Samed Düzçay is the Founder of Tori.

DeFi yields often collapse in bear markets because they recycle crypto-native capital. But Tori generates yield from somewhere else entirely.

In this episode, Sam explains how Tori brings institutional FX carry trades onchain, borrowing in low-rate currencies, lending in high-rate emerging market currencies, and hedging the FX exposure fully back to USD. The spread that remains after hedging is 8-15% yield, generated from real economic activity in global money markets, completely uncorrelated with crypto cycles. Tori is expected to launch in May so we're getting a jumpstart with this episode of DeFi Frontier to learn more.

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🔒 KPK | Best risk-adjusted yield through automated vaults

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 - Intro
1:50 - Sam’s background
4:05 - What is Tori? Institutional FX carry trades onchain
5:13 - Why DeFi yields are falling short of investor expectations
11:23 - How Tori strategies earn yield
14:35 - Capacity to scale the Tori trade and estimated yields
16:46 - Two-token model: trUSD vs strUSD
17:27 - Coming DeFi integrations for Tori
19:14 - Risks to using Tori
26:39 - Expected launch time for Tori
27:26 - Closing

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🔗 GUEST LINKS

► Tori website: https://tori.finance/
► Tori on X: https://x.com/tori_finance
► Sam on X: https://x.com/0xNox_eth

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