That was my favorite moment that has ever happened. That was wonderful. It's five o'clock everybody. Hi mom. I was eating some dessert. I apologize for that. I, I'm not apologize, I was great. Professional. Loved that moment. What was the dessert? It's really good. So you take like an ice pop, you know, like organic fruit juice and you make an ice pop out of it or something. And then you put in the glass and let it melt a little bit. Then you put coconut whipped cream. Whipped coconut milk on it. Not whipped cream. Don't go dairy. And then you have someone you love very much or just the other side of your personality. Feed it to you. That's amazing. It's the, it's a beautiful, yeah, it just reminds you that, you know, yeah, it's a good thing on a difficult day. All you need is love and sugar. Yeah. Yes. Agreed. Agreed. All right. I'm so sorry to be real. Let's go ahead. I'm so sorry. This is a serious show here. We're serious people. This is Watch Me Work where it's Monday all day long. And for those of you who are new, I'm Susan Lee Parks I'm the writing residence of the public theater. We've been doing a show for 11 years. Ever since I sat in the lobby and went, gee, I want to, I want to reach out to people and offer, you know, artistic cheerleading to them as they work on their projects. So here we are.  I talk with you about your work and your creative process, not my work, but your work. Watch Me Work is all about you. So because thanks to the public theater for helping us continue to create this show. Thanks to HowlRound. They came on a few years ago to help us live stream and they've come on in full force together with the public theater to help us create this online community for which I am personally very grateful and love seeing you guys four or five days a week. What's next, Audrey? I have to tell them, Audrey would tell you how to get in touch. How to get in touch, yeah. So if you're inside of the Zoom, all you need to do is, I'm so sorry, my partner's also on a call. All you have to do is click on the raise your hand button which is in a participant tab, likely at the bottom of your screen on a laptop or the top if you're on an iPad or a tablet. And if you're watching on HowlRound.tv, you can tweet at us at Watch Me Work SLP with the hashtag HowlRound, H-O-W-L-R-O-U-N-D or you can tweet at public theater N-Y or right into our Instagram. And that's the way you can ask some questions. So many ways, so many ways to get there. Okay, so we're gonna work for 20 minutes and then we're gonna talk for the remainder of the hour. Here we go. All right, all right, all right. All right, all right, all right. We've got a question. Melania. Hey sis, how you doing? Are you there? There you go. Oh yeah, yeah, thank you Audrey. Hi Susan, Lori, how are you? I want to first, I want to thank you very much for the visit of Luis Alfaro last week. It was such an amazing experience. I couldn't stop writing down the things that he was saying because for me, for my soul was so eye-opening and it's helping me a lot to process and think about situations as I am living in my life and it was beautiful, really beautiful. And then I, because there was something that I love about his visit that was the relationship he made between theater and face and all the situation. So I wanted to share something that happened to me and I think that is thanks to you and all my classmates here. It's that in my church, they had a summer camp for children and they didn't know even that I write. I never talk about it because I didn't have the courage to say I loved writing, I loved to write, I am a writer, but since I am with you and all the beautiful group, I took that courage and naturally it came out of me that I write. So they said, okay, we have this summer camp online because of all the coronavirus. So we would love you if you want you to write the introductions to the videos and the outros if you would like it. And I said, I could love it. So suddenly my faith, my love for children, the online situation and all appear and it was something, yes, that I know that God put through you and all these groups. So I wanted to share that. Thank you, thank you. You know, there's a saying that says Melania, God works through people. And whatever your faith is or whatever, we can say that the great spirit works through people and you're an example of that. You're all examples of that, you know. Thank you. Thank you for sharing that. Oh, thank you. I thank God because it was about you and all Luisa Farros said and it's all together. You know it's this, God is working through all of you. So thank you. Yeah, thanks. Oh, what a beautiful story, yay. Happy writing. Thank you. Thanks Melania. Okay, up next we've got Stelina. Are you there? Hello, I'm writing something with two characters and I was wondering if you need a third character do you need a third character to get complicated or if you can make it complicated with just two characters? That's a great question. You can make it complicated.  