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Open money describes digitally-native asset systems that are built on accessible, programmable, and user-controlled architectures. These attributes allow them to leverage network effects to become useful and valuable.
Decentralized prediction markets are growing in popularity. But there's still a lot of issues associated with their use and adoption. Just maybe there is wisdom in the crowd.
This issue of the newsletter looks at the idea of the future of money from a few different angles and covers a range of options from central bank digital currencies to Universal Money Addresses.
A Universal Money Address Standard leverages the Lightning Network to enable payment handles that are easy to read, share, and remember.
Here’s a breakdown of the strengths and weaknesses of tokenized deposits, fiat-backed stablecoins, algorithmically-backed stablecoins, and CBDCs. Sometimes, some of these systems are conceptually used interchangeably, but they are all different. And how they are distinctive is important.
This issue of the newsletter is a recap of a dive into crypto developer activity. We looked at what builders are building in two ways: by unpacking the 2023 Developer Report by Electrical Capital and then by looking at how developer activity fits into a basic crypto research stack.