The Current State of DeFi | Vance Spencer, Santiago Santos, Spencer Noon

<p>In this special episode of Bankless, we bring on some of the best minds in the space to discuss where DeFi is and where we're headed.</p> <p>------<br /> 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: <a href= "https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/">https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/</a> <br /> 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: <a href= "http://podcast.banklesshq.com/">http://podcast.banklesshq.com/</a> <br /> 🎖 CLAIM YOUR BADGE: <a href= "https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/-guide-2-using-the-bankless-badge"> https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/-guide-2-using-the-bankless-badge</a> <br /> ------<br /> BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS:</p> <p>💰 GEMINI | FIAT & CRYPTO EXCHANGE<br /> <a href= "https://bankless.cc/go-gemini">https://bankless.cc/go-gemini</a> </p> <p>🦊 METAMASK | DEFI PASSPORT<br /> <a href= "https://bankless.cc/metamask">https://bankless.cc/metamask</a> </p> <p>🦄 UNISWAP | DECENTRALIZED FUNDING<br /> <a href= "http://bankless.cc/uniswap">http://bankless.cc/uniswap</a> </p> <p>🔀 KWENTA | EXCHANGE SYNTHETIC ASSETS<br /> <a href= "https://bankless.cc/kwenta">https://bankless.cc/kwenta</a> <br /> ------<br /> The Current State of DeFi<br /> Panel: Vance Spencer, Santiago Santos, and Spencer Noon</p> <p>It feels like we're living out a crucial moment in the story of Decentralized Finance. A variety of perspectives will collectively yield that we are at a tipping point, from a macro and micro standpoint. As we witness the emergence of a new technological ecosystem, the stakes and implications are ever increasing. Thus it only makes sense to bring on a panel of some of DeFi's smartest minds to hold a summit on where we are and where we're heading.</p> <p>This panel comprised of Santiago Santos of Parafi Capital, Vance Spencer of Framework Ventures, and Spencer Noon of the Variant Fund. In broad terms, DeFi refers to open, blockchain-based finance. The root of this stack consists of primitive financial services – the money verbs like borrowing, lending, trading, escrow, etc. It involves programming smart contracts to execute logic that trans