Bhavin Vaid: Curation is essential for navigating crypto markets, risk curators ensure pricing efficiency, and transparency builds user trust
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Bhavin Vaid: Curation is essential for navigating crypto markets, risk curators ensure pricing efficiency, and transparency builds user trust | On The Brink with Castle Island Risk curators are becoming essential for building trust and efficiency in the evolving crypto landscape. Key takeaways Curation in crypto markets is essential for guiding users through a complex landscape of unknown assets. Risk curators are vital for maintaining market efficiency and ensuring proper pricing in on-chain credit markets. Curators in the crypto space are evolving into infrastructure providers, leveraging best-in-class systems. Transparency is crucial in the crypto market to build trust among participants. Lessons from past failures in DeFi will shape the future of investment products. The composability of risk in DeFi can lead to cascading liquidations from a single asset’s depegging. Decentralized platforms must evolve to protect users from losing funds due to layered risks. Curators in decentralized applications build trust and streamline processes, attracting value like traditional businesses. Ethereum and Solana are expected to continue dominating as leading blockchain platforms. The integration of CeFi and DeFi protocols is crucial for future financial products’ success. User ownership and trust increasingly depend on curation by established platforms. Accurate real-time tracking of net asset value (NAV) is critical for both crypto and traditional finance. The market is hungry for high-quality real-world assets to come on-chain. The on-chain credit market is expected to expand significantly with new developments like morpho v2. Guest intro Bhavin Vaid is co-founder of Birch Hill, a firm focused on risk curation for tokenized assets and DeFi markets. Previously, he served as a Principal at 1RT Fund with a focus on the digital asset ecosystem. The emergence of curation in crypto markets Curation emerged to help users navigate a landscape filled with unknown assets. “The natural need out of that was…
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