Can DeFi Fund Itself? Octant's First DeFi Summit on Yield, Vaults, and all things DeFi

Описание: DeFi proved open systems can scale markets and liquidity layers without intermediaries. But the harder questions are still open: who sustains the infrastructure? How do institutions actually integrate without breaking what made DeFi powerful in the first place? And what does a public goods funding model look like when it runs entirely on yield?

Octant's first DeFi Summit brings together builders, researchers, and institutional players for a full day of conversations around these questions. James Kieran (head of impact, Octant) opens with a keynote on Octant's history — over $12 million distributed to hundreds of projects from staking yield alone, without touching principal — and introduces the next phase: Octant V2's yield-donating vaults, which let any DAO, protocol, or community deploy capital, generate yield from protocols like Lido, Spark, or Aave, and direct that yield to fund whatever they choose.

The panels cover institutional DeFi trends with Ben Schiller, Gio from CBi Bank, and Vive Ramen; ecosystem funding with Benet from the Ethereum Foundation, Francesco from Superfluid, and Leah from Argo Collective; stablecoins with teams from Spark, M0, and Aragon; building a career in DeFi with Diana, Elliot of Solidity Labs, Token Bryce of DeFiScan, and DeFi Dave; cross-chain liquidity with Sundep from Polygon, Arjun from LayerZero, and Andre from LiFi; digital asset treasuries; and what the next generation of DeFi product looks like from a founder and growth perspective.

If you're a protocol building in DeFi, a DAO managing a treasury, or a builder thinking about sustainable public goods funding, this summit is the most concentrated view of where the space is heading.

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