Keynote: Gateway
summary
Compound builds Gateway as a dedicated Substrate chain to run a v3 lending engine after protocol growth from roughly $200M to $20B in assets made Ethereum too costly; it uses cash token as an interest‑bearing, portable unit of account across starports (example chains: Ethereum, Tezos), exposes only four user actions (upload/lock, extract, transfer, liquidate), represents borrows as negative balances, lets liquidators transfer debt instead of repaying first, and relies on oracles/archivists and supply caps while still under careful security re‑architecture.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:23Why are we building Gateway
- 7:22Architecture
- 11:10Functions
- 15:34Cache
- 17:02Gateway Architecture
- 23:08Roadmap








