The post imagines what the future of finance will be in 2032. It follows the life of a fictional character - John - and analyses how four major trends redefine his financial life.
2032: Financial Tales from planet Earth
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Buy now, pay later, a new payment standard?
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The goal of this post is to provide a guide on what buy now pay later is, which are its main dynamics, why it is so successful and how profitable it will stay in the longer run.
The investment bank of the future: Yield Guild Games
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The post presents an analysis of Yield Guild Games, an NFT fund which invests mainly in crypto-gaming assets.
The rise of lifestyle banking
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Before smartphones, the corporeal world had a much more relevant role in building solutions to essentially any human problem. Physical constraints strongly influenced the ideation and implementation of these processes. This was obviously reflected also in the banking space. Originally, the banking industry solved the problems of storing money, delivering payments and acquiring liquidity, in...
The disintermediation of finance
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Why (in italian perché) has always been my favorite word. Why, in my opinion, is the most powerful word we have, as it allows us to uncover the real essence of things. It is the key to understanding causality, one of the pillars of the scientific method. The goal of this post is to ignore buzzwords and a blind deterministic approach, which permeates crypto, and try and understand why DeFi...
Uniswap and the AMM model
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The post describes the AMM model and its most important implementation in the DeFi ecosystem: Uniswap.
Visa 10K: the mother of all protocols
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The post presents an analysis of Visa 2020 10K and uses it to give more context around Visa's history, growth opportunities and potential threats.
DeFi Lending 2.0: Reputation & Real World Assets
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The main argument of the essay is that, in order to really become a mainstream product, DeFi lending will have to expand across two main dimensions: reputation and real world assets.
A lending stack: merging DeFi with Traditional Finance
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Last year, I wrote a post defining the most important component of a banking stack. This post is the complement to that one, and i describes the core elements of a modern lending stack, adding some new DeFi pieces to the architecture.
Compound, the DeFi money market
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Compound is a money market protocol that allows users to lend and borrow crypto-assets in a global, permission-less, transparent and very rapid way, without a middleman.
The post presents an analysis of the protocol's main logics and its position in the DeFi Space.