<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/0*5v3rwPo_MMHRizpS.jpg" /></figure><h3>New Era for Real-World Asset Adoption: Archblock and Adapt3r Form Strategic Partnership to Bring Regulated Originators to DeFi</h3><h4>Partnership will focus on expanding access to on-chain credit products and lower the cost of capital for traditional financial institutions.</h4>Archblock and Adapt3r have announced a strategic partnership that will work to onboard a new cohort of institutional, regulated participants to DeFi, starting with US-based community banks.On-chain financing of “Real World Assets” has yet to expand to regulated originators, and to date has focused on more emerging and less established originators. As a first step in their joint roadmap, the partnership intends to enable US-based community banks to access DeFi financing. Archblock and Adapt3r believe they have found a scalable and mutually beneficial touchpoint between DeFi and regulated financial institutions that is extensible to other regulated institutions.Earning sustainable risk-adjusted yields from quality underlying assets has become a major pain point for the DeFi ecosystem, highlighted by the recent volatility among both centralized and decentralized crypto lenders. This has prompted DeFi’s largest participants to hunt for conservative fixed income instruments, despite the price premium. As a result, regulated originators could lower their cost of funding by sourcing liquidity on-chain, where more traditional products are scarce and demand is continuing to rise.The partnership was born out of the teams’ mutual goal of creating a frictionless on-ramp to DeFi for traditional banking system [and financial asset originator] participants. <a href="https://pr.report/UdMF80mR">Archblock</a> is composed of a core contributing team behind DeFi credit protocol <a href="https://pr.report/c5-K78mi">TrueFi</a>, whose infrastructure helps bridge the gap between traditional finance and DeFi. <a href="https://pr.report/af9rQWoB">Adapt3r</a>, an affiliate of digital asset hedge fund <a href="https://pr.report/o6t0SFeH">MJL Capital</a>, has unique interdisciplinary expertise across digital asset and community bank investing.Together, Archblock and Adapt3r will focus on providing on-chain access to low risk, traditional credit products for corporate treasuries, DAOs, and other institutional investors holding stablecoins. This will enable KYC’d users to hold Lending Pool (LP) tokens rather than simply signing off-chain agreements, allowing all community members to monitor the portfolio position in real-time.As more sophisticated products are offered, Adapt3r will work directly with Archblock to build out custom vault architecture, reducing friction in onboarding new banks and portfolio diversification. Eventually, the teams aim to integrate Proof of Reserve oracle feeds, which will also bring stakeholders closer than ever to bank operating systems, enabling them to receive asset-level data in real-time.Marcus Leanos, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Adapt3r commented “While DeFi has the potential to generate more immediate traction with underserved individuals and businesses, it will also face challenges with adverse selection, where unqualified borrowers are able to take advantage of the system. To address this issue and continue growing, DeFi needs to onboard high-quality, established assets and originators. Only by gaining traction in both high-risk and low-risk areas can DeFi make a significant impact on the global economy.”Bill Wolf, Archblock’s Chief Investment Officer, added “Archblock aims to grow into the most efficient marketplace for the widest possible selection of financial opportunities, and our new relationship with Adapt3r opens a whole new class of assets to DeFi liquidity, attracting an even broader group of global lenders. We’re excited about our mutual deep technical and financial experience, and we think there’s no limit to the type and range of financial assets that can be efficiently structured and financed on-chain using the technology we are building together.”<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/710/0*YnPdA-74kerK60IY.png" /></figure><h4>About Archblock</h4><a href="https://pr.report/-sC9IVvn">Archblock</a> bridges institutional capital to DeFi’s modern financial infrastructure. As a core TrueFi contributor, Archblock brings institutional investors and fund managers on-chain to make global lending more transparent, effective, and accessible. Archblock incubated DeFi’s first credit protocol, TrueFi, now with nearly $2 billion in originations, as well as a suite of popular stablecoins, including TrueUSD, which today moves billions of dollars globally every month.