It can get complicated with just one person. It can get very complicated with two people. There are a lot of great two-person plays out there where you really, you know, and it can certainly, you don't need a third to make things complicated. If you're play, if you feel like two characters is what I want, then I think you can, they can go at it just with two people. Okay, great, thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. All right, up next we've got Karima. Right here. Can you hear me? Hi. I just wanted to say, thanks also for the gift that you had on last week. I, too, got so much information and I also got the book that he recommended, that after the book, it is good. So I just really just wanted to say thank you because I, it was, the way, because also I'm an actress too. So the way that he spoke visually and all that, it just, it just ran, it just tore it off. So thank you so much. And I really, really am so happy that this is being done. And I'm hoping when all this is over, that this will be done. Okay, so thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you, Karima. I'm gonna send Louisa another note. You know, I sometimes write back and forth the text back and forth. And I will tell him how much you guys are still singing his praises and being very grateful. His visit was, and of course I always invite him back.  But in terms of continuing after the COVID thing, what's really great about HowlRound and Audrey and the whole team at the public is that they've made it very doable. You know what I mean? They've made it possible. It's not a huge mountain to climb. And you guys have really made it possible for us to meet every day or four days a week or whatever. So my intention is just to keep continuing and keep inviting guests in, because it's always great to hear from lots of folks who love you guys and want you guys to succeed, even if they haven't met you yet. So that's my intention, that's our intention. That's where, you know, as long as we have Zoom today, you notice I got a wall, but I'm not in my mom's backyard. I got my own internet in my little rented house. So we will continue. So thank you, thanks. Thanks, Karima, thank you. Nice to see you, Karima. All right, up next we've got Erin. Hi, it's really, really cool to see you. I was wondering, I'm working on a piece that's about the protests in Minneapolis and the protests in the world. And I'm wondering, as I'm writing it, I'm wondering, you know, this, I probably won't be able to show anybody this for another like few months. And if all of this ends up blowing over somehow, or like even if a year from now I'm done with it, like, how do you keep something so specific, current, when it takes so long for a play to really develop? Yeah, that's a great question, Erin. And we think of, we can like reverse energy, think of plays that have endured for longer than the hot minute or, you know, when they were written, you know what I mean? My suggestion is grounded in, you know, you have the things on the surface, right?  And then you have the things that are maybe not quite as visible but that are the more enduring nuggets, kernels of wisdom, issues if you will, character traits if you will, you know what I mean? That might not be right in the front, right? I would say, ground your play, show these, but ground your play in these. Does that make sense? So you want the enduring qualities. I mean, why do we just take a play off the top of my fences, you know, fences was written in the end of the win, maybe the 80s, you know? We still wanna see it, you know? Why do we still wanna see, you know, for colored girls who've considered suicide when the rainbow isn't up, right? So Intazaki wasn't just writing it about what was going on in the 70s for women of color, right? She was rooting it in really deep character studies, things that would endure or take plays more conventional, Hamlet, you know what I'm saying? Or even hair, the musical, you know? That still rings true because it's not simply about the moment, it's about all time. Does that make sense? It does, thank you. Okay, so root it in the things that are very much of the moment, that's very important to speak about where we are now, but also things that endure, that keep coming around again, you know, those character traits that keep coming around again, okay? Okay. Okay. Thanks, Ari. Yay, good luck with your writing. Up next, we've got Emery. Oh, hold on, my mouse. Ah, there we go. Hi. Hi. Hi, I'm here. Hi. Hi, thank you so much for this, this is really, really fun. Something I've been, something I've been that's been showing up for me is that I feel like lately, I haven't been wanting to show up for my work and I find it really easy to, like if something feels hard or like honestly like painful, like my first instinct as of lately is to just like throw it away and like do something else and like work on something else. But then of course like the same feeling comes up for that. And it's like the cycle of me like starting new things, a lot of new things over and over. And so I guess I'm wondering what you, like if you have any advice about like sticking with something even when it really hurts, because I know that's when it's good after you get, after you crack something, but I'm just having a hard time like sticking with it right now. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Two words, you used to crack, you didn't use breaking the back. In the old days, they used to talk about figuring out a story or a play or a screenplay and they'd say, I need to break the back of my screenplay. You didn't say that, but crack it, you know. And I always went, ooh, I wanna crack it. I wanna like embrace it. I wanna pull it in. I wanna hug it. I wanna incorporate it. I wanna eat it. I wanna digest it. I wanna make it a part of my body, you know what I mean? This is where the work is, Emery. You know that.  This is where the work is. Pima Chodron, the Buddhist nun. We know Pima Chodron, if you don't, that's a good book.  