
Opinion by: Jesus Rodriguez, co-founder of Sentora
If you look at decentralized finance (DeFi) as a stack of computational primitives, it’s remarkably complete — yet fundamentally broken.
We have automated market makers for liquidity, like Uniswap. We have lending markets for capital efficiency, and bridges for cross-chain “packet switching.” Step back and look at the architecture from a systems engineering perspective.
There is a gaping hole where the risk backstop should be.
Insurance is the “missing primitive” of the decentralized web. It…

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