<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/269/0*pdNFGGu2B2p5vE00.png" /></figure><h4>About Adapt3r</h4>Adapt3r Digital LLC (“Adapt3r”) is an affiliate of <a href="https://pr.report/rPMVxqJ0">MJL Capital</a>, an alternative asset manager headquartered in Washington, D.C. Its team has deep expertise investing in community bank private equity, bank-collateralized structured credit, and digital assets. Adapt3r strives to provide the on-chain community a simple access point to traditional credit products in a transparent and auditable manner.<img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=531f77851544" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><a href="https://blog.archblock.com/new-era-for-real-world-asset-adoption-archblock-and-adapt3r-form-strategic-partnership-to-bring-531f77851544">New Era for Real-World Asset Adoption: Archblock and Adapt3r Form Strategic Partnership to Bring…</a> was originally published in <a href="https://blog.archblock.com">Archblock</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*VCUkHgmCd73cPLTJ.png" /></figure><h4>END-Labs will leverage TrueFi to scale up and fund its asset pools while onboarding more real-world borrowers</h4>SAN FRANCISCO— <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.archblock.com%2F&esheet=52954819&newsitemid=20221027006026&lan=en-US&anchor=Archblock&index=1&md5=07943836fc90d141793c4d0b1cd1990e">Archblock</a>, the core team behind leading DeFi credit protocol <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruefi.io%2F&esheet=52954819&newsitemid=20221027006026&lan=en-US&anchor=TrueFi&index=2&md5=18aa88ff5c9cbb4e7c2949c69a878e61">TrueFi</a>, bridging traditional finance (TradFi) with the DeFi infrastructure, announces the onboarding of <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fend-labs.io%2F&esheet=52954819&newsitemid=20221027006026&lan=en-US&anchor=END-Labs&index=3&md5=84e0bdccf4b0e466a73beec8169cf82e">END-Labs</a> as a portfolio manager on the protocol. TrueFi’s Capital Markets allows nearly any portfolio manager to launch financial products on TrueFi with global reach from day one. By using TrueFi’s infrastructure, END-Labs gains access to a vast pool of borrowers and lenders, as well as Archblock’s suite of services to help institutions adapt to and participate in DeFi.Archblock welcomes END Capital, the in-house capital markets team for END-Labs, an early-stage company focused on applying blockchain to various aspects of the traditional finance services industry, as a financial partner, leveraging TrueFi’s unique unsecured lending protocol. END Capital opens access to real-world assets for DeFi investors and lenders, and alternative sources of funding capital for fiat-native fintech asset originators. By focusing on real-world assets instead of volatile crypto assets amid a bear market, END Capital is able to provide its clients with real-world productive GDP loans using DeFi, while providing DeFi investors access to protected and closely managed credit exposures.As a new portfolio manager utilizing TrueFi portfolios, <a href="https://app.truefi.io/portfolios/flexible/mainnet/0x025a613ed3c05549b96486b0b81ddf3410cadc43">END Capital plans to grow its GigPool platform</a>, which focuses on providing funding capital for fintech lenders servicing borrowers in the gig economy. The TrueFi pool will utilize senior leverage that the GigPool obtains through the Centrifuge platform for a levered senior return. END-Labs’s robust pipeline of asset originators would require additional capital capacity, as well as provide diversification of a range of different capital providers facing the GigPool platform.At its onset, the TrueFi protocol only served crypto-native hedge funds, but beginning earlier this year it began bringing the speed, cost savings, and accessibility of blockchain to all types of lending. Archblock and TrueFi make designing, launching, and funding new investment opportunities simple by easing access to DeFi services for TradFi, while also lowering costs and growing the total accessible markets for TradFi funds.TrueFi, as the leading unsecured DeFi lending marketplace, provides an ever-growing community of DeFi lenders while Archblock enables a suite of technical, financial, and operational services for portfolio managers using the TrueFi protocol, which allows them to invest their time and resources on acting as the most effective capital allocators.“We’re excited to welcome END-Labs to TrueFi infrastructure,” says Ryan Christensen, CEO of Archblock. “The team has proven its expertise in creating innovative financial products at the intersection of DeFi and real-world lending, and we see GigPool as a unique and valuable offering we’re glad to see offered to TrueFi’s community of lenders.”