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A View From BIS On Benefits & Risks of Stablecoins
Patrick McConnell, Author and Consultant, comments on the recent speech by the General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements [BIS], Dr Pablo Hernández…
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A View From BIS On Benefits & Risks of Stablecoins
Patrick McConnell, Author and Consultant, comments on the recent speech by the General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements [BIS], Dr Pablo Hernández…
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Systematic Stress Caused By DeFi Borrows
Cyrille de Lange, Growth & BD at BloFin, succinctly breaks down the liquidity challenge for stablecoins on AAVE after the rsETH exploit led ETH…
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The $400T Future of Tokenised Assets
Amir Hajian, Researcher at Keyrock, published a report, produced along with Securitize, that explores what is necessary for tokenized assets to continue their upward…
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Most “Tokenized Securities” Are Intermediary Cosplay
Gabriel Shapiro, CEO/founder at MetaLeX, discusses the various methods used to tokenize investments so they can be deployed to blockchain. In particular, he highlights…
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Blockchains Are Fast Enough for Finance
Pranav Garimidi, Researcher at a16z crypto, Joachim Neu, and Max Resnick, consider the necessary feature of predictability that would enable blockchains to compete with…
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Altcoin Market Structure Consideration for Investors
Frederik Lund, Chief Legal and Capital Officer at 4+Ventures, brings us back to fundamental mathematics by noting that a token that drops in price…
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SWIFT Explained: How Money Moves Across Borders
Sivasubramanian Ramanathan, previously a Product Owner at the BIS Innovation Hub in Singapore, provides an example and simplified model for the movement of payments…
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Vaults in DeFi can have wildly different risk profiles
Anis Akl, Founder of Kappa Lab (previously Cryppro), details the yield generation of Hyperliquid Vault, describing how these sophisticated wrappers can have widely differing…
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A Lesson From History: Liberty Reserve
Martin Walker, Product Manager Senior Lead at FIS, considers the case of Liberty Financial, an early digital currency that could be transferred almost instantly…