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On this Market Cap episode, our Director of Institutional Services Stefano Sanabria speaks with Mark Gerhart, Business Development Lead at Dialectic.

Dialectic is a crypto asset manager running a traditional quant fund alongside actively managed, risk-aware onchain vault strategies.

Dialectic is focusing increasingly on flexible vault infrastructure and sourcing yield from real-world assets as crypto market inefficiencies compress.

On Market Cap we feature firms and funds to explore the thinking that guides them, the patterns they observe, and other forces moving the markets.

Chapters
1:25 RWAs Need Better Packaging To Work On DeFi Rails
2:40 “Everyone’s Unemployed” Means Consolidation
6:00 Institutions Were Here Since Coinbase Days
13:30 How Dialectic Actually Generates Returns
18:30 Mapping Hidden Risk To Avoid Another Blow Up
24:30 Trust Me Bro NAV and Hard Set Parameters
36:30 Six Month Social Engineering Attack Broke Drift
41:40 Why 3% On Aave Makes No Sense Vs T-Bills
57:00 FINMA License And What It Unlocks For Dialectic