Inside the $30M Launch of a Bitcoin Startup

Inside the $30M Launch of a Bitcoin Startup

From Proof of Thought by Proof of Thought

March 27, 2026 · 28 min · Season 1 · Episode 33

About this episode

Kevin Li discusses the launch of Saturn, a Bitcoin startup focused on digital credit and its potential impact on the market.

#Bitcoin #Crypto #Investing #ad 🧠 Don’t miss future episodes — subscribe to Proof of Thought for more deep Bitcoin, crypto, and investing insights and conversations! ⭐️ Follow Kevin X: https://x.com/kevinlhr88 Saturn X: https://x.com/saturn_credit Saturn: https://saturn.credit/ Today’s conversation is with Kevin Li, CEO and co-founder of Saturn, a digital credit protocol built on top of Strategy's Bitcoin-backed preferred equity. In this episode, Kevin shares how his time leading research and product development at Artemis — a leading blockchain data firm — exposed him to the growing demand for off-chain yields within DeFi, and how a chance moment at a Bitcoin conference crystallized his vision for Saturn. We discuss Kevin's belief that digital credit represents the next major wave of Bitcoin adoption, not just for institutions, but for the hundreds of millions of global users who have access to stablecoins but not US brokerage accounts. The conversation covers how Saturn is building an on-chain money layer on top of instruments like STRC, why DeFi currently lacks yield at institutional scale, and how Saturn's dynamic reserve system is designed to manage the unique risks of…

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Host: Proof of Thought

Guest: Kevin Li

Topics covered

  • Bitcoin
  • Crypto
  • Investing
  • Digital Credit
  • DeFi
  • Startup Launch

Keywords

  • Bitcoin
  • Crypto
  • Investing
  • Digital Credit
  • DeFi
  • Startup
  • Yield
  • Equity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Saturn, Artemis, Strategy, Bitcoin, DeFi, Saturn X, Saturn.credit

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