Leading Platform for Financial NFTs, Pledge, Adds Stanford Professor Jeff Strnad to Advisory Board

Professor Strnad brings blockchain, legal and business expertise to the Pledge Finance team

PALO ALTO, Calif., January 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Pledge Finance is pleased to announce the addition of Jeff Strnad to its strategic advisory team. His impressive background includes teaching graduate-level technical and legal courses on blockchain at Stanford University, and hands-on experience bringing blockchain and DeFi to real estate finance apps, expertise and experience that will help Pledge become the premier platform for building long-term lending dApps for DeFi.

Graduated from Harvard (BAC Physics) and Yale (JD and Ph.D. in Economics), Jeff is an influential scholar and teacher in the fields of finance, statistics, law, and blockchain. He has been active in the financial industry, including playing a key role in developing regulatory space for new methods of financing startups during the dotcom boom. Jeff is a startup founder currently engaged in developing innovative real estate finance approaches designed to facilitate blockchain and DeFi applications.

“Pledge is a DeFi project with huge potential,” Strnad said. “They are pioneering fixed rate lending in the DeFi space and creating both a foundation for its own additional major DeFi innovations and potentially an exceptional platform for other companies to innovate and excel. Pledge is one of the most exciting new DeFi developments out there.”

“Jeff’s advancement in traditional blockchain technology industries, through education and then acceptance by governing bodies, keeps Pledge at the forefront of an ever-changing compliance and regulatory landscape,” said the CEO of Pledge, Tony Y. Chan. “We look forward to rapid growth aided by Jeff’s unparalleled knowledge in this industry.”

Pledge is committed to being the global lending marketplace for bitcoin lending, focusing not only on providing longer-term lending, but also the building blocks needed to build next-generation lending dApps. Pledge leverages the innovative concept of financial NFTs to bring interest rate swaps to DeFi, a multi-trillion dollar market in legacy finance but currently completely absent from crypto.

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About Commitment

Pledge is the global lending marketplace for financial NFTs. Starting with bitcoin lending at fixed rates and terms, Pledge V1 offers a fixed return to TradeFi and DeFi investors. Additionally, Pledge V1 provides a fixed cost of capital for professional crypto traders. Pledge V2 will make bitcoin loans tradable by converting bitcoin loans into financial NFTs.

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On Jeff Strnad

Jeff Strnad holds the Charles A. Beardsley Professor of Law at Stanford University. He specializes in mathematical and technical fields and their relationship to law, business and politics. His teaching and research cover several areas, including economics, finance, computer science and statistics. He works on housing finance innovations, particularly those that facilitate blockchain and DeFi applications, in several business contexts.

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