Meow CEO Brandon Arvanaghi and CTO Bryce Crawford join the show to cover crypto yields and how they make them accessible to corporate treasuries. In this episode:
- The origins of the name
- Bryce and Brandon’s backgrounds
- The purpose of getting access to crypto yields while staying in dollars
- How Meow manages risks in DeFi protocols
- Are crypto yields fundamentally mispriced?
- Where crypto yields ultimately come from?
- The risk free rate of crypto yields
- The relationship between fragmented exchange environments and the cost of capital in crypto
- Why smart contract risk differs between chains and its effect on yields
- Why yields compressing will be a sign of the institutionalization of crypto
- The emergence of undercollateralized lending on DeFi, and which protocols the Meow leadership is most excited about
- Do DeFi yields face the risk from declining subsidies from token issuance
- Why institutional tooling is still lacking in DeFi
- The emergence of the crypto scene in Miami
- Projections for the future of DeFi
- Visions for the future of Meow
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