DeFi was built on the promise of decentralization, yet most protocols still rely heavily on centralized cloud infrastructure—creating single points of failure, censorship risk, and operational bottlenecks. This talk presents a radical shift: using k0rdent, an open-source control plane, to deploy DeFi nodes, AI agents, and oracles across a decentralized, multi-cloud, and edge-native infrastructure. Discover how to build fault-tolerant, censorship-resistant networks that span AWS, GCP, Azure, and bare metal—without vendor lock-in. We’ll showcase how GitOps, policy automation, and AI-assisted governance enable self-healing, compliant, and scalable multi-chain DeFi environments—bridging infrastructure and ideals to reach the next wave of global adoption.