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MICHAEL TERPIN, CEO OF TRANSFORM GROUP WRITES ABOUT THE FUTURE OF INVESTMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN A DECENTRALIZED, GLOBALLY CONNECTED WORLD. Transform Group ‫ الرئيس التنفيذ لمجموعة‬،‫يكتب مايكل تربين‬ .‫عن مستقبل االستثمار وريادة األعمال في عالم مترابط ال مركزي‬

D

ecentralization is not only about

in the past 30 years since the

the code; it can also be applied to

dawn of the Web.

communities. In an increasingly

fragmented world, facing unprecedented economic and social challenges, the innovations of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), decentralized exchanges (DEX’s), and decentralized finance (DeFi) allow global collaboration of likeminded entrepreneurs to innovate across

Let’s start with the DAO, whose roots go back to Ethereum’s early days and the concept that organizations can automate governance globally with smart contracts instead of legal structures, regulations

“ The door to the future of the world economy has been opened, along with tokenization of physical and digital assets, and they cannot be un-invented ”

borders in ways never before imagined.

and courts. Malta was an early

The reasons for the blistering early success

in April 2021 the US State of

The DEX format allows global participants

of this decentralized trifecta (DAO, DEX,

Wyoming passed legislation legalizing the

to trade with anyone else on a decentralized

DeFi) are many, but they start with the

DAO as a form of LLC. The rapid ascent

platform, often employing the even more

modern hunger for freedom. Every age

of Uniswap, which is both a DEX, with a

recent development of the Automated

has had its definitions of liberty, and in

$32 billion fully diluted token market cap,

Market Maker (AMM), which has led to an

the hyperconnected world of 2021, there

as well as a DAO governed solely by its

explosion of volume and liquidity for both

is broad recognition that many aof the

token holders and subject to no visible

Uniswap, and for Ethereum-based trades,

traditional legacy systems of finance,

jurisdiction, has raised the stakes on the

and its Binance Smart Chain equivalent,

government and society are in need of the

prospective battlefield between traditional

Pancake Swap, which recently passed

same kind of radical disruption that has

global regulators and well-funded

Uniswap in both volume and total value

upended the economy through technology

technology innovators.

locked into smart contracts.

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