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Ryan Rodenbaugh shared thisCurated onchain markets have grown faster than our ability to define and measure them. This report grew out of dozens of conversations with curators, protocols, allocators, and integrators about how to bring greater legibility to the market. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/gFt8Nju8 This framework will need continued refinement. These products remain difficult to compare, the boundaries of curation are still unsettled, and the market continues to change quickly. I was also pleased by how quickly we could turn vaults.fyi API data into reproducible charts (with, of course, the help of LLMs). A few findings: • The report maps $11.29B across 856 vaults, 131 curators and 18 protocols. • Curated TVL grew 39% while supply-side DeFi TVL fell 41.8%. Its market share rose from 5.24% to 12.51%. • Five curators manage 69.3% of curated TVL. The top ten manage 79.1%. • Bitcoin-backed assets account for 54.1% of the $3.71B held by Morpho’s 25 largest curated stablecoin vaults.Ryan Rodenbaugh shared thisToday we published The State of DeFi Curation 2026, an in-depth analysis of curated onchain markets and how they should be defined and measured. Built entirely on vaults.fyi API data, this first-of-its-kind report maps $11.29B across 856 vaults, 131 curators and 18 protocols. Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/giWqVQ6B
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Ryan Rodenbaugh reposted thisRyan Rodenbaugh reposted thisVaults went from a niche to a mainstream allocation venue in a few years. On the latest Newton Podcast, Mohammad Akhavannik (Managing Director, Magic Newton Foundation) sits down with Ryan Rodenbaugh (Co-founder, Vaults.fyi) to talk about: - How the vaults.fyi reputation score works - Why the granular data underneath the top-level score lets a builder set far more precise rules - How manual flags work in practice - How VaultKit, the first product built on Newton packages these policies
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Ryan Rodenbaugh reposted thisRyan Rodenbaugh reposted thisVaults went from a niche to a mainstream allocation venue in a few years. On the latest Newton Podcast, Mohammad Akhavannik (Managing Director, Magic Newton Foundation) sits down with Ryan Rodenbaugh (Co-founder, Vaults.fyi) to talk about: - How the vaults.fyi reputation score works - Why the granular data underneath the top-level score lets a builder set far more precise rules - How manual flags work in practice - How VaultKit, the first product built on Newton packages these policies
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Ryan Rodenbaugh reposted thisRyan Rodenbaugh reposted thisApps built on Openfort embedded wallets can now offer DeFi yield to their users! We worked with Openfort on a recipe for their developers that pairs an Openfort embedded wallet with the vaults.fyi API. A user can see vaults ranked by APY, deposit in a couple of taps, track their positions, and claim rewards, all inside the app they already signed into. No seed phrase, no separate DeFi site. The deposit routes straight to the canonical protocol contract. No wrapper, no added fee. The position is identical to one held by interacting with Morpho, Sky, or Aave directly. For the app team it is one integration across 80+ protocols. The same API also lets the app earn on the deposits it routes. https://lnkd.in/eWuhPJVr
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Ryan Rodenbaugh reposted thisRyan Rodenbaugh reposted thisvaults.fyi is now the core infrastructure partner powering Earn in the Arbitrum Portal. Arbitrum is one of the largest Ethereum Layer 2 ecosystems. The Portal is where users navigate the network, bridge funds, and find applications. Earn is the new tab where they discover and access DeFi yield, and vaults.fyi powers the data, transactions, and portfolio tracking underneath it. The Arbitrum and Offchain Labs teams have been great to build with. Earn is the first step. We're continuing the work across the broader Arbitrum and Orbit ecosystems. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eiaN5kAM And try it out here: https://lnkd.in/eVHa7dNB
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Ryan Rodenbaugh reposted thisRyan Rodenbaugh reposted thisSeven new vaults.fyi yield skills are now live in the Zerion CLI. By connecting the vaults.fyi MCP into Zerion’s CLI, agents can research yields, audit lending positions, deposit, rebalance, and monitor risk in one workflow, with the data and execution context they need along the way. Onchain earning and automated rebalancing are exactly the kinds of workflows agents should make simple. This integration is a meaningful step in that direction. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e7VXfbdp
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Ryan Rodenbaugh reposted thisRyan Rodenbaugh reposted thisWhat are Covered Vaults, and how do they work? 🎙️ OpenCover Founder Jeremiah Smith, PhD breaks down the mechanics behind the first vault-native risk transfer primitive, and how we built it from the ground up. Full episode (#29) with Vaults.fyi CEO Ryan Rodenbaugh 👇
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Ryan Rodenbaugh shared thisReally enjoyed my conversation with Octave Mesnard of Jumper Exchange on the latest episode of the podcast! I've had the pleasure of knowing him for a few years now and it was great to explore Jumper's evolution from a cross-chain swap tool into a full on-chain consumer hub, the lessons from his earlier company Kook Exchange, and his contrarian views on the multi-chain future. Check it out across Apple, Spotify, and YouTube! https://lnkd.in/gg993x9q
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Ryan Rodenbaugh posted thisLots of work travel coming up. Would love to connect if you're at any of these: 🇲🇽 Mexico City (March 16-19) for Stripe Commons 🗽 NYC for Blockworks DAS week (I live here now, so hit me up anytime) 🇫🇷 Cannes (March 29 - April 4) for EthCC We're seeing more interest than ever from wallets, exchanges, and apps looking to bring earn opportunities to their users. At vaults.fyi we provide a single API that handles integration, attribution, and monetization across 75+ protocols. Learn how teams like Kraken, Jumper, and Gauntlet use our APIs: https://lnkd.in/ehacd2T4 And DM me if you would like to meet!
