Great chat! If your smart contracts can't protect institutional capital from exploits while maximizing yield efficiency, the asset doesn't matter.
That's exactly why we build for Compound.
Meet the man who survived Russian FSB prison, walked away from Google, and lost $300k+ in BTC - now going head-to-head with our CEO.
In this episode of Brutally Honest, Richie (co-founder at @lemur_labs) pulls zero punches:
• Why founders don't get "freedom", they get obsession
• Surviving zero runway: pay cuts over layoffs
• Why AI "vibe coding" is breaking financial apps
Watch the full debate 👇
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Real-world capital demands segregated liquidity, compliant permissioned rails, and bulletproof architecture.
Huge thanks to Compound Foundation for the trust and continued partnership. Now let’s scale the liquidity 🚀
The Compound Institutional Market has up to $200,000 in boosted rewards for USDC suppliers.
To participate:
1. Supply 100,000 USDC or more.
2. Request approval for the rewards program by submitting the form.
Once approved, your supply is eligible for rewards. Rewards apply to the first 20M USDC of eligible supply and are distributed pro rata at the end of the three-month program.
Deposit and earn: app.compound.xyz/?market=usd…
Introducing @woof_software
Woof software is an High-agency firm that
builds valuable crypto products and also turn real assets into productive on chain capital
Main focus
- Real world assets
- Lending protocols
- Vault & yield
Built by people with experience across Compound Finance, Avalanche / Ava Labs, Silo, BENQI and Ether.fi.
If you’re building a serious protocol and need the technical firepower to ship, Woof is the Agency you need.
1/ Introducing the Compound Institutional Market.
Market-leading LTVs. Curated collateral. Proven infrastructure.
Institutional Market is now live 👇
compound.xyz/institutional-m…
I’ll be around for @EBlockchainCon, @ETHSpain_, and a few side events.
If you're in the city and want to chat about launching a DeFi-native RWA platform in under 30 days (or just grab a coffee), let me know - DMs are open.
Heading to @EBlockchainCon next week - my first offline event ever.
Invite you to meet, intimidate me, pitch me your product (maybe I'll pitch it to someone else later), fight me if you wish - help me speedrun the social anxiety.
Pleasure to get acquainted, even if you don't need supercool dev services @woof_software provides right now.
Coffee, shared table, walking between venues, standing awkwardly in the same corner - all fine by me.
DMs are open.
got literally Mac AIRdropped by @woof_software this week.
Ceo says it is absolutely necessary for billionaire's mindset activation and closing.
Never owned one before. Will see if money magic is real or it's just Apple marketing.
🎙 New X Space is coming!
The Yield Question: Where Do RWA Vault Returns Actually Come From?
Join us as we break down the mechanics behind RWA vaults, yield strategies, and what this new layer could mean for on-chain finance.
Featuring:
🎙 @micobz, co-founder of @ShiftRWA
🎙 Alex Davis @mv1_davis, Founder of Mavryk @MavrykNetwork
🎙 Matt @Mat_Oracle, Head of Growth @ SEDA @sedaprotocol
🎙 Paul Jan Reijn @MrReijn, Co-Founder & General Counsel @ @SpoutFi Spout Finance
🎙 Bobb, Director of BD at Vibe @vibe_trading & SYMMIO @symm_io
🎙 Filippo, Director of Growth @ IVY @IvyMarkets
🎙 Alex, CMO @ Woof @woof_software
🗓 Thursday, September 3
⏰ 4PM UTC
Set a reminder👇
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@mezzanine_fi dropped their pivot lately and yeah, I've got thoughts🏛️
TLDR: this thing used to be pitched as a three-tranche stablecoin.
I wrote the whole breakdown of the original tech - worth a read first. The pivot isn't really a mechanics change. It's a positioning.
- Look, I still think the initial mezz stablecoin concept is great. I wrote about it, meant every word of it. The problem was never the mechanics - it's that "yield-bearing stablecoin" is really just DeFi fund with better marketing, and that framing landed Mezzanine in a stablecoin narrative that was already crowded with first-movers. It boxed the whole thing into a narrower use case than it deserved.
So now they're not trying to be a yield source anymore. They're to be the infra other yield sources get built on top of. Morpho but for vaults? Tranched strategies marketplace? Let's see how it plays.
- A three-tranche vault is replicated into vault infrastructure - basically a swiss army knife for operators(curators) instead of a single product, so they can configure the setup precisely per strategy.
The tranche math itself didn't move:
→ Senior - lower risk, lower yield share
→ Junior - first-loss, higher yield share
→ Mezzanine - sits in between, now optional per vault
Loss still eats Junior first, then Mezzanine if it's there, Senior last. Waterfall of risks and yields as before, now more flexible.
Team expects two strats at launch, and 2-3 new ones/month. Think the original Mezz vault from the team ends up among the first ones live ak flagship.
I've had my stables ready to bet on Mezz since always, so call me biased (I'm). But now it's not "that's it" anymore. It's just the beginning.
Woof!🐶
1/ Compound’s lending markets are embedded in some of crypto’s largest wallets: @cryptocom@TrustWallet@Ledger.
Powered by Kiln, these integrations let users earn on the stablecoins they already hold, in the wallets they already use.
Today's Partner Spotlight: @Kiln_finance 👇
1/ Compound's Treasury Management Committee has recommended putting up to $12M of the DAO's USDC into a dedicated, noncustodial vault on Ethereum, curated by @SteakhouseFi, one of the largest onchain curators.
The vault would be the treasury's primary sleeve, alongside the separately proposed RWA sleeve.