Tectonic Shifts: How Institutions Are Coming to DeFi
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Overview of who’s actually onboarding, what was built, and what works: custody firms Copper and Fireblocks offer governance, segregated environments and programmatic access to avoid Ledger/phatom approvals; Hubble mints USDH against Bitcoin and routes yield to Camino; Jet targets fixed-rate fixed-term borrowing; Friction Institutional launches under-collateralized fixed-rate fixed-term lending with lender protections and duration controls. Risk tooling includes withdrawal caps and oracle price bands, Monte‑Carlo liquidity sims (Gauntlet) and staged pilot deployments—institutions start small and CEX adoption outpaces DeFi for now.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Institutional DeFi adoption
- 3:13Defining institutions in DeFi
- 7:26Custodial providers and risk
- 12:43DeFi protocols for institutions
- 18:45Security and risk mitigation
- 23:22Innovation versus safety
- 24:44Q&A
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