Tag: Ethereum
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Musings on Meme Coins: A Candy-Coated Version of Fintech Innovation
A few weeks ago, Fartcoin officially crossed the $1 billion market cap threshold. That either means the world has lost its mind, or something very interesting is going on under the hood in the innovation lab of Finance. Before meme stocks burst onto the scene with the Gamestop short squeeze in January 2021, there were…
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Web3 Gateways: The App Store for Ownership
Question: where did the phrase “going down the rabbit hole” come from? Answer: It goes all the way back to Lewis Carroll’s 1865 classic “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” In the novel, Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit hole and finds herself in a fantastical and surreal place filled with peculiar characters, magical creatures,…
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Open Beats Closed: Why Crypto Deserves Our Attention
What do someone from a large money center bank, a small local credit union, a mid-sized RIA, a fixed-income trading desk, and a payment services provider have in common? Well, it is the same thing everyone in finance has in common: they should be paying attention to crypto. Perhaps it is not at the top…
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Communities All the Way Down
In Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari argues that what separates man from beast is the ability to tell stories. The ability to speak about fictions is the most unique feature of Sapiens language. It enables us not simply imagine things, but to do so collectively. We can weave common myths such as the biblical creation story,…
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Diversification-as-a-Service: An Assortment of Crypto Correlations
There is only one free lunch in investing… and that is diversification. It is one of the only known ways to consistently improve the risk-reward equation of a portfolio. In today’s equity-centric world, bonds have typically been relied upon as the primary offset, providing diversification benefits to the everyday investor. This is particularly true when…
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Crypto Inception: A Theory of Mainstream Adoption from NFTs to Institutional DeFi
Crypto is LOUD. Headlines, trials, frauds, scams, degens, lambos, WAGMI, million dollar jpegs, maxis… the last wave of crypto was brash and ‘in your face’. Every industry headline seems to come with an exclamation point next to it! That’s a feature, not a bug. Early days-crypto was on a mission to replace money itself and…
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Money Crypto, Tech Crypto, Culture Crypto
In 2018, Village Global published a simple framework that split crypto into two factions: Money Crypto and Tech Crypto Money Crypto: Maintains that the point of cryptocurrency is to redefine how money works by (re)introducing ‘sound money’. Sound money is money that: has either a fixed supply or a predictable inflation rate; doesn’t appreciate quickly, and;…
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Why Staking Matters
Question: Why does staking matter? Answer: Financial asset productivity. Let me explain. What is Staking? Staking is a process by which a crypto asset owner can lock up their coins in order to participate in running a blockchain and maintaining its security. Of course, this is only true for blockchains that use a proof-of-stake (POS) consensus…
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