Ginns: Aave outpaced lending peers through rapid innovation and novel products
Seth Ginns · Crypto for Institutions 3: Seth Ginns – Investing Beyond Bitcoin (Capital Allocators, EP.182) · Mar 15, 2021 · at 37:46
Seth Ginns, Managing Partner at CoinFund, discusses CoinFund's fundamental diligence process and why they favored DeFi lending protocol Aave over its competitors.
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“So we saw this greater level of engagement. We saw a fast pace of innovation, and then we were tracking engagement with the protocol itself and really just saw that they were seeing a lot of adoption and outpacing Some of their peers really because of the new product sets that they were adding. Some really innovative product sets that didn't exist anywhere else in crypto at the time.”
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