Mona El Isa, CEO and founder of Avantgarde Finance Ltd., explains how her experience starting her own hedge fund led her to building decentralized investment vehicles on the ethereum blockchain. She argues that decentralized finance (DeFi) will lower barriers to entry for those looking to get into the hedge fund space and also that DeFi investments can be viewed as an entirely new form of diversification – one that provides a hedge for investments living in the traditional centralized system. Filmed on April 29, 2020.