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Steven Pack

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
397 total appearances

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Web3 with Sam Kamani
356: Leverage, Liquidity & The Future of ETH Staking with Guest Speaker Steven Pack from RockSolid

I think we target around five and a half times leverage, which is a number we're comfortable managing.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
356: Leverage, Liquidity & The Future of ETH Staking with Guest Speaker Steven Pack from RockSolid

And it's a number that our early LPs into that vault are comfortable with based on our backtesting, historical analysis.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
356: Leverage, Liquidity & The Future of ETH Staking with Guest Speaker Steven Pack from RockSolid

And so that generates higher than staking returns.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
356: Leverage, Liquidity & The Future of ETH Staking with Guest Speaker Steven Pack from RockSolid

It's a little lumpy, just if someone's

Web3 with Sam Kamani
356: Leverage, Liquidity & The Future of ETH Staking with Guest Speaker Steven Pack from RockSolid

Clicking right now to see what the APR is.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
356: Leverage, Liquidity & The Future of ETH Staking with Guest Speaker Steven Pack from RockSolid

For anyone watching, the entry queue on Ethereum is currently 70 days.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
356: Leverage, Liquidity & The Future of ETH Staking with Guest Speaker Steven Pack from RockSolid

So it takes a little while for leverage ETH strategies to warm up when there's a long entry queue.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
356: Leverage, Liquidity & The Future of ETH Staking with Guest Speaker Steven Pack from RockSolid

But yeah, it's a single strategy vault targeted at institutional ETH holders.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
356: Leverage, Liquidity & The Future of ETH Staking with Guest Speaker Steven Pack from RockSolid

It's in partnership with Tier 2.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
356: Leverage, Liquidity & The Future of ETH Staking with Guest Speaker Steven Pack from RockSolid

And the other part that's super cool is it's utilizing a new release from Lido.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
356: Leverage, Liquidity & The Future of ETH Staking with Guest Speaker Steven Pack from RockSolid

So they're called Lido V3 volts or ST volts.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
356: Leverage, Liquidity & The Future of ETH Staking with Guest Speaker Steven Pack from RockSolid

And it's a really interesting innovation actually for the staking ecosystem.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
356: Leverage, Liquidity & The Future of ETH Staking with Guest Speaker Steven Pack from RockSolid

So, you know, you know, Sam, like it used to be, you had to choose if you're a big ETH holder, you could either stake natively

Web3 with Sam Kamani
356: Leverage, Liquidity & The Future of ETH Staking with Guest Speaker Steven Pack from RockSolid

And you get to choose your node operator, you know, like negotiate your fees.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
356: Leverage, Liquidity & The Future of ETH Staking with Guest Speaker Steven Pack from RockSolid

You might have requirements like they're only in the US or they're only not in the US or you need to use these clients or not this or whatever.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
356: Leverage, Liquidity & The Future of ETH Staking with Guest Speaker Steven Pack from RockSolid

And you could choose all of those things, but the cost was illiquidity.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
356: Leverage, Liquidity & The Future of ETH Staking with Guest Speaker Steven Pack from RockSolid

Like you couldn't get out of there.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
356: Leverage, Liquidity & The Future of ETH Staking with Guest Speaker Steven Pack from RockSolid

The best you could do was request an exit.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
356: Leverage, Liquidity & The Future of ETH Staking with Guest Speaker Steven Pack from RockSolid

And if Kiln happened to be blowing up, like that was going to take you 40 days, right, to get out.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
356: Leverage, Liquidity & The Future of ETH Staking with Guest Speaker Steven Pack from RockSolid

You know, you would always have these staking delays.