Jay Smith
@JaySmithNotes
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Executive Leader in Blockchain & AI | Bridging Traditional Finance with Decentralized Technology | Governance & Tokenomics
Vincennes, IN
Joined June 2012
Escaping the Dark Forest: Why Privacy Is the Missing Layer in Web3 Transparency is a feature in crypto until it becomes a liability. Public blockchains operate like a Dark Forest: Every payroll transaction, every large trade, every governance vote is fully visible. For
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The winning crypto systems won’t resist regulation. They’ll translate regulation into software. Legibility is how markets scale.
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Compliance is not a constraint on scale. Uncertainty is. Systems that encode rules at the protocol layer outperform those that enforce them later.
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Institutions need verifiability without exposure. Privacy must exist at the same layer as execution, not as an optional add-on.
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Institutions don’t avoid public blockchains because they dislike transparency. They avoid them because uncontrolled transparency creates operational and strategic risk.
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When information is time-stamped, staked, and reputation-weighted, accuracy compounds. InfoFi doesn’t reduce speculation. It changes who gets rewarded for influencing belief.
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Markets price assets well. They price information terribly. InfoFi introduces accountability by attaching economic consequence to being wrong.
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I come from a tech background, but I’ve always enjoyed explaining things from a business point of view. Tech papers and whitepapers are important, but most of the time they’re written for people who already understand the tech. What gets missed is the bigger picture Why this
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On-chain insurance turns catastrophic risk into priced risk. Without it, governance reacts too slowly and trust resets after every failure. Insurance isn’t optional. It’s survival infrastructure.
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DeFi doesn’t fail because exploits happen. It fails because losses are binary and uninsured. Financial systems survive by absorbing failure, not pretending it won’t occur.
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AI can decide. But without cryptographic proof of data lineage and execution, it can’t be trusted at scale. Trust infrastructure matters more than intelligence.
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AI adoption isn’t blocked by model capability. It’s blocked by unverifiable data, opaque training pipelines, and unauditable outputs. Institutions don’t deploy systems they can’t defend.
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Tech startups can accelerate government contract wins by combining SBIR success with reseller partnerships and established procurement vehicles for efficient agency access. https://t.co/9NFmEWDigg via @beigemedia
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Tech startups can accelerate government contract wins by combining SBIR success with reseller partnerships and established procurement vehicles for efficient agency access.
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Resilient governance separates signals from execution. Tokens can express opinion. Accountable executors must enforce decisions. Without that separation, DAOs remain fragile under stress.
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Most DeFi governance fails because token voting confuses preference with responsibility. Voting power without accountability creates capture, apathy, and slow crisis response. Governance is infrastructure, not a popularity metric.
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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: The Great Unbundling: Why Your Credit Card is Obsolete https://t.co/PhMaxRqGjn via @LinkedIn
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The Cable Bundle 📺 Remember when you had to pay $120 a month for cable just to watch HBO? You didn't want the Shopping Channel or the 24-hour Fishing Network, but you had no choice. It was a bundle.
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The Compliance Dilemma- Can Stablecoins Be Both Regulated and Decentralized? Every serious stablecoin design eventually hits the same wall. Regulation demands control. Decentralization resists it. For years, crypto tried to escape this tension. Some projects ignored compliance
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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Deep Dive: The Compliance Oracle Paradox and the End of Custodial Risk https://t.co/XPQosidVKE via @LinkedIn
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The GENIUS Act of 2025 represents the most significant shift in financial surveillance since the Patriot Act. By mandating that financial institutions monitor and block illicit stablecoin flows at...
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