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Analysis: Robots, Crypto, and the Collapse of Old Systems
Ethereum, Washington, and Robots Walk Into a Future
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Lex Sokolin
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Fintech: Why Kalshi at $2B is worth twice as much as Polymarket
Betting the house on U.S. sports
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Michiel Milanovic
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Podcast: How the Central Bank of Brazil built Pix, powering 6 billion monthly transactions
with Senior Advisor to Pix Carlos Brandt and Practice Manager of Financial Inclusion and Infrastructure, Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation at the…
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Matt Low
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Long Take: Carta's misstep and exit from secondary markets point to a bigger problem
 • Lex Sokolin
Long Take: Will BlackRock, Fidelity, Bitwise or GBTC win the Bitcoin ETF launch?
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Long Take: The $2B of tokenized Real World Assets (RWAs) trading onchain in 2023
 • Lex Sokolin
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Long Take: JPMorgan's bank branch expansion mirrors Apple's retail magic
 • Lex Sokolin
Long Take: Deciphering Solana's remarkable 700% rise, and why Ethereum lags behind
 • Lex Sokolin
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Long Take: How can Farcaster avoid the death trap of decentralized social media?

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Analysis: Understanding the $100B+ Crypto Treasury company boom
Over $100B in BTC and $6.9B in ETH now sit in public company treasuries
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Lex Sokolin
DeFi: Can Coinbase Build the WeChat of Crypto?
Or are Web3 superapps a dead end
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Laurence Smith
Analysis: Our 2025 Market Overview & Investment Outlook
Bitcoin, NVIDIA, and MicroStrategy lead Asset rally as USD devalues
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Lex Sokolin
1
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Podcast: Building the €8 Billion neobank, with Bunq CEO Ali Niknam
Bunq is structured around the user journey, not traditional departments
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Matt Low
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Fintech 101: Money Movement reimagined with Stablecoins
How stablecoins are rebuilding global finance and commerce
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Lex Sokolin
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Marc Baumann
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AI 101: How financial companies can build AI Agents
60% of Finance already is subscribed to AI services according to Ramp
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Luke Spill
Analysis: Why Robinhood and OpenAI Clashed over Onchain Stock Tokens
Today’s onchain equities are mostly wrappers — but native tokenization is coming.
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Lex Sokolin
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DeFi: How US Equities have come on-chain via Robinhood, Superstate, and Dinari
OpenAI is a token on Arbitrum
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Laurence Smith
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Podcast: Growing to $45B in volume on Zerohash crypto infra, with CEO Edward Woodford
Hi Fintech Architects,
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Matt Low
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Analysis: Programmable money comes to Fiserv and Shopify
10,000 Banks Could Soon Use FIUSD on Solana
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Lex Sokolin
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Fintech: Can Ramp at $16B become the Revolut for the CFO Suite?
An ecosystem growth story behind the humble corporate card
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Michiel Milanovic
Analysis: Hyperliquid prints $550MM revenue and $40B valuation with no VCs
With $300B in monthly volume, this small team may have created the next Binance onchain.
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Lex Sokolin
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Fintech Blueprint 🤖🏦🧭
Fintech Blueprint 🤖🏦🧭
Become a world-class financial services investor and operator, leveraging our deep research on Fintech, DeFi, and AI to improve your strategy and achieve success.
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Podcast: How the Central Bank of Brazil built Pix, powering 6 billion monthly transactions

Company Financials

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Analysis: Hyperliquid prints $550MM revenue and $40B valuation with no VCs
With $300B in monthly volume, this small team may have created the next Binance onchain.
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Lex Sokolin
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Fintech: Chime IPO Primer - Can it hit $15B?
Winning the primary bank customer is not enough
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Michiel Milanovic
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Fintech: Can Revolut beat Robinhood in the US and Nubank in LATAM?
The trade-off between product expansion and overseas growth
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Michiel Milanovic
Analysis: Our eToro IPO Primer, a global neobroker with $300MM in profit
With $300M in EBITDA, eToro’s IPO may rival Webull, Robinhood, and Coinbase.
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Lex Sokolin
Analysis: Our Circle IPO Primer, $1.6B revenue reaching for $10B valuation
Interest rates all the way down
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Lex Sokolin
Fintech: Klarna IPO Primer; will it reach $30B?
Benchmarking the category-defining Swedish BNPL against Affirm
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Michiel Milanovic
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AI: Is CoreWeave’s $35B IPO an AI Hyperscaler or a GPU Debt Trap?
CoreWeave is set to be the most anticipated tech IPO of the last few years as investors prepare for the first pure play AI IPO opportunity available to…
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Luke Spill
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Analysis: Will Revolut’s Gamble on Investment and Stablecoins Pay Off?
Revolut’s new investment app targets eToro and Robinhood with €8.5B AUM.
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Lex Sokolin
Analysis: Monetization of financial data at $4B Envestnet, $170B Intuit, and $7B SoFi
Why Envestnet's Data Potential Falls Short Amid $3.5B Sale
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Lex Sokolin
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Financial Analysis: Understanding Revolut's $2.2B revenue & $540MM+ profits
Higher interest rates have significantly boosted the profitability of leading neobanks.
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Lex Sokolin
Financial Analysis: Dissecting Monzo’s new $5B valuation and 9MM UK customers
Breaking down the path to growth in the UK and overseas
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Michiel Milanovic
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Financial Analysis: Will $5B Trade Republic, Germany’s Robinhood, win the race for European wealth?
Navigating dooming PFOF regulations and a potential cut in interest rates
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Michiel Milanovic

