Forward Guidance Bringing The Long Tail Of Markets Onchain
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Jul 2, 2025 
Austin Campbell, a professor at NYU Stern with extensive experience in finance and stablecoins, joins the discussion on the intersection of TradFi and crypto. He explores how instant settlement and transparency can revolutionize traditional markets. Campbell delves into stablecoin demand dynamics and the emerging landscape of tokenized structured products. The conversation also touches on the advantages of perpetual swaps over options and the practical limits of decentralization, revealing exciting innovations shaping the future of finance.
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Value of On-Chain TradFi Assets
- Bringing traditional finance assets on-chain enables instant settlement and full transparency.
- This eliminates adversarial relations in platforms and opens financial markets to faster, trust-minimized interactions.
Blockchain Reinvents Markets
- Blockchain fundamentally rethinks market structure by eliminating many intermediaries.
- It addresses deep-seated issues from past financial crises like settlement delays and opaque counterparty risks.
Rethinking Decentralization Importance
- Decentralization is a means to an end, not an absolute goal.
- Transparency, censorship resistance, and custody matter more than pure decentralization in financial applications.