{"id":145142,"date":"2026-09-21T09:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T09:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=145142"},"modified":"2026-09-21T09:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T09:30:45","slug":"kamino-names-yieldstreet-co-founder-michael-weisz-ceo-for-us-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=145142","title":{"rendered":"Kamino Names Yieldstreet Co-Founder Michael Weisz CEO For US Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>TL;DR<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kamino Finance has appointed Michael Weisz as CEO.<\/li>\n<li>Weisz co-founded alternative-investment platform Yieldstreet.<\/li>\n<li>His role will center on U.S. expansion and institutional credit products.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kamino Finance is bringing in a CEO with a background much closer to private credit than traditional crypto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Solana-based <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/glossary\/defi\/\">DeFi<\/a> platform has appointed Michael Weisz, co-founder of Yieldstreet, to lead the company as it pushes further into the U.S. and institutional lending markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is a fairly deliberate hire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yieldstreet built its business around alternative investments and private-market products for a broader investor base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kamino is increasingly trying to bridge similar financial activity into <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/glossary\/on-chain-data\/\">on-chain<\/a> markets.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solana DeFi Wants Bigger Borrowers<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kamino is already one of the largest lending platforms on Solana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Historically, most <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/glossary\/defi\/\">DeFi<\/a> lending has revolved around crypto-native collateral and users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The institutional opportunity is different.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Funds and companies want structured credit, predictable risk parameters, <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/glossary\/compliance\/\">compliance infrastructure<\/a> and deeper pools of capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That requires a different type of organization around the protocol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hiring a CEO with conventional alternative-investment experience suggests Kamino is taking that side of the business seriously.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DeFi Companies Are Starting To Look Like Companies<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is also a broader shift here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early DeFi protocols often presented themselves almost entirely as software.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/glossary\/dao\/\">Governance tokens<\/a>, anonymous contributors and <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/glossary\/dao\/\">DAOs<\/a> were supposed to replace conventional corporate structure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reality has become messier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Protocols still need sales, partnerships, risk teams, legal structures and executives if they want to work with large institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That does not necessarily make the underlying protocol less decentralized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It means the businesses building around those protocols are becoming more conventional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kamino\u2019s appointment of Weisz fits neatly into that pattern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The protocol remains on Solana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company around it is positioning itself much more like a financial-services business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Kamino Finance. <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/kamino-finance\/announcing-michael-weisz-as-ceo-2026\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/medium.com\/kamino-finance\/announcing-michael-weisz-as-ceo-2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This article was written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display:none;\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/kamino-finance\/announcing-michael-weisz-as-ceo-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Primary Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR Kamino Finance has appointed Michael Weisz as CEO. Weisz co-founded alternative-investment platform Yieldstreet. His role will center on U.S. expansion and institutional credit products. Kamino Finance is bringing in a CEO with a background much closer to private credit than traditional crypto. The Solana-based DeFi platform has appointed Michael Weisz, co-founder of Yieldstreet, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-145142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}