Financial assets want to be free. They want to be open. They want to be interconnected. Crypto turns financial assets into file formats, makes it as easy to send a dollar or a stock as to send a PDF. Crypto makes it possible for everything to talk to everything. It makes it all 24/7, global, interconnected, and open.

That will win. Open always wins.... See more

Live financial tracking accessible via Dune and/or other platforms will enable performance to be measured in real time. This will provide visibility into what is happening on-chain in an easy to interpret manner and hopefully encourage community members to engage in discussion across the community. Aave intends to provide the following financial... See more

Company bosses will blanch at the idea of radical financial transparency. After all, it amounts to handing over some control of how corporate facts are presented. Real-time reporting would also reduce the value of financial window-dressing — arranging cash flows to make the quarterly snapshot more attractive — to zero. Still, some nerves could be... See more

In Web 2.0, platform metrics are kept inside of proprietary databases and Google Analytics. In crypto, they are viewable and inspectable in real-time, on-chain, and understandable via Dune. Further, beyond a single project or protocol, entire categories can be comparatively tracked in real-time.

The traditional asset issuance process is slow, expensive and has a high regulatory bar, restricting what assets can be issued. Attention Assets must operate at Internet speed to keep pace with the global zeitgeist. The combination of permissionless tokens issuance, clever pricing mechanisms like bonding curves, and DEXs practically let anyone... See more