{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Scoop","title":"One of crypto's biggest trading firms is betting DeFi will be as large as the centralized crypto market","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2202,"description":"GSR is building out a space for itself at the intersection of traditional and decentralized finance worlds, according to its newly-minted head of DeFi, Jake Dwyer. \nDuring the latest episode of The Scoop podcast, Dwyer explained that the firm is building out the capacity to both create new trading products as well as provide liquidity to DeFi protocols in a way that's more familiar to the traditional finance players who want to become more closely involved. \nWith these plans in hand, GSR expects to contribute more than $1 billion in total value locked over the next year — fueled in no small part by the increase in interest from traditional finance sources. \n\"People are sitting on pretty substantial positions just by being early users in these protocols,” said Dwyer.\nDeFi vs CeFi\nIn the last six months, GSR has expanded its venture investment activity in DeFi as a more central component of the business, with an eye on fixed income protocols and credit.\n\"You've got things like Aave and Compound and others on other chains for borrow and lend. But we've seen numerous innovations around the second-order derivatives of Swivel and Tempest on the fixed and floating rate interest side of things,\" Dwyer explained.\nDwyer is excited about the collateral and interest rate segment of the market, which he sees as innovating at a fast pace. \"I think that a lot of these different sorts of fixed income derivatives protocols that are out there are going to evolve in really exciting ways over the next the next couple of months.\"\nHe believes that DeFi will eventually match more centralized activities as the market will see increased innovation.\nEyeing a multi-chain future\nLooking to the future, Dwyer said he believes that it will be one marked by a variety of networks that serve different purposes — and in the background, in some cases.\n\"We believe that in the future you're not going to know what chain you're interacting with necessarily or care,\" he said.\n...\nFor more visit...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/kC6kzNjgr18dm0FmBfV_f9xccAkjj-QXoCJmVNlNtrU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xZmIz/N2E5MmRmMzJjOTU3/OTNhYjJkYzcxZTlj/MTU2Yi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}