Defending DeFi Infrastructure and Rethinking Ethereum's Scaling Strategy

Welcome to our institutional newsletter, where we delve into the world of DeFi and crypto. This week, we explore the need to safeguard the people building DeFi infrastructure, as well as the shortcomings of Ethereum's Layer 2 strategy. Jennifer Rosenthal, chief communications officer at the DeFi Education Fund, emphasizes the importance of protecting the technology and infrastructure that underpins DeFi. Meanwhile, Alexis Sirkia, chairman and co-founder of Yellow Network, argues that Ethereum's scaling problem was never about throughput, but rather about how value moves between participants.