An Interview with the Founders of VALK

In this episode, the yWhales team speaks with Antoine Loth, Co-Founder, and CEO of VALK, and Elie Azzi, Co-Founder and Head of Product at VALK. VALK builds a decentralized infrastructure for capital markets and allows financial institutions to digitize their deal-making process by tokenizing their assets. Antoine and Elie talk about the ways VALK connects users to innovative DeFi products and how blockchain should be accessible to everyone. 

 

About Guests

Antoine Loth is the Co-Founder and CEO of VALK. His journey in crypto started in investment banking, helping startups raise funds. His interest in the infrastructure of crypto and blockchain and its improvement led him to launch VALK. Elie Azzi is the Co-Founder and Head of Product at VALK. His background is in computer science and engineering. In 2015, his interest in blockchain and his work in proof of concepts allowed him to further his knowledge in tokenizing assets. Loth and Azzi founded VALK in 2019 and now serve 90 financial institutions. 

 

You’ll learn about:

• Antoine and Elie’s How institutions can manage their deal processes on a leading and scalable tokenization process.
• How VALK connects clients to innovative DeFi products, liquidity, and portfolio management solutions.
• VALK’s admin interface, investor interface, and secondary market
• Merlin and managing your portfolio in one platform
• The future of VALK
• Projects Antoine and Elie are excited about 
• Diversity in the DeFi crowd
• Availability of blockchains for everyone

Resources: 

Connect with YWhales: Website | BitClout | Twitter

Antoine Loth: Email 

Elie Azzi: Email

VALK: Website | V-DeFi Website | LinkedIn | Twitter | Discord | Telegram 

 

Timestamps

[01:18] How Antoine got into Web3

[04:55] Elie’s background

[09:02] The tokenization journey 

[11:17] The real value behind blockchain

[15:56] The core problem VALK is solving

[24:01] VALK’s core beliefs

[25:33] What VALK has built

[29:35] Opening up the API for institutions

[31:49] Enterprise solutions

[34:17] Does the DeFi crowd want diversity

[37:52] How does VALK integrate with oracles

[44:46] What does VALK want to achieve in 2022?

[47:35] Centralized software

[51:25] How is the TradFi product different?

[56:36] What Antoine is excited about

[01:00:45] What Elie is excited about

[01:03:37] Blockchains are available to everyone

 

DISCLAIMER: yWhales is not affiliated with YPO but at this time only allow for YPO, YPO Gold, and YNG members due to privacy & confidentiality. Support and production for today’s episode was done by Truth Work Media. Nothing in the podcast constitutes professional and/or financial advice, nor does any information on the podcast constitute a comprehensive or complete statement of the matters discussed or the law relating thereto.