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There’s a market for more markets (opens the original)
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For most of financial history, the supply of new markets — not demand — was the bottleneck. Blockchains remove that bottleneck. I believe this will unlock an explosion of net new markets.Markets are mechanisms for transferring risk. Every trade is simply two counterparties agreeing to move some exposure at an agreed price. Abstractly, risk can be expressed along two separate axes:The unit: the underlying exposure (e.g., a company’s cash flows, a barrel of oil, an election outcome, a borrower’s c
The rise of the $100-billion RWA perp market (opens the original)
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Trading in perpetual futures tied to stocks, gold, and other traditional assets is growing fast. And an increasing share of that activity is now happening onchain.These contracts, often referred to as real-world asset (or RWA) perps, give traders exposure to the prices of traditional assets without actually buyi
Banks don’t need closed blockchains. So why do they keep choosing them? (opens the original)
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This article was written by Rebecca Rettig, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Legal Officer of Jito Labs, a technology startup that develops Solana blockchain software and infrastructure.Financial institutions are taking advantage of one of the most innovative advancements in blockchain technology — permissionless networks.Franklin Templeton has kept the official share register of its onchain U.S. government money fund on permissionless blockchains since 2021 and added the Solana network in
How to prove software ran correctly — on a phone or GPU, in a post-quantum world (opens the original)
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When throughput is not enough: What financial markets need from blockchains (opens the original)
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Finance is one of the most obvious use cases for blockchains. It’s also one of the most demanding. A benefit of blockchains, often referenced in the context of financial use cases, is that they bring assets, ownership records, and execution rules into a shared system that no single counterparty controls. This does not, however, make blockchains automatically ready for the scale and constraints they’d have to contend with in global financial markets.For years, debates around blockchain readiness
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