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Too much noise has the risk of crowding out quality and potential too early. Let's ensure that doesn't happen this time. 10/10.

At the same time, “financial inclusion” is being used loosely in several web3/DeFi startup pitches. @QuonaCapital team has been investing in financial inclusion for over a decade, and I can tell you the ecosystem needs to work much harder to separate the wheat from the chaff 9/10.

…And it’s a gold rush on steroids. Infinite experiments, varying degrees of sincerity. And a collective challenge to keep up with all the innovations, to assess what has long term value and potential impact at scale. 8/10.

But where are we now with web3? If web3 were measured by human evolution, we’re just leaving the “ape” phase. (monkey emoji) But change is coming very fast (remember, it took 80+ million years for primates to evolve into the human species). So there’s a gold rush right now. 7/10.

A new generation of infrastructure rails will evolve. As engagement and commerce solutions evolve on web3, newer/better identity, authentication and data protection stacks would have to evolve to match up (like which is Quona portfolio) 6/10.

3rd gen solutions: As ubiquity on new rails grows, there will be increased ability to build contextual financial solutions across various user-owned digital moats; this could become more prevalent across the convergence of finance with commerce/mobility/agri/education/health 5/10.

Ex: the availability of credit or insurance to creator economy SMEs or SMEs at large, but based on access and marketability of their digital assets or the nature of their operations. Several exciting start-ups are working on these 4/10.

2nd gen solutions: Innovative solutions on new rails are creating access where it did not exist before. The ability to develop customized and personalized solutions based on access or user ownership of own data/activities could be a powerful enabler. 3/10.

1st gen solutions drove better efficiency, transparency, and made services that were too expensive (due to incumbent processes and intermediaries) affordable. Ex:💰 and global/domestic democratization of money transfer in the Philippines. 2/10.

#web3 has the greatest potential to transform access to financial solutions that the world has ever seen. Here’s why, from an emerging markets perspective. A thread 1/10 Thread inspiration from with @balajis @shaileshlakhani @_jdkanani @KyleSamani others.

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