Excited to share my views what’s next with RWAs
Looking forward to sharing!
The next generation of markets is moving onchain.
@thomasxchen will be speaking at @token2049 on the panel of Tokenization: Building the Markets of Tomorrow, exploring what’s next as more assets and capital move onchain.
📍 Institutional Stage, Level 5
🗓 October 8, 3:20 PM
Thank you Seoul! Incredible energy and conversations with buidlers in the bnb community 🙏
In 2018 when my friends all decided to pursue their MBA's, I decided to make crypto my MBA. The bet was simple: that blockchain tech could drive a binary outcome and disrupt the current financial tech stack. So I started building institutional grade infrastructure for tradfi to come on chain.
A lot of cycles have happened since then but crypto / digital assets are now a core part of the agenda worldwide. Now that the foundations have been set, I'm looking towards what's next -- and what stands out is building the rails for global financial inclusion.
What would it take to bring the next billions of users on-chain?
What would it take to unlock the next trillions of assets to those users?
I believe @BNBCHAIN is best positioned to become global financial infrastructure and bridge users to capital.
I'm thrilled to help lead the next leg of this journey and play a part in driving the freedom of money.
Still here. Still early.
BNB Chain is already home to one of the largest user bases in crypto with rapid growth across stablecoins and RWAs.
Today, we’re welcoming @thomasxchen as our Chief Business Officer as BNB Chain deepens its focus on institutions, capital and onchain market activity.
Thomas brings deep experience across traditional finance and digital assets, with a strong track record building institutional businesses across capital markets, custody, trading and growth.
At BNB Chain, his focus is clear: bring more institutions and capital onchain, deepen liquidity, grow volume and strengthen long-term value across the ecosystem.
Welcome to BNB Chain, Thomas. Let’s keep building.
bnbchain.org/en/blog/thomas-…
The most valuable asset on Earth is a myth about leaving it.
I want to examine SpaceX from the frame of a myth, because that's what it is, and that's why it's valued where it is.
Myths have existed in every human society and are the original algorithms. They capture our collective beliefs and orient them around a worldview.
Greek classics like Prometheus, Pandora, and Icarus all taught us about how the world worked. Unlike logos, the Greek word for plan or reason, which can be falsifiable, myths cannot be disproven because it doesn’t argue...it simply is.
You can disprove “Mars colonization will succeed by 2050” but you cannot disprove “humanity’s destiny is to transcend Earth”. There’s no KPI to validate, there’s just an orientation.
No matter how much of a classical myth’s narration is unbelievable, it is ultimately inevitable.
This is because myths help us understand ourselves in relation to the world against extraordinary circumstances. They both orient and rally us.
SpaceX's mission (per S-1) is “to build the systems and technologies necessary to make life multiplanetary, to understand the true nature of the universe, and to extend the light of consciousness to the stars.”
It’s not selling you rockets into space, it’s selling you participation in the future of mankind through shareholder equity.
I'm not here to argue whether or not SpaceX's $2T is justified.
I'm here to argue that fundamentals are dead, long live the myth.
What price would you pay for the survival of the human species?
Full Essay Here: The Myth of @elonmusk
open.substack.com/pub/lifeon…
1/ Capitalism colonizes the self in stages, and each stage takes more of you than the last.
If capital is the ingredient, then capitalism is the kitchen.
In this case, we're the ingredients.
a thread on how we're getting cooked 🧑🍳
9/ Your life story.
The system feeds by counting you — every click, every scroll, every metric. But there's no meaning in it.
Meaning is not counted, it's recounted.
Our sense of self is not an amalgamation of data points. It's the narrative we give ourselves through lived experiences.
10/ It's not you. It's the system.
This is not an indictment of the kitchen, rather just want to share my views on how it operates.
Full Essay
lifeonsabbatical.substack.co…
