DeFiato
DeFiato is the next-generation centralized platform for DeFi staking, yield farming and financial services
Published on March 17, 2022
Can you tell us about your company/project?
Simplicity and user-friendliness is at its core, allowing Defiato users to access services such as yield farming with a single click. We will obfuscate all cumbersome user processes such as payment of gas or approval process at all the steps. We simplify entire 10 step processes with a single click.
Defiato is a Defi aggregator, allowing ANY defi service such as swapping, yielding farming, loans/borrowing, cross-chain or more to be accessible by our users. Defiato is not limited by technological or user-related hurdles that Defi faces. Defiato can power entire spaces of Gamefi or NFTs without any limitations.
Can you tell us about the team behind this?
I’m also a managing partner of CRC Capital, which invests primarily in blockchain companies with several notable investments throughout 2018 to 2021. I lecture in a local university in Singapore and am very passionate about Web3 technologies such as Defi, NFTs and therefore spend considerable time in the education sector.
Dr. William H. Nguyen, Ph.D. is currently the founder of DeFiato, Beowulf Blockchain, and a serial entrepreneur with a history of successful ventures in blockchain, communication technology, education, and computer/network/data security. Over the past 10 years, Dr. William has built many social networking, cryptocurrency exchanges, on-demand video streaming, and communication applications serving tens of millions of users worldwide in the areas of business communication, media, education, and entertainment.
Next we have, Dr. Sung Nguyen, Ph.D. is serving as the Chief Data Scientist for Beowulf Group. He previously worked at Google in 2005 - during the early days of Google Enterprise, now Google Cloud. Prior to Google, Sung worked at NASA (KSC), Lockheed Martin and Borland Software.
In addition, We have a 20+ pax team, with a 80% weightage on the engineering side. The rest are in marketing/BD. We are hiring aggressively.
Can you share some differentiating factors that set you apart from your competitors ?
You can see immediately from our UI/UX that we are focused on fundamental defi services, rather than just simple APY generation native to many of these wallets/products. Just from a very practical point of view, users will see 10% maybe 15% APYs on these competitors as they are native products, but for Defiato, you have full access to the full spectrum of defi, which can go up to 4 digits APYs. The key of course, is that we do it safely and only work with well audited and blue-chip smart contracts.
Another key difference is that Defiato is totally cross-chain and essentially provides a service as a bridge. Whereas most other competitors are single chain focused (e.g Eth) and do not intend to increase the offerings. Those that may allow for more chains are just acting as wallets, and do not intend to allow users the option of entering defi services within their apps.
Also, Defiato has gone to market and acquired a significant number of users, so in terms of our service offerings, we are one of the front runners. We will continue to evolve and be better every given day with your support.
What has worked for you in terms of marketing & what has shown significant results?
For mainstream, Defiato will be conducting a massive push via our content and potentially ad management to be the go-to platform when mainstream wishes to enter Defi. We appreciate every feedback given, it is the most important consideration as we develop the DeFiato roadmap.
What has been the biggest challenge for you so far & how have you overcome it?
How is Defiato simplifying entry into the crypto world for web2.0 players ?
How are you planning to facilitate Fiat to Farm for the users ?
We are really excited about this because this would fulfill our objective of allowing users from fiat directly to farm. Currently, users from all over the world (but the sanctions nations) would be allowed to deposit fiat. This would be entirely KYCd process.
Do note that Fiat Onramp will be rolled out in a couple of days, so stay tuned.
How is DeFiato guaranteeing security for safeguarding user funds?
For the Defi services Defiato supports, Defiato only onboards well-audited contracts both by external auditors as well as multi-factored internal audits. Defiato takes the responsibility of ensuring users are operating in an optimal safe environment very seriously.
Also, Defiato is securing fintech insurances, which are extremely important when the TVL reaches a significant amount. This, combined with on-chain insurers such as Nexus Mutual for e.g, would be an additional layer of “protection” to mitigate risks associated with Defi.
It is also worth noting that we provide two factor authentication as an extra layer of protection, used to ensure the security of user accounts beyond just an email and password. We highly recommend our users to enable it for higher security.
Can you explain the utility of DFIAT token? How does it help the community ?
For now, the DFIAT token will incentivize liquidity and participation on the platform, as well as add significant utility via fee reduction, and fee payments on the platform. User can now stake and farm DFIAT with stablecoins.
Where do you see the project in the next 5 years?
It's not necessarily easy to detail anything after 5 years in the crypto space, but let's just say I'm super bullish obviously for our prospects! I must say this, I think at some point in the future, we do see ourselves decentralising even the Defiato product. Once we have achieved a significant market share and once defi is now totally mainstream, we should take steps to allow some form of DAO to be formed around the DFIAT token, making the product more of a native defi ecosystem. It’s a dream and there is still a long time away.