“We look forward to the launching of this, the first of numerous expected pools on the TrueFi platform. Both END-Labs and Archblock are like-minded with regard to the future of real world asset financing utilizing DeFi protocols and we’re excited to continue that development together,” said Edward Wu, Managing Director of END Capital.<h4>About Archblock</h4>Archblock bridges institutional capital to DeFi’s modern financial infrastructure. As a core TrueFi contributor, Archblock brings institutional lenders and fund managers on-chain to make global lending more transparent, effective, and accessible.Archblock has incubated DeFi’s first credit protocol TrueFi, now with nearly $2 billion in originations, as well as a suite of popular stablecoins including TrueUSD, which today moves billions of dollars globally every month.Explore opportunities on TrueFi at <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruefi.io&esheet=52954819&newsitemid=20221027006026&lan=en-US&anchor=https%3A%2F%2Ftruefi.io&index=4&md5=6e1142a5c1885b8aa70f4a1d36eef878">https://truefi.io</a>, or get started as an institution with Archblock at <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Farchblock.com&esheet=52954819&newsitemid=20221027006026&lan=en-US&anchor=https%3A%2F%2Farchblock.com&index=5&md5=550e6deb69f20a785d62f57c096e7aac">https://archblock.com</a><h4>About END-Labs</h4>END-Labs connects fiat-native borrowers and institutional DeFi capital, driving greater capital efficiencies. END-Labs believes Web3 is an evolution of the Internet and it’s inevitable that the credit industry will adopt Web3 rails resulting in increased access to capital for lower cost capital globally. END-Labs is building Web3’s financial infrastructure by providing DeFi services to lenders, borrowers, and those that service them. END-Labs is comprised of software engineers who are deeply involved in the crypto space as well as traditional finance team members who have more than 40 years of combined experience in originating, structuring, underwriting, and servicing structured financial loans and securitized bonds for credit funds.<img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=975614e69edf" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><a href="https://blog.archblock.com/archblock-welcomes-end-labs-to-truefi-as-its-newest-portfolio-manager-975614e69edf">Archblock Welcomes END-Labs to TrueFi as Its Newest Portfolio Manager</a> was originally published in <a href="https://blog.archblock.com">Archblock</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*kp22fzSjSRRq-Zw3" /></figure><h4>Having successfully incubated TrueCurrencies and with the future of the TrueFi protocol now in the hands of the DAO, TrustToken sharpens its focus to cultivate institutional DeFi adoption under the new Archblock brand, led by new CEO Ryan Christensen.</h4>September 22, 2022 10:13 AM EDT, SAN FRANCISCO — <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.trusttoken.com%2F&esheet=52923298&newsitemid=20220922005665&lan=en-US&anchor=TrustToken&index=1&md5=abb3c58937d326fd203f896a489559d2">TrustToken</a>, the core team responsible for launching <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruefi.io%2F&esheet=52923298&newsitemid=20220922005665&lan=en-US&anchor=TrueFi&index=2&md5=1f6a327e9c8b675625f36dbc1478b7b7">TrueFi</a>, DeFi’s leading credit protocol, and popular stablecoins including <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.trueusd.com%2F&esheet=52923298&newsitemid=20220922005665&lan=en-US&anchor=TrueUSD&index=3&md5=e2fe751bcd8b8662865720b522e46436">TrueUSD</a>, announces a new identity and focus as <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.archblock.com&esheet=52923298&newsitemid=20220922005665&lan=en-US&anchor=Archblock&index=4&md5=66799f0d233a49566cad7cf13998a3f5">Archblock</a> to become the bridge between institutional investors and fund managers, and the modern financial infrastructure offered in DeFi. Archblock will be led by veteran executive and TrustToken’s Chief Product Officer Ryan Christensen as its new CEO. Archblock will continue to make major contributions to the technology and growth of the TrueFi protocol, which is now directly managed by the TrueFi DAO and Foundation.