Ex-CFTC Attorneys Launch Panther Hollow Ventures, a Multi-Strategy Merchant Bank Focused on Ethereum and Solana

Panther Hollow Ventures, founded by former CFTC attorneys Eric Swartz and Jacqueline Escobar, has launched a multi-strategy merchant bank combining venture capital, liquidity yield strategies, and protocol incubation. It will focus on pushing traditional finance interest rates and derivatives protocols onto Ethereum, Canton, Solana, and Starknet, aiming to bridge TradFi with DeFi under a compliant framework.