"There's a couple questions on cross-chain (vs multi-chain). I'll bundle all into one response here:
It's not that hard to create contracts that are mapped to other chains (Vesper ETH mainnet / Vesper Polygon). It's not that hard to create simple tokens that mirror their main chain counterparts for trading purposes.
What is very difficult and no-one has really gotten it right is creating applications and protocols that exist across multiple chains at once.
In Vesper, this means depositing your USDC on ETH, Polygon, Avalanche, Arbitrum or wherever else, your USDC bridging to the best chain for APY, and you being able to withdraw on whichever chain you want.
This is a multi-part problem: 1. Protocol Architecture: How do we design our tokenized accounting system so that 1 vUSDC on ETH can translate to some amount of vUSDC on Polygon, Avalanche, or wherver?
How do we take yield earned on <not Ethereum> and use it to buyback VSP for vVSP holders?
2. Smart Contract Engineering: Our pools have a universe of strategies and opt-in to providing some amount of weight to the best ones in terms of APY, volatility, TVL, risk etc. Bridge-to-<Chain> becomes another set of strategies that need to be built out.
3. Nodes: Perhaps the biggest problem is how you facilitate a bridge from Chain A to Chain B (and then Chain C, or back to A, or whatever). If you are you having a simple token mapping for VSP it's pretty easy to set up a bridge and send it anywhere.
Not the same as smart contract strategies trying to route cross-chain, ping rebalances on multiple chains, grant a withdrawal on chain A whose assets currently are earning yield on chain B.... that kind of thing.
There's no (real) cross-chain yield aggregators because this is a pretty difficult problem, especially when you have to do this on top of building the yield aggregator itself. Nodes is the most exotic problem of the three, because who actually messes with nodes?
Existing bridge tech doesn't support cross-chain of this nature. You need a network of nodes to facilitate these transactions through first-party-facilitated bridge calls. Bloq already has this buildout, because there is a major division of the company that does Nodes management.
This is still no easy feat, but it's one that Vesper is uniquely positioned to take advantage of. Note that this all assumes you want an automated solution, which Vesper's will be (to respond to the conversations about how trustless it will be).
Chain-to-Chain rebalance will look more like strategy-to-strategy rebalances than someone sticking their hand into TVL and moving it somewhere else."
"Jeff Garzik is the Co-Founder at Vesper. He is an entrepreneur and software engineer. Jeff is the co-founder and CEO of Bloq. Jeff serves on the board of Coin Center, and the advisory board of BitFury, BitPay, Chain.com, Netki and WayPaver Labs.
Jeff has delivered presentations on bitcoin and blockchain at TEDx, State of Digital Money, many bitcoin conferences, as well as private briefings to corporations, governments, central banks, and hedge funds.
$VSP Vesper Finance blue chip microcap DeFi platform co-founded by @jgarzik and @MatthewRoszak
$20.1m in revenue for 2021 & only has a $29m mcap ($35m fully dilluted). P/E is 1.7.
Yearn has $880B mcap (30x larger). Vesper more professional, focused on safety, & higher APYs.
First DeFi platform to partner with a hedge fund @BlockforceCap with @eervin1 collecting anchor investors now with $700k invested and a $10m seed.
TradFi has $100 trillion in AUM that will be soon be making its way to DeFi protocols to earn superior yield.
@VesperFi is positioning itself for TradFi to hold its capital on their platform with their professional approach and B2B emphasis on onramping Legacy funds.
All strategies are internally audited, externally audited (twice), pushed to beta, then finally to the main platform.