Illuminati Round Table Call Notes:
Introducing Huf - Head of Investments at Reimagined Finance (ReFi) and host of the ReFi DeFi podcast
Twitter: @hufhaus9
Studied Economics and graduated in 2010; Worked for Investment Bank in London, where he worked for almost ten years
After quitting his job, he went full-time DeFi in 2019
In 2019, DeFi was just degen and yield farming on multiple blockchains
Development Of ReFI
Huf and some of his developer friends decided to tackle a bigger problem in December 2021
There's a lot of on-chain money in USDC, and ETH is looking for a home to generate yield but isn't necessarily willing to lend on CeFi
The solution they created is the first crypto institutional on-chain asset management service for high-net-worth retail investors, "where you can go in and deposit USDC, and you'll get your returns in USDC," as Huf explained
Major Innovations At ReFi
In December 2021, most investors who were familiar with using Binance and speculating on a token were really stuck when it came to generating a yield on their own: go to Uniswap, go on the pool, decide which assets you want to contribute to the pool, and all of this complicates the job
ReFi addresses this issue by launching a token - ReFi token
ReFi Tokenomics
A crypto investment management protocol listed on the Ethereum (ERC20) and BNB (BEP20) chain, which allocates capital and generates yield on behalf of its investors
$ETH (ERC20) Chain: 10,000 $REFI
ReFi makes it easy for anyone to start earning investment profit distributions without the complexities of individuals deploying capital on multiple chains and protocols
The ReFi investment team also offers treasury management services for various crypto and DeFi protocols
Investors can purchase $REFI on the Ethereum or BNB chain, so they can choose to receive distributions in either $ETH or $BNB
"ReFi got almost 2 million dollars in the treasury, which is currently farming." according to Huf
ReFi Pro
ReFi team has launched ReFi Pro, a crypto institutional on-chain asset management service for large institutional and retail investors
Investors simply place funds in ReFi Pro vaults built on the Ethereum blockchain
The ReFi investment team then deploys investor capital from these vaults onto various chains and protocols to generate alpha/yield for investors
Investment Management and Why ReFi is a Good Solution
For example, if you have 1000 dollars to invest and you want to invest in the stock or bond market, you have two options:
Choose between passive instruments ETF - that works well when you know what you want to do and what you want to invest in
When it comes to retail or corporate investors who don't know what to do with the money, they employ active managers - BlackRock bond fund
A very small portion of cryptocurrency holders know what it means to have a MetaMask wallet, bridge across multiple chains, or participate in DeFi borrow and lending protocol, etc. - ReFi and Investment Management exist
Investment Management is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, but if you hold an ETF, you cannot sell it on a Friday night; you must wait until Monday when the market is open
That's different in DeFi, where you can enter or exit your opposition at any given time
Benefits of Investment Management
With Investment Management, you know at any time what the portfolio is composed of
Transparency is a major key
Is ReFi Selling Bundled Investments, or is It More of a Strategy of Farming and Staking?
ReFi can stake on any chain; it can be active on any number of whitelist active protocols, long the market, short the market, and other stuff in the crypto space
ReFi has a process and a team constantly looking for different opportunities in the DeFi space
The ReFi team has been active users on Arbitrum JMX, and they've been doing some trading recently on Aave using MATIC tokens
Tips for Investment Management for Someone With a Portfolio From 0 to 10K or over 10K?
Huf advises: "Not to overtrade because the amount of the fees you've been paying is the percentage of your portfolio if you go in and out of the positions, and time is gonna add up in percentage terms”
“If you got a 10k portfolio, you gonna pay like 200 or 300 dollars of fees, and you already lost a significant portion of that 10k dollar portfolio...Don’t overtrade because entry cost, exit cost."
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DeFi Option Space?
With options, investors can profit whether prices rise by buying the right to buy the asset with call options or fall by purchasing the right to sell the asset with put options at a predetermined price and date. Or they can let the option expire and only lose the options fee
DeFi is now making options more accessible to the average investor
Risks Of Investment Management?
Number one smart contract risk - don't put your treasury on old funds and relatively new protocols; avoid beta-tested stuff
There are several tools to prevent risks, like how much beta you have to the market - beta means how average your portfolio is going up or down
Another risk is how much volatility your portfolio is subscribing to and whether that is something you're comfortable with or do you want to take less risk
What's Next?
ReFi token is no longer investible because they are moving to a new business model and token next year
"We will be a very clean on-chain investment management solution”
ReFi's goal is to build a suite of DeFi investment tools, starting with new protocol centered around an innovative approach to on-chain trading and ReFi Pro rebrand focused on institutional-grade asset management
On-Chain Investment Management