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The DeFi We’re Bullish On and The DeFi We’re Bearish On

The DeFi We’re Bullish On and The DeFi We’re Bearish On

Where We See Risk & Reward, Plus Avoiding The Next Blow-Up

DeFi Dad & Nomatic
July 18, 2025

As stablecoins prepare to go mainstream following the passing of the GENIUS Act this week, and as some of the biggest institutions in the world urgently deploy capital onchain, DeFi looks primed to grow faster than ever the second half of this year.

And with that growth and innovation comes increasingly more options for what yields we can choose to earn in DeFi.

In this new episode of The Edge Podcast, we sit down with Suhail Gangji, the CoFounder of Zapper and now Founder of Portals.fi, whose tools have indexed over 20M DeFi positions across chains. As one of the top DeFi engineers in the world, he shares how he investigates new DeFi before deploying capital, what trends looks sustainable vs risky such as fast-moving risk curators, and what we can learn from him to apply to our own onchain strategies with tooling like Portals.

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