Cornerstone Philosophy

Analysis: Coinbase's Super App to swallow Crypto, like Google ate the Internet

Free finance, infinite choice, and the rise of closed-loop financial fortresses.

Dec 19, 2025 • Lex Sokolin

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.

May 21, 2025 • Lex Sokolin

Long Take: Emergence of Generative Artificial Intelligence sector, and powering DAOs with shallow labor

Gm Fintech Architects —

Oct 19, 2022 • Lex Sokolin

Long Take: Deriving Polygon Supernets and Avalanche Subnets value accrual through the Laws of Nature

Gm Fintech Architects —

Apr 27, 2022 • 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.

Dec 22, 2021 • Lex Sokolin

Long Take: Getting ahead in Facebook's Metaverse by earning the Harvard of NFTs

Hi Fintech futurists --

Jul 26, 2021 • Lex Sokolin

Food for Thought: A meditation on capitalism, the grey goo, and the Borganisms

The cycle of capitalism.

Jun 18, 2021 • Lex Sokolin

Long Take: The absurdity of how the Internet is both beautiful and awful, and the memetic infection of Finance

Hi Fintech futurists --

Aug 24, 2020 • Lex Sokolin

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