Sun Raghupathi is the CEO of Veda, the leading DeFi vault platform, enabling crypto applications, asset issuers, and protocols to build consumer-grade cross-chain yield products. Veda's technology already powers many of DeFi's largest vault products and power more than $4B in deposits. Sun is also the co-founder of Seven Seas Capital, a premier quantitative DeFi investment strategist, offering institutional-grade funds and non-custodial yield vaults through proven market making and risk-mitigated strategies. Prior to founding Veda and Seven Seas, Sun was the Head of Research and Development at Sommelier, a protocol for decentralized asset management specializing in actively managed vaults.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Vaults 101
- Onchain yield is a killer use-case in crypto
- DeFi infrastructure and yield products
- The Problem With DeFi Yield Today
- Veda’s Architecture & Design Philosophy
- Consumer-Grade DeFi
- Why yield opportunities are increasingly cross-chain
- The future of RWAs
- The Law of Collateral Inheritance
- How Veda approaches audits and security
- How incentives are aligned across users, builders, and protocols

Veda
X: @veda_labs
Website: www.veda.tech
Telegram: t.me/+GfI_iZQ6wsZlZWNh

Sun Raghupathi
X: @sunandr_
LinkedIn: Sunand Raghupathi

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