Gov. DeSantis has said that Florida won't accept a CBDC, due to privacy and surveillance concerns. Stonewalling could be part of the problem.
As the digital asset market has matured, incumbents are starting to take notice. Citi announced a partnership with METACO to establish digital asset capabilities.
This week, we look at:
M&A in decentralized finance, focusing on the Yearn protocol and its targets Pickle, Cream, Akropolis
The motivations behind such M&A, and where economic value collects
The importance of community and security, creating increasing returns to scale
The macro and crypto economic thesis for 2021, building out the linkages between “Risk-On” assets, flows into and valuation of Bitcoin and Ethereum, and the interplay between value locked, the growth of decentralized application revenue, and the volumes around digital objects. We bring it all together.
In this conversation, we go through the essentials of Decentralized Finance with Kerman Kohli, who is a serial entrepreneur and the writer of the DeFi Weekly newsletter. We discuss the mechanics of issuing stablecoins, decentralized lending, decentralized exchange, automated market makers, and the increasing complexity of synthetic assets that have grown the sector to nearly $7 billion in August of 2020.
Gen Z ETF hopes to provide a vehicle for Gen Z, an actively managed fund that tracks the best and brightest firms 'born' after 1997.
Powered by their $300-million fundraise over the summer, Fireblocks is looking to drive infrastructure efforts of digital banking and crypto companies as the industry is poised for explosive growth.
The memes and trivial announcements surrounding metaverses hide their true potential. Financial services could be fundamental.
DeFi and Cefi, while both playing in the same ball park, have critical differences essential to the development of digital finance.
In this conversation, we talk with Camila Russo of The Defiant and author of The Infinite Machine, about her journey as a successful financial journalist was derailed by the Crypto boom and subsequent winter of 2017. Additionally, we explore the success behind her first book, the nuances of the NFT craze, and how The Defiant became one of the most popular crypto media brands to date.