Finance Is ProgrammableFor years we’ve talked about TradFi and DeFi as if they were parallel universes. They’re not. The gap is closing fast driven not by ideology, but by brutal market forces: capital efficiency, settlement speed, and 24/7 liquidity. The shift isn’t about “blockchain potential” anymore. It’s about embedding programmable finance inside real institutional and consumer workflows. The business proposition is simple: turn static assets into dynamic, programmable instruments. That...

Finance Is ProgrammableFor years we’ve talked about TradFi and DeFi as if they were parallel universes. They’re not. The gap is closing fast driven not by ideology, but by brutal market forces: capital efficiency, settlement speed, and 24/7 liquidity. The shift isn’t about “blockchain potential” anymore. It’s about embedding programmable finance inside real institutional and consumer workflows. The business proposition is simple: turn static assets into dynamic, programmable instruments. That...

The Build IllusionIn the early days of any blockchain, the instinct was to fund or build everything, invest in pre-revenue start-ups, issue grants, and spin up internal products to jump start the ecosystem. For a time, that model worked: it proved the technology, attracted developers, and created the first growth flywheel.But as the space matured and competition intensified, many teams including the one I was part of began to build internally just to maintain momentum.We launched everything f...

The Build IllusionIn the early days of any blockchain, the instinct was to fund or build everything, invest in pre-revenue start-ups, issue grants, and spin up internal products to jump start the ecosystem. For a time, that model worked: it proved the technology, attracted developers, and created the first growth flywheel.But as the space matured and competition intensified, many teams including the one I was part of began to build internally just to maintain momentum.We launched everything f...