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How Summer.fi Is Winning the War on DeFi Complexity

Author
HyperNest
Published
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Episode Link
https://hypernest.podbean.com/e/how-summerfi-is-winning-the-war-on-defi-complexity/

In this episode, we sit down with Chris Bradbury, CEO of Summer.Fi and former product lead at MakerDAO, to unpack the evolution of one of DeFi’s most user-friendly and yield-savvy protocols.


🔍 Topics we dive into:


- The early MakerDAO journey & SummerFi's spin-off


- How AI agents boost yield by 30% (yes, really)


- What “lazy DeFi” means — and why it matters


- Risk management with Block Analytica


- UX vs. security: how far can we go?


- Account abstraction: what it fixes and what it doesn’t


- TradFi x DeFi: Integration, evolution, or revolution?


- Advice for DeFi builders in a fast-changing ecosystem


💡 Whether you’re a DeFi builder, investor, or someone curious about where on-chain finance is headed, this episode is packed with gems and hard-won lessons. 👉 Try Summer.Fi: https://summer.fi


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