AMA - Questions from the Community with Robert Leshner

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Compound launches in August 2018 with rough expectations of five to ten years for traction but hits $20M TVL in 2018 and accelerates governance to a community DAO using timelocks and a delegated COMP token with a 50% airdrop. Liquidity mining introduces chaotic incentives (the BAT market spike) and a governance upgrade (Proposal 62) contains a bug that drains about 220,000 COMP lost from future allocations but spares user funds. Contribution paths focus on core protocol work, front ends, parameter research, rollup deployments; join via comp.xyz and compoundgrants.org.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 6:55What Would You Do Something Differently
3. 19:32How Did You Initially Bootstrap the Compound Ecosystem in the Community and What Advice Would You Give Right Now to Projects That Are Trying To Spar a Community
4. 27:45Growth of the Ecosystem

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