Awesome books. This is where the work is, right? So know that this is where the work is, so it's essential and you know that, right? Know that you're not alone. If you have nobody else, you got us. You know what I mean? Here's your squad. Here we are. We're all doing it. We're all working on those hard things. I mean, I don't wanna speak for everybody, but just speaking for myself, I weep.  You know what I'm saying? You know? It's like, or at least I'm throwing my hands up in the air going, what the fuck? You know what I mean? So those feelings are being felt. You're not alone if you're feeling those feelings. Or I'm so overwhelmed, I don't know what to do. Putting your work aside, it might be the thing that might feel good for a day or so, but ultimately it's not the right choice. So reduce the task. This is really good. This is really good. It's a timer. It's a timer. It's not a phone. Can you tell? Right. So you set it for 10 minutes and maybe you'll only do your work for 10 minutes a day. Right? Maybe that's all. You have to do 10 minutes a day, Emory, that's all. You inch into it. Inch it along. Right? Because it wants to be done. Right? Your work came to you, whether it's a play or a movie or a song or whatever, because it wants you to sing it, Emory. And you're the one to sing the song or write the play or write the novel or what have you, right? So little tiny bits of work time, 10 minutes at a pop, maybe three times a day. Right? Also give yourself permission to write in a less than brilliant style, right?  You know? Okay? Those of us who are professionals do that all the time. Oh, okay. Thank you so much. Okay, so just keep plugging along. And if nothing more than you come here four days a week, Monday through Thursday and you write with us for 20 minutes, that's good too. You know what I'm saying? Okay? Thank you so much. You're welcome. Good question, thank you. Thank you, Emory. All right, up next we have Jacob. Go for it, Jacob. Hi, Susan, Mike. Hi. So my question is about sort of how to, it's sort of a similar question to Emory's, but a little bit different, I guess, in that I'm transitioning right now into a period where I will be writing full-time as my job, essentially, which is exciting. And it's the first time that that has happened. And but the flip side of that is that basically I have four projects in order to make that work. I have four different projects, right, that I have to work on that are all in different phases of the thing. And all of which like have to move forward to some degree. So it's not like I can just be like, oh, I'll just work on whichever one is the most exciting right now. They all sort of have to move forward on a somewhat, you know, in the next three months. And so I'm wondering if you have any advice in terms of how to create a sustainable practice that holds that kind of space. I have time, time I have. Okay. Which is usually not a thing I have. But I don't really know how to structure or hold that time in a way that is functional. Okay. So are all these four projects, good question, Jacob, are all these four projects, are they all related to your working as a writer for money or? Yeah, they're basically, yeah, it's essentially, yes. One of them is just for me, I guess. Great. But like one's a commission, one is part of a writing group. And one is like a movie rewrite, all of which are, yeah, like they're the thing that are paying my bills right now. Fantastic. So have you ever been in an airplane? I have, yes. Great, great. Okay, good, this is gonna work. Okay, so, but maybe you haven't been an air traffic controller, right? Not then. Okay, okay, that's okay. You don't need to be. You pretend you're an air traffic controller and you know they keep all those planes in the air, right? Okay, and you're gonna be developing that skill and you'll be, I'll be right alongside with you. I've got about six different projects for six different people and they're all paying me and they all want them done like last month. You know what I'm saying? So what we're doing is we're flying those planes.   You've ever, have you ever seen that?  Not really, but you know, right? That's how fast you're going. That's what you look like to them.  You can either do it again. You can cut your, divide your days or divide your week, right? For example, like Saturday for me this past Saturday was, I'm gonna just work on this project A, let's just say, right? So all I did that day was just work on project A. Sunday was I'm just gonna work on project B. I have things that I need to do to bring it to a certain level of completion on its timetable and I'll just work on that project, you know? Today, Monday tricky, cause I have meetings and all the project to work on. So it's like, I'll pick a smaller piece of project C to work on.  And I'll do all my meetings. You see, so I take days to work on different projects. That's how I do it. Some people say from 10 to noon I'm gonna work on one project and from noon to five I'll work on another project. That's a way to do it too. Is that at all? It certainly seems like trying. Yeah, and I'm suggesting that it works very well for me. I do days, the thing about the weekends, at least if you're working for television, the great thing about, they don't call you on the weekends. It's amazing. It's like, oh my God, it's so great. So you can silo your brain and kind of get stuff done or you can pick two days from Monday, Tuesday and working on project A, Wednesday, Thursday, project B, Friday, project C, Saturday, project E, like that. You can kind of do it. And just like dim sum, I'm using all these metaphors but you know what I'm talking about, right?  