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February 2023

Floundering amidst narrative destruction: inefficiency is the enemy
There is a role for decentralised finance in traditional financial services; look for the inefficiencies and robustly solve for them.
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Liam Roberts
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November 2022

The Infrastructure and App Cycle: Strategic Thinking for Emerging Infrastructure Providers
Finding signal from noise in a gold rush is no easy task; keeping a level head and executing on strategy is crucial to win.
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Liam Roberts
Is this the death of the DeFi Mullet?
Yet another case of CeFi parading around as DeFi, enabled by misaligned incentives and improper diligence.
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Liam Roberts
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September 2022

Managing Data in DeFi: The Emergence of a Decentralised AWS
What will minimum viable decentralisation mean for data infrastructure providers?
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Liam Roberts
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August 2022

The Defence Use Case for DeFi
Thinking through very real hypothetical scenarios and identifying credible use cases for DeFi
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Liam Roberts

June 2022

YaaS: A framework for evaluating yield-as-a-service
An unfortunately timely analysis for analysing hybrid centralised/decentralised yield products
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Liam Roberts
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May 2022

The Merge: The blurred lines of dual-track financial services
No, not that merge 😉 The increasingly blurred lines of DeFi and Fintech, and what to expect in an exponential opportunity
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Liam Roberts
On-ramps and Off-ramps: Fintech x DeFi Crossover
Transforming money and moving quickly
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Liam Roberts
The Current State of Under-Collateralised Lending in DeFi
Feels like fintech but with meaningful composability, efficiency, and opportunity for decentralised competition
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Liam Roberts
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This is Asymmetry, a newsletter about Fintech in the front, DeFi in the back: the future of financial markets.
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Liam Roberts
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