Alex Elkrief

@AElkrief

Co-founder @upshift_fi and @august_digital

Joined January 2013

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Alex Elkrief
@AElkrief
Apr 1, 2025
Yield is the Trojan Horse to onboard trillions of assets on-chain. Earn programs have long been see as the most popular vehicles for retail adoption. On-chain savings accounts were touted as the future of finance. Yield-bearing stablecoins and vaults are attracting the same
Upshift
@upshift_fi
Apr 1, 2025
Introducing Upshift. Institutions, stablecoins and tokenized assets are bringing trillions onchain. Trillions need yield.
Alex Elkrief
@AElkrief
Aug 27
Vaults will be integrated into every interface with mass distribution to digital asset holders. We just teamed up with the Jumper team to launch five new vaults for stablecoin and ETH holders. Consumer Earn products represent one of the largest opportunities to make stablecoins
Upshift
@upshift_fi
Aug 27
Jumper Earn, powered by Upshift. Every time you bridge, your balance sits idle on the other side. Upshift vaults on Jumper Earn put those assets to work. Five new stablecoin and ETH vaults just went live:
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Alex Elkrief
@AElkrief
Aug 5
Upshift vault transparency dashboards are now live. Our goal is to align with the requirements of the fintechs and asset managers we're serving - it's long been the case that transparency has been a blocker for large scale adoption of DeFi. Looking forward to feedback and
Upshift
@upshift_fi
Aug 5
Introducing Upshift Vault Transparency: Upshift transparency reports are live, starting with earnAUSD on @monad @withAUSD. 1.4M AUSD has been realized in all-time vault yield.
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Alex Elkrief
@AElkrief
Jul 22
The interesting takeaway from today’s SEC statement that vaults are not the relevant regulatory unit. They’re programmable infrastructure. The legal analysis follows the functions performed through the vault, not the vault itself. Better transparency, reporting and operational
Alex Elkrief
@AElkrief
Jul 15
Building vaults that institutions can actually use comes down to control as much as yield. With @KrakenInsto, assets deploy from qualified custody into Upshift vaults, and a receipt token returns to the client's segregated custody account at redeemable value. Nothing is pooled
Upshift
@upshift_fi
Jul 15
Institutional Vaults on Kraken, powered by Upshift. Eligible @KrakenInsto Institutional clients can now put idle treasury assets to work in permissioned, curated onchain vaults, directly from Kraken's qualified custody, without new wallets or extra counterparties.
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