If you want to know what regulators think of crypto:
This high-level panel at IMF spring meetings is worth watching.
Highlights:
1. Private & public money will likely coexist.
2. Stablecoins are here to stay & could challenge monetary sovereignty of emerging mkt countries.
3. Private innovations in payments are awesome, but regulatory framework needs to catch up.
4. If public sector doesn't offer good solution for cross-border payment in next 2 yrs, existing private sector solutions will be entrenched & complicate monetary policy.
5. No consensus on how to regulate. India is adamant abt taxing crypto assets. Brazil warns against overly restrictive regulation, which could risk pushing crypto into underground & even harder to monitor.
6. Tokenization is a bigger revolution than securitization for finance.
7. Regulation needs are urgent, should make sure innovations are disruptive, not destructive.
Overall these are clear-headed discussions. Governments are wrestling w how to integrate crypto in their regulatory regimes, which is difficult, but they're not antagonistic.
Osmosis is the most popular decentralized exchange in Cosmos.
A friend asked me if it’s a good long-term investment. Here are some thoughts 👇
What it is
The first cross-chain DEX (decentralized exchange) in Cosmos ecosystem w/ IBC (Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol)* enabled.
*Think of IBC as a common language that allows Cosmos blockchains to talk to each other securely.
Problem it solves
25+ & growing layer 1 blockchains in Cosmos ecosystem (e.g. Terra, Juno, Secret), plus projects built on them, didn’t have a proper mkt place to trade tokens. It’s esp a challenge for smaller newer projects not listed on CEXs w/ thin liquidity.
Crypto mkt has recovered 25% since Fed’s March FOMC meeting.
Sustainable rally or dead cat bounce? 👇
First off, why did risk assets sell off this yr & then bounce after FOMC meeting?
Several factors.
Balance sheet expansion from central banks slowed down big time in 2021—> lower momentum of liquidity growth—> lower momentum of risk asset rally
Then financial conditions started tighten as inflation & commodity prices went up & central banks around world began raising rates. ~15 CBs have hiked. More are abt to soon.
World has more types of money than any point in history— 164 government currencies plus gold, silver, CDs, repos, treasuries & numerous other quasi-money. If we count crypto tokens, types of money are literally exploding.
Money is going through some serious change. B/f we talk abt where it’s headed, let’s 1st look at how it became what it is today.
3 perspectives on what money is that I find esp helpful:
Here are 7 potential impacts, sorted from short term to long term 👇
1. Collateral damage from liquidity squeeze
Financial sanction means much of Russia’s $1.2 trillion foreign liabilities (half of it is portfolio debt/equity) needs to be written off the book of foreign creditors & investors. Same w accounts receivable from Russia.
Creditors/exporters/investors linked to Russia need more liquidities from market. That combined w/ higher risk aversion, means financial conditions, already tighter than pre-Covid, will keep tightening.