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Guide: Navigating the Build vs. Buy decision for Fintechs
And the difference between white label, source code, and product licenses
Sep 23
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Lex Sokolin
9
Analysis: Should banks fear Google's Fintech comeback?
Google Unveils Agent Payments Protocol Backed by 60+ Partners, plans Ledger
Sep 19
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Lex Sokolin
9
1
Fintech: Figure's $8B IPO rewiring HELOCs and prime brokerage
From HELOCs to the $2T consumer lending market
Sep 16
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Michiel Milanovic
7
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Recent posts
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Analysis: The Economics of a Digital Asset Treasury
Is there a difference between DATs, ETFs, SPACs, and the underlying assets?
Sep 11
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Lex Sokolin
10
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41:26
Podcast: Managing $2B+ in On Chain Assets, with KPK Co-Founder Marcelo Ruiz de Olano
Inside the Playbook for Risk Aware, Non Custodial Treasury Strategy at Scale
Sep 9
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Matt Low
7
AI: China's answer to NVIDIA trades at 550x P/E ratio
A relatively small Chinese AI Chip designer has become one of the biggest AI winners of 2024 and 2025.
Sep 2
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Luke Spill
10
Analysis: Rewiring the money stack with MetaMask Dollars
The stablecoin stack is going modular, breaking up issuance, infrastructure, and UX
Aug 28
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Lex Sokolin
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Luca Prosperi
13
AI: GPU-Backed Stablecoins blend AI infrastructure with DeFi at 8% APR
Tokenized compute may become a foundation of the AI-powered machine economy.
Aug 26
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Matt Low
15
3
50:49
Podcast: Building the $130B global payments platform, with Airwallex’s Ravi Adusumilli
Inside Airwallex’s plan to reach $1 trillion in transaction volume
Aug 21
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Matt Low
7
Fintech: Nubank's stellar Q2 makes the case for a $250B valuation
17% Net Interest helps a lot
Aug 19
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Matt Low
7
1
Analysis: Stripe, Circle, and Tether launching their own L1 money chains
Why Ethereum’s Biggest Threat Is Appchain Splintering
Aug 14
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Lex Sokolin
13
2
52:24
Podcast: How to Invest in the best Crypto Funds, with Matthew Le Merle CEO of Blockchain Coinvestors
Over 110 blockchain unicorns backed by investing through top-tier VCs.
Aug 11
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Matt Low
6
AgentFi 101: The Definitive Guide to Decentralized Financial Agents
Lending, Farming, Arbitrage AgentFi’s First Real Use Cases
Aug 7
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0xjacobzhao
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Lex Sokolin
11
2
AI: The Secret to Lovable's $100MM ARR and Unicorn status
A new GTM strategy is changing the way companies are pulling in customers.
Aug 5
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Luke Spill
8
Analysis: Robots, Crypto, and the Collapse of Old Systems
Ethereum, Washington, and Robots Walk Into a Future
Aug 1
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Lex Sokolin
14
2
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Company Financials
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Fintech: Figure's $8B IPO rewiring HELOCs and prime brokerage
From HELOCs to the $2T consumer lending market
Sep 16
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Michiel Milanovic
7
2
Analysis: The Economics of a Digital Asset Treasury
Is there a difference between DATs, ETFs, SPACs, and the underlying assets?
Sep 11
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Lex Sokolin
10
1
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.
Jun 20
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Lex Sokolin
11
4
Fintech: Chime IPO Primer - Can it hit $15B?
Winning the primary bank customer is not enough
May 27
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Michiel Milanovic
6
1
Fintech: Can Revolut beat Robinhood in the US and Nubank in LATAM?
The trade-off between product expansion and overseas growth
Apr 29
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Michiel Milanovic
7
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.
Apr 17
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Lex Sokolin
6
Analysis: Our Circle IPO Primer, $1.6B revenue reaching for $10B valuation
Interest rates all the way down
Apr 3
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Lex Sokolin
5
Fintech: Klarna IPO Primer; will it reach $30B?
Benchmarking the category-defining Swedish BNPL against Affirm
Apr 1
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Michiel Milanovic
6
1
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…
Mar 18
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Luke Spill
14
1
Analysis: Will Revolut’s Gamble on Investment and Stablecoins Pay Off?
Revolut’s new investment app targets eToro and Robinhood with €8.5B AUM.
Sep 26, 2024
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Lex Sokolin
8
Analysis: Monetization of financial data at $4B Envestnet, $170B Intuit, and $7B SoFi
Why Envestnet's Data Potential Falls Short Amid $3.5B Sale
Jul 11, 2024
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Lex Sokolin
6
1
Financial Analysis: Understanding Revolut's $2.2B revenue & $540MM+ profits
Higher interest rates have significantly boosted the profitability of leading neobanks.
