Defi

Aave Companies Switzerland: DeFi Pioneer

Organisation Overview

Aave Companies is the entity behind Aave, the largest decentralised lending and borrowing protocol in the blockchain industry by total …

Lido Finance Zug: Liquid Staking Leader

Organisation Overview

Lido Finance is the largest liquid staking protocol in the blockchain industry, enabling users to stake Ethereum (and other proof-of-stake …

DeFi in Switzerland: Crypto Valley's Decentralised Finance Ecosystem

Switzerland's Crypto Valley has produced some of the most technically significant DeFi protocols in existence — not despite its regulatory environment, but partly because of it. The same legal clarity that enabled FINMA-licensed digital asset banks also created the conditions for DeFi protocols to structure their governance and tokenomics with greater confidence than protocols based in regulatory grey areas.

Smart Contract: Definition and Swiss Regulatory Treatment

Smart contracts are the programming primitive that transforms blockchain from a payments network into a programmable financial infrastructure. Vitalik Buterin conceived them as the core innovation of Ethereum — the network governed by the Ethereum Foundation in Zug. Understanding smart contracts is prerequisite to understanding DeFi, tokenisation, and the legal questions the Swiss DLT Act addressed.