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View More NewsTraditional securitization markets struggle to package individual servers or computing equipment into investable products, Anderson said. Stablecoins — with more than $300 billion circulating onchain — create a new source of capital for asset-backed lending.”We have the capital onchain to finance this industry,” he said.The same thinking extends to energy. Framework has invested in Daylight, which finances residential solar projects through a distributed energy network, and Uranium Digital, which is building a tokenized marketplace for physical uranium.A different generationThere’s also a notable shift in the profile of founders building today’s crypto companies, Anderson said.Rather than anonymous crypto-native developers launching speculative…
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It’s fitting that the embattled Keir Starmer resigned as prime minister of the United Kingdom almost exactly a decade after the Brexit referendum. More than anything else, it was that vote, on June 23rd 2016, which created Britain’s current political reality—a reality of which Starmer is just the latest victim.Perhaps the most ironic impact of Brexit is the fact that the United Kingdom has finally become a European country. By this I don’t mean that we’ve suddenly learned how to cook good food, or we’ve all become bilingual, or have embraced the siesta. We’re no more culturally European than we…
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