In this episode of the RWA Igloominati Interview Series, Jon sits down with Anthony, CEO & Co-Founder of Sentora, former Wall Street trader (UBS, Barclays, HSBC) and former Head of DeFi & Derivatives Trading at Coinbase.

Sentora describes itself as the institutional DeFi layer — helping institutions access DeFi rails through non-custodial smart contracts, structured yield strategies, and automated, block-by-block risk monitoring.

This conversation goes deep into how real risk is managed — not marketed.

We cover:

• What Sentora actually does for institutional clients

• How rules-based smart contracts can automatically unwind risk

• Why launching a stablecoin is much harder than most people think

• The structural challenges of yield-bearing RWAs on-chain

• Liquidity and leverage as the root cause of most financial crises

• Terra Luna, mortgage spreads, and how bubbles quietly form

• Evaluating trades without recency bias

• Kraken Earn's Advanced Strategies Vault (powered by Sentora)

• Firelight — Sentora's initiative focused on scalable DeFi insurance

• Why tokenized equities could unlock borrowing against retail-owned stocks

Anthony's core message is simple:
Most blow-ups aren't new. They're liquidity and leverage mismanagement repeating in different forms.

If you want a clearer understanding of institutional DeFi, real-world assets, stablecoins, and how professional risk managers think about markets — this episode delivers.

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Terra Luna collapsed — and most builders walked away.

But Michael Bar-Zeev didn't.

In this full-length audio conversation, we go deep on how Shift rebuilt stablecoins properly using real-world assets.

This isn't another synthetic token story.

Shift tokenizes real stocks like Tesla, NVIDIA, SPY, BMW and more — fully backed 1:1, held in regulated European banks, with proof of reserves and legal structures designed to protect users even in bankruptcy scenarios.

We go deep into:

• Why Tether & Circle created a stablecoin duopoly

• The original CPI-tracking yield stablecoin concept

• Pivoting from ETF baskets to tokenized single stocks

• 24/5 TradFi vs 24/7 crypto markets (the hard problem)

• Impermanent loss, RFQ models, and capital efficiency

• Retail-first RWAs vs institutional-only products

• DAO governance, liability, insurance & decentralization myths

• "Pump.fun for RWAs" — user-driven tokenization

If you care about the future of tokenized stocks, real-world assets (RWAs), and what stablecoins should have been from day one, this episode is required listening.

Crypto doesn't need more hype.
It needs better structure.

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Trust used to be built face-to-face.
Now it's built through avatars, wallets, algorithms… and vibes.

In this episode of the RWA Igloominati Podcast, Jon and Alan debrief the Russell S. Reynolds Jr. interview in RWA 30 and go deep on one of the hardest problems in crypto and modern society:

Can reputation actually be rebuilt in a digital-first, AI-driven world?

From executive hiring and handwritten letters to Twitter networks, Polymarket PnL, NFTs as identity, and on-chain reputation systems, this episode connects the dots between old-world trust and new-world crypto primitives.

This isn't a hype episode.
It's a reality check.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• Why reputation is still the most valuable form of capital

• How modern social proof (Twitter, Polymarket, networks) really works

• Why on-chain reputation systems are harder than people think

• The limits of AI in judging character, trust, and integrity

• Why anonymity, privacy, and verification are in constant tension

• What crypto can fix about trust—and what it probably can't

If you're building, hiring, investing, or trying to scale influence in the digital age, this conversation will change how you think about identity and reputation.

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