In this episode Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo sits down with Increase CEO, Darragh Buckley to discuss DeFi earn products, consumer redemption risk, vault liquidity management and more!
Timestamps:
- 00:00 Introduction
- 01:19 The motivation for Increase: addressing payment disbursement failures
- 03:04 Technical and business challenges in international financial expansion
- 05:00 Viewing compliance as an engineering problem to be solved
- 07:31 Admiration for legacy financial systems built with constraints
- 09:10 The simplicity curve: abstraction, complexity, and underlying simplicity
- 12:45 The philosophy of building "lovingly boring" financial infrastructure
- 14:30 The necessity of early partnerships and gatekept features in fintech
- 16:50 Stablecoins as parallel infrastructure versus replacement for traditional systems
- 19:58 The existing strengths of US deposit rails and last-mile delivery
