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Markets have always been shaped by three things. Greed, fear, intuition. I am scared for what happens when that stops. DeFi is already moving toward fully autonomous finance. No emotions, no hesitation. Just pure efficiency. Ai first hedge funds already outperform human traders by over 15%. DeFi protocols are experimenting with self-adjusting risk models. Soon AI will run entire financial ecosystems. This is scary. Will the perfect market hypothesis finally come to hold true? Should it? Who takes responsibility when things go wrong? At some point, finance stops being a game humans play. Will we still have a seat at the table?
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First, they dismiss it. Then, they own it. Bitcoin? A scam (until Wall Street wrapped it into ETFs) Derivatives? "Too risky" (until banks built trillion-dollar markets around them) Stablecoins? “Shadow banking” (until TradFi firms started issuing their own) This is the playbook: → Step 1: Reject innovation. Call it dangerous, speculative, or illegal. → Step 2: Accumulate in the background. Push for regulation that benefits incumbents. → Step 3: “Legitimize” it but on their terms. What’s next? Probably DeFi. But not the DeFi we started with. The one TradFi will mold to fit its interests.
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Crypto loves to call itself permissionless. But is it really? Anyone can deploy a smart contract. Launching a successful protocol is a different game. → Capital: Raising liquidity is harder than getting a TradFi banking license. → Security: One exploit, and your protocol is dead. → Adoption: Network effects favor incumbents, just like in TradFi. We talk about open systems, but the real bottleneck is power dynamics. Permissionless innovation is about breaking the monopolies on trust, capital, and distribution.
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Google just launched Gemini 2.0 (their most powerful version yet). But it feels broken to me. This is pushing deeper into AI agents. It integrates systems designed to act, not just assist. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft are all chasing the same vision: AI that completes complex, multi-step tasks for users. But here’s the problem: AI inside legacy tools feels broken. Tried using Gemini and Copilot for productivity. It’s clunky. AI is being bolted onto outdated software. Adding an AI sidebar to an old system doesn’t unlock real efficiency. → ChatGPT reshaped how people think and iterate. → Legacy office tools trap users in pre-AI workflows. I really think AI isn’t meant to "assist" inside old systems. It should replace them. The real shift will come from AI-native tools. Not a plugin. Not an add-on. A new foundation. Where’s the AI-first productivity suite that changes how we work?
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Notes from my diary, Saturday (14/12/24): We do not talk enough about P2P (or how terribly it failed) Crypto promised a world where anyone could borrow and lend without banks. No middlemen. No gatekeepers. Just smart contracts matching lenders with borrowers. Instead, we got: a) Overcollateralized loans. Borrowing $100 required posting $150 as collateral. Who needs a loan when they already have more money? b) Whales dominating liquidity. Most lending pools relying on a few big players, not actual peer-to-peer interactions. c) MEV bots skimming profits. Arbitrage bots extracting value before everyday users even get a fair trade. P2P finance failed because it never actually became peer-to-peer. The solution here is marter undercollateralized lending. That paired with reputation-based credit will enable true decentralized risk-sharing. Until then DeFi is just repackaging banks in code. We cannot get away with it. Ps: A small leather journal with a fountain pen every weekend will do you wonders.
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For three years, Chris and I lived as digital nomads. We built, traveled, worked insane hours. We pitched investors from beach cafes. We closed deals at midnight. We spent more time in airports than homes. It was exhilarating. It was freedom. But work is a strange thing. It consumes you until time becomes a currency you don’t track. And yet there’s one moment I’d take back. I wasn’t home in time to say goodbye to my grandfather. I thought I had more time, I did not. That’s the trade-off no one talks about. Not money. Not success. Time. I wouldn’t change my path. But I’d change that moment. In the end, the biggest deal you’ll ever make isn’t with investors. It’s with the people who love you. You don’t always get a second chance. Building something from nothing takes everything. If you are not locked in, it will be a hard journey ahead :)
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Shadow banking makes DeFi look simple. It moves trillions outside regulations. It bypasses banks through hedge funds, private credit, and off-balance sheet lending. It fuels markets but nobody really knows how much risk is buried inside. The shadow banking sector is worth $200T+ Blackstone and Apollo now rival banks in lending. Shadow banking even played a major role in the 2008 crash. The system operates in the dark. It has less oversight and higher leverage than traditional finance. If a crisis starts here, regulators won’t see it coming. DeFi isn’t the real Wild West. This is.
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MC² Finance is at Devcon 🇹🇭 Your DeFi Terminal for traders Ping @piffie and I for a meetup
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Founders, I can’t say this enough: VCs want to build a relationship early! VCs invest in lines, not dots, and they want to know you throughout your journey and see how you progress. Don’t dread the update calls with your investors. #tech #founders #funding #building #vc https://i.imgur.com/hGL9Aam.jpg
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Don´t know what to read? This will save you a ton of time to find yourself some good brain food. This Harvard Prof selected a bunch of old classics and even links to the "must-read pages" of the "must-read books". Max points on the curation! https://www.mensetmanus.net/inspiration/fifteen_minutes_a_day/index.shtm
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>3m Redditors used Reddit’s Vault blockchain wallet to create over 3m crypto wallets to date. Most of these — 2.5m — were created to purchase NFT avatars that can be used as profile pics on the platform. That’s more than OpenSea In # Of NFT Wallets, crazy results considering Reddit hasn’t long been game int
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What’s the best city (or specific accommodation) to spend winter in Europe?
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Read a lot about Aptos lately… Who is bullish on Aptos and why?
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Who is working on Decentralized identity (DiD)? I believe it will be a top public good for the future. But it will require pseudonymous secure message to become very useful. Farecaster could actually be a potential candidate to solve this.
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3 weeks passed since Ethereum Merge, but how the overall ecosystem looked like in Q3 2022? Messari State of Ethereum report key takeaways: Full report: https://lnkd.in/eF6UHs-A
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Web3 is an era for creatives and builders. Let’s please come up with something better than discord. Have you tried GM.xyz?
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Inflation is like alcoholism. The good effects come first; the bad ones later….
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Searching for great locations to travel to with strong crypto communities, any ideas?
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Who is into Gamefi? I don’t have to be a mega gamer to see that there are a lot of cool projects out there. But still barrier to entry is high: ***The key to success in my opinion will be simplifying wallet usability*** What projects do you know of who address this issue?
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Who is at #token2049 Singapore? People here are so down to business… Got ready for a sprint, when I should have prepared for a marathon!
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