{"id":155278,"date":"2023-01-12T16:23:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T22:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/defi-startups-need-to-experiment-with-new-use-cases-and-build-solutions-investors-say"},"modified":"2023-01-12T16:23:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T22:23:52","slug":"defi-startups-need-to-experiment-with-new-use-cases-and-build-solutions-investors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/defi-startups-need-to-experiment-with-new-use-cases-and-build-solutions-investors-say","title":{"rendered":"DeFi startups need to experiment with new use cases and build solutions, investors say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/defi-startups-need-to-experiment-with-new-use-cases-and-build-solutions-investors-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the crypto ecosystem has faced its fair share of bumps, venture capitalists are still bullish about the space and continue to look at decentralized finance (DeFi) as a promising opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>TechCrunch <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/01\/10\/six-crypto-investors-talk-about-defi-and-the-road-ahead-for-adoption-in-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surveyed six crypto-focused investors<\/a> about the road ahead for crypto adoption, their sentiment toward DeFi and how the focus in that subsector (by both investors and founders) is growing.<\/p>\n<p>The total value locked (TVL) on DeFi protocols has fallen roughly 77% from all-time highs around $180 billion in December 2021 to about $41 billion on Wednesday, according to DeFiLlama <a href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data<\/a>. But that hasn\u2019t stopped founders, developers and investors from diving into the space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the crypto ecosystem has faced its fair share of bumps, venture capitalists are still bullish about the space and continue to look at decentralized finance (DeFi) as a promising opportunity. TechCrunch surveyed six crypto-focused investors about the road ahead for crypto adoption, their sentiment toward DeFi and how the focus in that subsector (by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}