Combining AI and DeFi to underwrite Web3 risks, with RociFi Co-Founder Chris Brookins

In this conversation, we chat with Chris Brookins – co-founder of RociFi, a new DeFi primitive for under-collateralized lending. Chris is a crypto veteran, having entered the space in 2014, and prior to RociFi, founded Valiendero Digital Assets, a quantitative cryptocurrency investment fund, founded out of Carnegie Mellon University. Valiendero utilized machine learning and data-driven investment strategies over a variety of liquid digital assets. Chris also held the COO position at a 2015 Y-Combinator alumni - Valor Water Analytics (a SaaS utilities firm which was acquired by Xylem Inc.) and was founder and COO at data driven research and venture firm - Pugilist Ventures.