Friday
February 5
2021

Two Former Coinbase Employees Are Building a DeFi Lending Protocol for Emerging Markets

By Michael McSweeney

A pair of former Coinbase employees are launching a new protocol that aims to advance one of the DeFi space’s primary use cases — decentralized lending — in the world’s emerging markets.

Goldfinch, which has raised $1 million from a group of industry stakeholders that includes Kindred Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, IDEO CoLab Ventures and Dragonfly Capital co-founder Alex Pack, is the brainchild of Mike Sall and Blake West. Sall previously worked as Coinbase’s head of product analytics and West was a senior backend engineer for the crypto exchange. The two departed Coinbase last summer to begin building out Goldfinch.

Source: The Block (link opens in a new window)

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Finance, Technology
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cryptocurrency, financial inclusion, lending, startups