Building Priceless Financial Contracts on UMA - Solving the Oracle Problem
summary
UMA explains an optimistic oracle that escalates only disputed prices to an on‑chain data verification mechanism, enforcing cost_of_corruption > profit_from_corruption via UMA token voting. Projects use contract templates, price IDs and liquidator/disputer bots (example: collateral 1.25x, disputed liquidation at 1.244999…) to minimize oracle calls. Built examples include ugas (gas‑hedge synthetic) and synthetic BCH, backed by developer resources (docs, GitHub, Discord) and incentives like developer mining (50,000 UMA/week) and a $3,000 hack prize.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:06Presentation Overview
- 4:36Oracle Corruption
- 5:38Price Feeds
- 7:02Cost of Corruption
- 11:14Priceless Contracts
- 12:46How to Work on UMA
- 13:57UMA Discord
- 15:52UMA Resources
- 17:11UMA Development Guide
- 20:14UMA Developer Mining
- 22:06UMP
- 23:44Voting
- 26:03Developer Mining
- 29:07Ulabs
- 32:00UMA Hackathon
- 32:49UMA Sponsors
- 34:01UMA Team
- 34:43Questions
- 38:14Wrap Up
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