Albaron Ventures - Crypto-Asset Hedge Fund Specialised in DeFi

Albaron Ventures is a crypto-asset-focused hedge fund based in San Francisco. We target the Decentralized Finance sector with a differentiated strategy that combines deep fundamental research with algorithmic trading and risk management.

Recent Blog Posts

Ethereum Layer-2 Ecosystem

Introduction The Ethereum rollup-centric roadmap represents the first blockchain solution that can scale for global adoption through the combination of rollups and data shards. To achieve this goal, Ethereum will transform itself into the settlement …

Vlad Andrei · October 28, 2021August 14, 2023

Yield Tokenization: APWine and Pendle

Introduction The composability that is intrinsic to DeFi represents a stack structure that is built on top of existing primitives such as decentralized exchanges and money markets. As new money legos are combined, novel use …

Vlad Andrei · August 16, 2021August 14, 2023

Convex Finance

Introduction Decentralized exchanges based on automatic market-makers (AMMs) are a crucial component within the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. Initially, AMMs such as Uniswap adopted constant product bonding curves which evenly distributed liquidity across all prices. …

Vlad Andrei · July 1, 2021August 14, 2023

Reflexer Finance

Introduction Reflexer Finance is a decentralized borrowing protocol that enables loans denominated in RAI (Reflexer’s non-pegged stablecoin) using Ether as collateral. To deploy this system, the protocol uses the GEB framework which is a modified …

Manuel Ferreira · June 7, 2021July 6, 2021

Liquity: Decentralized Borrowing

Introduction Liquity is a governance-free borrowing protocol that enables interest-free loans paid in LUSD (Liquity’s USD pegged stablecoin) using Ether as collateral. While locking collateral into the protocol, the depositor creates a position called “Trove” …

Manuel Ferreira · May 14, 2021May 26, 2021