Ownership economy and network states

Anand Gomes, CEO of Paradex, reveals why decentralized exchanges are becoming the new Wall Street - combining banks, brokerages, and clearing houses into one platform with zero fees.

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0:00 Introduction

1:36 Please Subscribe

2:02 Podcast Galore From Kevin

3:24 Lindy Effect Meaning

7:12 What It Means To Be Built Different From Anand

9:04 Who Are You

10:03 Our Trusted Partners

10:56 Something That’ll Make Everyone Trust You

12:59 What Are People Not Seeing In The Exchange World

17:13 Behind 24/7 Exchanged Are Human Beings

18:14 Explain Paradex And Paradigm

21:22 Paradex Charging Zero Fees, Why?

22:40 How Does Paradex Make Money Without Fees

28:33 Our Valued Sponsors

31:48 Ethereum Is The Chosen One?

34:07 Decentralized Exchanges Are The New Financial Centres Explained

38:40 Why Can’t Current Banks Or NEO Banks Become Onchain New York

40:55 What Happens To The Traditional Finance Centres

42:39 The Four Components Of A Unified Platform Onchain And Traditional

47:30 Biggest Advantages For Paradex

50:12 Moving Decentralized Exchanges From Casinos To Financial Centres

53:38 How Far Are We From Traditional Centres Being Useless

54:49 Speculation For Price Discovery And Capital Formation Explained

1:00:04 Ownership Economy is Where Markets Will Move To

1:01:25 Something You’re Holding On To That You Should Let Go

1:04:28 One Takeaway For The Audience

1:06:28 Why WSH Partnered With Paradex