Vish is the CoFounder & CEO of Frontera Labs, the developer behind Strata.

DeFi has an abundance of exotic yields. What's been missing is a way to transfer risk between users who want different things. So while risk tranching has existed in TradFi for decades, Strata just made it permissionless.

In this episode, Vish explains how Strata brings risk tranching fully onchain: senior tranches for conservative capital that wants protected yield, junior tranches for risk-tolerant capital earning ~2x the base rate. All enforced by smart contracts. He demos a live Strata market, walks through how the yield split mechanism works under the hood, and explains why mispriced lending yields are DeFi's biggest unsolved problem, and how tranching fixes it.

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 - Intro
2:14 - Founding Strata
3:40 - What is tranching?
7:14 - Why tranching products make sense to now take off in DeFi?
13:43 - How Strata tranches risk for DeFi yields
17:05 - How Strata splits yields into junior vs senior tranches
21:49 - Screenshare demo of real Strata market
26:40 - Balancing senior vs junior TVL
29:26 - Tranching vs insurance: what’s the difference?
38:13 - How Strata works with RWAs
42:59 - Strata is addressing DeFi’s big issue: mispriced yields
46:00 - How builders can get started with Strata
49:12 - Closing

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🔗 GUEST LINKS

► Strata website: https://strata.markets/
► Strata on X: https://x.com/strata_markets
► Vish on X: https://x.com/UnQuidPro

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