Why Visa acquired Plaid Photo by Brooke Cagle on Unsplash It seems clear that Plaid’s revenue potential is only a (minimal) part of the reasons behind the acquisition: the 2x price/valuation is probably more justified by the desire to either protect the core business or keep competitors away from the new business. Plaid in numbers: 💵 investments […]
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London DeFi Summit: Key Takeaways
my presentation in the Main room on Tuesday London DeFi Summit: Key Takeaways Last week we sponsored the DeFi Summit in London; 300 DeFi enthusiasts, developers, fund managers, investors, and founders got together at Imperial College to discuss the status and the development of Decentralized Finance. Cambrial and Semantic did a fantastic job in coordinating ~60 […]
Privacy is critical to mass adoption of Open Finance
Privacy is critical to mass adoption of Open Finance How Oasis Labs and the Oasis network can help expand adoption of DeFi and Open Finance Open Finance applications are primed to reinvent the financial system — pushing it towards a design that relies less on status, wealth, and geography and more on a set of programmable conditions that have […]