This week's Coppercasts comes to you from the Finnish seaside city of Helsinki, where we met with the dynamic Yichen Wu, CEO and co-founder at Tesseract Investment.

Tesseract is a forerunner in the rapidly growing  digital asset lending market, enabling individuals or institutions to earn passive income on their cryptocurrency assets.

CopperCasts are split into two parts. The first is a short (2min) video in which our guest shares with us something they find unusual or inspiring about the digital asset space. The second half is a traditional audio-only podcast, which you can stream at the bottom of this page, or search for it in all the usual places.

The Show & Tell segment sees Yichen outline some of the inefficiencies borrowers face in the crypto lending market, and how Tesseract and Copper are solving these issues.

In the longer conversation, Yichen describes the trends he is seeing in institutional crypto borrowing and lending, why regulators are right to take a slow and prudent approach to crypto, nurturing the 'shallow' crypto talent pool, and why CrossFit is like airline food...

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Previous episodes:

Ep 001 - Charlie Morris

Ep 002 - Geoff White

Ep 003 - Jeff Hancock

Ep 004 - Piers Ridyard

Ep 005 - David Shrier

Ep 006 - Iain Wilson

Ep oo7 - Michael Hall

Ep oo8 - Erica Stanford

Ep oo9 - Konstantin Anissimov