Team essays on tokenization, financial infrastructure and the incentives of platforms that host crypto applications.
Why read Blockchain Capital?
Read Blockchain Capital's team essays to compare an infrastructure opportunity with the power it gives a platform. Aleks Larsen's Financial Container argues that a standard interface for financial claims can reduce the work of moving assets between institutions. It offers a specific tokenization thesis: focus on which interfaces and services become reusable, then examine the examples behind that claim.
Jonah Burian's corpo-chain essay approaches the same environment from an application builder's position. He asks what happens when a chain operator also controls distribution, competes with applications or changes its incentives. Read it after Financial Container to weigh easier access against dependence on a platform. These are the named authors' arguments, published by the fund, with its investment context in view.
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The Financial Container
Aleks Larsen uses the container analogy to explain a reusable interface for financial assets. Follow the mechanism behind the analogy.
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The Five Risks of Building on a Corpo Chain
Jonah Burian examines distribution, competition and dependence when a corporation runs a chain and customer-facing products.