Alex Elkrief (@aelkrief) 's Twitter Profile
Alex Elkrief

@aelkrief

Co-founder @upshift_fi and @august_digital

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calendar_today10-01-2013 14:29:02

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I've known Alex and Aya Kantorovich since the early days of helping launch crypto at Goldentree and I continue to be extremely impressed with their vision and execution bridging the needs of institutions coming into crypto and a heavy retail user base. Bringing August's infra to

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Institutions aren’t just dipping their toes—they’re diving in. DeFi access was complex. Now Aya Kantorovich of August is unlocking institutional access to multiple DeFi protocols. Lydia Chiu of Blizzard the Avalanche Fund & Breevie🔺️🎈 go live to unpack how it’s being unlocked, here

Institutions aren’t just dipping their toes—they’re diving in.

DeFi access was complex. Now <a href="/aya_kantor/">Aya Kantorovich</a> of <a href="/august_digital/">August</a> is unlocking institutional access to multiple DeFi protocols.

Lydia Chiu of <a href="/BlizzardFund/">Blizzard the Avalanche Fund</a> &amp; <a href="/BreevieGotRekt/">Breevie🔺️🎈</a> go live to unpack how it’s being unlocked, here
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Today, there is no good way for users to earn high yield in DeFi. Users default to lending pools and many assets earn nothing in wallets. We are fixing that at Upshift. Upshift has attracted $350m TVL giving users access to institutional high-yield strategies: basis trade,

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Upshift x Pendle: upUSDC The new upUSDC Pendle pool is live, maturing on 2 October - with a 10x Upshift points multiplier instead of the previous 5x. ✳️ What is upUSDC? Where does the yield come from? → Upshift vaults tokenize institutional yield strategies → upUSDC earns

Upshift x <a href="/pendle_fi/">Pendle</a>: upUSDC

The new upUSDC Pendle pool is live, maturing on 2 October - with a 10x Upshift points multiplier instead of the previous 5x.

✳️ What is upUSDC? Where does the yield come from?
→ Upshift vaults tokenize institutional yield strategies
→ upUSDC earns
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One of the beauties of defi is that you can take what is fundamentally a complex structured yield product, package it, and put it into an easy to use vault. Because of that, over the last two years, active vaults have become the de-facto option for onchain yield - but many of

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Upshift holds $360M in TVL after 8 months, with a clear path towards $1B Today's listing of upUSDC as collateral on Morpho is one of the first steps towards giving users more ways to maximize their yield onchain. Upshift is building at each step of the stack: 1. Vaults which

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New week, new composability options for Upshift deposits. In the space of 2 weeks: - hgETH on Euler - upUSDC on Morpho - upUSDC on Pendle More coming soon

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The next generation of Earn products is here: DeFi is becoming "vaultified". At some point in the early 2010s, ".com" internet companies simply became companies using the internet, and every commerce company became an e-commerce company by default. It's now finally apparent to

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Bullish on BitcoinFi bringing a lot of TVL to DeFi Mezo has been a key partner, with already 20M TVL in the Mezo Pre-Deposit vault on Upshift. Excited to support their mainnet with this MUSD vault

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Where does DeFi yield come from? Upshift vaults are run by institutional funds who earn yield from the best opportunities in DeFi and CeFi. That means your deposit can be earning from blue-chip projects like Morpho, Deribit, Pendle - simultaneously. The "Vault Exposure"

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Very excited to be launching @emberprotocol_ with Bluewater, the team behind Bluefin. DeFi yield is still very inaccessible for most: vaults are the most important product to solve this problem Ember vaults bring the best cross-chain yield opportunities onto Sui and make it

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The Neutrl pre-deposit vault, powered by Upshift, launched this morning. It filled its $50M cap in 18 minutes. Upshift frontend briefly crashed while users tried to deposit - a testament to the massive appetite for innovative and differentiated forms of yield. Building

The <a href="/neutrl_labs/">Neutrl</a> pre-deposit vault, powered by Upshift, launched this morning.

It filled its $50M cap in 18 minutes. Upshift frontend briefly crashed while users tried to deposit - a testament to the massive appetite for innovative and differentiated forms of yield.

Building
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Upshift has now crossed $500M TVL. In April, we came out of stealth and have since more than doubled our deposits. Our thesis is clear: vaultification will export DeFi across finance, and "Earn" products are how users will come onchain. Yield is the Trojan Horse. The demand

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Core USDC is our flagship stablecoin vault, designed to be an institutional-grade Earn product: - Instant redemptions - Meta-vault allocating to other Upshift stablecoin vaults - Currently allocating to vaults running basis trade and institutional lending strategies If you're

Core USDC is our flagship stablecoin vault, designed to be an institutional-grade Earn product:

- Instant redemptions
- Meta-vault allocating to other Upshift stablecoin vaults
- Currently allocating to vaults running basis trade and institutional lending strategies

If you're
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today on defi/acc, we'll be joined by Nick van Eck from Agora and Alex Elkrief from Upshift to talk about stablecoins on monad we'll also be talking about an exciting new product that will be bring a lot of yield to the monad eco 👀 join us: x.com/i/spaces/1nAKE…

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Three key stats explaining why vaults are better savings accounts: 1. In the last year, T-bills have returned 3.5%. 2. Simple DeFi lending markets continue to generate 6%+. 3. The US Treasury Department projected $6.6 trillion “at risk” of shifting from bank deposits to

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New Listing: $coreUSDC @Upshift_fi’s Core USDC vault systematically allocates to top-performing stablecoin vaults, running DeFi and CeFi strategies ranging from basis trades to institutional lending.