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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.
 • Liam Roberts
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.
 • 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.
 • Liam Roberts
Managing Data in DeFi: The Emergence of a Decentralised AWS
What will minimum viable decentralisation mean for data infrastructure providers?
 • Liam Roberts
The Defence Use Case for DeFi
Thinking through very real hypothetical scenarios and identifying credible use cases for DeFi
 • Liam Roberts
YaaS: A framework for evaluating yield-as-a-service
An unfortunately timely analysis for analysing hybrid centralised/decentralised yield products
 • Liam Roberts
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
 • Liam Roberts
Asymmetry
Competitive advantage is dead, long live asymmetric advantage. fka DeFi Mullet
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