
Alex Elkrief
@AElkrief
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Co-founder @upshift_fi and @august_digital
Joined January 2013
Yield is the Trojan Horse to onboard trillions of assets on-chain. Earn programs have long been see as the most popular vehicles for retail adoption. On-chain savings accounts were touted as the future of finance. Yield-bearing stablecoins and vaults are attracting the same.
Introducing Upshift. Institutions, stablecoins and tokenized assets are bringing trillions onchain. Trillions need yield.
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Bullish on BitcoinFi bringing a lot of TVL to DeFi. @MezoNetwork has been a key partner, with already 20M TVL in the Mezo Pre-Deposit vault on Upshift. Excited to support their mainnet with this MUSD vault.
We're excited to announce a new 30% APY stablecoin vault:. 🔴 MUSD on @MezoNetwork. Yield comes from Mezo incentives and very soon, DeFi protocols across Mezo Mainnet.
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The next generation of Earn products is here:. DeFi is becoming "vaultified". At some point in the early 2010s, ".com" internet companies simply became companies using the internet, and every commerce company became an e-commerce company by default. It's now finally apparent to.
We've now crossed $400m TVL on Upshift. Yield is how we bring the world onchain. 1 billion soon: the only way is Up.
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New week, new composability options for Upshift deposits. In the space of 2 weeks:. - hgETH on Euler.- upUSDC on Morpho.- upUSDC on Pendle. More coming soon.
The hgETH Frontier Market is live on @eulerfinance. Deposit into Upshift vaults and compose your receipt tokens across DeFi. Maximize your yield.
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Upshift holds $360M in TVL after 8 months, with a clear path towards $1B. Today's listing of upUSDC as collateral on Morpho is one of the first steps towards giving users more ways to maximize their yield onchain. Upshift is building at each step of the stack:. 1. Vaults which.
LIVE: Borrow against your upUSDC on @MorphoLabs. The upUSDC/USDC market is now live on Morpho, with $164M+ liquidity supplied from @mevcapital curated USDC vault. To deploy reliable and high-fidelity price-feeds, we work with @eoracle_network so redemptions and liquidation can
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RT @upshift_fi: Upshift x @pendle_fi: upUSDC. The new upUSDC Pendle pool is live, maturing on 2 October - with a 10x Upshift points multipl….
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Today, there is no good way for users to earn high yield in DeFi. Users default to lending pools and many assets earn nothing in wallets. We are fixing that at Upshift. Upshift has attracted $350m TVL giving users access to institutional high-yield strategies: basis trade,.
Upshift Season 2:. Season 1 took us to $350m in vault deposits. Season 2 is where we tokenize the highest yields in DeFi 🧵
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RT @avax: Institutions aren’t just dipping their toes—they’re diving in. DeFi access was complex. Now @aya_kantor of @august_digital is un….
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RT @Nick_van_Eck: Tune in with @aya_kantor, @ShiliangTang, and @HadickM. Who will Stripe acquire next?.
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RT @roshunpatel: great overview of August's latest product Upshift, you can really build some powerful legos with this stuff check it out.
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RT @HadickM: I've known Alex and @aya_kantor since the early days of helping launch crypto at Goldentree and I continue to be extremely imp….
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RT @0xCheeezzyyyy: We’ve reached a point in DeFi maturity where complexity has become both a feature & a barrier. With the acceleration of….
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At it's core, Upshift exists to democratize access to exclusive products. Our best ambassadors are our users – excited to formalize this program and let community-growth lead the way.
You are invited to join the Upshift Yield Committee. Institutions are here - how can YOU win?. Let's Make DeFi Great Again. Join us by creating quality DeFi content 🧵:
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RT @MezoNetwork: Mezo has teamed up with @pendle_fi to boost BTC vault yields. Deposit BTC into Mezo’s Upshift Vault to receive uptBTC, wh….
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RT @0xBreadguy: Anyone who is comparing Hyperliquid to Solana doesn't fundamentally understand HL. Is HyperCORE better than equivalent per….
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