This week, Daniel Liebau, founding chairman of Lightbulb Capital, a research and advisory firm related to blockchain, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast. They discuss decentralized finance technology, and also Dan’s DeFi 2034 paper, as well as some possible future scenarios for TradFi and DeFi. 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/blockchain-scholars-podcast/?viewAsMember=true
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42521-023-00088-8#:~:text=Decentralized%20Finance%20(DeFi)%20is%20a,relying%20on%20traditional%20centralized%20intermediaries.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11187-021-00539-9

2:30 – Dan joins the podcast and walks through his background and his company 
6:30 – Dan gives a preview of the DeFi 2034 research paper he’s working on
9:30 – Common misunderstandings on how DeFi will impact TradFi
12:30 – Dan explains some of the tools he used to utilize the data for his paper 
14:00 – Possible future scenarios for how DeFi will play out 
22:30 – Sending analog signals into a digital world
31:00 – Changing mindsets on “better, faster, cheaper”
33:00 – Warming up to public blockchains
35:30 – Examples of DeFi experimentation in the capital markets

Episode 280: An exploration of the DeFi world

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Episode 280: An exploration of the DeFi world

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