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Aya Kantorovich, Co-founder & Co-CEO of August Capital, will be live on the show with DAdvisoor to talk about Upshift - "democratizing institutional DeFi yield"

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Aya Kantorovich, co-founder and co-CEO of August and co-founder of Upshift, is appearing live with DAdvisoor to discuss Upshift’s approach to “democratizing institutional DeFi yield.” The conversation centers on how Upshift, a DeFi yield platform spun out from August, aims to give retail users access to yield strategies and products that have traditionally been available only to hedge funds and other professional investors. Upshift is built on August’s on-chain prime brokerage infrastructure, which serves institutions by routing activity across major DeFi protocols and CeFi venues, enabling borrowing, lending, trading, and derivatives with cross-margining and institutional-grade risk management. August has processed billions in volume and supports a broad set of DeFi primitives across multiple chains, positioning it as a key piece of institutional infrastructure for on-chain finance. Upshift leverages this stack to package those institutional strategies into accessible vault-like products, marketed as “democratizing institutional yield,” and has already attracted hundreds of millions of dollars in deposits while in beta. The live show is therefore a platform for Kantorovich to explain how this institutional infrastructure is being extended to retail, how Upshift structures yield and manages risk, and what this means for broader access to transparent, on-chain yield opportunities in DeFi.

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