CoinDesk Podcast Network Rune Christensen on How AI Agents Are Powering Institutional DeFi at Sky
Feb 4, 2026
Rune Christensen, co-founder of Sky and former MakerDAO founder, leads Sky's push to combine DeFi governance with AI-driven finance. He discusses Sky Agents for yield, partnering with institutions like BlackRock to scale collateral, and a massive stablecoin market opportunity. He also outlines Sky's 2026 growth forecast and the shift toward revenue-generating, institutionalized DeFi.
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Agentic Finance Powers Yield
- Sky uses AI-powered agents to merge economics, finance, and governance for yield generation.
- The agents coordinate asset deployment, risk management, and institutional integrations to improve efficiency.
Adopt Agents To Boost Efficiency
- Adopt agentic finance and AI to drive efficiency across capital markets.
- Tap into existing mature ecosystems like Sky instead of rebuilding core infrastructure from scratch.
Institutional Assets Backing USDS
- Sky's collateral includes assets from BlackRock, BNY Mellon and Janus Henderson.
- Rune described a Sky agent arranging the first tokenized CLO with Janus Henderson as a concrete example.