DeFi and the Future of Finance, Ashwin Ramachandran
DeFi and the Future of Finance, Ashwin Ramachandran
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DeFi and the Future of Finance

Author: Ashwin Ramachandran, Joey Santoro, Campbell R. Harvey

Narrator: David de Vries

Unabridged: 3 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 09/21/2021


Synopsis

During the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, our financial infrastructure failed. Govern­ments bailed out the very institutions that let the economy down. This episode spurred a serious rethink of our financial system.

In DeFi and the Future of Finance, Campbell R. Harvey, Ashwin Ramachandran, and Joey Santoro introduce the new world of Decen­tralized Finance. The book argues that the current financial landscape is ripe for dis­ruption and we are seeing, in real time, the reinvention of finance.

The authors provide listeners with a clear assessment of the problems with the current financial system and how DeFi solves many of its issues. The essence of DeFi is that we interact with peers—there is no brick and mortar and all of the associated costs. Savings and lending are reinvented. Trading takes place with algorithms far re­moved from traditional brokerages.

The book conducts a deep dive on some of the most innovative protocols such as Uniswap and Compound. Many of the companies featured in the book you might not have heard of—however, you will in the future.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Victor on November 07, 2021

As someone interested in Crypto for years and started learning about DeFi in 2020, this book gives insights in a structured manner. It makes it easy for someone new to learn about all the different types of projects without having to filter through online clickbait articles. If you are interested in......more

Goodreads review by david estrakh on December 31, 2022

Gets very complex to follow very fast. Sometimes I wonder if it's a way to show people that the material is so complex, so they don't bother trying to understand and assume it's something real that smart people understand.......more

Goodreads review by Tim on February 08, 2022

A good short book that goes into many of the basic concepts of DeFi as well as introductions to curve, dxdy, compound, arbitrum, uniswap, MakerDAO, Yield among others. Some of the descriptive text examples that are given are quite confusing as written. However, they all include diagrammatic explanat......more