thanks for the kind words!

Community members got a lot of DeFi schemes, some of them are involving synthetics, e.g.

"Bonds based on Ergo (or the “Yield protocol”)" https://www.ergoforum.org/t/bonds-based-on-ergo-or-the-yield-protocol/128
"Interest-Free Loan Contract" https://www.ergoforum.org/t/interest-free-loan-contract/67

+ I can imagine that after IEO decline we'll have a new wave of experimentation with projects funding on-chain. Hopefully Ergo innovations will play out here. 
+ Maybe with bigger community we'll have externally provided stablecoins (USDT/USDC/tUSD, USDN at least)