@lex_node@jessepollak ten years of trustless rails and the endgame is a note tracking a share at a custodian somewhere. put the register onchain or it's just receipts.
DeFi lending just rediscovered the term sheet.
Fixed term is the feature institutional credit was waiting for onchain.
Rates can float; real credit always has a date. Fund facilities, repo, mortgage books, warehouse lines: all of it is duration-managed, and DeFi couldn't express duration cleanly until now.
Midnight handing rate and term to the open market is the first onchain structure a traditional credit desk could map onto without translation.
yeah all three eventually, but that feels like the endgame not the build order. only one of them (3b) is a business banks already run, the other two are multi-year issuer + custody builds.
do you see it as secured lending first and issuance later, or the money-center banks skipping straight to issuing?
@PeterMcCormack the problem with a wealth tax isn't ideology, it's that most wealth is illiquid and unpriced. you end up taxing a valuation somebody made up, and collecting it by forcing a sale that then sets the next valuation.
@lukaivicev The missing part is that a ramp is a balance sheet, not an API. Someone holds fiat inventory on both ends across the settlement gap and wears the risk while it's open. That cost floors at the cost of capital.
It never floors at zero.
This is the whole argument for tokenized deposits. The ramp fee exists because you're crossing between two ledgers with different legal settlement.
Keep it as a bank liability and the crossing never happens. JPM coin moves billions internally at basically zero because it's the same balance sheet on both sides.
The one reason Iโm bearish on stablecoins as a form of payment is because of the cost of on/off ramps. It has price elasticity limits to it where sending a wire may be slower but $1=$1, while even at 1bp to off ramp youโre paying $10k on $100M. Who's making on/off ramps free at scale? I also don't think netting is the best approach.