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💪💪💪 It was a great event! Thanks for having us (Vaults.fyi)
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> Onchain Yield for Premium Users
And all they'd have to do is integrate a single API from Vaults.fyi to give their users access to as many DeFi yield options as they wish
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Ryan Rodenbaugh liked thisRyan Rodenbaugh liked thisExcited to announce that I’ve joined Morpho as New Markets Lead, focused on growing the use of real-world assets and other non-crypto collateral across Morpho’s lending markets. There’s already a lot of great work happening across the Morpho ecosystem, and I’m looking forward to playing my part in its next stage of growth. If you’re building in this space, I'm always happy to chat.
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Ryan Rodenbaugh reacted on thisThe Acctual team is joining Altitude! Building Acctual with Momo M., Issa Hassan and our team has meant a lot to me. We put a lot of ourselves into the brand and the product, down to the little details of sending an invoice. Seeing businesses in over 100 countries use something we made together is something I don’t think we imagined when we started. We’ve learned so much from those businesses. Getting paid is connected to everything else they need to do with their money, and there’s still a lot we want to build. We chose Altitude because we’ve known their team for a long time and they share our obsession for craft and quality. That’s hard to maintain when you’re building accounts, cards, payments and everything around them. But businesses shouldn’t have to pick which part gets to be good. We’re bringing our years of work on invoicing and bill pay into that. I’m proud of what we’ve built and excited we get to keep building together with people who care just as much. Thank you to everyone who’s trusted Acctual with their business, backed us or shared our work along the way. You’ve been a big part of this.Ryan Rodenbaugh reacted on thisAcctual is joining @Altitude. We’re proud of the invoicing product we’ve built. We’re joining Altitude to give you more of the tools your business needs, built with the same care. They’ve made it easy to pay vendors, cover business expenses and keep track of your money. Together, we can help you do more in one place without giving up what made you choose Acctual. We’ll keep making invoicing better at Altitude. Invoicing and bill pay stay free. More about the move and what it means for you: acctual.com/altitude
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Ryan Rodenbaugh reacted on thisRyan Rodenbaugh reacted on thismany of you know this is a painful time of year for me—my father, William R. Raub, worked on the 104th floor of the north tower as an equity salesman for cantor and was killed on 9/11. he had gotten food poisoning when we went out to eat that sunday after my little brother’s christening, stayed home from work on monday the 10th, and only planned on working a half day on the 11th since he was still under the weather but had an important client meeting that morning. although i was only 6 and a half years old at the time, i have many memories of my dad (and of course of that day and its aftermath). he was the happiest guy and he loved our family so, so much. i always knew he worked hard, but he was also home for dinner with us every night. i miss him like crazy and think about him every single day. for all of my sadness and grief about losing him, still i can’t help but feel joy when i think about our memories together. every single one of them is happy and i couldn’t feel more lucky or more proud to be his daughter. of course while 9/11 has an incredibly heavy personal meaning for me and so many others who lost loved ones, it was also so much bigger than that. it wasn’t until i started my career that i heard about the experiences of some of my colleagues who were on site at the NY Fed that day, or about the overall actions the Federal Reserve System took in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 to support the functioning of the U.S. financial system (see link in comments below). in the 9/11 museum, there is footage from the NY Fed’s security cameras showing people running down Maiden Lane, fleeing as the towers collapsed. for me, almost bizarrely, it is one of the most harrowing parts of the museum—because i know that at the same time, on the same floor where i now sit and work, many Fed staff were still at their desks conducting operations or gathering market intelligence to inform the policy response. i have always felt immense gratitude for the courage of the first responders and other ordinary people who stepped forward that day—and i very much consider the folks involved in the Fed’s response among this group. this is another reason that i feel lucky and proud, in spite of the grief and sadness, when i think about 9/11. there is so much more that could be said but i will leave it here. ❤️🇺🇸
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Ryan Rodenbaugh reacted on thisRyan Rodenbaugh reacted on thisThe new FAQs from the financial regulators on verifiable digital credentials (VDCs) are a major win for digital identity and deserve extra attention, so I'm following up on my earlier post. For decades, proving who you are to an FI has meant handing over the same documents, again and again, at every new account. This week's FAQs make clear there's a better way: with the right verification behind them, VDCs can be used to cryptographically confirm a customer's identity. Proof has been building out this vision for years: a world where you prove your identity once and carry it with you, and where an institution can confirm it in seconds instead of collecting one more copy of your documents to be stolen later. Less fraud, more privacy, less friction for everyone. We appreciate the regulators for shining a light on that vision. Over the last year, we have shared this story with anyone that would listen: into every rulemaking that touched the question, across the table from FinCEN and Treasury, and up to the Hill. Seeing it land in the agencies' own FAQs is as rewarding as this job gets. I'm especially grateful to the partners who joined us in these efforts: Jai Massari, Kay Chopard and the Kantara Initiative, Jeremy Grant and the Better Identity Coalition, Amit Sharma, IDEMIA Public Security, Will Wilkinson and Persona. ICYMI ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eD-Mxsxg
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Ryan Rodenbaugh liked thisRyan Rodenbaugh liked thisAfter seven years working in Compliance, I’m excited to share that I’ve made the move to the client-facing side and started a new role as an Associate District Manager at ADP! I’m looking forward to this next chapter, joining an incredible team, and helping businesses simplify their payroll, HR, and workforce needs. A big thank you to everyone who has supported me along the way, especially my new manager Jack Lescarbeau. Excited for what’s ahead! If you’re a business owner or know someone who could benefit from a conversation around payroll or HR solutions, I’d love to connect.
