It’s encouraging to witness an increasing number of financial related operations in the Hub’s vicinity, a trend we predicted approximately a year ago. The Hub, a decentralized banking infrastructure built around atom’s unit of account, holds a first-mover advantage in its sphere of influence.
Indeed, while not in direct competition with EigenLayer, which serves as a secure vault, the Hub aims to replicate traditional investment banking services in a decentralized manner. This creates business opportunities by innovating beyond security services and creating a wide array of banking services on top of it: debt capital markets (clearing and liquidity services), equity capital markets (fundraising, investing, securitization), mergers and acquisitions and more. We already explored the potential sectors the Hub could further expand on in this post:
source: Discussion: AEZ Growth & the ATOM Alignment Treasury - #29 by Govmos
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