How To Build a Company

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Building Company Playbook #8: Dangers of the Growth Hacking Dark Arts
From Fake Growth to Ghost Networks in Web3
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Lex Sokolin
Building Company Playbook #7: Planning and executing your exit strategy
This entry will focus on exit strategy, from M&A to IPO, and the required factors for success
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Lex Sokolin
Building Company Playbook #6: Using token design for financial and product success
This entry will focus on cryptoeconomics and token engineering, and the key considerations when designing token-based projects and systems.
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Lex Sokolin
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Building Company Playbook #5: Creating your Fintech financial model and raising venture capital
This entry will focus on the issues around generating financial projections, raising capital, and making it through market cycles.
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Lex Sokolin
Building Company Playbook #4: Building Fintech & DeFi software products
A continuation of our series on building Fintech & DeFi companies
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Lex Sokolin
Building Company Playbook #3: Creating a B2B fintech go-to-market strategy
And the differences with the B2C path
Building Company Playbook #2: Creating a B2C fintech marketing strategy
And the differences to the B2B path
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Lex Sokolin
Building Company Playbook #1: How to design your Fintech business model
This is the first part of a series on building companies from the Fintech Blueprint
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Lex Sokolin

Research

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Fintech 101: Money Movement reimagined with Stablecoins
How stablecoins are rebuilding global finance and commerce
 • 
Lex Sokolin
 and 
Marc Baumann
1
AI 101: How financial companies can build AI Agents
60% of Finance already is subscribed to AI services according to Ramp
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Luke Spill
Research: The 2025 Practitioner’s Guide to Stablecoins
Stablecoins have quietly become the most used product in crypto for their practical utility
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Will Beeson
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Investing 101: DeFi Fixed Income Yields
Three Low-Risk DeFi Strategies Yielding Above Fed Rates
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Lex Sokolin
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Fintech 101: Neobanks
Introduction to core sectors
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Lex Sokolin
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Research: Decentralized AI Overview (2024)
Performance, Investments, and Decentralized Growth
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Lex Sokolin
Greatest Hits Report: DAOs
Hi Fintech Architects —
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Laurence Smith
Greatest Hits: Stablecoins & CBDCs
Hi Fintech Architects —
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Lex Sokolin

Investment Thesis

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Analysis: Our 2025 Market Overview & Investment Outlook
Bitcoin, NVIDIA, and MicroStrategy lead Asset rally as USD devalues
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Lex Sokolin
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Long Take: From Centralized AI to Personal Bots in the agentic economy
The Financialization of AI Companions
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Lex Sokolin
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Long Take: How the Machine Economy combining AI, blockchain, and Fintech is growing
Examples of deeply innovative projects pushing at the frontier
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Lex Sokolin
Long Take: Dissecting the 2023 Macroeconomy, from personal savings to global politics
Revisiting our macroeconomic framework for the year to date
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Lex Sokolin
Long Take: Launching Generative Ventures, an engaged venture capital fund focused on the machine economy of Fintech, Web3, and AI
An optimistic investment thesis for our industry
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Lex Sokolin
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Podcast Conversation: Lex Sokolin's 2022 investing and building thesis -- the evolutionary relationship between Tech, Finance, and Web3
Hi Fintech Architects,
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Matt Low
Why ConsenSys Codefi is the bridge to blockchain-based manufacturing for commerce and finance; plus 12 short takes on top developments
Hi Fintech futurists --
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Lex Sokolin

Cornerstone Philosophy

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Analysis: From Vanguard to Believe App, investing collapses into short form content
The Technium is leading us to create faster systems, but for worse outcomes.
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Lex Sokolin
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Long Take: Emergence of Generative Artificial Intelligence sector, and powering DAOs with shallow labor
Gm Fintech Architects —
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Lex Sokolin
Long Take: Deriving Polygon Supernets and Avalanche Subnets value accrual through the Laws of Nature
Gm Fintech Architects —
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Lex Sokolin
Long Take: The Roaring Twenties of Populism, Institutionalism, and Technology's Meaning
Gm Fintech Futurists — a bit of philosophy for you at the close of the year.
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Lex Sokolin
Long Take: Getting ahead in Facebook's Metaverse by earning the Harvard of NFTs
Hi Fintech futurists --
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Lex Sokolin
Food for Thought: A meditation on capitalism, the grey goo, and the Borganisms
The cycle of capitalism.
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Lex Sokolin
Long Take: The absurdity of how the Internet is both beautiful and awful, and the memetic infection of Finance
Hi Fintech futurists --
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Lex Sokolin
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