Rune Christensen on How AI Agents Are Powering Institutional DeFi at Sky
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🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Crypto is really getting more and more institutionalized. |
| 0:02.3 | It's getting more focused on what you can really do with the technology. |
| 0:07.2 | And as we're seeing, there's sort of this, a lot of crypto projects. |
| 0:10.2 | They're kind of in a, you know, they're having a bit of sort of like a lack of what's, |
| 0:14.8 | what are we supposed to do now, right? |
| 0:16.1 | But the really big, you know, established defy projects, the ones generating revenue like Sky and many |
| 0:22.3 | of the other blue chip defy and really established players in the space. |
| 0:25.6 | This is actually the moment we've been hoping for all this time. |
| 0:29.0 | You know, finally, there's less noise and there's more focus on the fundamentals, on revenue, |
| 0:33.4 | on all these things that should have been totally natural from the beginning. |
| 0:47.2 | Our next guest joins us now. Rune Christensen. Rune is director of the Sky Frontier Foundation and co-founder of Sky, formerly known as Maker Dow. Sky is a Dify protocol that scales the legacy |
| 0:53.2 | of MakerDAO by bridging decentralized governance with institutional grade, stable coin rewards, and real-world asset allocation. |
| 1:00.0 | Bruin, welcome. |
| 1:01.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:02.0 | Of course, thanks for being here. |
| 1:04.0 | I've been waiting to talk to you all day because I've really been following this AI agents on social media boom that's been happening over the past few days |
| 1:11.9 | with Moldtbook. And you acknowledged on X that people are freaked out by this, but you said |
| 1:16.5 | that Sky has been preparing for this all along. Kind of unpack that for me. |
| 1:20.0 | Well, so, I mean, the Sky, first of all, is the world's largest yield generating stable coin project. |
| 1:27.1 | And actually, the way that Sky is able to deliver such a great and efficient world's largest yield generating stable coin project. |
| 1:27.7 | And actually, the way that Sky is able to deliver such a great and efficient risk-adjuster |
| 1:32.3 | return on the USDS stablecoin is through what's known as the Sky Agents, which is essentially |
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