However in terms 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. “The whole root of investor safety is ensuring that there is not an data asymmetry between the traders and the sponsors. And factors create the biggest data asymmetry that exists in crypto,” he stated. “Every little thing is on the staff’s discretion, and customers and traders are simply praying that they get handled proper by the staff.”