Network effects is, with no doubt, the biggest force behind outlandish successes in the tech space. The goal of this post is to dig deeper into the role networks effects play in fintech to provide a sustained competitive advantage.
2032: Financial Tales from planet Earth
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.
The investment bank of the future: Yield Guild Games
The post presents an analysis of Yield Guild Games, an NFT fund which invests mainly in crypto-gaming assets.
The disintermediation of finance
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
The post describes the AMM model and its most important implementation in the DeFi ecosystem: Uniswap.
DeFi Lending 2.0: Reputation & Real World Assets
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
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.