Insight Report

DeFi and Web3 for Organizations

February 2022 Update

A guide to DeFi and Web3 for crypto funds, market makers, trading desks, and other organizations

The DeFi ecosystem represents an expansive network of integrated protocols and financial instruments that has grown up to 20x in the last 18 months. It has attracted more than 4 million users as well as several of the world’s leading institutions and organizations.

Early adopters have gained significant first-mover advantages after recognizing the shift of leading organizations, moving towards the adoption of Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies, and institutional blockchain use cases. Once institution-focused DeFi tools, infrastructure, products, and services are successfully deployed to cater to heightened security, execution, and compliance requirements—many more are sure to follow.

The institutional DeFi world is at an incredibly exciting moment in its adoption cycle. The time is ripe for your organization to learn about the experience of first movers, the emerging opportunities in the DeFi space, and how best to start engaging.

This report will cover the following topics: 

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Authors

Nicole Adarme

Head of Institutional Marketing, ConsenSys

Johann Bornman

Product Lead, MetaMask Institutional

James Chung

Senior DeFi Market Strategist, ConsenSys

Simran Jagdev

Content Marketing Manager, ConsenSys

ConsenSys is a market-leading blockchain technology company.

ConsenSys is the leading Ethereum software company. We enable developers, enterprises, and people worldwide to build next-generation applications, launch modern financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web.

Our product suite—composed of Infura, Quorum, Truffle, CodefiMetaMask, and Diligence—serves millions of users, supports billions of blockchain-based queries for our clients, and has handled billions of dollars in digital assets. Ethereum is the largest programmable blockchain in the world, leading in business adoption, developer community, and DeFi activity. On this trusted, open source foundation, we are building the digital economy of tomorrow.