Danielle Wall Elliott fell down the crypto rabbit hole in 2014 and hasn’t been able to see the world the same since. Danielle is the COO of Nayms. Nayms bridges legacy insurance with blockchains. They enable investors, brokers, insurers, and insureds to conduct their affairs in cryptocurrency, from capital to premiums to claims. In this way, participants in the marketplace mitigate exchange risk by matching assets with liabilities whilst accessing alternative capital for the most efficient risk transfer. Prior to her work at Nyams, Danielle spent 6 years in Operations at ShapeShift, an exchange turned DeFi aggregator platform. Her noteworthy contributions include driving stakeholder alignment, orchestrating execution of all major initiatives, and treasury management of a crypto balance sheet of over $100 million dollars. Pioneering the crypto world, she has taken ShapeShit from a centralized entity to a Decentralized Autonomous Organization, DAO. Danielle is a self proclaimed decentralization advocate and is passionate about teaching others about financial freedom. If you learn nothing else from Danielle, remember not your keys, not your coins.
Defi is one of the hottest segments of crypto. Everyday, new protocols are being created that offer novel approaches to value transfer and generate insane returns. High yields can also come with considerable risk. Day after day, the media is flooded by headlines of massive security exploits, as prominent protocols/apps are relentlessly targeted by sophisticated hacking syndicates. Just last week, a popular Defi platform and one of the largest NFT exchanges were hacked for a combined $600+ million dollars worth of Ethereum.
Is the risk still worth the reward? Many investors are convinced it is, as they continue to pour capital into this asset class.
In this 1 hour panel discussion, learn how investors can still leverage DeFi to generate alpha in the wilderness of crypto. These industry experts will share valuable insights that investors can use to meet their goals and mange the inherent risks within this investment niche.
Speakers: Jeremy Johnson, Danielle Wall Elliott , and Patrick Horsman, CFA
Since its rise in 2020, DeFi has become the core driver of consistently unbeatable yields in crypto. Retail and institutional investors want to cash in on high yield DeFi projects that pay participants who provide liquidity handsomely. But most capital allocators don't know how to navigate the complex risks that come with the DeFi ecosystem.
In this 1 hour fireside chat we will discuss how investors can leverage DeFi to juice their personal and fund portfolio returns. Where to find alpha in the plethora of market making pools, staking, and lending investment opportunities. Why compounding crypto market exposure with DeFi yields is a great way to hedge your market long position. What safe guards investors can put in place to mange risks like stablecoin peg breakages, rug pulls, and emerging coin value crashes.
Join us to learn key DeFi investment strategies from experts who deliver DeFi returns for a living:
Speakers: Jeremy Johnson, Kenny Estes, and Danielle Wall Elliott
Nayms plans to build the world’s leading, fully-regulated marketplace for on-chain insurance. Through our work so far with the industry we are paving the way in providing a new digital asset risk market that allows regulated brokers and underwriters to find digital asset capital providers to share in the premium and liability entailed in covering digital asset risk. Our traceable smart contract is built on a trustless system, meaning insurance brokers can place a contract between market participants in a limitless number of areas and share in the future value of such open trade.