When you read the papers, you see headlines explaining how great everything is for asset owners and how bad everything is for those who hold no assets.Both headlines are true. ...

Capital Markets & Investment Trends - Current capital markets privatize gains and socialize losses [1] - Over 95% of valuable companies remain private, excluding retail investors from top opportunities [1] - Equity can't scale to billions of holders, but tokens can [2] - Internet's liquidity layer will end the US markets monopoly on liquidity [2] - Internet Capital Markets are coming faster than people think [2] Blockchain & Tokenization - Public blockchains like Solana can make asset ownership trivial for anyone with a phone [1] - Reducing barriers for asset issuers and investors using internet-native infrastructure is key to UBO (Universal Basic Ownership) [1] - Crypto simplifies compliance [1] - Anything becomes an asset through tokenization (Spotify artists, DoorDash restaurant futures, Uber Riders) [2] Future Economic Models - Societies will move towards a UBI (Universal Basic Income) or UBO (Universal Basic Ownership) model [1] - The hard part (network, apps, demand) is built; the last piece is supply coming from capital markets going on the internet [2]

Newly released data shows that US household net worth jumped by $7 trillion in Q2 of this year alone. In other words, for three straight months, US households added an average of $79 billion in net worth every day. As a result, the rich are getting much richer.Now, currently, the bottom 50% of US households, they hold just 2.5% of total US wealth. In fact, the top 1% now holds $40 trillion more wealth than the bottom 50% combined. The stock market just drove historic returns over the last 5 months.It made r ...

Market Trend - Finance is evolving from being uncool to cool, similar to the trajectory of video games [1] - Trading and speculating are becoming normalized and entering pseudo-sport levels [1] - Trader "heroes" are emerging, similar to celebrities, indicating a shift in cultural perception [2] Investment & Speculation - Crypto is enabling the financialization of almost everything [1] - Platforms like Robinhood are democratizing traditional financial vehicles [1] - The focus is shifting from asset ownership to speculation and quick movement [2] - Plasma's XPL traded approximately $100 million pre-market volume on Hyperliquid, highlighting speculative interest [2]