#148: Thibault Perreard on DeFi, StakeFi and Sharing Liquidity

Thibault Perreard is an expert in the DeFi and StakeFi field, driving the strategy of the top cross-chain liquid staking solution: Bifrost. Working closely with Kusama and Polkadot, Thibault and his team launched liquid derivatives of assets such as KSM, DOT, MOVR, and more, whilst their Slot Auction Liquidity Protocol has already helped secure 10 Polkadot and 11 Kusama parachian slots for various projects (including Moonbeam).

With years of experience in traditional finance, leading business development initiatives for a Swiss boutique currency overlay company with $30bn in currency overlay assets, Thibault saw the future of finance in crypto, especially cross-chain DeFi. He joined Bifrost as Head of Strategy in his mission to build the decentralized future for investing solutions.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Current overall crypto market 
- Thoughts on the bear market
- How can we build in this bear market
- Creating standardized derivatives
- Cross-chain
- Sharing liquidity
- DeFi - themes, and trends
- DeFi vs. Staking
- Intro to Bifrost 
- vToken
- Tokenizing real-world assets

Bifrost
Website: bifrost.finance
Twitter: @bifrost_finance
Telegram: @bifrost_finance

Thibault Perreard
Twitter: @Titi1P
LinkedIn: Thibault Perréard

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