⚡ Colin Platt of Makina argued that fragmented DeFi needs a dedicated execution layer. Makina is built for non-custodial, cross-chain, atomic execution with onchain risk controls. See how it works: youtube.com/watch?v=lmPv0r…

Presentation "The $150B Opportunity: Volatility Yield as DeFi’s Next Primitive" at Vault Summit Buenos Aires. In TradFi, selling volatility is a $150B market. In DeFi, after DOVs collapsed, it became a taboo. But the strategy isn’t the problem - the design was. If you were

⚡ Mona El Isa from Avantgarde 🦏 questions 2 DeFi assumptions: APY as a return signal, and onchain vaults as liquid by default. She uses real vault data to show where APY breaks down, how leverage strains exits, and why late LPs often absorb losses. See the charts and case

⚡ Standardized risk ratings for vaults are moving from “nice-to-have” to required infra. Charles Jansen, Sam MacPherson, Marcin | DeFi Ratings Arc 📊, carsten.eth | Risk Ratings OnChain, Nate | eatsleepcrypto.eth cover what risk actually means (oracle design, rehypothecation, timelocks, governance, liquidity), why Stream

⚡ AndrΞi Anisimov from Hypersurface on why selling volatility works in TradFi but broke in DeFi. It doesn’t boost returns - it compresses drawdowns and turns volatile assets into income when structured and denominated correctly. See how volatility selling reshapes the

⚡ Stuti, Mona El Isa, Aes, ermin ♉︎, Ryan Rodenbaugh got real about vault curation: underwriting risk means liquidity planning, incentive alignment, and equal treatment when markets turn. If curators earn performance fees but don’t take first loss, who’s actually

⚡ Merlin Egalite 🦋, Dillon Hanson | DIA, jacob kim, Laszlo Szabo, Ralf unpacked where vaults diverge from funds: non-custodial mandates, onchain enforcement, oracle risk, and why transparency alone isn’t enough without interpretable signals. If everything is “onchain and

⚡ Juan David Mendieta, Ben Ward, Hari, and jenn laid out why “institutional vaults” are basically compliance + reporting + OpSec, not just smart contracts and a shiny 4626 wrapper. What happens when the weak link shifts from code to key management, liability, and who

⚡ artem 🇺🇦 showed how Octant vaults use ERC-4626 to route yield into public goods while keeping principal intact. A practical model for funding Ethereum and open-source infrastructure without treasury sales or emissions: youtube.com/watch?v=GhWapc…