Apr 26 2023 30 mins 1
On this episode of Archebyte we are joined by Aya Kantorovich, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Fractal, to discuss crypto’s history, what it’s like to be a founder in the industry, and the importance of building institutional grade crypto infrastructure.
As a former founding member of FalconX and current Co-CEO of Fractal Clearing, Aya deeply understands the role that institutions play in the world of crypto. She begins our conversation by highlighting exactly that before giving us a quick (but fantastic) history lesson on the crypto industry as a whole.
As Aya explains, institutions have been playing a major role in the space for several years now. They bring with them not only capital and knowledge of the traditional financial world, but needs around privacy and quality assurance that require more robust tools to be created.
While we have certainly seen some less savory companies give cefi a bad rap, Aya believes that we are beginning to see a new wave of robust, institutional grade crypto tooling that will more strongly honor crypto’s fundamentals of transparency and self custody. We close out our talk by exploring how Fractal is helping bring this vision to reality, explaining the need for disintermediation, and discussing the many hats that founders wear.
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⌛ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:49 Welcome Aya
1:23 Institutional crypto adoption
3:39 Does crypto need institutions?
5:24 Bringing crypto to the mainstream user
6:47 History of crypto infrastructure
19:10 Fractal
21:40 Onboarding users
23:57 Building for institutions in a crypto-native way
26:16 Aya’s experience as a founder
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