Hmmm. It seems to be that even academics who do research in the triple intersection of CS, Math, Economics have caught up to what is happening in DeFi yet.
Even today I feel as though the issues outlined (governance, privacy and security, scaling, consensus) in https://a16z.com/2018/02/10/crypto-readings-resources/">https://a16z.com/2018/02/1... are relevant.
(I am mostly highlighting the difficult engineering problems in the blockchain infrastructure layer, since I naturally gravitate towards those problems.)
But, yeah, compare the codebase of say go-ethereum (geth) to uniswap-v3-core or compound-protocol.
Can& #39;t help but feel as though the service built on top with product-market fit is just the top of the iceberg, but arguably captures as much market value.
Circling back to beginning of this thread, I feel as though Ethereum is under-appreciated as the interstate highway system of the decentralized internet and not just digital gold.
Look at how many time Ethereum is mentioned in https://defipulse.com/ .">https://defipulse.com/">...
As an aside, is CBDC research in the Biden infrastructure plan? I mean isn& #39;t having a (hopefully, privacy preserving) view on all economic activity ("Blind Eye of Sauron") useful for monetary policy makers?