But when you're in a project, only work on that project. Right. Even if it's just two hours a day, two hours, I'm just gonna work on project A. You work on project A and give yourself little goals like I'm gonna read the script of project A and start in the back of my mind, thinking of a game plan for the rewrite, for example. Does that make? Yeah, totally doable. Totally doable, totally exciting that this is where your life is right now. Very, very thrilling, attitude of gratitude of course, right? Even when we're overwhelmed, we're so thankful that we got these jobs, you know, okay? And keep checking in with us, because you know I love you. I know you're from that other incarnation and I love you. So keep checking in, okay? Well, there, thank you. Thanks, Jacob. All right, up next we've got Lynn. Hello, Lynn. Oh, I thought I was on a wait list. Hi, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. A number of months ago, I was doing this workshop with a wonderful playwright called Antoinette Nwanda. And we were doing this workshop and then doing a lot of research, you know? And I realized I was so, how can I say? I didn't have the information, you know? So I started reading a lot and then this happened, especially Du Bois book about the reconstruction. You know, we're never taught this, we're never taught. I mean, the Civil War was, and Lincoln was shot. Basically, that's what you get in school, at least when I was growing up, you know? And it's been a revelatory experience, but also as it informs me, you know, I feel this shame. And as I spoke to a number of friends of mine, African-American friends, they said, don't live in the shame, you know? You have to do something. We're tired, it's your job now. I mean, it was like a command my friend had and I read and read, I cannot imagine. And this is a moment, and I'm alive in this moment of history where things could change, you know?  I feel more informed, but the resonance of this history just lays on my heart, you know? Like a huge rock, a stone. It wasn't that I wasn't aware, it was that I wasn't living it. It was, so I guess my questions, to you, is how do you not live in the shame? And when I write, it's interesting, the play I'm writing is certainly about my background, but I see similarities, but it's not the same, but the similarities between anti-Semitism and this profound centuries of discrimination. But how do I integrate that and use it to be of service, to be, you know, having more information doesn't make me, it just makes me feel less, has that, you know? So how do I actively, and as an artist, as a human, just as a human being, actively help the change, you know?  So in there is my question. So Lynn, I mean, the first thing I have to say is thanks for asking the question. And the second thing I say is, because I think it's important to say at times like this, because you are one of the folks, you know, we have a wonderful collection of people who would show up pretty much every week when I sat in the lobby. Yeah, easier to show up now, but Lynn would bring her behind to the lobby. And just get your wrist in the chair. Yeah, so I, you know, I can say, Lynn, thank you for asking the question. And I'll just go on and say, I know your heart. And it's good and it's righteous. And I think that it is very important for all of us involved in this culture revolution to acknowledge the wrongs and acknowledge when we're trying to do right, you know? Cause the work is hard and we're not going to get it right all the time. White, black, brown, POC, BIPOC, I don't care who we are. We're not always going to get it right. We're not always going to say the right thing in the right way and, you know, it's hard. It's difficult just speaking for myself as a black woman living in America for all these years. I am angry. I go to Hollywood, I work a lot in Hollywood. Ooh, I'm the angry sister. In theater circles they're like, why aren't you angrier?  But I navigate those areas, you know what I mean? I try to just be righteous and bring love. So Lynn, I think your friend, if she says don't live in the shame, she knows you're a lot better than I do. If you feel shame, feel it, but let us not use anything we're feeling as an excuse to avoid real substantive positive change. So if you're going to feel shame and you think, well, that's enough, I'm feeling bad. You know what I'm saying? That's not enough. If I say I'm feeling angry, that's not enough either. You know, if someone says I'm feeling a lot of ideas, that's not enough either. It is a combination of these things. We have to get a lot smarter. We have to make leaps in our understanding of ourselves and each other that we have not yet made because that's why we're still here because like Pima children would say, here's the work. The work needs to be done, you know? So Lynn, if you're feeling ashamed, feel it. Cause I'm going to keep feeling angry. I'm going to keep figuring out ways to channel it, you know what I'm saying? But yeah, you're muted though, sis. I can't hear you. Caction or motivations. You know, anger alone is not going to make a change, but anger and compassion. Well, don't, I would ask you that.  