Since the summer, Defi on Ethereum has been getting a lot of attention from investors. Available capital is growing day by day as many investors want to take advantage of the yield and have a little FOMO. The number of Defi users has risen from a few thousand at the start of the year to somewhere in the neighborhood of a few hundred thousand now.
Defi is becoming more and more famous.
Investors who are already familiar with crypto can no longer ignore Defi, and more and more people outside the crypto world are starting to learn about it. David Marcus, the co-founder of Libra, even brought it up on Twitter.
David Marcus is a well-known figure in crypto and fintech. In the past, he was a director at PayPal and led the Messenger team on Facebook. Now he helps run Libra, Facebook's digital currency project. Due to all the commotion from banks and a political angle, the Libra project has been delayed a lot.
Interesting projects
But Marcus recently asked about Defi, as he started to read about the topic. He asked his followers:
"What are the most interesting Defi projects outside of Uniswap, Maker, and Compound that I should know about?"
Dozens of individuals responded with the projects that Marcus could look at. Even Vitalik Buterin couldn't help but respond.
https://twitter.com/davidmarcus/status/1323294916865261568
It is unclear why Marcus asks about Defi and whether this has to do with Libra. In any case, he is an outspoken fan of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other decentralized networks and new financial technologies.
Defi is defying
Marcus is far from the only prominent Silicon Valley investor or innovator devoted to Defi.
Naval Ravikant is the co-founder of AngelList. He is an angel investor and has spent in higher than 100 businesses, including many mega successes such as Twitter, Uber, Notion, Opendoor, Postmates, and Wish. He recently spoke to Tim Ferris about Defi in a podcast.
"They're building a decentralized Wall Street. They call it Defi, D-E-F-I, for decentralized funding. But I think it's more like DEFY, defy the government, DEFY. And so I think we see a whole new casino that's better than Wall Street. "