RWAs Are Proven as Collateral — Now Comes Scale | Sebastian Pulido, Aave Labs — S2 E3
DeFi Drip Podcast | Tokenized Assets & Onchain FinanceShow Notes
RWAs can be used as collateral onchain. That part is proven. Sebastian Pulido, Director, Institutional & DeFi Business, at Aave Labs, argues the harder problem is what comes next: market structure, liquidation speed, and getting tokenized assets into the hands of investors who will never touch a Web3 wallet.
Recorded live at the RWA Summit in Cannes for Season 2 of DeFi Drip, Graham Nelson, DeFi Product Lead at Centrifuge, sits down with Sebastian to break down how Aave Horizon is evolving, what Aave V4 unlocks for RWAs, and why the DeFi mullet — fintech front end, DeFi rails in the back — is the real distribution model.
IN THIS EPISODE 👇 What Aave Horizon is and why it was built specifically for tokenized assets Who is actually buying RWAs onchain today and what they want The liquidation problem: why RWA settlement speed creates a unique challenge for DeFi lending markets Aave V4's hub and spoke model and what it means for RWA collateral Why fintech distribution — not DeFi apps — is the real unlock for institutional adoption Sebastian's bet: 5-10x RWA TVL in the Aave ecosystem within a year STAY CONNECTED WITH CENTRIFUGE Website → https://centrifuge.io Blog → https://centrifuge.io/blog X (Twitter) → https://x.com/centrifuge LinkedIn → https://linkedin.com/company/centrifugehq Newsletter → https://share.hsforms.com/19j_mbuUsTiyf84HcIsndswnup3o
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