Pods Finance (Deframe)
Sao Paulo DeFi options protocol, now building yield infrastructure for LatAm neobanks
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DeFi options protocol founded in 2020 in Sao Paulo by Guilherme Guimaraes, Rafaella Baraldo and Robson Silva, known for ETH principal-protected vaults (stETHvv) combining Lido yield with weekly strangles, reaching ~$10M TVL without a token. Operating company Deframe (deframe.io) now focuses on modular yield infrastructure for LatAm neobanks and ran a ZK privacy pilot for Brazil's CBDC.
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