While digital crypto-assets have plenty of use cases, and distributed ledger technology is being used in some places to improve operational efficiencies within traditional financial markets, none of them have been designed to broadly decentralise the entire financial sector.
Vega is focused on decentralising and opening up a core component of the financial sector; trading and settlement of financial products. @tamlyn explores how and why Vega is decentralising the trade lifecycle in her blog for QuantMinds.
Tamlyn wrote this post last year, but I still think it’s relevant. While DeFi has come a long way, I believe there is still a ton of opportunity for adoption and innovation. What do you think?