“DeFi 之王”AC 新作:为何我们需要 DeFi?

链捕手Published on 2024-08-29Last updated on 2024-08-29

作者 :Andre Cronje

 

前言:为何人类社会需要金融?  

在我们深入探讨之前,先来问一个问题:为什么需要金融?在任何货币出现之前,最早存在的是物物交换。我养鸡,你种小麦。我给你鸡,你给我小麦。有一年,我的鸡养得不好,但我仍然需要小麦,于是我承诺明年给你更多的鸡。我欠你(即借据,IOU)。现在,也许你不需要更多的鸡,但你的邻居想要这些鸡,所以你可以把这个借据换成其他东西。从最基本的形式来看,这就是货币的本质——一种标准化的借据,任何愿意接受它的人都同意它具有某种既定价值。

最终,我们开始用这些借据来衡量一切。

现在,我手上有一堆借据,我开始担心可能会被抢劫,我需要一个更安全的地方来存放这些借据。于是,最早的银行就形成了(最初是教堂保管这些借据的账本)。

社区中一位受人尊敬的人希望开始养牛,他向教堂借一些借据来启动他的农场。教堂同意了,但他需要在以后还更多的借据,这就是他需要支付的利息。为了保障借据的安全,这个人需要将他购买的土地的契约作为抵押。将借据存放在银行的社区成员感到满意,因为他们的借据增加了;这位受人尊敬的人也很感激,因为这使他能够开始他的生意。

一、金融的核心是什么?

金融的核心一直是关于赋权和让闲置资产发挥作用。由于欺诈、犯罪和社会的演变,判断借钱的人是否是“受人尊敬的人”变得越来越困难。在今天这个近乎反乌托邦的世界里,我们都被简化为一个信用评分。这个分数决定了我们是否是一个好的金融候选人。如果你是新手,你在信用局的术语中就是一个“薄文件”,这意味着没有足够的数据来评判你,意味着你很难获得贷款,即使你符合条件,利率也会非常糟糕。你还需要有现有的关系。

二、DeFi:既不在乎,也不评判

这就回到了为什么我们需要去中心化金融(DeFi)。DeFi 不在乎,也不评判。每个人都根据系统的规则得到相同的待遇,这些规则是公开透明的,任何人都能看到。传统银行拒绝了你的房贷申请?你可能根本不知道为什么。DeFi 中贷款被拒绝?你完全知道原因。利息(或收益)是除劳动和商品外最纯粹的收入形式之一。总会有人需要资本来开始新的冒险,或者在艰难时期需要一些帮助来度过难关。这种收入类型是无限可扩展且纯粹的,它不依赖于任何虚假的激励,也不依赖于任何外部因素,它只是一个简单的供需业务。

三、物物交换仍是商业核心

下一个形式是物物交换,回到我们前面提到的,我有鸡,你有小麦。在当今互联的世界中,物物交换仍然是日常商业的核心,但可能很难找到交易对手,或者很难找到你需要的东西。这就是为什么一般的市场开始存在,一个每个人都可以每周聚集一次来出售和交换他们商品的地方。自动做市商(AMM)就是一个物物交换平台,就像在市场中你需要支付一小笔费用才能出售你的商品一样,在 AMM 中,提供者也会收取一小笔费用。同样,这是一种纯粹的收入形式(或收益)。只要有人愿意出售,有人愿意购买,它就具有无限的可扩展性。在 DeFi 中,你不需要成为认证投资者就能参与这个市场,你不需要住在纽约,也不需要在华尔街工作,没有任何暗箱操作或经纪人,所见即所得。看看我们最大的七个行业:人寿与健康保险石油与天然气房地产养老基金汽车销售直接保险商业银行

四、DeFi 消除阻碍和门槛

这些是全球最大的行业之一,即使大多数人不能参与其中。DeFi 消除了所有这些障碍,任何愿意尝试的人都可以参与。这可能是任何增长型经济体最重要的基石。其他一切都从它衍生出来。贸易和贷款是上述所有行业的关键。当然,也存在一些变异现象,这些行业被虚假激励、膨胀的收益、不可持续的收入所淹没,但传统或去中心化版本中都是如此。这本身并不会从根本上剥夺纯粹、透明和完全民主化访问的美好。DeFi 是去中心化社会的核心构建块,这仅仅是个开始,未来还有很多。直到上述所有七个行业都上链、自由访问、透明且向所有人开放,我们还有很多工作要做。所有人道主义努力都发生在我们作为一个集体有足够分享的情况下。而足够的分享只能通过 DeFi 实现。

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