With Evgeny Gokhberg, Founder of Re7 Capital, on the Role of DeFi in a Diversified Portfolio
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The episode discusses the evolution of decentralized finance and its integration into institutional finance, highlighting key opportunities and challenges.
We discuss how decentralised finance is evolving from a crypto-native experiment into an infrastructure layer for institutional finance—and why the convergence between DeFi and traditional finance is accelerating. - Why investors see DeFi as an uncorrelated portfolio strategy - The massive liquidity opportunity created by thousands of new DeFi protocols - Why liquidity providers are becoming the "banks" of the DeFi ecosystem - The biggest challenge for new protocols: distribution and market access - How institutions evaluate DeFi risk similarly to credit risk in traditional finance - Why tokenized funds, real-world assets, and blockchain settlement are accelerating institutional adoption - How traditional asset managers and banks are entering DeFi - Why the future may involve two parallel systems: regulated blockchain finance and open DeFi innovation Powered by Phoenix Group
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