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Decentralized Finance (DeFi): The Future of Finance

Real Vision: Finance & Investing

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🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Crypto Wednesday: To learn more about Decentral Park and how to participate in their fund visit: http://rvtv.io/DeFiinvestment John Quinn, CIO and general partner of Decentral Park Capital, discusses the fastest growing sector of the crypto market today—decentralized finance (DeFi). Founded in 2017, Decentral Park Capital is a digital asset manager that brings a combination of long experience in traditional finance, emerging market business development, and deep domain expertise in the digital asset domain. Quinn describes DeFi as a collection of applications across a wide range of financial primitives that seek to replicate legacy financial blocks on-chain, which means middle-men are quickly being replaced by middleware, unlocking huge efficiencies in the process. DeFi has already climbed to a $120 billion market in just a few years, finding clear product-market fit along the way, and Decentral Park’s thesis is that DeFi represents the brand new backbone of the global financial system. Decentral Park is launching their new 24-month DeFi Fund that will be investing solely in assets that sit within this growing DeFi ecosystem. Prior to Decentral Park Capital, John co-founded Storj Labs, a leading decentralized cloud storage provider. Prior to that, he was a tech investment banker at Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank. Recorded on March 19, 2021. Key Learnings: One of the most valuable aspects of DeFi is that it is open and permissionless, which stands in stark contrast to traditional finance. DeFi has grown tremendously over the last few years, but it is still in the very early days in its adoption life cycle. Decentral Park Capital's use of on-chain data can provide valuable insights to those looking for big investment opportunities in the DeFi space. For our Listeners: Head to https://www.rocketlawyer.com/workconfidently to start your free 7-day trial today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Kraken.

0:03.0

Crypto is like finance, but different.

0:06.0

It doesn't care when you invest, trade or save.

0:09.0

Do it on weekends or at 5 a.m.

0:12.0

Or on Christmas Day at 5 a.m.

0:14.0

Crypto is finance for everyone, everywhere, all the time.

0:19.0

Visit Kraken.com slash see what crypto can be to learn more.

0:23.0

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:26.0

This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:30.0

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0:44.0

Hey, I'm John Quinn.

0:46.0

I'm the Chief Investment Officer and General Partner of Decentral Park Capital.

0:49.0

I've been in the crypto space since 2015 when I co-founded storage labs,

0:54.0

which is a decentralized cloud storage provider.

0:56.0

Prior to that, I was doing traditional finance.

0:59.0

I was an investment bank here at Credit Suisse in Fleming.

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I also did global markets at Deutsche Bank and also ran a $200 million private equity fund.

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What is DeFi?

1:09.0

DeFi is short for decentralized finance.

1:12.0

If you can imagine a financial primitive like lending or trading or insurance,

1:19.0

that financial primitive is being boiled down into a protocol,

1:23.0

much the way that TCP-IP is a protocol for the web.

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