The Rollup

2026 Is Neo Finance's Institutional Breakout Year w Kendall, Alex Zinder, Royal Fool,& Rishabh Gupta

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Jan 25, 2026
Alex Zinder, Blockdaemon CPO specializing in capital markets tooling. Royal Fool, Templar Protocol co-founder focused on isolated lending and Bitcoin-native risk design. They discuss isolated lending vs pooled models. They debate permissioned vs permissionless infrastructure. They explore chain abstraction, privacy tech, liquidity at scale, and tokenizing real-world assets.
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ADVICE

Target High-Quality And Non-EVM Assets

  • Focus on tokenizing high-quality assets and non-EVM native assets to capture new market opportunities.
  • Royal Fool recommends targeting assets like Bitcoin, Ripple, Cardano, and incoming RWAs for lending innovation.
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Isolated Lending Trumps Pool Models

  • Isolated, modular lending designs reduce contagion and better handle differentiated credit cycles than large pooled models.
  • Royal Fool thinks isolated frameworks will dominate lending as real-world assets come on chain.
INSIGHT

Three Boring Pillars Power Neo Finance

  • Reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure are non-negotiable foundations for Neo Finance adoption by institutions.
  • Alex Zinder argues these technical pillars plus robust regulation shorten time-to-market and unlock large inflows of capital.
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