Shame alone isn't going to make a change. I say for anybody, if you're using your dominant feeling to avoid addressing the systemic racism that is part of this country, then you need to add a little something else to it to activate it, you see what I mean? So if you're only feeling shame, add something else to it to activate it. If you're only feeling anger, add something else to it to activate it. You know what I'm saying? It's a multi-pronged approach right now because it is so, it has poisoned our whole culture, our world culture. It is so much apart. And Lynn, you said you live in it, but you're not feeling it, and now it's weighing heavy on your heart. It's been weighing on my heart my whole life. Or before I was born, because my parents were carrying it. You know what I'm saying? So yeah, welcome. Welcome to the shitstorm, sister. This is where the work begins. If you're feeling shame, just activate it. Keep active in any way you can.  Everybody's allowed to operate in rough draft mode. You know what I'm saying? I mean, we don't have to be perfect. We just have to be committed to making that positive change, you know? And doing your work. And again, don't use the bad feelings to not get your writing done.  Thank you, Lynn. All right, we've got about eight minutes left, and we're gonna go to Jolondre. Are you there? Yes, hi. Hi, everybody. Thank you for this. I'm also sort of like, I think it was Kimmy Kim. Writing about something in the moment, obviously there's a responsibility to be telling truth right now. And so working on some essays, and my question really is about ending and release, though it first occurred to me in terms of revision and research. But, you know, I still unfortunately have this fear of maybe sounding like an idiot, or even though we don't really care about that too much in these days, but really just a fear of a lack of clarity in my own thinking.  And, you know, I know that's impossible, but, and so that kind of prevents me from simply submitting a thing to do my work and speak my truth about what's going on. And so, yes, advice about that, please. That's a beautiful question. I remember, if I remember correctly, brother, the first time we spoke on this show, you were outside, you live in LA? No, no, no, I'm in New York, but I usually am in a park or something. Oh, you were in a, it was beautiful. I'm inside today, luckily. Beautiful, okay, cool. No, I was just remembering that picture of you. But I would say that it could be your essay, your essay could be, you know, part one of many, part seven of, you know what I mean?  Like I said, I don't think you have to get it perfect the first time. I think if there's an urgency to what you're saying and there are essays and you want to get them out there, we talked with, oh, was it Vernita? Maybe last week, she was also writing some essays that, and I said, well, you can always do part two or part three, that kind of thing. Would that be helpful? Yeah, I think so. I guess my, yeah, I think maybe that provides an opportunity to get things right that I got wrong. I think that's my fear. It's like, oh, I haven't, you know, read all the latest pieces on this. And so there's also a little bit like, am I saying the same thing? Am I adding to this conversation? Or am I just, you know, doing my personal therapy on? I understand. I would say all of those are allowed. You're able to echo what someone else has said. You're allowed to echo what someone else has said. You are allowed to do your own personal therapy. If maybe, man, you have friends, you have trusted readers, I know I do. And you could maybe send the document to some trusted readers and say, give this a read and give me some feedback. Tell me what you think. Does this sound like it's making sense? Or have I left anything out that I need to put in? Or if I need to write a second essay, you know, like that, you can get great feedback from trusted friends who, you know, want you to succeed. You know, does that make sense? That's always good to have readers out there. If you have a reading group, you might want to read it aloud to your colleagues and comrades, you know? That's always helpful to me anyway. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for asking the question. Thank you, Julia. Nice to see you. All right, we don't have any questions at the moment. We've got about four, well, three and a half minutes left. Oh, I spoke too soon. Danielle, hello. Help me, thank you so much for this space. This has truly been like my church during this time. I'm so grateful for this community. It's just so inspiring. So thank you. My question is kind of related, but in a way the opposite of Jacob's. I'm about to start actually today as my first day of a new job. And I'm grateful for the work. And I'm scared that I'm going to stop writing because it's so much easier for me to prioritize things that people are asking me for, things that are happening in a group, things I'm being paid for over things that I believe are my truth, my important for me to bring out into the world. And I'm just wondering if you have any thoughts on that, on like in addition to this space, which is so, so helpful to sort of like find the time just shifting that balance a little bit and finding ways to sort of value the things you care about and believe in and want to be putting into the world at the same level as like things that are supporting you and that other people are asking you for. That's a great question, Danielle. And so I'm silly question, but will you be able to stay at home while you work or will you have to go into the... Yeah, yeah. It's going to be a work from home thing at least for now for the first time. Okay, and are they expecting to see your face at a certain hour of the day? I mean, what's the... Yeah, yeah. I think