And Their Limitations, Differences to TradFi/CeFi, and Why This Matters Trading is complicated enough when you’re just punching numbers into a black box: Understanding exchange mechanics and the differences between traditional finance, centralized crypto exchanges, and decentralized finance makes it even more complicated. One of the core value propositions of…

Why protocols bridging off-chain investment to DeFi are insulated from the volatility seen in most of crypto’s yields In 2022, and I’d argue most people agree it’s been a pretty wild ride — irrespective of whether or not you’re in crypto. Tech across the board was down anywhere from 24–71% on a year-to-date basis.

By design, Nurvia is paving the way for DeFi to grow beyond just speculation use-cases How does DeFi go 100x? There are two basic approaches. One is to focus on banking “crypto native” activity. This means that NFTs, crypto gaming (”GameFi”), web3 social, and other uniquely web3 innovations could all be DeFi’s savior. The idea is that as these markets grow, they will need financial…

Inclusive DeFi industry. For too long, the financial system has been fragmented and owned by everyone except the users. But crypto offers a reset, and it’s triggering a financial renaissance. There is permission to re-imagine how financial systems work from the ground up. The builders are not just big banks, and not just…

In this post, I’ll share our long-term vision for Nurvia. To explain it, though, we first need to talk about bigger trends at play. At the heart of everything we’re building is a much broader thesis we have about how the global economy is shifting. Our thesis is made of…

Inclusive DeFi industry. — For too long, the financial system has been fragmented and owned by everyone except the users. But crypto offers a reset, and it’s triggering a financial renaissance. There is permission to re-imagine how financial systems work from the ground up. The builders are not just big banks, and not just…

How can Nurvia transform finance from the start? By bringing DeFi to where it will have the most impact. — Nurvia is being built to achieve DeFi’s core goal of expanding financial access. To truly achieve this, the technology needs to be designed so that the barriers faced in most of the world are not duplicated in the new on-chain systems being built. The network is beingbuilt to achieve this…

NURVIA is working to bring real-world asset lending on-chain. Brief overview: DeFi loan allows borrowers to use their existing real-world assets as collateral for DeFi loans. The silver lining in the bursting of the initial DeFi bubble is that investors now understand that high yields aren’t necessarily the most attractive. …

Building the interoperability of value for Blockchains and DeFi To understand DeFi, it’s important to grasp how blockchains operate and the various layers in which they are organized. …