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Gate Research Institute: The 'Wall Street-ization' Wave of Crypto Financial Products – Competition or Integration?

The article titled "Gate Research Institute: Are Crypto Financial Products Sparking a 'Wall Street' Wave—Competition or Convergence?" explores the evolving relationship between the crypto ecosystem and traditional finance (TradFi). The piece begins by reflecting on Bitcoin's original 2009 vision of decentralization, disintermediation, and moving away from banks. It then contrasts this with the 2024 landscape, where key crypto assets like Bitcoin are increasingly held through Wall Street products like ETFs issued by giants like BlackRock. The article questions whether this signifies that TradFi is systematically taking over the rights to issue, price, custody, and distribute crypto financial assets. The core argument is that this is not a zero-sum takeover but rather a bidirectional convergence where each side addresses the other's weaknesses. Crypto offers 24/7 global markets, programmable settlement, and open access but lacks compliant channels, institutional-grade custody, deep fiat liquidity, and mainstream distribution. TradFi possesses these but is constrained by legacy systems, limited operating hours, and slow settlement. Two primary convergence paths are highlighted: * **Path A (CEX to TradFi):** Exemplified by Gate, which has progressed from offering tokenized stocks and CFDs to providing direct, real stock trading (US, Hong Kong, South Korea) within its platform, using USDT. * **Path B (TradFi to Crypto):** Exemplified by Robinhood, which has integrated crypto trading, acquired exchanges like Bitstamp, and is moving traditional assets like stocks onto the blockchain via tokenization and its own Layer 2. Both paths are ultimately competing to become the next-generation, unified financial account—a "super account" where users can seamlessly trade cryptocurrencies, stocks, ETFs, RWA (Real World Assets), and tokenized treasury products in one interface. The growth of RWA and tokenized treasuries (e.g., BlackRock's BUIDL) is presented as the asset-layer fusion, providing stable, yield-bearing assets on-chain and acting as a bridge between the two worlds. In conclusion, the "Wall Street-ization" of crypto is framed as a mutual transformation. Decentralized ideals persist in the protocol layer, while at the application layer, a more efficient, global, and accessible unified capital market is emerging from this convergence. The future competition lies not between crypto exchanges and stockbrokers, but between platforms vying to offer the most comprehensive asset coverage, liquidity, and user experience within a single account.

marsbit07/22 08:01

Gate Research Institute: The 'Wall Street-ization' Wave of Crypto Financial Products – Competition or Integration?

marsbit07/22 08:01

HIP-3 Perpetual Futures Arbitrage in Action: SK Hynix ADR Premium Trading Opportunity

HIP-3 Perpetual Futures Arbitrage in Practice: The SK Hynix ADR Premium Trade Following its Nasdaq listing, a significant price gap emerged between SK Hynix's ADR (SKHY) and its underlying share (SKHX). During this period, the HIP-3 builder TradeXYZ launched perpetual futures markets for both on Hyperliquid. The divergent funding rates between these two markets offer a clear case study on the capabilities and limitations of stock perpetuals. The premium, which soared to 51% on July 14th, was primarily driven by closed arbitrage channels. The new ADR issuance did not involve depositing existing shares, and conversion between the underlying share and the ADR is not permitted until after July 29th. With strong US institutional demand facing constrained supply, the price gap widened. On Hyperliquid, the funding rates for SKHX and SKHY moved in opposite directions, revealing traders executing a pairs trade to bet on the premium narrowing—buying SKHX (underlying) and shorting SKHY (ADR). This highlights key insights: 1. **Ability to bypass traditional market friction:** The trade can be executed with USDC on a single platform, avoiding complexities like currency conversion, foreign accounts, and ADR borrowing. 2. **Missing tools to separate funding costs:** The trade inherently carries the cost of funding rate payments/receipts, as perpetuals reflect but do not force convergence between the two underlying indices. Instruments to hedge this variable cost are not yet available for HIP-3 stocks. 3. **Function as a leading indicator:** The SKHY pre-IPO market accurately predicted the Nasdaq opening price, and SKHX trades during KRX closures, providing price discovery. 4. **Inverse relationship with accessibility:** The SKHX perpetual, serving a market with fewer native hedging tools, sees much higher volume and sustained funding rates than the SKHY perpetual, which exists alongside a deep spot and options market. The focus now shifts to July 29th, when share conversion may partially open, though structural limits on creating new ADRs may persist. Regardless of the premium's path, Hyperliquid remains the primary venue to express a view on this spread via perpetual futures.

