Robert Mullins is the CoFounder of Polaris.
DeFi has a yield trap, where we're entirely reliant on staking rewards, T-bills, and basis trades for yield, all sources we don't fully control.
In this new episode of DeFi Frontier, Robert explains how Polaris built native yield infrastructure for Ethereum. We review a new native yield-bearing ETH called pETH, that has both a market price and a mathematically guaranteed floor price. With pETH, users will be able to mint a stablecoin USDp, or Polaris digital gold GOLDp or other pAssets supported by the protocol. Robert walks us through Polaris's vision to issue stablecoins, commodities and synthetic assets against pETH, with the economic activity generated flowing back into the ecosystem.
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💎 THIS EPISODE'S SPONSORS
🔒 KPK | Best risk-adjusted yield through automated vaults
🏦 AXIS | The Origin Vault launched on Ethereum
🌐 RE | Earn real yield backed by regulated reinsurance programs
🟠 APYX | The first dividend-backed stablecoin (DBS)
🐡 PUFFER INSTITUTIONAL | ETH staking solutions for scale
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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
1:46 - Why Ethereum and Polaris are mutually self-reinforcing
3:27 - What’s “the yield trap” most decentralized stablecoins run into?
6:38 - How Polaris solves the yield trap?
12:25 - What is pETH? Why hold it instead of just ETH?
15:15 - The rising floor price of pETH, risks vs rewards
24:03 - More core assets coming like GOLDp and BTCp
28:44 - Why GOLDp could be hugely popular
31:03 - Polaris Testnet demo
35:49 - What is fpETH vs vpETH?
38:56 - Stewardship, not governance
41:03 - Why Polaris aligns with Ethereum's CROPS mandate
45:05 - Closing
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🔗 GUEST LINKS
► Polaris website: https://polarisfinance.io/
► Polaris on X: https://x.com/polarisfinance_
► Robert on X: https://x.com/0xluude
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