Lex Sokolin on the four waves of robo-advisors
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Lex Sokolin from Autonomous Research talks to Zack Miller about robo-advisors in the latest Tradestreaming podcast. Lex Sokolin on the four waves of robo-advisors on BankNXT.
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Bitcoin Daily: Tether Beats Out Bitcoin In Trading Volume; EOS Receives $24M Fine From SEC
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OCTOBER 2, 2019
If there is no Tether, we lose a massive amount of daily volume — around $1 billion or more depending on the data source,” Lex Sokolin, global financial technology co-head at ConsenSys, said, according to Bloomberg. Some of the concerning potential patters of trading in the market may start to fall away.”.
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Experimental Transactions Test Crypto Limits
PYMNTS
MAY 7, 2018
Asset-backed tokens, for diamonds or Venezuela’s petroleum, are exploring the conceptual space of what’s possible with blockchain,” said Lex Sokolin, global director of FinTech strategy for London-based Autonomous Research. They are a rudimentary first step.”.
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The Try New Things Edition: Amazon, Bitcoin And Airbnb
PYMNTS
JANUARY 22, 2018
But bitcoin has lots of hackers for fans, according to Lex Sokolin, global director of FinTech strategy at Autonomous Research — and those fans have managed to run off with over $1.2 billion worth of bitcoin and Ether in the last decade. “It
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Are DAOs and Nations conscious? A look at Diem/Silvergate, Google Plex, and Solidly AMM.
Lex Sokolin
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Neural Configuration and Consciousness We are making our way through Lisa Feldman Barrett’s deeply compelling book, How Emotions Are Made. It speaks of the latest scientific understanding of the functioning of the brain?—?a a compex collection of networked neurons continuously firing to generate a narrative model of the reality we experience.
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How TikTok’s GenZ financial influencers are changing finance
Lex Sokolin
APRIL 28, 2021
This is Jim Cramer, in the early days. This is his performance relative to the S&P 500. It is not higher than the index. Lots of people have villainized Mad Money, the show on which Jim talks about stocks and markets, and makes investment recommendations. It is easy to pick on the style, substance, and investment returns of the show.
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How $12 Billion in Fintech SPAC capital is teaching us about the economics of target unicorns
Lex Sokolin
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Tick-tock, it’s SPAC o’clock. We are barely into 2021, and 144 SPACs have already IPOed this year, compared to 248 of last year. The average size is about $300 million, and quite a few are focusing on Fintech and financial services. Here, for comparison, is similar data on venture capital funds?—?printing
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How $12 Billion in Fintech SPAC capital is teaching us about the economics of target unicorns
Lex Sokolin
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Tick-tock, it’s SPAC o’clock. We are barely into 2021, and 144 SPACs have already IPOed this year, compared to 248 of last year. The average size is about $300 million, and quite a few are focusing on Fintech and financial services. Here, for comparison, is similar data on venture capital funds?—?printing
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How the OCC is building Crypto America
Lex Sokolin
JANUARY 14, 2021
Over the last 12 years, $1 trillion of value has appreciated into existence. It may be a little more or a little less tomorrow, give a few $100 billion. It may one day reach $10 trillion, or $100 trillion, or stay at $1 trillion forever. It may even go to $0.
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How the OCC is building Crypto America
Lex Sokolin
JANUARY 14, 2021
Over the last 12 years, $1 trillion of value has appreciated into existence. It may be a little more or a little less tomorrow, give a few $100 billion. It may one day reach $10 trillion, or $100 trillion, or stay at $1 trillion forever. It may even go to $0.
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A Year in Financial Models, Fintech Valuations, Super Apps, Big Tech, Decentralized Finance, the…
Lex Sokolin
DECEMBER 31, 2020
A Year in Financial Models, Fintech Valuations, Super Apps, Big Tech, Decentralized Finance, the Multiverse, Pandemic, Revolution, Crypto Art, and the Nature of the Universe Hi Fintech futurists — You should be out partying! Or rather, you should be inside, partying. I guess reading the Blueprint is your version of inside-partying.
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A Year in Financial Models, Fintech Valuations, Super Apps, Big Tech, Decentralized Finance, the…
Lex Sokolin
DECEMBER 31, 2020
A Year in Financial Models, Fintech Valuations, Super Apps, Big Tech, Decentralized Finance, the Multiverse, Pandemic, Revolution, Crypto Art, and the Nature of the Universe Hi Fintech futurists — You should be out partying! Or rather, you should be inside, partying. I guess reading the Blueprint is your version of inside-partying.
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Who are the customers of Embedded Finance?
