Mary Gooneratne

Mary Gooneratne, Co-founder of LoopScale, a Solana-based lending protocol, unpacks the innovative landscape of DeFi lending. She discusses how LoopScale's order book system is set to revolutionize decentralized finance. Mary delves into the advantages of building on Solana, emphasizing scalability and cost-effectiveness. She also addresses challenges like security breaches and shares insights on competing in the DeFi lending market. The conversation highlights the potential future of lending and the importance of user-friendly design in this rapidly evolving ecosystem.

Mary Gooneratne, co-founder of LoopScale building on-chain credit and tokenized real-world assets. She talks about why most finance is still offchain, what traits tradfi assets need to be composable, and how tokenized payment streams, fixed-rate lending, and collateral mobility enable onchain private credit. Mary explains RWA looping, securities lending, and LoopScale’s roadmap for institutional adoption.