Founder Inflection Point Advisory | Building the future of finance | Ex @noble_xyz, @balance_canada, $RFA.TO, ToroFX ('08) | China & India on bikes | @crukafe
Had a bunch of friends ping me about @ben_mckenzie on @jonstewart talking crypto. Listened to it. Frustrating. Not because there's nothing to criticize, there's plenty. But because there's zero interest in being intellectually honest or distinguishing what's working from what isn't. Then @LynAldenContact dropped a response and it's a masterclass in how to actually talk about this space. We need more of that.
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Look guys, it's actually really straightforward, a bunch of people staked their ETH on the Ethereum blockchain to earn yield, except they didn't want their capital to be locked up, so they actually staked with a liquid staking protocol called Lido who provided them a liquid staking receipt token called stETH, except they decided to juice their yield further by depositing their stETH receipt tokens into a restaking protocol called Eigenlayer, except they didn't want to lock up their capital, so they actually restaked with a liquid restaking protocol called KelpDAO who provided them with a liquid restaking receipt token called rsETH, except they decided to juice their yield further by depositing their rsETH tokens into a lending protocol called Aave so that they could open a leveraged looping position that borrows ETH against the rsETH collateral and restakes the ETH into rsETH which is then deposited as collateral, except it turns out rsETH used a cross-chain bridge called LayerZero that was hacked by north koreans causing rsETH to become undercollateralized and now these looping positions are stuck and unprofitable, and everyone is pointing fingers at each other, and also DeFi is a very serious industry
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Noble is assessing the best on/off ramps for a Web 2-like consumer facing application that leverages stablecoins.... We are targeting the US market to start.
Builders, who are your favorite partners to work with?
March 18th is here and we wanted to update you on what’s next for Noble ✨
First, we’ve officially launched Noble’s EVM mainnet in a permissioned environment
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Stablecoins = "Be Your Own Bank"
Before stablecoins became regulated payment instruments (thank you, GENIUS Act!), individuals & businesses could not do bank-like things like accept deposits and offer rewards.
We are about to see a MASSIVE industry take off on the consumer side
Imagine if the situation were reversed and stablecoins were status quo, such that everyone had their money in entities backed 1-1 with US Treasuries.
And then some guy came along and was like, "I have this new idea called fractional reserve banking..."
We would laugh him out of the room.