Lex Sokolin
DECEMBER 10, 2020
Negative space. It is a key approach artists use to figure out how to see the world more accurately. When looking at something straight on, your mind characterizes the image as a collection of objects. Here’s a vase with flowers. Here’s a banana, and that’s an apple. Here’s a table, which is brown.
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Who are the customers of Embedded Finance?
Lex Sokolin
DECEMBER 10, 2020
Negative space. It is a key approach artists use to figure out how to see the world more accurately. When looking at something straight on, your mind characterizes the image as a collection of objects. Here’s a vase with flowers. Here’s a banana, and that’s an apple. Here’s a table, which is brown.
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Mergers and Acquisitions in open-source Decentralized Finance
Lex Sokolin
DECEMBER 3, 2020
There is a discussion of mergers and acquisitions in decentralized finance. We find the whole thing fascinating. An analysis of the issues can help us sharpen a toolkit for understanding value creation and power in a world of open source, programmable blockchains and their assets.
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Will the Blockchain Economy run on Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Central Bank Digital Currency?
Lex Sokolin
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Welcome to the new world. The symptoms have shifted. What we see prioritized now is different. We welcome the return of respect for expertise, the love of rigor and curiosity, and a pursuit of dignified equity. A lot of calories have gone into this transformation. Our mental map of the territory is remade.
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Virtual communities and digital worlds
Lex Sokolin
OCTOBER 21, 2020
Here in London, we are coming up on the second spike from COVID-19. Back in the States, the country is dealing with the third wave. I remember looking at the numbers in March and having an urgency about trying to understand it. Say something about it. Now, I just look at it with exhaustion and resignation.
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Signalling and SoftBank, SushiSwap’s vampire attack, and why we make Art
Lex Sokolin
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
We’ve been reading The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money. The core premise is that, at least in the American education system, the value of getting a degree is one part skill gathering and another part labor market signalling. The controversial point made by the author is that 80% of our schooling?—?from
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J.P.Morgan’s Quorum becomes part of ConsenSys
Lex Sokolin
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Long Take I’ve never been more curious! Everything seems to be getting connected?—?finance, finance, culture, art, technology, media, geopolitics. It is either a fantastic time to be working in our industry, or we are slowly going nuts from information over-exposure.
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The absurdity of how the Internet and memetic infection of Finance
Lex Sokolin
AUGUST 25, 2020
The absurdity of the Internet and the memetic infection of Finance Fool: If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I’ld have thee beaten for being old before thy time. King Lear: How’s that? Fool: Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. King Lear: O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven / Keep me in temper: I would not be mad!
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My top five Decentralized Finance predictions for 2020
Lex Sokolin
DECEMBER 25, 2019
Happy holidays, good people! As 2020 sneaks upon us, it’s the season for predictions and prognostications. This makes me realize how much I miss being able to get into a meaty, quantitative analysis in a well-formatted PowerPoint document.
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IBM, Reliance Jio, and the chassis for digital finance
Lex Sokolin
OCTOBER 28, 2020
Last week we talked about the fantastical worlds into which finance will be interwoven?—?from from virtual communities to augmented reality. Let’s do a complete turn this week to talk about infrastructure. Not financial infrastructure, there’s enough of that already! Rather, communications and enterprise infrastructure.
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How I Built Procedurally Generated Gothic Comic Compositions
Lex Sokolin
JANUARY 15, 2019
I am Lex Sokolin, an artist, futurist and entrepreneur working at the intersections of finance and technology. Too much control and the output is boring. I am tempted to keep fiddling, to keep making things more stark, louder, deeper. But it’s time to let this bot fly free. Congrats, you’ve made it to the footer! Give this article a few ?
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Lex Sokolin
APRIL 29, 2019
In news of cross-selling financial products across categories, roboadvisor Wealthfront has gathered a nifty $1 billion of deposit assets for its 2.29% interest-yielding non-bank cash account.
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The Billions in Big Fintech
Lex Sokolin
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Fintech is expensive. Fintech is everywhere. If you are a thinking about starting a financial services company, and it does not have technology at its core?—?don’t. You will lose to someone similarly positioned building a more augmented business. Fintech is the global competition for regulation, talent, and macroeconomic supremacy.
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The Billions in Big Fintech
Lex Sokolin
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Fintech is expensive. Fintech is everywhere. If you are a thinking about starting a financial services company, and it does not have… Continue reading on Medium ».
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40 Sacred Data for Sale, steal it while you can!
Lex Sokolin
AUGUST 5, 2019
Here is our factbase. Capital One recently suffered a data breach resulting from poor security practices that exposed 100 million credit card applications and accounts. They expect the breach to cost the company $150 million. Two years back, Equifax lost 140 million identities, again from poor security practices.
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Sacred Data for Sale, steal it while you can!