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Ryan Rodenbaugh reacted on thisRyan Rodenbaugh reacted on thisDeFi features are easier to add with Para and vaults.fyi. Developers can choose the experience that fits their app: • Yield from one vault or a curated set across 20+ networks (Ethereum, Solana, and more) • Collateralized borrowing through Morpho or Aave • Fixed-rate yield through Pendle vaults.fyi provides the market data, risk context, user positions, and transaction generation behind the scenes. Para provides the embedded wallet and signing experience. The integration is non-custodial. Transactions route directly to the underlying protocols, without a required vaults.fyi wrapper. Read more on our blog: https://lnkd.in/giHVn3J6Build earn, borrow, and fixed-rate DeFi products with Para and vaults.fyiBuild earn, borrow, and fixed-rate DeFi products with Para and vaults.fyi
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Ryan Rodenbaugh reacted on thisRyan Rodenbaugh reacted on thisI gave myself until the autumn to find the next thing. It took three weeks. I'm joining Safe as Commercial Lead for Safe Wallet, and I couldn't be more excited for this opportunity! Safe has been part of Ethereum almost from the start. If you've ever held funds onchain with more than one signer, you've probably touched it. DAO treasuries, protocols, foundations, asset managers, and funds. It became the default without ever needing to sell itself, which is the rarest thing a product can pull off. What I get to do now is build the commercial side of that. Work with the teams whose treasuries already live in Safe, learn what they need next, and turn it into something worth paying for. I've spent five years selling early products into rooms that had every reason to be skeptical. This is the first time I get to start from trust that already exists, on a product I'd recommend even if I didn't work there. Thank you to Rahul and Jacob for the trust. Safe is making real decisions right now about what it becomes commercially, and choosing to give that to someone from outside, at that exact moment, takes a specific kind of nerve. I don't intend to waste it, and I can't wait to get going. And thank you to Christophe, my former boss and mentor, who made one introduction. That's all it took. And it meant the world to me. Last thing, and it's the one I actually care about. If you use Safe, I want to hear how. Which workflow it sits in. What you've had to build around it. What still annoys you every single month. Not a sales call. I'd rather learn this from the people already living in the product than from a strategy doc. My DMs are open. They were last month too, and that worked out.
Experience & Education
Courses
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How to Start a Startup - Y Combinator
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Introduction to Python for Data Science - edX - Microsoft
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Leaning How to Learn - Coursera - University of California, San Diego
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Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) - Coursera - University of Michigan
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Python Data Structures - Coursera - University of Michigan
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Using Python to Access Web Data - Coursera - University of Michigan
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Projects
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Understanding the Effect of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning on Investing
For honors credit in a course (FIN 421), our professor offered us the opportunity to write a paper on a topic of our choosing, permitting it related to investing. Around this same time, I had just begun reading a lot on the topic of AI specifically as it related to finance. I decided to use this opportunity to write out a few pages on what I observed and ultimately, what I predicted the effect of AI would be on finance/economics moving forward.
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Intel Collaborative Thesis Program
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In Defense of High Prices for Cancer Drugs: A Study on why Cancer Drug Prices Remain so High
As a final project for an honors course on the politics and policy of cancer, I researched the justification for high pricing in cancer medication. I argued in defense of high prices in cancer medication from both a financial and policy perspective with a number of assumptions based on the work of Joseph DiMasi at Tufts University. In doing this project, I was able to construct a NPV and rNPV analysis of Roche’s Avastin gaining a strong understanding of risk-adjusted NPV along the way.
Languages
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Chinese (Studying)
Limited working proficiency
Organizations
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International Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta, Alpha Sigma Chapter
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-President, Executive Board (November 2015 - November 2016) - Recognized as Chapter of the Year for ASU men's fraternities for this period Treasurer, Executive Board (April 2015 - November 2015) Corresponding Secretary, Executive Board (September 2014 - April 2015) IFC Delegate (September 2014 - April 2015) Awards and Publications Chairman (January 2014 - January 2015) Outstanding Freshman of the Year (2013 - 2014 Academic Year)
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Interfraternity Council (IFC)
Vice President of Community Relations
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