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The fastest way to lose money in DeFi is to outsource understanding. We sit down with Anton, founder of Monarch, to unpack a deceptively simple question: when you deposit into a “yield” product, do you actually know what you’re exposed to, and who can change it after you click deposit?

We get concrete about Morpho lending markets, why vaults and curators can introduce hidden risk for suppliers, and how Monarch is built to offer permissionless direct access instead. Anton walks through Monarch’s Etherlink integration (Tezos EVM), what the live markets look like today, and how users can supply, track flows, and manage positions with better visibility than a single APY number on a button.

From there, we dig into the tools that matter when conditions turn chaotic: smart rebalance across markets with the same loan asset, auto vaults that let you set your own exposure caps, and the bigger idea of agents that help you monitor and de-risk instead of “manage your whole wallet.” We also get into the details most interfaces hide, especially oracle assumptions, hard-coded paths, backup oracle designs, and why RWA and private credit assets can be harder to evaluate when part of the story lives off-chain. Anton shares a monitoring tool he likes for RWAs and stablecoins and how that kind of data could plug into safer DeFi UX.

If you care about DeFi risk management, Morpho, on-chain lending, yield optimization, and the real tradeoffs behind vaults, this is a practical listen. Subscribe, share this with a friend who farms yield, and leave a review with the one risk metric you wish every app showed.

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This week on TezTalks Radio, host Brandon Langston welcomes back Ben Elvidge to discuss the next evolution beyond Uranium.io: **Metals.io>.

Last time, the conversation focused on uranium and the challenge of making a difficult physical commodity accessible through modern financial infrastructure.

This time, the lens gets much wider.

Metals.io expands that vision into a broader universe of materials including gold, uranium, strategic metals, and upcoming additions like cobalt, silver, palladium, and nickel.

At the heart of the discussion is a simple question:

Why are some of the world's most important materials still so difficult for ordinary investors to access directly?

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This week on TezTalks Radio, we’re joined by Arthur Breitman, co-founder of Tezos, for a deep conversation about TzEL, an experimental project exploring private, post-quantum payments on Tezos testnet.

At the center of the discussion is a deceptively simple question:

If blockchain data can remain public forever, what does privacy actually mean over time?

Rather than treating privacy as a momentary concern, this episode looks at the long-term reality of encrypted transaction data that may still exist decades from now — and what happens if future cryptographic assumptions change.

🎙️ The conversation moves through private payments, post-quantum cryptography, rollups, the DAL, and the engineering realities of turning research ideas into working systems.

🔍 In this episode, we explore:

• Why blockchain privacy has a “time problem”
• What kinds of transaction data remain exposed long term
• Why Arthur became interested in private post-quantum payments specifically
• What TzEL is actually testing — and what it is not claiming yet
• How Tezos’ long-term adaptability connects back to post-quantum design
• The difference between a research prototype and production infrastructure
• What had to be built to make TzEL function end to end
• Why proof size becomes a major constraint for private systems
• How the Tezos DAL changes what becomes practical
• Why heavier cryptographic systems may naturally live in rollups
• How viewing keys, detector keys, and selective disclosure work in practice
• What this experiment reveals about the future design space for Tezos

This is one of the clearest conversations yet on how Tezos infrastructure, rollups, governance, and long-term adaptability connect together underneath the surface.