Prometheus Brings Fire to Mankind by Friedrich Heinrich Füger, 1817

Culture, pop culture, and overall zeitgeist might help discover Civilization’s scope and width of action.

The revolution of Civilization

History shows that revolutions are made by the people and for the people. Even in the very worst case, they agitate souls; but in the best case, they may bring balance and progress to our civilization. When you put people first, everything else follows.

History repeats itself, and, by all means, the statement above might apply to basically every modern context. Many revolutions, today, do not occupy the streets anymore: they are way more subtle and silent.

Follow my train of thought.

I’m sure many of you will have heard, in the words of many marketing speakers and bewildered CEOs, the formula ‘The world’s largest taxi firm, Uber, owns no cars. The world’s most valuable retailer, Alibaba, carries no stock. And the world’s largest accommodation provider, Airbnb, owns no property”. Commonly (ab)used statement, yet still powerful truth.

From hotels to retailers, from vehicles to restaurants, from news to networking: we live in the age of platforms. Technology is finally allowing people to take back the reins of their choices.

Finance and Investing are no strangers to this process. The time is ripe.

Key ingredients for change

People resent traditional finance, lacking trust in financial institutions. Maybe it’s a proverbial, ancestral fact of life. Therefore = strong grassroots emotional drive.

Wealth is distributed extremely unequally in the world: one of the most unacceptable issues our governments face, yet nothing happened for years. Quite on the contrary, things only seem to keep getting worse every day. Inequality is an urgent global issue as much as hunger and the green transition. Therefore = purpose for change.

Technology already allows decentralization. Hey, it’s already here! Today, right now, the surge of decentralized investments is granting every person independence from central powers. Finally, it is possible to bypass the omnipotent and unilateral control of financial institutions and their surrounding establishment. Therefore = the enabling tech is not sci-fi: it’s already in our pockets.

The lab for DeFi innovation

Decentralization or decentralisation is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those regarding planning and decision making, are distributed or delegated away from a central, authoritative location or group.

For a few years now, DeFi (Decentralized Finance) has been a trending keyword associated with disruption in Finance. Bold theory, headline-grabbing, moving huge amounts of capitals: for good reason! Studies suggest DeFi can grow 100x over the next 5 years. Stunning. But, the truth is, the vast majority of DeFi technology today is still not 100% DeFi compliant. For may reasons, many projects don’t fully deliver their promise of decentralization. Whichever angle you look at it, still people are not put 100% in control of their own investment choices: additional costs here, pitfalls there, obstacles left and right.

Civilization is not just a DeFi promise.

Civilization is DeFi at its purest.

And well, it couldn’t be anything else, because it was born as the all-encompassing DeFi experience.

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