Lex Sokolin
AUGUST 5, 2019
Here is our factbase. Capital One recently suffered a data breach resulting from poor security practices that exposed 100 million credit card applications and accounts. They expect the breach to cost the company $150 million. Two years back, Equifax lost 140 million identities, again from poor security practices.
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40 The Vision of Finance vs. Tech. Deutsche firing 18,000 workers, Amazon re-training 100,000
Lex Sokolin
JULY 19, 2019
What’s a human being these days? There’s of course the human animal, with its various biological, family, and cultural roots. These roots must yield social fruit: each person thrust into our world is due their basic human rights, of which working dignity and mental health are becoming an increasing requirement.
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Mixed Reality ads from Google and Amazon are the lending and payments platforms of the future
Lex Sokolin
JULY 8, 2019
Finance is everywhere, and everywhere is finance. Smart city supply chains, self driving car insurance, video game real estate markets —… Continue reading on HackerNoon.com ».
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Mixed Reality ads from Google and Amazon are the lending and payments platforms of the future
Lex Sokolin
JULY 8, 2019
Finance is everywhere, and everywhere is finance. Smart city supply chains, self driving car insurance, video game real estate markets —… Continue reading on HackerNoon.com ».
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Finance in motion— $1B moved for $0.02
Lex Sokolin
JULY 1, 2019
Finance in motion— $1B moved for $0.02 fee on Binance, $600M of Tether printed, $200M in DeFi lending This is what it looks like, this change in the atmosphere, the fireflies all lighting up as the night comes in. We are here. We are in it. It makes the skin crawl. Do you think we will see another moment like this in our careers?
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The neon ALL-CAPs crypto products of our Facebook, Uber, and Big Tech monopolies
Lex Sokolin
JUNE 24, 2019
The Encounter A neon red bike pulsated at me this weekend with its color. It yelled at me with its branding. Its metallic cartoon body splayed across the sidewalk, proudly beaming the letters JUMP into my retinas. So I had to look?—?good good luck not seeing this thing! The object is designed in ALL-CAPS. What is this contraption?
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40 The SEC is wrong about the Bitcoin ETF and the modern Internet
Lex Sokolin
MAY 28, 2019
The Securities and Exchange Commission punted again on allowing a passive Bitcoin ETF to enter the market. It failed to approve the VanEck… Continue reading on Medium ».
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The SEC is wrong about the Bitcoin ETF and the modern Internet
Lex Sokolin
MAY 28, 2019
The Securities and Exchange Commission punted again on allowing a passive Bitcoin ETF to enter the market. It failed to approve the VanEck… Continue reading on Blockchain Positive ».
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Uber’s IPO and the global Super Apps powering Financial Services
Lex Sokolin
MAY 13, 2019
The world is on fire with talk about Uber going public. The company is raising around $8 billion, is valued at over $80 billion, and is minting a wave of Silicon Valley millionaires who will keep the private company start-up party going by angel investing. I wonder how many of them will buy Bitcoin!
Uber’s IPO and the global Super Apps powering Financial Services
Lex Sokolin
MAY 13, 2019
The world is on fire with talk about Uber going public. The company is raising around $8 billion, is valued at over $80 billion, and is minting a wave of Silicon Valley millionaires who will keep the private company start-up party going by angel investing. I wonder how many of them will buy Bitcoin!
The Difference Between a $1B Payments Rail and a $1B Cash Equivalent, Facebook vs Bitfinex edition
Lex Sokolin
MAY 6, 2019
There is poetry in the symmetry of this situation. Bitfinex is looking to raise $1 billion in capital to support the most popular stablecoin Tether, which it controls. Facebook is reportedly looking to raise $1 billion in capital from First Data, Visa and Mastercard and other payments companies to shore up its own stablecoin asset.
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40 The Difference Between a $1B Payments Rail and a $1B Cash Equivalent, Facebook vs Bitfinex edition
Lex Sokolin
MAY 6, 2019
There is poetry in the symmetry of this situation. Bitfinex is looking to raise $1 billion in capital to support the most popular stablecoin Tether, which it controls. Facebook is reportedly looking to raise $1 billion in capital from First Data, Visa and Mastercard and other payments companies to shore up its own stablecoin asset.
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Lex Sokolin
JUNE 24, 2019
The Encounter Continue reading on Medium ».
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The future of Non-fungible tokens and crypto art
Lex Sokolin
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
We want to talk about Hashmasks. And in particular, the one selling for $650,000. That, in the context of the $3.5MM Beepl art sale, and $1.7MM Rick and Morty NFT sale. More deeply, we want to talk about financial assets, the value of things, and the additive nature of new channels and ecosystems as old ones become commodified.
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