Foresight News07/20 12:36

HIP-3 Perpetual Futures Arbitrage in Action: SK Hynix ADR Premium Trading Opportunity

Foresight News07/20 12:36

a16z: The 'Convergence of DeFi and TradFi' is a False Proposition

Title: a16z: "The Fusion of DeFi and TradFi" is a False Proposition In the crypto industry, a common vision is that DeFi and TradFi will merge, creating a hybrid system. This article argues this is largely incorrect. The more honest trajectory is that TradFi will adopt specific blockchain components that improve its existing operations—reducing costs, improving settlement, expanding distribution, and tightening client control—without embracing the core tenets of decentralization like open access or permissionless execution. This is not a fusion but the emergence of a new category: programmable financial infrastructure optimized for institutional constraints, running on blockchain rails. Institutions adopt components like atomic settlement, shared ledgers, and programmable money only when they improve efficiency without compromising control or compliance (e.g., KYC, AML). Projects from J.P. Morgan or BlackRock use blockchain's technical attributes while deliberately discarding DeFi's permissionless nature. For entrepreneurs, this presents two distinct, parallel opportunities. The first is building infrastructure that institutions are ready to adopt today, validating the technology and bringing real volume on-chain. The second is continuing to build the open, crypto-native DeFi system that institutions aren't yet ready for. These paths are complementary, not competitive. The open network remains the primary lab for innovation, whose validated components institutions later adapt. Successful companies must choose their target market clearly. Building for institutions requires understanding procurement, compliance, and risk models, which differs fundamentally from building for open networks focused on developers and composability. The future may see both layers relying on the same public blockchain settlement layer, but convergence won't happen through one assimilating the other. TradFi isn't adopting DeFi; it's selectively using parts that fit its model.

marsbit07/16 13:54

a16z: The 'Convergence of DeFi and TradFi' is a False Proposition

marsbit07/16 13:54

Will DeFi and TradFi Ultimately Merge? a16z Challenges Mainstream Market Predictions

The popular notion of DeFi and TradFi merging into a unified hybrid system is largely incorrect, argues this a16z analysis. In reality, traditional finance will selectively adopt blockchain technology—not for its decentralized ethos, but for its compelling cost advantages in areas like settlement, reconciliation, and new distribution channels. This adoption, however, comes with strict conditions: technologies must optimize costs and risks while remaining compatible with institutional controls, compliance, and accountability frameworks. Features like open access and anonymity, core to DeFi, are typically discarded or heavily modified. The result is not a fusion with DeFi but the rise of a new category: *programmable financial infrastructure*, built on blockchain but optimized for institutional constraints (e.g., permissioned networks like Canton, tokenized money market funds). This institutional track and the open, permissionless DeFi track represent two distinct but potentially complementary opportunities for developers. The open network remains the primary source of foundational innovation (e.g., atomic settlement, AMMs, programmable money), which institutions later adapt. Developers should choose their path clearly: building for institutions requires deep understanding of procurement and compliance, while building for the open network focuses on permissionless innovation and composability. The true future convergence is likely at the shared settlement layer (public blockchains), not in one system subsuming the other.

Foresight News07/15 10:58

Will DeFi and TradFi Ultimately Merge? a16z Challenges Mainstream Market Predictions

