Category 06

DeFi and Derivatives

Protocols for decentralised trading, lending, and yield. Representative assets: Hyperliquid, Uniswap, Aave.

Assets in this category

Aave is the work of Stani Kulechov, a Finnish lawyer who earned his law degree from the University of Helsinki (2018) wh…

Aster was born from the merger of two projects in late 2024: Astherus (a DeFi yield-product protocol that received seed …

Hyperliquid was founded by Jeff Yan in 2022, together with a former Harvard classmate known pseudonymously as “iliensinc…

Ondo Finance was founded by Nathan Allman in 2021, after he left Goldman Sachs' digital assets team (within its Global M…

SKY is the governance token of the same Sky Protocol (formerly MakerDAO) whose USDS/Dai stablecoins were covered in deta…

Uniswap's conceptual origin traces back to Vitalik Buterin: in an October 2016 Reddit post and a June 2017 blog post, he…

WLFI is the governance token of the same World Liberty Financial (WLF) company whose USD1 stablecoin was covered in deta…