DeFi Is The Answer

How much do I like DeFi? Why am I even working in this industry at all?

I spend the better part of my days, every day, thinking about how we might even the playing field out there for all the economic actors in a given system. I know what it's like to not make shit. There's nothing you can do about it. And it's not your fault (mostly). The system is skewed. And it's really good at fucking over the little guy.

  • The 3 richest Americans (Buffett, Gates, Bezos) have more wealth than the bottom half of the American pie.

  • The top billionaires in the world own as much as the bottom half of the world population, a total of 3.8 billion people.

  • The top 0.1% own as much wealth as the bottom 90% in America.

That's absolutely insane. It's got to stop. So what the hell do we do about it?

The answer is DeFi.

I believe that we stand at the cusp of a revolution in financial services. The power that has accumulated over the years in the powerful intermediaries that we call banks, brokers, and financial advisors is rapidly dissipating. And thank god for that. If you've ever interacted with these folks in real life, you know the barely know enough to be worth the shit coffee that most of them give you for free when you visit them. Sure there a few exceptions, but good riddance!

You can sense this change in the March to Zero Fees begun by Robinhood and now mimicked by Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade.

You can see this change in the tens of thousands of layoffs at Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank AG, HSBC, Banco Santander & more.

It's a fact that the old banking business model of capturing the net interest spread just doesn't work well... well... when interest rates are negative! As I've said before, that's where I believe we're eventually headed.

So if you believe, as I do, that change has to happen now and fast to avoid disastrous consequences for regular folk, then pushing the DeFi movement forward is paramount.

That's why I'm helping build the Konstellation Network and that's why I'm advising FinNexus. We're not anarchists, though. We want to bring the TradFi and DeFi worlds together in meaningful and mutually beneficial ways.

But if we end up just rebuilding the current system with CeFi actors like Coinbase, BlockFi & tZERO, just to name a few, I will be sorely disappointed.

So let's go all the way with this.

LET'S DO DEFI RIGHT!



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But isn't "decentralisation" the Trojan horse to even more centralisation?
(Sounds like an exam question.)
From what I can see, true disruptors - that disrupt control structures - are being driven out or further underground, and we shall be left with new tech to cement old structures.
The question then becomes: how do you make the defi disruptors more resilient to the crushing weight of trad finance? As we are seeing, the tools are by no means all financial - the law is being obviously used as a weapon.

We may even look back and see that what is being changed is not so much finance as the structure of law, corporations, jurisdictions etc.

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I don’t think it’s a bad thing to reform financial markets via centralized structures IF you commit to decentralizing them at some point in the future.

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Hello dear friend @shanghaipreneur.

True peer financing is the present and the future of Finance.

The intermediaries in the current financial system charge exorbitant fees for the simple fact of being custodians and money routers.
With DeFi this would end because a financial system without permission means that anyone can participate in the system. Unlike the current financial system, where creditworthiness is a requirement to determine if a person has access to financial services.

All best, Piotr.

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