Who Funds Crypto's Loan Book?
The bottleneck in DeFi lending may not be capital. It’s origination.
In this episode, our Managing Partner
@momir_amidzic sits down with
@hexonaut, Co-founder / CEO
@sparkfinance and
@shanandwater, APAC Lead
@Morpho for a full teardown of where the money comes from, who's borrowing it, and what the market still can't do.
Timestamps
00:45 Intro
02:05 Seven years of money markets
07:00 Morpho vs Spark
08:55 "The world of credit is $200 trillion, crypto is a tiny fraction of it"
10:15 Two games in money markets
17:45 Who filled Coinbase's Bitcoin loan book
21:40 West vs East: Crypto as one of the last deep techs that's still global
29:05 Is an HKD stablecoin any different from holding USDC?
35:50 Who's actually borrowing: are money markets just leverage facilitators?
40:10 "Perps are more of a retail product"
42:10 The bottleneck isn't capital, it's loan origination 44:35 The missing pieces
56:40 Market narratives
01:08:10 The DeFi mullet: blockchains are becoming back-end infrastructure
01:11:20 Predictions
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