like generally they're on the West Coast, I'm on the East Coast, so I kind of get to do the West Coast hours, which is awesome. But yeah, I will be expected to work like normal work hours on their time zone. Great. Of course you will, of course you will. This is so great. You got to say thank you to the spirit for giving your job that is based in the West Coast because so 10 o'clock, like 10 to six kind of thing? Yeah, yeah. Great, so 10 o'clock LA time is what time for us? One, one. Great. Okay, Danielle, so you have basically, and can you get out of bed by, I don't know, eight in the morning? Yes. Great, great. Do you like to, do you have an exercise routine or a meditation program also or what do you like to do? Dog and a little yoga thing that I like to do. Dog and yoga, fantastic. Okay, so you got walking your dog, right? Doing your yoga, add maybe five minutes of meditation at the end, you know, something like that, which is like whipped cream. And then around, let's say 10 o'clock in the morning, don't wanna rush you, right?  From 10 o'clock in the morning to say, I don't know, noon, I don't know. And then you close the computer, whatever you close up your writing station and you get ready for work, whatever you gotta, I don't know if you gotta wear an outfit, you know, whatever you gotta do, right? Fancy on top, pajamas on bottom. There you go. Fancy on top, pajamas on bottom, and you know, you look professional right now to me. So is that doable? Basically you're gonna prioritize your self, your work, your heart's desire by putting it in the front of the day and then you will be at their service cheerfully and gratefully at their service from 10 to six L.A. time, okay? Yeah. And you just have to be, you just have to be really in love with yourself and respectful of yourself and know that this is totally worth it, okay? That gives you a ton of time. Yeah.  Anyway, you'll get your work done. Okay. Thank you so much. You're welcome. You can like slip away.  You can go to the bathroom. Yeah. All right. It is 6-0-1. 6-0-1. All right. Crazy town. We love you guys. We love you. Thank you SLP. As a reminder, you can always sign up on the public theater website by 3 p.m. Eastern time and I will send you a link between three and 4 30 p.m. Eastern Monday to Thursday. You know, we love you guys. See you tomorrow. Thank you, SLP. Thank you. Thank you, Audrey. Thanks for helping.


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require third parties users are able to access the platform simply by connecting their ERC 20 compatible wallet to our interface I'm going to show you guys how that's done it's really easy I don't want to really kind of show my accounts but what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you guys how that's done there are two native tokens of the free liquid protocol the FL token which is their specific token the governance token and the USD FL the stablecoin that is soft pegged to the US dollar so using their smart contracts liquidity providers are able to lock their liquidity tokens on free liquid borrow and get up to 90% of the pool's total value in USD FL since the price of stablecoins has extremely low volatility the liquidation of user collateral is not possible and completely switched off these terms are unprecedented in the space of crypto lending and offer our users high value with almost zero risk the loan is issued instantly and can be closed at any time simply by covering the outstanding amount of USD FL tokens the protocol ensures that users are not set under the time pressure thus there is no due date before the funds must be returned loans are issued for an unlimited period of time until users themselves decide to close the loan for the initial period the free liquid is borrow will support liquidity pairs consisting of the stablecoins USDT USDC USDT-DAI USDC-DAI and USDT-USDN the team is currently working on adding support for more platforms and stablecoin pools to attract even more funds and users to the platform the entire team at free liquid believes in maintaining the benchmark principles of DeFi such as peer-to-peer networks decentralization anonymity and reliance on algorithms rather than human trust the protocol governance is run by the community through the on-chain voting with our governance token every single holder of FL tokens is eligible to submit votes on different protocol proposals by locking their tokens via the governance portal once the voting is closed the tokens will be duly returned to the user to ensure a fair and even distribution of the FL governance tokens we have chosen to implement the so-called fair launch model at the launch a total of 1 million FL tokens were generated and will be gradually distributed among users that support free liquid most FL rewards will go to the users that add to the liquidity pairs of the native tokens of free liquid FL and USD FL free liquid has been developed with the objective to make liquidity pools work as a source of additional funds for their owners another key issue is that liquidity providers keep their passive income from liquidity fees while receiving USD stablecoins for their free use if users decide for example to create another liquidity pool from the board funds the original passive income is almost doubled we welcome our new users to take advantage of being early and getting the most of the ongoing FL reward programs the first week if FL rewards have proven to be especially profitable to their users averaging around 2000 to 3000 percent APY in FL