However on the subject of defending buyers and providing transparency, Robert Leshner, the founding father of Compound and Robotic Ventures, an investor in EigenLayer developer Eigen Labs, thinks factors are the worst of all worlds. “The whole root of investor safety is ensuring that there is not an data asymmetry between the buyers and the sponsors. And factors create the most important data asymmetry that exists in crypto,” he stated. “All the pieces is on the group’s discretion, and customers and buyers are simply praying that they get handled proper by the group.”
