Stephen McKeon is a Partner at Collaborative Fund, a SF/NY venture fund investing in blockchain-based financial infrastructure with an eye towards the future of our financial markets. Stephen is also a finance professor at the University of Oregon and one of the sharpest thinkers in the security token space. 

In this conversation, Stephen and Derek dive right in to topics like cryptoasset valuation, security token base layers, decentralized finance – projects like DeFi Money Market, Chainlink, MakerDao, MetaCartel Ventures, OpenLaw’s ‘The Lao’ – and other projects that implicate security tokens and blockchain-based finance. Stephen wears a number of hats across the blockchain space, and he shares a ton of great insights about how he’s evaluating both the security token industry and larger blockchain space today.