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How DeFi Could Disrupt Traditional Finance, Feat. Sergey Nazarov
"Imagine a world without counterparty risk..." - Chainlink's co-founder Sergey Nazarov shares why the move from brand-based contracts to math-based contracts is inevitable.
Updated Sep 14, 2021, 9:37 a.m. Published Jul 29, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
"Imagine a world without counterparty risk..." - Chainlink's co-founder shares why the move from brand-based contracts to math-based contracts is inevitable.
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Today on the Brief:
- Big tech goes to Washington
- The debate on the next COVID-19 relief act heats up
- More on institutional investors’ move into gold
Imagine a world without counterparty risk.
That was Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov’s answer when asked to describe the true disruption of decentralized finance to a traditional finance audience.
See also: A Simple Explanation of DeFi and Yield Farming Using Actual Human Words
On this episode of The Breakdown, Sergey and NLW discuss:
- Brand-based contracts vs. math-based contracts
- The history of smart contracts
- What it means to build an “abstraction layer” for “universally connected smart contracts”
- Key moments in the history of smart contract infrastructure
- Where smart contracts and DeFi are in terms of analogies to the early internet
- Why Sergey believes traditional finance will inevitably shift to a math-based contract model
Find our guest online:
Website: Chainlink
Twitter: @SergeyNazarov
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