"If there is a protocol with transparent risk methodology, you can be pretty sure somebody's gone through and tried to dig some dirt on it." @flipdazed of @KeyringNetwork on stage at Pragma Lisbon.

11am thought: I suspect urinal / bathroom stall usage is distributed like a wave function with a de Broglie wavelength Next time you go to the bathroom: are you a a wave or are you a particle? I like to make the gut instinct choice first and then deliberately go for the one that seems most unnatural just to stick it to “the man”

The whole crypto security problem is inherited from maximalist bitcoin-brainlets that demanded fully decentralised, instant settlement, instant finality and sit at home in the midwest with 1000 guns, a bible and a tin foil hat convinced the CIA is poisoning them with chemtrails. I think we need a pragmatic realisation that when you create stablecoins pegged to fiat you immediately lose sovereignty. You give the state issuer the right to freeze and revert transactions of the currency. The very fact that we have this arbitrary freezing/reverting ability but that it's not programmatically and fairly distributed down the value-chain is insane. and unfair. Settlement is practically instant in fiat (SEPA) and thieves can force you to withdraw funds instantly. Why do they not? It's because you cannot do cross-boarder transactions outside of strong legal protections instantly and there are limits to the "instant" nature. Settlements will be held until you can explain the source/origin/intention of funds. You must transfer funds to another bank with which you have strong KYC/AML checks that cause the would-be thieves real-world violence from the legal system should they attempt a theft. These are the protections of a sane retail system. This is a system that can easily be instant and IS for most countries. We need a stablecoin that embeds these protections at the contract level to interact with off-chain systems: - freeze suspicious transactions - require source of funds - revert thefts prorata impacting downstream users - require large cross-boarder transfers to do more checks or pre-approve specific counterparties to move size Unchecked stablecoins still have their value but I don't see them being the vehicle of mass adoption. They will be the tool of temporary and specific actions, users that want some specific use case. DeFi power users or hedgefunds that don't want the risk of SARs holding their funds up. Remittances that will temporarily move into the stablecoins to cross-boarders before moving back to a safe store of value.

I'll come on if you'll have me! Talking about this topic at Pragma this Sat in Lisbon. I can approach from a TradFi risk quant perspective having written risk methodology models in TradFi and created "vault" products in fixed income in an investment bank before moving into DeFi where I've published liquidation quant models on arxiv quant-fin/risk-management section I am pretty loose on a podcast so if you want something entertaining hmu

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peak at some of the work we do for our lending / borrowing cluster coming on @eulerfinance ... imo data analytics is conquered but AI is miles from doing any decent quant finance. I've been writing a paper recently using fable and it required huge rafts of edits. What is was really good for was finding holes in logic and filling out the blanks but in most cases as you can see from the first two pages it’s just a pile of slop that needs almost a total rewrite. The way in which it words things makes it sound arrogant and annoying and frankly confusing to read. The logic had some major flaws I had to correct in a few places too. The edits are dense throughout all 25 pages.

What's going on with my github account? What happened in the middle of March? I am now in a position, for the first time in my career where there is no advantage to me coding. The way we used to work was doing prototypes instead of PRDs. Having such a strong developer team, and a founder/coder it was quickest to agree on code. Given that I had all the context, and a python dev with 15 years experience in coding, I would code day and night often doing all nighters pushing POCs to ensure @KeyringNetwork kept tacking towards the the ever elusive product market fit with pace. This has totally changed with the internal launch of "keyring-context". AI made all our developers all equally good at Python. Keyring context made equally informed. The timing couldn't be better. As we hurtle towards a large product launch / gtm there has been a huge flood of legal, bd and partner coordination requirements. I am so glad we prioritised such high quality developers early on and yolo'd into LLM context graphs. Keyring context seems to be a genuinely cutting edge product and we're extending it to our close partners to coordinate with us. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers.

A note on DeFi. DeFi will be FIXED INCOME. Below are views purely on the state of fixed income in DeFi. No payments/stables etc. The below are all best in class early stage fixed income plays that give exposure to a variety of market dynamics. Cheap liquid tokens - markets: @eulerfinance - super cheap beta @aave - kelp / dao dislocation @GearboxProtocol - exceptional tech Cheap equity - markets: @infiniFi - defi banking book @Zharta - best bond market (non fungible tokens) Cheap equity - strategy vaults (QIS): @ipor_io - best strategy vault infra (also leaders in swap space) @TradingProtocol - best quant /backtest infra @symbioticfi - best vaults for usd efficiency (reuse each $) Cheap equity - infrastructure: @KeyringNetwork - leader in full stack vault and vault infrastructure for fixed income Cheap equity - issuance: @AssetoFinance - largest in Asia @paretocredit - largest levered RWA TVL on morpho Cheap token - issuance: @plumenetwork - underpriced beta Cheap token - distribution: @turtledotxyz - category owners A note on agents: I haven’t put agents on here because it is my feel that Agentic AI for Fixed Income in DeFi will be cannibalised by OpenAI / Anthropic. I feel Agents in FI DeFi will largely be a UX and data analysis play that will be levered by quants and PMs for portfolio analysis and research tasks. It is my view that Agents will not do convex portfolio optimisation / allocation across an efficient frontier as they are not designed for this task. I am not sure whether quants / PMs will indeed pay for this from a startup. My own circle of quants and PMs in HFs would suggest they will (are) building in house. Attached article below about why we are where we are in DeFi and why DeFi is fixed income right now.