Mettalex DEX Breakdown

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Researchers: @Kevin Choe @Yoon Lee @Jonathan Naour

The current opportunities of DeFi to revolutionize the financial system are great, however many are of limited to digital assets. The race to plug off-chain assets such as physical goods to on-chain finance is at the crux of what will enable the next generation of DeFi applications.

The investment team spent this semester conducting a deep-dive of Mettalex, a decentralized, blockchain-based derivatives exchange (DEX) focused on traditional and crypto commodities, unique DeFi markets, and traditional and crypto spreads. They are building a solution that can bridge that gap, to create real-world DeFi, with physical assets on top of a trustless infrastructure, starting with the metals sector.

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