Mission DeFi EP 28 - Eric Ervin is opening a $100 trillion investor market through Onramp Invest

<p>Eric Ervin has a successful Crypto hedge fund and a background creating and selling ETFs, but his newest endeavors to bring Financial Advisors into crypto is a massive opportunity for the entire space with a group of people managing over $100 trillion. It is a big play and after years of work, the platform is integrated with tradfi systems and advisors are joining.&nbsp;</p> <p>They are now taking it to the next level to offer DeFi along with custody solutions to advisors.&nbsp;</p> <p>Name of Guest: Eric Ervin<br> Name of Projects: <br> BlockForce Capital<br> OnRamp Invest</p> <p>Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/eervin1</p> <p>Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/Blockforcecap</p> <p>https://twitter.com/OnrampInvest</p> <p>Project URL:</p> <p>https://defi.blockforcecapital.com/</p> <p>https://blockforcecapital.com/</p> <p>https://www.onrampinvest.com/<br> <br> Bridging Traditional and Decentralized FinanceHis background as a quant and manager in trade for wealthy individuals and then his move into ETFs.&nbsp;</p> <p>Left Morgan Stanley in 2012 to build his own company.&nbsp;</p> <p>Created a dividends swap market for S&amp;P 500 based entirely on dividend value and not price.&nbsp;</p> <p>Called it regulatory Tetris</p> <p>Regulators couldn’t agree how to regulate.&nbsp;</p> <p>He convinced them to see it as an ETF and got that product approved after 2.5 years.&nbsp;</p> <p>Gave him an understanding of the process, but learned that the ETF market wasn’t right market for a product like that.&nbsp;</p> <p>Then he started realizing that crypto and blockchain were perfect for what he was trying to do.&nbsp;</p> <p>Start a quant hedge fund using their own money and others to actually make money. Started with their money first in order to learn more and be in more.&nbsp;</p> <p>Was for people not going to manage it themselves.</p> <p>Started Blockforce capital in 2016 with his own money and then in 2019 took on outside money.</p> <p>Relates how they invested and managed money. Not a portfolio building