Why build another DeFi product or platform when there are already so many?

Well that is both a good question and an unfortunate problem highlighted by  Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis) in today’s episode as he speaks to the CEO of Tea-Fi, Matan Doyich. 

Matan and his team are creating a one-stop shop for the wide variety of DeFi platforms in order to have the ability to conduct swaps, provide lending, execute decentralized trades and all the other core fundamental products of DeFi, all in one place.

Matan details Tea-Fi’s features, including its privacy-focused solutions using ZK technology and the ambitious goal of integrating lending, swaps, and synthetic assets with upcoming support for cross-chain transactions and a debit card.

He provides his insights on International regulatory scrutiny towards privacy protocols like Tornado Cash and explains why Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) could be the future of adding privacy to existing crypto solutions. 

Minute-by-minute episode breakdown

2 | Simplifying DeFi: How Tea-Fi plans to turn a complex ecosystem into one user-friendly platform 

4 | Matan’s crypto journey from algorithmic trading to creating a crypto hedge fund  

8 | Balancing privacy and regulation in decentralized finance (DeFi)

12 | Understanding the focus by regulators on Tornado Cash and Telegram as money laundering conduits

17 | Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) could be the future of adding privacy to existing crypto solutions

20 | Unveiling the Tea-Fi ecosystem including DEXs, swap protocols and landing platforms

24 | How Tea-Fi will be able to offer uncollateralized crypto loans via their network reward program

26 | What does Tea-Fi excited about for the end of 2024

Related resources

Check out more resources provided by Chainalysis that perfectly complement this episode of the Public Key.

• Website: Tea-Fi: The One-Stop Shop For DeFi
• Whitepaper: Tea-Fi Whitepaper: Private Decentralized Finance
• Roadmap: Tea-Fi Roadmap - 2024 to 2025
• Blog: 2022 Biggest Year Ever For Crypto Hacking with $3.8 Billion Stolen, Primarily from DeFi Protocols and by North Korea-linked Attackers
• Article: Tea-Fi: One-Stop Shop for DeFI
• Report: The 2024 Global Adoption Index: Central & Southern Asia and Oceania (CSAO) Region Leads the World in Terms of Global Cryptocurrency Adoption
• YouTube: Chainalysis YouTube page
• Twitter: Chainalysis Twitter: Building trust in blockchain

Speakers on today’s episode

• Ian Andrews * Host * (Chief Marketing Officer, Chainalysis) 
• Matan Doyich (CEO, Tea-Fi)

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