Cork Protocol

Cork has raised $5.5M to build the missing tokenized risk infrastructure for digital assets. Led by @RoadCapMgmt and @a16zcrypto CSX, Cork has raised from investors who recognize the market opportunity of introducing tokenized risk into the digital asset ecosystem.

Dive into the report 👇 cork.tech/blog/assessing…

New report: Assessing Liquidity Risk in DeFi Liquidity risk shapes how vaults scale, how RWAs integrate, and how lending markets price collateral. With @SteakhouseFi, we break down where liquidity risk actually comes from and how it can be assessed across onchain markets.

Most people miss the details. @steakhousefi doesn’t. Risk report dropping this week.

Security in DeFi has to be designed, not patched on later. In this clip, @ConorSvensson breaks down how @Corkprotocol is rethinking security from first principles. Worth a watch if you care about safer onchain systems 👇

Nobody applauds the disaster that never happened

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Phoenix is live. Pilots are underway. Risk markets are forming. Next issue of Risk, Uncorked goes out soon. Subscribe now 👇 cork-research.beehiiv.com/subscribe

@ecoFND @Philfog

Could depeg protection have changed the outcome of Terra? On Stable Stories, @Philfog, CEO of @CorkProtocol, breaks down one of DeFi’s most infamous blowups and explores whether a market for depeg protection could have helped absorb some of the damage.

$18B in RWAs are tokenized Only ~$1.2B are actually used in DeFi Turns out tokenizing something is easier than making it liquid Full breakdown 👇 cork.tech/blog/how-rwas-…

Have you ever played at our Match Point tennis event?

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If collateral cannot exit quickly, protocols respond with lower LTVs, isolated pools, and strict caps. RWAs already exist onchain, but most still don’t behave like DeFi-native collateral.

Over $18B of RWAs are tokenized on public blockchains, but only about $1.2B is actually used in DeFi as collateral, reserves, or vault inputs. Tokenization happened. Real integration mostly hasn’t.

EthCC side events… but with rackets 🎾 See you on the court in Cannes

DeFi doesn’t fail the way people think. @Philfog joins @mikhailweb3_ to unpack liquidity illusions, risk pricing, and why markets matter. Watch the full episode ↓ youtube.com/watch?v=YFyks-…

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Love this! The last piece of the puzzle for RWA looping is certainty on exit. @Corkprotocol's liquidity solutions provide exactly that, but with certainty. Certainty on what the exit will cost you, and certainty that the capital will be there for you to exit -- so the yield math you underwrote on day one actually holds on the way out.

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Match Point returns to EthCC 🎾 Where DeFi builders meet on the court Watch last year’s energy and join us in Cannes With @Certora @BaillieGifford Apply → luma.com/qb2rxx29