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The Fintech Blueprint

Lex Sokolin

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Finance is being pulled apart by the forces of frontier technology. From AI, to blockchain and DeFi, mixed reality, chatbots, neobanks, and roboadvisors — the industry will never be the same. Here is the blueprint for navigating the shift.

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Building a sovereign, privacy-first, programmable, economic infrastructure, with...

The Fintech Blueprint

Mar 31, 202346:31pending

Predicting the market using a machine learning competition built on a decentrali...

The Fintech Blueprint

Mar 24, 202338:59pending

Diving into Ethereum Restaking and DeFi, with Calvin Liu Chief Strategy Officer...

The Fintech Blueprint

Mar 17, 202345:38pending

Reinventing the credit card as a Fintech super app

The Fintech Blueprint

Mar 10, 202342:54pending

Modern spend management systems for CFOs and employees, with Payhawk CEO Hristo...

The Fintech Blueprint

Mar 3, 202339:52pending

How DAOs and Web3 organizations scale financial operations, with Utopia Labs CEO...

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Feb 24, 202339:27pending

Integrating smartphone behavioural data to manage credit risk and fraud, with Cr...

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Feb 17, 202340:34pending

Creating a B2C fintech marketing strategy

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Feb 10, 202339:44pending

Software contracts and composability unlocking economic growth, with Agoric CEO...

The Fintech Blueprint

Feb 3, 202345:13pending

Powering the AI revolution from DeepDream to Dall-E, with Lambda Labs CEO Stephe...

The Fintech Blueprint

Jan 27, 202342:25pending

Combining payments infrastructure for merchants, digital lending, and DeFi, with...

The Fintech Blueprint

Jan 20, 202340:19pending

The $100B fintech custodian powering digital investing, with CEO of Apex Bill Ca...

The Fintech Blueprint

Jan 13, 202341:15pending

The Fintech Blueprint guide to designing your 2023 business model

The Fintech Blueprint

Jan 6, 202351:57pending

Building digital assets into roboadvisor strategy, with Betterment VP of Crypto...

The Fintech Blueprint

Dec 23, 202243:46pending

Scaling a core ledger for neobanks, processors, brokerages, and payment provider...

The Fintech Blueprint

Dec 16, 202247:35pending

The emerging problems in banking-as-a-service, with Lex Sokolin and Will Beeson

The Fintech Blueprint

Dec 9, 202238:04pending

How to blow up a $32B crypto exchange, with Binance Labs MD of Token Engineering...

The Fintech Blueprint

Dec 2, 202239:48pending

Adam Nash, Daffy CEO & former Wealthfront CEO, on using technology to improve pe...

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Nov 25, 202242:41pending

Embedded custody services and crypto IRAs using fintech APIs, with Prime Trust C...

The Fintech Blueprint

Nov 18, 202241:15pending

Metaverse-native virtual artists and their financial ecosystem, with Hume CEO Da...

The Fintech Blueprint

Nov 11, 202241:46pending

AI-based underwriting of small business insurance, with Coterie CEO David McFarl...

The Fintech Blueprint

Nov 4, 202236:38pending

Lex Sokolin's 2022 investing and building thesis -- the evolutionary relationshi...

The Fintech Blueprint

Oct 28, 202254:24pending

Creating the neobank and embedded finance industry, with Sila CEO and Simple Co-...

The Fintech Blueprint

Oct 21, 202246:48pending

How Binance is investing $1B in the BNB ecosystem, with BNB Chain Investment Dir...

The Fintech Blueprint

Oct 14, 202240:17pending

Growing an AI-powered digital lender to $850MM in revenue, with Upstart's SVP of...

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Oct 7, 202245:31pending

Eliminating payments fraud from Fintech and Web3 using AI, with Sardine CEO Soup...

The Fintech Blueprint

Sep 30, 202232:39pending

Transforming art, private equity, and securities into tokenized assets on chain,...

The Fintech Blueprint

Sep 24, 202242:49pending

Implications of the Ethereum Merge for Web3, with Justin Drake of The Ethereum F...

The Fintech Blueprint

Sep 16, 202257:31pending

Podcast Conversation: Building Dave, the neobank saving users $1B in overdraft f...

The Fintech Blueprint

Sep 9, 202231:15pending

Teaching financial AI to be ethical and fair, with Fairplay CEO Kareem Saleh

The Fintech Blueprint

Sep 2, 202241:16pending

How virtual worlds, vast communities, and traditional entertainment are shaping...

The Fintech Blueprint

Aug 26, 202241:58pending

Connecting 500,000+ small businesses to digital working capital, with Fundbox CE...

The Fintech Blueprint

Aug 19, 202240:50pending

Combining AI and DeFi to underwrite Web3 risks, with RociFi Co-Founder Chris Bro...

The Fintech Blueprint

Aug 12, 202246:25pending

Eliminating payday loans and overdraft fees for 2.5MM employees, with Matt Kopko...

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Aug 5, 202240:00pending

What is GameFi and the $1B+ fractal DAO building it, with BitDAO Head of Product...

The Fintech Blueprint

Aug 1, 202241:54pending

Navigating the macro environment and crypto financial crisis, with the ConsenSys...

The Fintech Blueprint

Jul 22, 202238:50pending

The strategy behind Revolut's merchant acquiring and paytech growth, with Simon...

The Fintech Blueprint

Jul 15, 202235:04pending

Powering a BNPL platform with a global lender network, with ChargeAfter CEO Meid...

The Fintech Blueprint

Jul 8, 202239:40pending

Embedding financial workflow automation in digital banking platforms, with Monit...

The Fintech Blueprint

Jul 1, 202241:13pending

Growing startups through revenue-based funding, with Arc Co-founder Nick Lombard...

The Fintech Blueprint

Jun 24, 202232:26pending

Were we wrong about neobanks and B2C fintech? With 2x digital bank founder Will...

The Fintech Blueprint

Jun 10, 202234:20pending

Building the income and employment data layer for financial services, with Pinwh...

The Fintech Blueprint

Jun 3, 202240:01pending

Helping DeFi and Web3 developers integrate crypto onramps in 125 countries with...

The Fintech Blueprint

May 27, 202233:53pending

Scaling Ethereum and Web3 using Arbitrum optimistic rollups, with Offchain Labs...

The Fintech Blueprint

May 20, 202246:41pending

NEAR Foundation CEO Marieke Flament on building USDC issuer Circle, business neo...

The Fintech Blueprint

May 13, 202246:35pending

Building a $200MM DeFi asset manager and DAO treasury management tools, with Mon...

The Fintech Blueprint

May 6, 202240:20pending

25 years of cypherpunk innovation in money, privacy, and music, with Chia Networ...

The Fintech Blueprint

Apr 29, 202245:30pending

Launching protocols, DAOs, and NFTs in media and finance, with CEO of Palm NFT s...

The Fintech Blueprint

Apr 22, 202241:57pending

Aggregating Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and structuring a DAO, with Sergej Kunz...

The Fintech Blueprint

Apr 15, 202242:13pending

Building an insurtech platform that scales from Fintech to DeFi, with Cover CEO...

The Fintech Blueprint

Apr 8, 202242:12pending