Genuine question:
Why does the Fed take interest on bonds on their balance sheet?
If the Fed is truly working for the government's balance sheet (they're supposed to share all profit and absorb losses), why don't we just void all interest payments from USG -> Fed on held paper?
This would be a massive relief to the federal budget and a victimless crime?
Not like it would be the first the Fed / USG gave each other special treatment vs the rest of sovereign bond buyers.
The humanities are hard & take a lifetime to get good at. You can't really compete until 40. Math is easy which let's young people & psychos brute force their way in to the intelligentsia & wreck everything. Math was a successful trade union of the labor classes, but I'm Crassus
crypto doesn’t have a marketing problem.
it has a storytelling problem.
if you’re building in consumer crypto, ai, neobanks, or stablecoins, i want to help tell that story.
We badly need armies of zoomers who made their first $10k selling clips on Whop to be CMOs flooding TikTok with anti central bank propaganda.
We need to bring the story of crypto back for the new gen desperately.
When's the last time a post around the ethos of DeFi went viral?
Cool that Liquid USD has been in the top 2-5% for years on en consistently now.
While having much bigger size than a lot others in the cohorts
All while launching and running the fastest growing onchain neobank
Out of >$20B in vaults on Ethereum and L2s, 93% of stablecoin TVL is earning under 5% APY.
• 58% earns <3% APY
• 35% earns 3–5% APY
• 5% earns 5–10% APY
• 2% earns >10% APY
My favorite two projects in all of DeFi by a mile.
$ETHFI (> tradfi bank)
$HYPE (> tradfi trading)
One thing that separates ETHFI from even HYPE though - spending and usage appear non market correlated.
This means we are one of the first projects to ever meaningfully separate revenues from market conditions, and this defensibility is accelerating.
I think the market is slowly waking up to this.