#428: Vikram Arun, CEO of Superform, on The Future of DeFi, High-yield Stablecoins, and Why The Market Is Down

Vikram Arun is the Co-Founder of Superform, an on-chain wealth app to grow your crypto portfolio. With a background in engineering and finance, Vikram has been building in the crypto space since 2017. Prior to Superform, he co-founded Ledger Capital, a crypto research firm, and worked on Wall Street conducting biotech equity research and analyzing high-growth technologies. At BlockTower Capital, Vikram co-led a $100m DeFi and Yield Fund, building scalable trading strategies across 15 chains with a focus on statistical arbitrage. Seeing the need for scalable DeFi products, he left BlockTower in 2021 to launch Superform. Vikram holds a Bachelor’s in Engineering and a Master’s in Finance from Washington University in St. Louis.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Why the market is down right now
- Current market cycle
- The founding story of Superform
- Stablecoin indexes
- High-yield stablecoins are becoming crypto’s killer app
- Bringing users on-chain without the on-chain feeling
- Superform V2 shows where DeFi is headed
- DeFi is finally breaking past the power user bubble
- Capital efficiency is the next frontier
- What will bring DeFi to the masses?
- Next wave of DeFi Applications
- Are memecoins actually dead?

Superform
Website: www.superform.xyz
X: @superformxyz
Discord: discord.gg/superform

Vikram Arun
X: @vik_runa
LinkedIn: Vikram Arun

 
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