<h3>The Future of Archblock’s Family of Products</h3>Since its inception in 2017, TrustToken has launched two major products: TrueCurrencies, with TrueUSD becoming one of the top five stablecoins with over a billion dollars in market cap; and TrueFi, the first DeFi protocol to facilitate uncollateralized lending and now becoming the home for real-world lending on-chain with almost $2 billion in loan originations. Alongside Archblock’s refined focus, the TrueFi DAO will take full responsibility for the protocol’s development, token design, and messaging.With the governance of TrueFi <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.trusttoken.com%2Fthe-truefi-dao-launch-of-on-chain-governance-fc77b5e48366&esheet=52923298&newsitemid=20220922005665&lan=en-US&anchor=formally+handed+off&index=5&md5=ba0c6b17fee4fab3203a0929332fac9e">formally handed off</a> to its Decentralized Autonomous Organization (“DAO”), the added oversight of the British Virgin Island-based <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsnapshot.org%2F%23%2Ftruefigov.eth%2Fproposal%2F0xf477b6c74a11b299707f2a094a4ccc713a9562210e2c4863b25bce1e045edff2&esheet=52923298&newsitemid=20220922005665&lan=en-US&anchor=TrueFi+Foundation&index=6&md5=e2a30f9acd2ee1c1dd5368840ba69438">TrueFi Foundation</a>, and the ultimate transfer of TrueFi’s treasury, intellectual property, and key smart contracts to the DAO, the TrueFi protocol is well on its way to full decentralization.Archblock will remain a major contributor to TrueFi, focused on growing institutional adoption reflected in TrueFi’s Total Value Outstanding (“TVO”). At the same time, Archblock will continue to service the growth and success of its TrueCurrency product line.<h3>New Leadership: Welcoming Ryan Christensen as Archblock’s new CEO</h3>As part of Archblock’s renewed focus, the company names TrustToken’s former Chief Product Officer <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fryanechristensen&esheet=52923298&newsitemid=20220922005665&lan=en-US&anchor=Ryan+Christensen&index=7&md5=c9b856bcbab8cfdb319111242cd1b1bd">Ryan Christensen</a> as its new CEO. An MIT graduate with over 25 years worth of experience as a technologist and entrepreneur, Ryan has led product and go-to-market teams for some of the world’s premier B2B marketplace companies. He currently serves as a board member of Narrative I/O, with previous executive and managerial roles at AppNexus, AT&T, Zynga, and Yahoo. Christensen has proven to be an integral part of TrustToken, overseeing major product, marketing, and strategic initiatives, and played a key role in the restructuring process.“Joining TrustToken has been an incredible opportunity to build alongside a company pioneering the forefront of blockchain innovation,” says Ryan Christensen, CEO of Archblock. “With our evolution into Archblock and the critical steps taken to further decentralize TrueFi, we’re now in a position to deliver the critical tools and services institutional early adopters need, while continuing to invest heavily as a contributor to the TrueFi community.”Christensen is taking over from Rafael Cosman who, after leading the company to develop two sector-defining products, moves on to serve on the board as a co-founder and advisor. “Building this company has been the greatest adventure of my life and, after 6 years, I’m honored to have such a capable team carrying it forward,” says Cosman. “I’m excited to continue as a board member, evangelist, and advisor — and the team here will always be like family.”<h4>About Archblock</h4>Archblock bridges institutional capital to DeFi’s modern financial infrastructure. As a core TrueFi contributor, Archblock brings institutional lenders and fund managers on-chain to make global lending more transparent, effective, and accessible.Archblock has incubated DeFi’s first credit protocol TrueFi, now with nearly $2 billion in originations, as well as a suite of popular stablecoins including TrueUSD, which today moves billions of dollars globally every month.Explore opportunities on TrueFi at <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruefi.io&esheet=52923298&newsitemid=20220922005665&lan=en-US&anchor=https%3A%2F%2Ftruefi.io&index=8&md5=c6a76d915f810c4646806461e54aa5da">https://truefi.io</a>, or get started as an institution with Archblock at <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Farchblock.com&esheet=52923298&newsitemid=20220922005665&lan=en-US&anchor=https%3A%2F%2Farchblock.com&index=9&md5=3cc2e4d82e53e482bae0987eff2eca69">https://archblock.com</a><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=774cf12d55c0" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><a href="https://blog.archblock.com/trusttoken-rebrands-as-archblock-to-modernize-global-financial-infrastructure-under-new-leadership-774cf12d55c0">TrustToken Rebrands as Archblock, to Modernize Global Financial Infrastructure Under New Leadership</a> was originally published in <a href="https://blog.archblock.com">Archblock</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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