Building 🧱⛓️ infra to power global commerce | ex-CIO @warblerlabs, @goldfinch_fi | @goldmansachs
New York, USA
Joined June 2009
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1/ Defi is a spectrum, not a monolith. When a tremendous amount of really-smart people focus on a problem, you don't just get one outcome. @goldfinch_fi is a specific flavor of Defi focused on Real World Assets (RWA), a nuance worth understanding. Here’s why 🧵
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6 months later this still rings true.
Borrowers are FinTechs + credit funds driving off-chain growth worldwide.
Pools are fully collateralized off-chain by real-world assets and income.
Built for long-term, sustainable yields, that won’t disappear with crypto market volatility.
Important reminder:
@goldfinch_fi’s stablecoin rates, protocol revenue, and borrowing volume holding steady while most protocols experience a flatline or decline in core metrics is a testament to the long-term stability of bringing real-world investment to crypto.👇🧵
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A sunset 🌅 edition of #AfriTechNYC's drinks co-hosted with @seyob + @warblerlabs!
Always amazing to see founders pop in on their NY trips - Josh at @lorisystems, @peng_tweets at @Hustle_Sasa, Sabrina at ZUMI, @JacquesMarco at @axis_app, @EvanMcElwain at Africa.ai
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How will Africa's future development be financed?
This week, @seyob & @obinnaokwodu - from @goldfinch_fi - take over The Flip Notes to tell us how
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While working on @goldfinch_fi, I keep wishing we could message some of these addresses. Just to ask for input/feedback, understand what they're thinking. Would def pay for it, and could be totally anonymous. Is anyone building that?
5/ @goldfinch_fi does all of this via utilizing USDC. A stablecoin backed 1:1 by dollar reserves which are attested to on a monthly basis by a 3rd party, and has historically weathered multiple storms
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6/ If you're interested in learning more about how Goldfinch borrower performance isn’t tied to crypto price appreciation, what the Goldfinch mission is, and who some of the borrowers on Goldfinch are, then check this out
medium.com/goldfinch-fi/why-…
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/1 Want DeFi to grow 100x from here? The answer is to be boring!
That means DeFi needs to move away from speculation and into boring, everyday financial activity.
Not NFT’s, gaming, or web3 social. Those are all great for crypto. But they won’t help DeFi. Here’s why 🧵
Sam Eyob retweeted
Middle East news outlet @AlMonitor spoke with Warbler Labs' @seyob in their latest newsletter, covering crypto-based lending and DeFI in the MENA region:
emailcampaign.al-monitor.com…
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Goldfinch 🤝 Frax
Thank you to the @fraxfinance community for passing the proposal to launch a $100M Goldfinch AMO, supplying capital to the Goldfinch Senior Pool!
Learn more in our announcement: bit.ly/FraxGoldfinch
Sam Eyob retweeted
Important reminder:
@goldfinch_fi’s stablecoin rates, protocol revenue, and borrowing volume holding steady while most protocols experience a flatline or decline in core metrics is a testament to the long-term stability of bringing real-world investment to crypto.👇🧵
Sam Eyob retweeted
This edition of the @Africa_Playbook is all about debt capital in Africa. Thank you to @seyob and @obinnaokwodu from @goldfinch_fi for writing this piece and sharing expertise & @Jessetheranter, @Umulingak & @seyob for participating in the conversation! theafricaplaybook.substack.c…
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"Goldfinch’s $100M milestone suggests credit protocols with real world utility are emerging as a new growth area in crypto." — @DefiantNews
Learn more in The Defiant about how @goldfinch_fi is breaking ground in bringing crypto loans to the real world.
thedefiant.io/goldfinch-100m…
Might be nothing ;)
Jokes aside, we've seen the @goldfinch_fi reach 🚀 by 154x having lent +$38m in 2021
Proving out our thesis that crypto can bridge into the real 🗺 to drive financial inclusion!
#DeFi #fintech
medium.com/goldfinch-fi/gold…
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How does Goldfinch bring DeFi to the real world? Read more in this week's edition of The Flip Notes.
DeFi today has over $165 billion Total Value Locked, according to @DefiLlama
But how do we increase the utility of all that capital, and bring DeFi to the real world?
Enter @goldfinch_fi...
...in this week's edition of The Flip Notes.
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I'm over the moon to be joining @goldfinch_fi as the new CIO as we've just announced our $11m raise, led by @a16z. No rest of the weary though, as we continue on the journey of driving #financialinclusion in the Global South by helping people build generational wealth
/0 We're thrilled to announce 1.) We have raised $11M led by @a16z crypto, 2.) We're announcing our Backer Program, and 3.) We can now point to the whitepaper that serves as the basis for the protocol. Thread 👇 medium.com/goldfinch-fi/gold…
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