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Andy Martin 79 articles Follow
Blockchain is really a governance technology

April 13, 2023

What does the next gen. digital bank look like? The data
driven or digital economy to come of AI/ML/IoT is orders of
magnitude bigger than the economic impact of the internet
so far. We must create a digital version of today's
commercial banks. After all 80% of money today was
created by commercial banks through credit creation by
lending. Source Bank of England.

The data or digital economy requires a new type of digital


bank and a new type of governance for the data fuel to
drive next gen. AI/ML/IoT apps.

Data plus ownership plus incentives based on


permission to buy and sell data to drive next
gen. AI/ML apps gives us web3 as the internet
of ownership

Data economy

The economy of buying and selling access to data is


expanded by writing DeFi smart contracts that we can call

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Autonomous Economic Agents (AEAs) to leverage the value


of that data across many AI/ML apps at scale by creating
new digital money by growing the GDP of the data or
digital economy.

The Data Economy

The role of a digital bank is this new economy is to

1. Provide risk capital to drive liquidity and credit creation


in AEAs

2. Provide skill in writing AEA’s

3. Provide oversight to the governance of stable coins used


for value exchange in AEA’s

Digital money Governance

Public money CBDC, at the wholesale level, can be used in


the reserve funds by next gen digital banks to provide
overnight to private money stable coins money creation.

Next Gen Digital Bank

Here the value token is a stable coin. It's volatility to fiat is


controlled by a reserve fund that uses wholesale CBDC. This
token can be staked by those looking to their capital to
work. This staking is used in AEAs (smart contracts) to

Provide liquidity

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Provide finance

Payments in exchange

The risk and reward is taken by a combination of the staker


(which can be the bank) and the community as a whole as
the fee level (or interest rate) and the exchange rate back to
fiat is defined by the economic value created or lost by the
community or DAO.

The data or digital economy will be driven by


private digital money just as the economy
today is driven by commercial bank money.
This will restrict the use of retail CBDC to edge
use cases (e.g., winter fuel allowances) and will
stop the Chinese style surveillance economy.

The Data Itself

The data itself to drive this new digital economy is never


shared as we employ ZKPs to protect the nuance and
context of the data and only the learnings or analytics
derived by the ML is shared. The value is always in the
nuance and context.

For me the key issue is what data is publicly available? Why


would anyone post valuable data to the internet if it could
be reused at scale by AI/ML without attribution or payment.
Obviously this can also happen today but we choose to
trust the human to at least give attribution to their source
and we know this probably won’t happen at any scale. So
the problem with AI is economic and social. I think that this
problem can be fixed with the internet of ownership or
web3.

Objection handling

I would argue that this is really no different that what we


have today other than this is totally digital. You might say
"how do we regulate DeFi?" I would answer that the DAO is
governed by token holders and there is no reason that
certain decisions can't be limited to a class of token holders
which might be the bank and regulators etc. This might

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determine that only smart contracts that are written and


audited by regulated entities can be used.

Really what we ate doing is creating private commercial


bank digital money just as today but it is born purely
digital. I don't buy the argument that this is the Wild West
forever - I think it is just the digital economy to drive AI.

In fact I am writing a book about this that is about the


economics of web3 called "web3 for the enterprise, new
business model for the internet."

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Andy Martin 79 articles Follow
Blockchain is really a governance technology
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The data or digital economy will be driven by private digital money created by next
Gen. Digital Banks, just as the economy today is driven by commercial bank money.
This will restrict the use of retail CBDC to edge use cases (e.g., winter fuel allowances)
and will stop the Chinese style surveillance economy. #blockchainthoughtfortheday

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Blockchain is really a governance technology

Objection handling
I would argue that this is really no different that what we have today other
than this is totally digital. You might say "how do we regulate DeFi?" I
would answer that the DAO is governed by token holders and there is no
reason that certain decisions can't be limited to a class of token holders
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Gurinder Dua • 3rd+ 4h


Blockchain and Crypto Advocate

Tldr
1. CBDC doesn't necessarily imply surveillance

2. Digital money accrued through private enterprise could see emergence


of a newer crypto based digital bank which could also be fractional
…seein more

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