tokens depending on the program so these are all their links which I'm going to go through with you guys and this is where I found the company and then what we did is we actually contacted them and I'm going to show you guys how it works I also downloaded their white paper this is the explanation of what they do in the white paper free liquid protocol is an open source platform built on the ethereum blockchain it serves as a decentralized finance protocol that offers borrowing and saving programs to crypto asset holders one of the innovative features of free liquid is the ability to receive USD stablecoins for providing liquidity pools example from uniswap as collateral pools that are locked on free liquid remain fully functional and continue to earn commission fees on their native platforms borrowed funds can be used for any purposes such as creating more liquidity pools thereby significantly increasing user profits USD FL token is free liquids native stablecoin which is soft pegged to the US dollar FL serves as the governance token used in free liquid voting both FL and USD FL tokens operate on the ERC 20 standard the fair launch model implies a distribution of the initial FL tokens through award programs free liquid users play a defining part in the development of the protocol through community work and proposal voting now there's a lot more information but I just wanted to bring you the major key elements of what they do this is their website free liquid.io you can simply go and connect your wallet through metamask, tracer and the ledger nano so very simply you can connect your wallets this is a smart version of money free liquid gives you the ability to manage your assets at any time in any place convenient for you with a completely decentralized system for managing your funds you can avoid volatility by using stablecoins the idea behind USD FL is to create a stablecoin backed by crypto wallets crypto assets that are much more stable to price than ether this will allow us to reduce the associated risks and avoid fluctuations in the price of our token they are trusted and a transparent rate the USD FL savings rate is governed by FL holders and the set based on the supply and demand of USD FL on exchanges total security free liquid regularly undergoes security audits and checks built by the developers of the free liquid protocol and any questions you have you can find right on the website it is free liquid.io okay and this is what it looks like you can borrow all you need to do is connect your wallet and you can literally borrow from these tokens and you can quickly connect your wallet on metamask here's my metamask right here i actually have a metamask account but i didn't want to show all my holdings so i just set up a new one for this video this is what metamask looks like you can just download it um i downloaded this on my edge my edge platform as opposed to you could download it on your phone you can download it on ios you can download it on iphone you can download it on your android you can download it on so many different platforms and i just used metamask here and this is what the metamask download looks like you can use it for chrome firefox brave or edge i'm using it right now for my edge this is free liquid protocol on telegram you can see there are 460 members 192 online i am currently a member on telegram as well and this is them on twitter you can see they only have eight people following one of which is me on twitter so this is literally a platform that's just getting started but i like the idea and this is what it looks like on etherscan so you can see the contract for the free liquid token there's a max supply of a million tokens 129 holders currently 674 total transfers you can see all their social profiles here you can follow them right here on blog their free liquid blog you can follow them on github you can follow them on telegram discord and this is their white paper you can follow their website right here you can see their decimals and their contracts so all of this is here on etherscan for you to review and you literally go in here and utilize the usdt slash usdc token usdt slash da i token usdc slash da i token usdt slash usdn token usdfl available and you can see your minimum collateral ratio pretty cool so you invest money and you can see your minimum collateral ratio so you know exactly what you're going to get before you even make an investment all the questions are here and this looks like a pretty cool platform left to know what you guys think and you can even click on audit here and you can take a look at all the smart contracts so pretty cool platform left to know pretty cool platform left to know what you guys think this is free liquid one of the cool things you can do here with free liquid.io is you can just hit this play button here and it actually gives you a full tutorial pretty cool on how to open a vault so these are the steps to open a vault you can borrow and save borrow usdfl using metamask ledger tracer tracer or wallet connect click connect get started and you can see the collateral type options choosing usd usdc usdt usdc click continue set up confirm set up and confirm and then continue again put in how much usdt usdc you would like to lock in your vault and how much usdfl and then hit open vault so you can follow these instructions and also create your own vault and then congratulations you are in your vault and then you can manage your vault with usdt usdc vault number 17 deposit withdraw generate and payback options