Tag: DeFi
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Rebuilding the Repo Market in DeFi
Rebuilding the Repo Market on VOLS The repurchase (repo) market, with over $15 trillion in daily transactions, is the circulatory system of modern finance. It’s the critical, behind-the-scenes engine where banks, money market funds, and corporations exchange high-quality collateral for short-term cash. But despite its importance, this market operates on decades-old infrastructure that creates hidden…
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On-chain Credit & RWA’s
Beyond the world of public stocks and bonds lies a vast, multi-trillion dollar universe of private credit and real-world assets (RWAs). This includes everything from corporate loans, trade receivables, infrastructure debt, and equipment leases. These assets form the backbone of the real economy and offer attractive, stable yields. However, for most institutions, this market has…
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The DAT Era: Institutionalizing On-Chain Governance
The crypto-institutional convergence is accelerating, and Digital Asset Trusts (DATs) are at the centre of it. Once dismissed as a niche compliance wrapper, DATs are quickly becoming the private-market operating system for public blockchains, professionalizing treasuries, enforcing financial discipline, and reshaping governance as capital moves on-chain. After dozens of conversations at SALT Wyoming, where VOLS…