Season 5Episode 202

The Next Wave of DeFi: Portfolio Automation with Glider.fi feat. Co-Founder & CEO Brian Huang

January 14, 2026

38m

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About This Episode

In this epiosde of DevNTell Narb hosts Brian Huang, co-founder and CEO of Glider. Brian shares his career journey from traditional finance at Morgan Stanley to high-frequency trading at XTX Markets, and then to the crypto space, eventually co-founding Glider. He explains that Glider is a unified platform providing control, clarity, and speed for designing and managing automated portfolios without compromise. Brian highlights Glider's core mission to lower the barrier to entry for DeFi by abstracting complexities like gas fees, cross-chain bridging, and network selection. He emphasizes Glider's focus on long-term on-chain wealth management, offering features like automated portfolio rebalancing, direct non-custodial asset ownership, and B2B2C integration for customized investment solutions. Brian also teases an upcoming alpha release and offers advice to aspiring founders to maintain focus amidst distractions.

Key Takeaways

Glider is a unified platform for automated portfolio management in DeFi, aiming to provide control, clarity, and speed without compromise.

Brian Huang, co-founder and CEO of Glider, transitioned from traditional finance and high-frequency trading to building in the DeFi space.

Glider addresses key problems in DeFi such as high gas fees (by covering them), complex cross-chain interactions (by abstracting them), and the need for user-friendly platforms for long-term investing.

Glider allows users to manage diversified portfolios (like ETFs) with direct, non-custodial ownership of underlying assets, enabling participation in governance, claiming airdrops, and tax optimization.

Glider is currently live on Solana, Base, and Plume, with plans for more cross-chain functionality and an upcoming alpha release with new features.

Brian advises aspiring founders to maintain intense focus and avoid distractions to successfully build and deliver on their mission.

Glider offers APIs and SDKs for developers to integrate portfolio creation and management into their own applications, facilitating B2B2C models for various fintech use cases.

Glider aims to democratize access to on-chain wealth management by simplifying the user experience to feel very 'Web2-like' while leveraging Web3 capabilities.