This is a presentation I gave to the N26 Product team on CORE Banking technologies.
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October 22, 2024
Stablecoins 2.0
9 Min Read
22October
The world of crypto has been promising tantalizing innovations in the financial space for almost a decade now. The hype has been incredible, often utterly unjustified. And yet, among many hyped verticals, one has stood out for having shown Product Market Fit and has now gained enough traction to become seriously captivating for incumbents: stablecoins. The Parable of the Merciless Creditor...
September 13, 2024
The legal Operative System of DeFi: Tau Finance
9 Min Read
13September
A common pattern of innovation in technology is to carve out a piece of infrastructure present in a big number of companies, specialise on it, productize it and turn it into a service. This is what Amazon did with AWS in the computing space. But many other companies are trying to apply the same playbook to several other segments. For example, two years ago I presented Credix, which is...
November 7, 2023
RWA#5 – All you need is Bond – Pt2
6 Min Read
07November
The microcosm of DeFi has been highly successful in the last few years in creating a set of new financial rails based on a new paradigm. These financial rails have been extensively used by a niche of power users who played with them in many different ways, with the clear goal of speculating. So far, a very limited intersection exists between the new DeFi rails and off-chain economic...
February 14, 2023
RWA#3 – All You need is Bond
7 Min Read
14February
Over the last few weeks different DeFi projects have emerged, offering customers the opportunity to get exposure to the most common traditional securities on the market: US Treasury Bills. The bridging of traditional securities on-chain is the clearest ongoing DeFi trend and this post aims to analyze the main projects and their impact on the evolution of the DeFi space. Convergence of on...
