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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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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Fauna and Flora
Lex Sokolin
APRIL 27, 2022
We are often asked about the difference between value accrual to computational protocols, i.e., L1s, or DeFi applications. You are probably more used to understanding businesses and projects, not networks and ecosystems. So let’s play a game of measuring things according to their stored energy consumption. Think, nature’s money.
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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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Are the NFT and DeFi markets recreating traditional human hierarchies through new social capital?
Lex Sokolin
MARCH 31, 2021
There’s a big difference between belonging to a community that you simply like, and a community that will make you *rich*. Fintech is something some people are interested in, but crypto is something that can make people rich.
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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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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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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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How the Internet/Reddit/GameStop broke our financial market structure and social contract
Lex Sokolin
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
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How the Internet/Reddit/GameStop broke our financial market structure and social contract
Lex Sokolin
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
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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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What do Bitcoin, Ethereum, GDP, unemployment, and Covid have in common?
Lex Sokolin
JANUARY 7, 2021
You are here, in 2021, and everything is roaring. Bitcoin has never been more valuable, hitting $34,000 and $630 billion in market capitalization. Cool, smart, memetic digital gold. Ethereum has never been more functional and economic, and flying 10x since its lows back to $1,000, over $100 billion in market cap. $15
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What do Bitcoin, Ethereum, GDP, unemployment, and Covid have in common?
Lex Sokolin
JANUARY 7, 2021
You are here, in 2021, and everything is roaring. Bitcoin has never been more valuable, hitting $34,000 and $630 billion in market capitalization. Cool, smart, memetic digital gold. Ethereum has never been more functional and economic, and flying 10x since its lows back to $1,000, over $100 billion in market cap. $15
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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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Crypto regulatory wargames
Lex Sokolin
DECEMBER 23, 2020
The holidays are here, so we are going a bit lighter in the serving size to the end of the year. But the meal should still be delicious. The guiding concept for today is power structures and hierarchies. The threads of hierarchy are woven with neural fibers into our mammalian brain.
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Crypto regulatory wargames
Lex Sokolin
DECEMBER 23, 2020
The holidays are here, so we are going a bit lighter in the serving size to the end of the year. But the meal should still be delicious. The guiding concept for today is power structures and hierarchies. The threads of hierarchy are woven with neural fibers into our mammalian brain.
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The 2020 guide to Fintech SPACs
Lex Sokolin
DECEMBER 16, 2020
The holidays are here, and we all deserve some gifts. The best kind of gift is a one that you didn’t expect, but wanted for a long time. SPACs are like that, but for Fintech companies. You are just minding your own business being a start-up, thinking “how many more months of capital do I have until we are bankrupt.”
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The 2020 guide to Fintech SPACs
Lex Sokolin
DECEMBER 16, 2020
The holidays are here, and we all deserve some gifts. The best kind of gift is a one that you didn’t expect, but wanted for a long time. SPACs are like that, but for Fintech companies. You are just minding your own business being a start-up, thinking “how many more months of capital do I have until we are bankrupt.”
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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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The system versus the individual
Lex Sokolin
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
What matters more?—?people, people, or systems? We could get lost in a discussion of free will and determinism. Is all life in the universe programmed according to some basic rule, like Stephen Wolfram posits , expanding in a fractal of computation? Or, do we as individuals have the grace of agency and choice in our daily lives?
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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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The AI cluster running on the Internet has data mined you, and has some deep fakes to sell you
Lex Sokolin
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
Long Take With both the United States presidential election this week, and the renewed lockdown in London beginning today, there’s a lot on everyone’s mind. But let’s not fret too much about the things we can’t control. The Earth spins, the winds blow, we take one step at a time.
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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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Why Peer-to-Peer models struggle against oligopoly
Lex Sokolin
OCTOBER 14, 2020
How many Libertarians do you think there are in the United States? Everyone, right? Everybody wants personal freedom and a limited government. Just listen to Twitter bots and the talking heads on the propaganda channels. Everybody votes their principles and is internally consistent in their logic. Long live Ayn Rand!
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Is Finance asking the right questions?
Lex Sokolin
OCTOBER 7, 2020
In a moment of complete political and global upheaval, is Finance asking any interesting questions? Are we capable of anything truly profound? We scan the news every week to see what is happening next. We spend hours, days, months, and years building frameworks and laying the pipes.
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DeFi should take the middle road
Lex Sokolin
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
You needed The Pirate Bay to burn the media industry to the ground. You needed Megaupload , and Napster, and Kazaa, and LimeWire and of course BitTorrent. Decentralized, broadly-distributed peer-to-peer protocols that re-imagined an industry with the sharp edge of a blade.
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Chime, Uniswap, and the future of finance could soon struggle
Lex Sokolin
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Chime, Uniswap, and the future of finance It’s simple. We see Chime raising money at a $15 billion valuation. No choice but to say our piece. What is Chime? An American neobank / payments wallet that acquires customers by giving them $100 in overdraft credit and a paycheck advance. What is it replacing? Not banks in general?—?in
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Microsoft & Visa integrating personal financial data into Excel and the open ecosystems of Google…
Lex Sokolin
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Microsoft & Visa integrating personal financial data into Excel and the open ecosystems of Google Sheets and MetaMask As a neobank, you would dream of these numbers. At $13 billion of revenue and 800 million users in 2016, Office 365 roughly generated $20 per user. That’s like Monzo, but with the user foot print of Ant Financial.
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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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The rise of Monzo, Revolut, and Starling and a comparison of Facebook and Whatsapp
Lex Sokolin
AUGUST 19, 2020
We’ve had a bit of time to digest the annual results of the largest UK neobanks. The results say more about consumer Fintech investing than about any company in particular. Grab the financial model we built for this analysis here. First came the gut reaction?—?sticker
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The geopolitical battle over TikTok and why it matters
Lex Sokolin
AUGUST 6, 2020
We are not fighting each other because it is fun, or because there is just something in the human spirit that feeds off competition. We are fighting each other because of tribal pain. And because to yell in anger is the natural reaction. The West has had the worst quarter in recent economic history?—?down down 10% both in the US and the Eurozone.
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3 Strategies Goldman Sachs can use to build a Fintech powerhouse
Lex Sokolin
MAY 25, 2020
Wealthtech is one fire, they say now. I am not sure if it is on fire, like doing really well, or like it’s just burning down. There are, all of a sudden, a lot of deals being done across financial technology. Maybe not all of a sudden. Maybe the global pandemic and economic collapse has something to do with it.
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