However on the subject of defending traders 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. “Your complete root of investor safety is ensuring that there is not an data asymmetry between the traders and the sponsors. And factors create the most important data asymmetry that exists in crypto,” he mentioned. “All the things is on the group’s discretion, and customers and traders are simply praying that they get handled proper by the group.”