CryptoNews Podcast #493: Ben Nadareski, CEO of Solstice Labs, on Building the Yield Engine for Solana’s Next Chapter
Nov 20, 2025
Ben Nadareski, CEO of Solstice Labs, shares his extensive experience in crypto and DeFi. He dives into the burgeoning Solana ecosystem, discussing its growth, institutional interest, and recent market challenges. Ben explains Solstice's innovative yield strategies, including delta-neutral techniques and one-click yield vaults. He emphasizes Solana's potential in financial applications and examines the importance of transparency and trust for institutional adoption. Tune in to discover how Solstice aims to make sophisticated DeFi accessible to everyone!
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Solana As Internet Capital Markets
- Solana is positioning itself as "internet capital markets" focused on core financial infrastructure and institutional activity.
- Ben argues Solana's strengths are throughput, composability, and rapidly growing stablecoin liquidity that attract institutions.
Make Complex Yield One-Click
- Do use permissionless, institutional-grade wrappers to give retail simple access to complex DeFi strategies.
- Solstice provides one-click USX and a Yield Vault to democratize delta-neutral yield generation.
On-Chain Base Rate Explained
- The "base rate" on-chain is a repeatable market inefficiency (funding-rate arbitrage) that acts like a chain-specific risk-free yield.
- Solstice calls this a base rate and claims a high Sharpe ratio because strategies are delta-neutral and non-directional.