.</p><p>Vasiliy (00:39):</p><p>Hey. I'm Vasiliy, I'm tech lead at Lido. Honestly, I think that the person who should be here instead of me is someone, of course like Felix or [Uto 00:00:49] or maybe Brian, but they couldn't make it, so I'm here instead as a second best option.</p><p>Anatoly (00:58):</p><p>Awesome to have you. We'll take the second best.</p><p>FP (01:03):</p><p>Hi, guys. I'm FP. I'm co-founder and CEO of The Socean Stake Pool. Nice to meet you guys all today.</p><p>Anatoly (01:11):</p><p>Awesome. So censorship resistance Stake Pools, I've been pounding the table on this for two years as the most important thing and proof of stake networks, because I have this