Financial transactions will be deeply embedded into all forms of media, from news articles to live sports and podcasts. This transforms media from a channel for commentary *about* markets into the primary interface for participating *in* markets, creating a powerful new user engagement and monetization model for content platforms.
The current capital market structure, with its high fees, delays, and limited access, is a direct result of regulations from the 1930s. These laws created layers of intermediaries to enforce trust, baking in complexity and rent-seeking by design. This historical context explains why the system is ripe for disruption by more efficient technologies.
AI and crypto are not competing but are parallel, complementary forces reshaping business. While AI revolutionizes company creation and internal operations, Internet Capital Markets (powered by crypto) are fundamentally rewriting the external functions of capital formation, trading, settlement, and ownership for this new generation of AI-native companies.
The next evolution in fintech will be regulated applications that offer seamless trading across traditional securities, tokenized assets, and native crypto. This framework allows direct user access to DeFi protocols like staking and lending from a single, compliant, and user-friendly platform, bridging the gap between two currently separate financial worlds.