America's Financial Innovation MachineFor over a century, the United States dominated financial innovation through its unique open market approach. What made America the financial innovation capital:Balanced regulatory framework that provided security without stifling creativityDeep, liquid capital markets eager to fund new ideasStrong property rights and legal protectionsCulture that rewarded financial entrepreneurshipBy the numbers:US markets: 41% of global equity market cap (2023)NYSE + NA...

What Is XP Leagues Season 2?The END GAME is the high-octane finale of Avantis XP Leagues Season 2 - a 5-week trading competition where smart traders can rack up massive XP rewards without necessarily blowing up their accounts. This isn't just about trading volume; it's about strategic positioning to climb the league ranks while protecting your capital. Each week, you'll start fresh in Bronze league with the goal of climbing to Diamond. The higher you climb, the bigger your slice of the XP pie...

Imagine money as an ice cube in the scorching sun of time. For centuries, we've watched it melt away, drip by drip, year after year. But what if we could change its very nature? What if we could make it as enduring as diamonds, as reliable as the sunrise? Let's travel through time, following the journey of three coins: 1849: In the dust-filled saloons of California, a gold miner trades his hard-earned nuggets for paper promises. Like autumn leaves carried east by the wind, these bank notes fl...

The why? To solve Ethereum’s scalability issues various solutions like zkEVM, Optimistic roll-ups (Optimism, Arbitrum) have popped up. But, in Fuel’s view all of them come with some sort of compromise often execution or security.

Aave has been leading the way in the realm of lending & borrowing. But, some obvious issues w Aave are:Discrepancy betn lending and borro...

ExtraFinance’s rise to the top has been very interesting. They’ve grown and built out a very sound product just as demand starting increa...

Aerodrome is a MetaDEX, merging Curve, Convex, and Uniswap into a single protocol designed to be the primary trading and liquidity hub of...

We’ve spotted aliens, some countries are at war, everything seems to be in chaos. Things that seemed only true in movies have somehow come to reality. When life is unpredictable & seems one manageable one practice I keep near and dear to myself is knowing what is in my control and what is not. ’The Control Locus’ is one of the founding principles of Stoicism. Flip out a page in any book on stoicism, you will find them talking about how important it is to figure out what’s really in your contr...