The Next Battle In DeFi Lending Is What's Inside Your Vault | DeFi Frontier

About this episode

David Reising discusses the challenges in DeFi lending and how Lotus aims to address them.

David Reising is the Founder of Lotus. "Aave compresses risk. Morpho isolates it. Lotus clears it." In this episode, David walks through why avoiding bad debt has become DeFi lending's biggest self-imposed constraint and how Lotus's connected tranches, cascading liquidity, and productive debt unlock a yield curve that neither Aave nor Morpho can offer. According to David, the next battle in DeFi lending is what's inside your vault, and Lotus is the answer. ------ 💎 THIS EPISODE'S SPONSORS 🔒 KPK | Best risk-adjusted yield through automated vaults 🏙 MAINSTREET | Bringing proven TradFi yield strategies to DeFi markets 🟠 APYX | The first dividend-backed stablecoin (DBS) 🏦 ALTURA | Bringing the yield institutions kept, to your wallet 🕛 NOON | The highest and safest stablecoin yield, built for the long term 👻 MANTLE | Aave V3 is live on Mantle 🐡 PUFFER INSTITUTIONAL | ETH staking solutions for scale ⚔️ KATANA | Deep liquidity & real yield ⚙️ GEARBOX PROTOCOL | Onchain lending reimagined ------ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Intro 2:22 - The team behind Lotus 3:45 - The problem with shared pool design like Aave 7:23 - The “missing middle” in DeFi lending 9:31 - The problem…

People in this episode

Host: DeFi Dad

Guest: David Reising

Topics covered

• DeFi lending
• risk management
• Lotus
• Aave
• Morpho
• yield curve
• tranching

Keywords

• DeFi
• lending
• Lotus
• Aave
• Morpho
• risk
• yield
• tranches
• liquidity
• debt

Sponsors

KPK, MAINSTREET, APYX, ALTURA, NOON, MANTLE, PUFFER INSTITUTIONAL, KATANA, GEARBOX PROTOCOL

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Lotus, Aave, Morpho

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