Foresight News07/15 10:58

Founder of Real Vision: We Are Living in the Era of Exponential Growth

Real Vision founder Raoul Pal argues that humanity is now in an "Age of Exponential Growth," a reality the human brain's linear intuition struggles to comprehend. The core drivers are the convergence of multiple, mutually-reinforcing technological curves: Artificial Intelligence, robotics, solar & storage, biotechnology, and blockchain networks. He notes that while his 2021 analysis correctly identified fiat currency debasement and assets like Bitcoin as inflation hedges, he underestimated the scale of change. Beyond monetary liquidity, a more profound force is at work: these key technologies have moved from theoretical promise into simultaneous, accelerating commercialization. They are no longer growing in parallel but are fusing, creating a "double exponential" growth curve. AI and robotics create an "artificial labor supply," breaking the cycle of debt-driven growth needed to offset aging demographics. Energy, particularly solar power guided by Wright's Law, is seeing collapsing costs, removing a key bottleneck for compute-hungry AI. Cryptocurrencies are evolving from monetary assets into the essential, programmable settlement layer for transactions between future AI agents. This fusion creates a feedback loop: AI optimizes energy grids, cheaper energy powers more compute, which builds better AI, and crypto networks settle the transactions. This leads to "Reed's Law" playing out at scale, where intelligent nodes (AI agents) form and re-form groups at machine speed, creating network value that grows at 2^n. Pal concludes that the critical question is no longer how to protect jobs from machines, but how to own a share of the machines and their foundational infrastructure. He sees the 2030-2032 period as a potential "Economic Singularity" where these trends fully merge, fundamentally transforming the economy. The data, he asserts, shows this is not a bubble but an observable, quantifiable new era.

Foresight News07/15 09:37

Founder of Real Vision: We Are Living in the Era of Exponential Growth

Foresight News07/15 09:37

a16z Crypto: Traditional Finance Wants Blockchain, Not DeFi

The article argues that the common narrative of traditional finance (TradFi) merging with decentralized finance (DeFi) is incorrect. Instead, TradFi institutions are selectively adopting specific blockchain components—such as atomic settlement, shared ledgers, and programmable money—that offer cost reduction, improved efficiency, and better risk management, while deliberately discarding DeFi principles like open access, anonymity, and permissionless execution. This leads to a new category: programmable financial infrastructure optimized for institutional constraints, running on blockchain rails. Two parallel opportunities exist: 1) building infrastructure that institutions are ready to adopt today, which validates the technology and brings real capital on-chain, and 2) continuing to develop the open, crypto-native DeFi system. These paths are complementary, not competitive. Open networks serve as the innovation lab, producing components that institutions may later adopt. Success requires founders to choose their target market—institutional or open-network—and execute accordingly, as each has distinct customers, requirements, and distribution channels. The future financial infrastructure will likely incorporate elements from both, with the most significant innovations continuing to originate in open networks.

链捕手07/15 02:31

a16z Crypto: Traditional Finance Wants Blockchain, Not DeFi

链捕手07/15 02:31

Diversification Beyond Digital Assets

The article describes a major wealth transfer in the crypto market from late 2025 into 2026, where long-term Bitcoin holders sold to a new wave of institutional and traditional wealth buyers. This "cohort handover" occurred as capital rotated within crypto, moving into stablecoins rather than exiting during corrections. For private banks, this presents an opportunity but also an operational challenge: onboarding crypto-native high-net-worth individuals (HNIs) requires clear visibility into the provenance of their on-chain wealth. The compliance bottleneck hinders these clients from diversifying into traditional finance and blocks banks from accessing new capital. Cense, a Glassnode spin-out, addresses this by providing bank-ready, auditable documentation of digital wealth histories. This bridges the gap, allowing crypto wealth to enter the banking system for diversification and liquidity management, while enabling banks to onboard new clients and assets. The future points toward convergence, where seamless movement between crypto and traditional assets defines wealth management, with infrastructure like Cense's resolving the key compliance hurdle.

insights.glassnode06/29 11:46

Diversification Beyond Digital Assets

insights.glassnode06/29 11:46

Blockchain Has Finally Started to Sail into the Mainstream After 18 Years

Blockchain Finds Its True Path After 18 Years: Becoming the Financial Backbone for AI Agents and Autonomy This analysis explores a pivotal shift in the blockchain and crypto investment landscape, driven by the dominance of AI. Major venture capital firms, including Variant, Paradigm, Haun Ventures, and YZi Labs, are moving beyond pure "crypto" investment theses. They are expanding their focus to AI, robotics, and frontier tech, signaling that blockchain is no longer seen as a standalone sector but as an underlying infrastructure layer. The core argument is that blockchain's killer application may not be user-facing apps, but rather providing the economic rails for the coming wave of AI agents, autonomous robots, and automated systems. Key capabilities like self-custody wallets, programmable stablecoins for micropayments, on-chain identity, and verifiable smart contracts are positioned as essential for a future where machines conduct economic activity. The recent $1.4 billion investment by Tether (via its venture arm) in German robotics company NEURA Robotics exemplifies this, aiming to embed Tether's wallet tools directly into robots for autonomous transactions. While many "AI + Crypto" projects remain superficial, the article concludes that true value lies where crypto is a necessary component—enabling machine-to-machine payments, agent autonomy, verifiable data provenance, and open financial settlement for the AI era. For crypto venture capital, this convergence with AI represents both an adaptation to shifting capital flows and a potential path to unlocking the large-scale, non-speculative utility the industry has long sought.