free liquid.io i thought this was a pretty cool concept i wanted to bring it to you first it looks like this free liquid makes it easy to receive usd stablecoins without any fees by collateralizing pools in dai usdt and usdc usdn usdfl is a fully decentralized censorship resistant stablecoin available to any liquidity provider usdfl is providing even greater financial freedom a price stable currency which is fully under your control get usdfl instantly and on your terms and this is the usdfl contract address here's the contract address which i'm going to highlight and then if we go back to etherscan you can see another contract address here as well and if i wanted to find this token or find this coin all i have to do is search fl and your token should pop up if it doesn't pop up then what you can do is you can type in sorry you can copy this because this is a new token it might not be as popular and then do a search and then it takes you right back here where you can see the contract creator and it takes you right back here where it says token tracker fl and then you can click on that and it takes you right back to the token so free liquid token on etherscan you can also connect through metamask you can download it for free and go to the website freeliquid.io where you can take advantage of this platform now free liquid is a fork a fork of maker dow that offers loans to usdfl so there are fork of maker dow and it offers loans to usdl a native free liquid stablecoin soft peg to one us dollar the main advantage of free liquid is the support of uniswap liquid stablecoin pools as collateral for borrowing how does it work users can lock their liquidity provider tokens through the smart contract of the free liquid protocol and borrow up to 90% of the initial pool value the usdfl are issued instantly and transferred to the user's personal wallet to return the liquidity tokens users simply have to cover a part of the whole of the outstanding usdfl debt what are the advantages well we're going to get into it liquidity providers can keep their passive income from uniswap fees and simultaneously receive funding in usd stablecoins for free further use and future use there is no risk of liquidation since the price of stablecoin remains almost the same the free liquid governance token fl is distributed in a fair and uniform manner through several war programs the rewards are distributed among users that help the development of free liquid ecosystem for example by providing liquidity to fl and usdfl pairs the project is constantly growing more liquidity pairs and platforms like for example curve finance or money swap can be added in the future is free liquid safe as mentioned above free liquid is a fork of maker dow a platform that has been on the market since at least 2017 when I first got into cryptocurrencies which was 2017 so if you want to borrow usdfl you just click on borrow usdfl get extra assets for trading and it looks like this and if you want to save you click on save and they got more information here so to our knowledge there have been no major breaches of the maker dow with smart contracts being pretty straightforward again since liquidation is turned off there are no consequences of sudden market crashes like in march 2020 okay the platform is completely decentralized anonymous and accessible only by a personal ethereum wallet free liquid does not require and does not store any of the user data free liquid has been recently audited by buoyants in blockchain security one of the leading audited companies on the crypto market free liquid successfully passed all audit items and you can find that as well so lots of information about free liquid let me know what you think if you like this video please smash the like button comment down below and share the video everywhere what do you think about the free liquid platform love to know your opinion this is rich from rich to be live if you're not winning you're not watching bringing the winners and we bring them to you first what do you think about this platform I think it's pretty cool and all I have to do is connect my wallets let's say we connect our metamask hit next connect and boom we're connected so I just did it live I literally just connected it live so I'm literally learning just to get comfortable with this right now and I'm going to continue to get more comfortable with it and as I get more comfortable with this and I learn how this platform works and I get more comfortable transferring funds and receiving rewards I'll let you know hopefully I'll be able to do more future videos about this company in the future as I get more comfortable with this platform but so far I like what I see and as I get more comfortable with it I learn more about it hopefully in the future I'll be able to do more future videos with this company this is a sponsored video I have contacted the company and they are sponsoring us for this video hopefully in the future I'll be able to use it more comfortably and I'll be able to show you more about how this platform works and how I'm feeling more comfortable with it as I evolve and grow with the platform. Thank you for watching. This is Rich from Rich to Be Live. If you're not winning, you're not watching. We bring the winners and we bring them to you first. What do you think about free liquid.io? Another platform that's relatively new in the blockchain space and I think it has a great future. Let me know what you think. This is Rich from Rich to Be Live. I'll talk to you soon. Have a nice day.