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The problem with DeFi is that can't be used for financing. Financing requires seizable assets whereas blockchain assets are intrinsically unseizable. It can s
by lottin 4y ago
The problem with DeFi is that can't be used for financing. Financing requires seizable assets whereas blockchain assets are intrinsically unseizable. It can still be used for things like swaps, but that market isn't very large.
- bidirectional 4y agoSwaps aren't very large? It's very easily a trillion-dollar market even without the misleading quoting of notional as market size.
- lottin 4y agoWhere does this number come from?
- bidirectional 4y agoHere's one source: https://www.bis.org/publ/otc_hy2111.htm https://www.bis.org/publ/otc_hy2111.htm Reports notional as in the hundreds of trillions and market value over ten trillion. Unless I'm misreading you and you're talking about defi swaps? Though surely the analagous tradfi market shows the potential there.
- lottin 4y agoThese are credit default swaps. I don't know if they are implementable as smart contracts (I don't think so, but I could be wrong). I was thinking about overcolateralised DeFi loans which can be seen as a kind of swap where two parties exchange the returns of two different assets.
- tjansen 4y agoYou could create seizable assets if you find a way to create a legal framework that allows you to hold and transfer physical or intellectual property via NFTs. If you could own the copyright to an ape picture, instead of an NFT with the URL to an ape picture, it could be actually worth something. Trading physical property as NFTs would create a lot of possible applications. I always thought that trading-property-as-NFTs and the insurance market would be the most interesting applications for DeFi.
- politician 4y agoIf stocks and bonds were allowed to be traded as digital NFT-like contracts than true settlement could be completed in ~minutes rather than ~days.