EtherFi has been one of the fastest-growing neobanks for both crypto natives and retail users. 

We sit down with Mike and learn more about his experience, what led to start EtherFi, their pivot, and current growth strategy. 

Today, the lending category has $28.5 billion in active loans, and almost all of that demand comes from variable-rate lending. This works fine in periods of stability; however, during stress events, as utilisation curves move, borrowing rates can spike. This rate surge forces some borrowers to exit or deleverage, making the overall credit market inefficient.

DeFi money markets, in fact, solved one problem traditional credit cannot offer by providing near-instant borrowing against collateral. 

One problem remains: knowing the cost of debt before the loan is over. 

That’s what many products are focusing on nowadays, moving toward fixed-rate and fixed-maturity credit products.

Join us today as we discuss this with Bitwise, KPK and Tenor Finance

Perps are one of crypto’s largest markets, but still carry trade-offs around liquidity and liquidation handling.

Variational uses RFQ to list more markets faster and source deeper liquidity. Now, they’re adding swaps too.

Join us with Lucas Schuermann, Co-Founder & CEO of Variational.

RWAs have become the fastest-growing category in crypto since 2024

Unfortunately, they still struggle with low representation in DeFi (~10%), but new solutions are in development to overcome this...

Join us with Redstone, xStocks, and Pendle

This episode focuses on our flagship report, written for TokenizeThis, the longest-running US conference dedicated to the tokenization of finance: https://castlelabs.io/research/reports/real-world-assets