marsbit06/15 10:10

Blockchain Has Finally Started to Sail into the Mainstream After 18 Years

marsbit06/15 10:10

Galaxy Deep Dive: How Does Hyperliquid's HIP-4 Upgrade Change the Predictive Markets Landscape?

Galaxy Research Report: How Hyperliquid's HIP-4 Upgrade Changes the Prediction Market Landscape. Hyperliquid's HIP-4 protocol upgrade, activated on May 2, introduces a third model for prediction markets. While incumbents like Polymarket focus on consumer discovery and Kalshi on regulated US access, HIP-4 integrates outcome markets directly into Hyperliquid's "house of all finance." This embeds binary event contracts within HyperCore, its native on-chain order book, sharing a single margin account with perpetual and spot trading. HIP-4 offers distinct advantages: superior infrastructure with sub-second finality, ~200k orders/sec throughput, and unified cross-margin, enabling novel hedges for perpetual traders. It also features a unique validator-curated oracle model for off-chain events (e.g., Fed decisions, CPI, sports) and zero fees on opening positions. Early traction shows HIP-4 capturing ~20% of combined BTC prediction market volume within 25 days. The report highlights a broader industry trend of convergence: all major platforms are moving towards a "trade everything from one account" model. HIP-4's challenge lies in expanding market breadth and consumer discovery, currently lagging behind Polymarket's flexible UMA oracle/Kalshi's sports depth. Key risks include validator centralization, US regulatory exposure (mitigated by potential pathways like the CLARITY Act), and competitive pressure from Kalshi's newly CFTC-approved Bitcoin perpetual contract. Ultimately, HIP-4's strongest case is its technically superior, unified execution stack—a harder advantage for competitors to replicate than building consumer layers atop it. The upgrade positions Hyperliquid to contest the lucrative institutional hedging flow in the evolving prediction market arena.

marsbit06/10 05:12

Galaxy Deep Dive: How Does Hyperliquid's HIP-4 Upgrade Change the Predictive Markets Landscape?

marsbit06/10 05:12

Pantera Partner: In the Age of Agents, Blockchain is the Inevitable Answer for AI

Summary: AI and blockchain are converging around four key pillars: payment settlement, identity systems, open systems, and resource aggregation, with commercial projects already emerging in each area. The two technologies are fundamentally complementary: AI enables infinite supply (content, agents), while blockchain establishes scarcity and verifiable ownership. AI agents generate content and services, and blockchain handles the verification and value settlement. A significant valuation mismatch exists, with leading AI companies historically overvalued compared to crypto assets, despite their deep underlying integration. The emergence of autonomous AI agents—which require assets, value transfer, and large-scale coordination—creates a need for a non-human-centric financial infrastructure. Blockchain, with its programmability, 24/7 access, and low-trust settlement, is the only suitable foundation. AI agents will not use traditional bank accounts or payment rails; they will transact using stablecoins and on-chain systems. Examples include OpenFX, which settles hundreds of billions in forex trades on-chain for AI agents, and Alchemy, a core development platform. For human identity verification in an age of AI-generated content, projects like World (Worldcoin) use blockchain-based biometric verification, while TransCrypts focuses on self-sovereign identity and verifiable credentials. The current divergence presents a unique investment opportunity. AI valuations are highly elevated, while crypto assets trade at a significant discount, even though the future smart agent economy will be built on blockchain infrastructure. The fusion of AI and blockchain is not a future trend but an ongoing reality, creating a prime environment for entrepreneurs in areas like agent-native finance, decentralized identity, and on-chain AI coordination.

marsbit06/02 13:12

Pantera Partner: In the Age of Agents, Blockchain is the Inevitable Answer for AI

marsbit06/02 13:12

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