Jul 4, 2024
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Lex Sokolin
21
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
Nov 1, 2024
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Lex Sokolin
3
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
Jul 26, 2023
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Lex Sokolin
23
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.
Jun 21, 2023
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Lex Sokolin
29
1
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.
Apr 12, 2023
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Lex Sokolin
8
Building Company Playbook #4: Building Fintech & DeFi software products
A continuation of our series on building Fintech & DeFi companies
Mar 1, 2023
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Lex Sokolin
8
Building Company Playbook #3: Creating a B2B fintech go-to-market strategy
And the differences with the B2C path
Feb 8, 2023
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Building Company Playbook #2: Creating a B2C fintech marketing strategy
And the differences to the B2B path
Jan 11, 2023
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Lex Sokolin
23
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
Jan 4, 2023
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Lex Sokolin
34
Research
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AgentFi 101: The Definitive Guide to Decentralized Financial Agents
Lending, Farming, Arbitrage AgentFi’s First Real Use Cases
Aug 7
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0xjacobzhao
and
Lex Sokolin
11
2
Fintech 101: Money Movement reimagined with Stablecoins
How stablecoins are rebuilding global finance and commerce
Jul 10
•
Lex Sokolin
and
Marc Baumann
15
1
AI 101: How financial companies can build AI Agents
60% of Finance already is subscribed to AI services according to Ramp
Jul 8
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Luke Spill
29
2
Research: The 2025 Practitioner’s Guide to Stablecoins
Stablecoins have quietly become the most used product in crypto for their practical utility
May 29
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Will Beeson
6
1
Investing 101: DeFi Fixed Income Yields
Three Low-Risk DeFi Strategies Yielding Above Fed Rates
Mar 27
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Lex Sokolin
10
2
Fintech 101: Neobanks
Introduction to core sectors
Feb 5
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Lex Sokolin
31
2
Research: Decentralized AI Overview (2024)
Performance, Investments, and Decentralized Growth
Jan 29
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Lex Sokolin
14
Greatest Hits Report: DAOs
Hi Fintech Architects —
Jul 26, 2022
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Laurence Smith
7
Greatest Hits: Stablecoins & CBDCs
Hi Fintech Architects —
May 31, 2022
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Lex Sokolin
5
36:02
Podcast Conversation: Metaverse 101 with Lex Sokolin and Cris Sheridan, Sr. Editor of Financial Sense
Hi Fintech Architects,
Sep 3, 2021
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Matt Low
2
Investment Thesis
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Analysis: Our 2025 Market Overview & Investment Outlook
Bitcoin, NVIDIA, and MicroStrategy lead Asset rally as USD devalues
Jul 16
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Lex Sokolin
5
1
Long Take: From Centralized AI to Personal Bots in the agentic economy
The Financialization of AI Companions
Aug 22, 2024
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Lex Sokolin
9
2
Long Take: How the Machine Economy combining AI, blockchain, and Fintech is growing
Examples of deeply innovative projects pushing at the frontier
Jan 31, 2024
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Lex Sokolin
40
Long Take: Dissecting the 2023 Macroeconomy, from personal savings to global politics
Revisiting our macroeconomic framework for the year to date
Oct 25, 2023
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Lex Sokolin
24
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
Aug 16, 2023
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Lex Sokolin
25
54:24
Podcast Conversation: Lex Sokolin's 2022 investing and building thesis -- the evolutionary relationship between Tech, Finance, and Web3
Hi Fintech Architects,
Oct 28, 2022
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Matt Low
11
Why ConsenSys Codefi is the bridge to blockchain-based manufacturing for commerce and finance; plus 12 short takes on top developments
Hi Fintech futurists --
Sep 16, 2019
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Lex Sokolin
3
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.
May 21
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Lex Sokolin
6
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Long Take: Emergence of Generative Artificial Intelligence sector, and powering DAOs with shallow labor
Gm Fintech Architects —
Oct 19, 2022
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Lex Sokolin
20
Long Take: Deriving Polygon Supernets and Avalanche Subnets value accrual through the Laws of Nature
Gm Fintech Architects —
Apr 27, 2022
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Lex Sokolin
5
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
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Lex Sokolin
9
Long Take: Getting ahead in Facebook's Metaverse by earning the Harvard of NFTs
Hi Fintech futurists --
Jul 26, 2021
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Lex Sokolin
13
Food for Thought: A meditation on capitalism, the grey goo, and the Borganisms
The cycle of capitalism.
Jun 18, 2021
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Lex Sokolin
6
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
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Lex Sokolin
10
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